Pho-cking awesome? Pho at Pho Vietnamese Street Food and Hanoi 1991,
For years there has been an obvious and gaping hole in terms of what is on offer in Cardiff on the food front. That hole was the total and utter … Continue reading
Is breast best? Ji, The Chicken shop, Canton Cardiff
As posts on Chick’N’Sours and Coqfighter have shown, I am a big fan of fried chicken. As a result I have decried in recent months the seeming paucity of good … Continue reading
Spice up your lunchtime – a couple of spice driven options to “take back to you desk” in Cardiff City Centre.
Sarnies have been for many a year the staple of the majority of people’s working day lunches in the UK. Whilst we have progressed (not sure it is progress at … Continue reading
No beef with there being no beef! Ruin Cafe Bar, Cardiff. UPDATED
UPDATE Place seems to be called Polarity now. Modus operandi seems to be the same. Readers of the blog will know that I am at best an omnivore and at … Continue reading
A masterful pop up? Home Supper club by @kitchenclonc at Pettigrew Tea Rooms, Cardiff
If you live in Cardiff, unless you have been living a hermit like existence under a rock, you will undoubtedly have heard of the exploits of Imran Nathoo, the Cardiff … Continue reading
A very “Malay’d – back” lunch. Wok-ker Shaker, Tudor Street, Cardiff
Malay food is one of my favourite cuisines, with Malaysia being one of my most memorable holiday destinations. Everyone should have Borneo on their holiday bucket list – beguilingly beautiful … Continue reading
Takeaway, the Pakistani way – Lahore Kebabish
Curry houses in the UK tend to be Bangladeshi or Indian and (to my mind at least) Pakistani restaurants are much more of a rarity. Certainly in Cardiff the vast … Continue reading
Nothing planned for lunchtime? – The Plan, Cardiff
The Plan has seemingly been around for nearly as long as I have been in Cardiff (a very long time indeed). Situated in one of Cardiff’s beautiful Victorian arcades it … Continue reading
Pronto pasta – Bramina, Cardiff City Centre
With the proliferation (some welcome, others not so much) of swanky new places to eat at lunch time in Cardiff, it is easy to forget the independent stalwarts of the … Continue reading
A woohoo or a boohoo Monday? Base + Barley, Cardiff. Update – closed November 2016.
Not many people like their jobs enough to actively look forward to a Monday. I personally experience times where I really enjoy my job and times when I loath it … Continue reading
