Hastings and St Leonards . Uncategorized
The Albion, Hastings: restaurant review
On April 30, 2025 by The Plate Licked Clean‘It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a person in possession of a good pint, must be in want of a proper pie.’ I think that’s how it goes, anyway. The Albion was already well established as a Hastings pub when Jane Austen published Pride and Prejudice in 1813. Slightly more recently, I was brought
Cardiff . Cheap Eats . Restaurants in Wales . Uncategorized
The South Kitchen, Albany Road, Cardiff: Yemeni restaurant review
On April 26, 2025 by The Plate Licked Clean‘Hello, nice to see you today…Lamb or chicken?’ Welcome to The South Kitchen, and the smallest menu in Cardiff. You don’t pick your happy place. Your happy place picks you: and although The South Kitchen has very recently moved to Albany Road, it feels like business as usual. Sure, it looks very different in here,
Cardiff . Cheap Eats . Cheap Eats . Restaurants in Wales . Uncategorized
Ayeeyo’s Kitchen, Corporation Road, Grangetown: review
On April 21, 2025 by The Plate Licked CleanHe hands me a paper cup of shaah cadays as I settle in. I haven’t ordered it- he has brought it ‘just because’- but this Somali spiced tea, chai’s close cousin, sweet and perfumed with cardamom- is just the thing on a dark, mizzly Cardiff evening. Perhaps I look like I need it: either way,