Food and travel blog focusing on food travel and sight-seeing, from Cardiff to the Caribbean
When the Celtic Manor Resort invited me along to review their newest restaurant, The Rib Smokehouse and Grill at Coldra Court Hotel in Newport, South Wales, I didn’t really know what to expect. The number of smokehouses in and around Cardiff has been slowly increasing over recent years, no doubt inspired by the success of […] Read more…
Recently, I was kindly invited along to the review The Dragonfly in Coedkernew, Newport. A traditional country-style pub serving hearty comfort food, The Dragonfly was historically known as The Celtic Springs because of the sacred spring that lies to its east. Today, The Dragonfly is owned by the Vintage Inns group and it recently underwent […] Read more…
Recently, I was invited to Cosy Club Cardiff to try out their new burger, the Major-General, currently shortlisted as one of the UK’s top 16 burgers in the National Burger Awards. Owned by Loungers, Cosy Club restaurant and bar is a sister venue of Cardiff’s famous string of ‘Lounges’, consisting of Juno Lounge on Wellfield Road, […] Read more…
Having recently returned from another week in Portugal (Lagos, Algarve), I am craving Portuguese food like you cannot imagine. I ate my body weight in fish; from tuna and salmon, to golden bream and swordfish, and tucked into traditional Portuguese piri piri chicken, pork and clams, and pastel de nata (custard tarts). There’s only one […] Read more…
Earlier this month, I was introduced to Grey, the new restaurant at the Hilton Hotel on Kingsway, Cardiff, in the form of a tantalising thirteen-course mini tasting menu. Overlooking Cardiff Castle, the restaurant gets its name from the order of Franciscan Grey Friar monks that used to live where the restaurant now lies. Grey opened […] Read more…