Food and travel blog focusing on food travel and sight-seeing, from Cardiff to the Caribbean
Grade II-listed The New Crown Inn, Merthyr Tydfil is the oldest pub in the working class town that was once the epicentre of the South Wales iron, steel and coal mining industries. However, the food served here couldn’t be further apart from the traditional local cuisine you’d expect to find in the heart of the […] Read more…
Standing in the aptly named Grand Hall of The Exchange Hotel in Cardiff Bay – once the trading floor of the Coal Exchange – it’s easy to feel overwhelmed with awe to imagine all the history that’s taken place within its walls over the years. You can almost picture the scene back in the late […] Read more…
You only have to glance at Sosban Restaurant in Llanelli, south-west Wales to know that it’s a pretty special place. A Grade-II listed Victorian pump house perched on Llanelli’s North Dock, this awe-inspiring building is a beacon for the iconic industrial heritage of the surrounding area. Lovingly restored by Bendigo 9-10 (a team consisting of […] Read more…
When North East Wales Tourism commissioned me to write about fine dining in the region, I was literally spoilt for choice when it came to choosing which restaurants to feature. As I’ve discovered in previous blog posts about the coastal dining scene in north east Wales and the 2018 north east Wales Year of the Sea […] Read more…
The resurgence of the time-old British tradition of afternoon tea means that wherever you go in the UK today, from tiny Welsh towns that time forgot, to big, bustling London districts moving a mile a minute, there’ll be somewhere waiting to serve you tea and cakes on tap. Although the tradition has adapted somewhat – […] Read more…