TGI Friday’s are celebrating their 25th birthday this year, and Dan from Clic and me were invited down to help them to celebrate in style. Our top tip from the night is to seek out a bartender called “Dan” (pictured above with oranges in his hands) and get him to make you an Old Fashioned. Made of dissolved sugar with bitters then adding whiskey and a twist of citrus rind,  I have sunk many of these whiskey cocktails while on my [...]

In a previous post I noted that Cardiff does not have a single Michelin starred restaurant, and this is still true – Le Gallois comes close, with three AA rosettes – and in my opinion it should have been handed the award; it certainly fits the criteria. We have only eaten out together once since Tristan was born last year, and that was when a large group of us went to a tacky chain restaurant, so to make our first [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

As long as two months ago the UK Food Standards Agency (FSA) launched their well overdue “Scores on the Doors” online system, where local authorities can publish the hygiene checks done on premises licensed to serve or prepare food – quantified in a 0 to 5 rating system where 0 is very bad and 5 is remarkable. Despite there being extensive coverage in the Spring/Summer last year by WalesOnline – who were criticising the agency for not releasing their findings, [...]