I hate the moniker “Foodie”, we’re all foodies – hell, all of us like to eat, right? But there’s a difference between those who like to eat “good” food, and those who like to eat anything – including many with a heavy diet of processed foods. What I’m most concerned about is the, hopefully small, amount of families who have their kids under the impression that processed foods, like McDonalds or fish fingers and chips, are “a treat”. “We’ll go [...]

We decided to revisit Ruby Tuesday, after-all I had been anticipating its arrival for months – so to only visit on the opening night and to take that as a representation of their usual quality of experience would be silly. I tried their “triple prime cheddar burger”, which apparently has been said to be “the worlds best burger”, and it certainly ranks up there – it looks good too. I finally got to experience the “endless fries”, every time I [...]

“You must hate the commute” they say to me, my friends. “I walk 5 minutes to the train station, sit on my arse in a semi-comfortable seat for an hour, I get off and walk 10 minutes to the office” I reply, “It’s not exactly strenuous”. I left the company that I started in May 2009 to experience more new things, that and the working relationship between me and my business partner had become strained through all the late night [...]

Old Orleans in Cardiff Bay has never been a place I would have said to go to if someone asked me for restaurant suggestions. The last time I went there I still had long hair and my parents paid for my meal. From what I remember, the food was not up to much and I hadn’t felt an urge to go back since. This was 7 years ago. The company that own the Old Orleans brand, Punch Taverns, selected 6 [...]

Going to a restaurant on its opening night is always perilous, anything can happen – the staff have never worked in this store before, probably half of them have never worked together before – all brought in from other locations or trained at other restaurants in the franchise before all being lumped together and told to get on with it. Going to the opening night of Ruby Tuesday could have been even more perilous, being that it is the first [...]