


Dear Jay Rayner: A letter from Cardiff

Legends in their own lunchtime: Cardiff’s hidden lunch gems

The Drinks Cellar Food & Drink Blogger Awards 2016

Brain food: Caerwyn Ash Pop-Up @ Little Man Coffee

Guac to the future: Mi Tierra @ Parc Deli

BBC Food cuts: a recipe for disaster

The devil makes work for dusty hands

Sitting in The Dock down the Bay

Feed me till I want no more: surviving the Six Nations

Twisted Firestarters: Celt Fire Festival

Great Danes

Back on the chain gang

A child’s Christmas in Wales

A touch of class
Writing about food is a bit like becoming a Tory MP or getting a job in the media – it’s really hard if you’re not posh.
The sort of words you need to use to describe what you’re eating just …

28 Days Later
I had no idea that I was into S&M until last weekend.
The revelation came to me on Friday night as I sat at the bar in my favourite pub, watching pint after pint of Cardiff’s finest craft beers …

Chai before you buy
Isn’t multiculturalism great? It’s the reason that we can have nice things like Mo Farah getting gold medals, Nadiya winning Bake Off and Idris Elba playing a Norse god.
Some people disagree of course (arseholes, mostly), but …

How I learned to stop worrying and love the bean
Tea is unquestionably A Good Thing. Empires have been built on it. Crises have been averted, lives saved and biscuits dunked to perfection, all thanks to a good old-fashioned cuppa.
But if tea is the Beatles, coffee is the Rolling …

Cardiff Brewfest Review: Oh Hoppy Day
Happiness. It’s an elusive thing.
There’s no sure fire way to achieve it despite what the scientists may say. Tequila works for some; for The Beatles it was a warm gun. But I’m a simple man. I just …

Judge Bread
I’ve never been able to get my head around the fact that the sandwich had to be invented by someone.
You probably know the story – posho with a gambling problem gets peckish, demands oik provides portable grub – but …