I can sometimes be hypocritical in my musings, but I think that’s only human – as long as it doesn’t happen too often. I advocate  local business over chains, especially when it comes to eating out. The food at chains is usually daudry, plain and shipped in frozen – but on this blog I have still reviewed places like Ruby Tuesday. Don’t get me wrong, I like Ruby Tuesday – and I think it may even be an exception to [...]

Back in February I posted regarding the Food Standards Agency website where you can see scores from local food hygiene inspections, at the time the website had minimum publicity – very few people knew it existed. After I sent a flurry of tweets about the site and some astonishing results from the local area, and then the blog post, it seemed a lot more people were in the know. WalesOnline and yourCardiff both picked up on it, giving more exposure [...]

Continuing my series of Bristol light-biteries, I checked out Friska twice in as many weeks, having wanted to drop by since seeing them open shortly after I started working across the bridge. The store is on my walk into the office from the train station so I am reminded of it every day, but had failed to make an appearance in there until now. Friska’s slogan is “Feel Good Food,” which of course draws all kinds of thoughts into your [...]

I’m on a bit of a mission at the moment, and it seems to be something along the lines of “try as many new places for lunch as I can”. I headed back into Cardiff early one day last week, sometimes I just like to work from my living room with the boy playing on the floor in front of me – I’m just a big softie. Anyway, I needed to grab some lunch on my way home so after [...]

I work in Bristol, I have written about this before – the culinary choices are actually pretty damn good, see my previous post “Bristol for beginners” Lunch is a contentious issue – between my mind and my stomach, I often have to eat at my desk because I don’t have the time to sit out and take a full hour for lunch, so food to take away is essential, but of course I don’t want to compromise on quality simply [...]