Food and travel blog focusing on food travel and sight-seeing, from Cardiff to the Caribbean
The Mint and Mustard has been one of the restaurants I would most like to visit for quite some time now. Since launching in 2007 the Indian restaurant has acquired a string of prestigious awards and is currently listed within the Good Food Guide and The Independent newspaper’s top 50 UK restaurants. To top it off, the Mint and […] Read more…
Situated on King’s Road in Pontcanna, Cardiff, Urban Diner opened around seven weeks ago as a traditional American-styled diner. What attracts me to the restaurant most is the diversity of the menu – it features the usual suspects like burgers and fried chicken, but it also includes some more sophisticated options like Carolina pulled pork (£10.50) and Texas smoked […] Read more…
Situated at the top of Merthyr Tydfil’s High Street, Flooks Café is based within a landmark building formerly known as Flooks Jewellers. Now restored with a contemporary feel, the café is a social enterprise run by Llamau, a Cardiff-based charity supporting homeless young people and vulnerable young women across Wales. Hidden away from the busier parts of Merthyr town centre, Flooks […] Read more…
Standing on Cardiff’s Caroline Street, known locally as Chippy Lane because of the density of fast food shops which occupy it, Pipi’s Greek Café and Restaurant is a hidden gem lying undiscovered amongst the greasy takeaway outlets which make up its neighbours, like a diamond in the rough. One of only a handful of traditional Greek restaurants in Cardiff, PiPi’s has been established for three years […] Read more…
Pale green, cream and brown. The colour palette at Taste makes for a refreshing break whilst popping out of the office for lunch. Sitting in a black wicker chair next to the window I admire the bright, striped walls and the rustic brown pouffes, which are made to look like old crates. Tucked away from the […] Read more…