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 [...]

Cegin Y Ddraig, or “The Dragons Kitchen”, opened in 2009 to small fanfare. The day that we visited, a warmish spring day, we sat down to eat in the small café’s outside area after having a look around the inside, which was full of relaxed patrons. The menu consists mostly of sandwiches and soups, good fare for this outlet as it is easy and quick to prepare in their relatively small kitchen/counter area. I chose the ”Dragon’s breath” chicken in [...]

I’ll be honest from the outset, I have not always been a fan of Mexican food, or Texan flavours or Tex-Mex or whatever they’re calling it these days, but I think that I’m getting sympathy cravings as Misia goes through her pregnancy. In the past few weeks I have made no less than 3 tortilla based meals and I’m starting to get a tongue for it, where I previously didn’t even fancy peppers so much I am now using a [...]