Bristol . Restaurants in England
Jonray Sanchez-Iglesias: 1983-2015
On November 22, 2015 by The Plate Licked CleanI’m too long in the tooth to expect life to be fair, but sometimes you hear news which strikes you as so plain unjust that you wince. It’s so wrong that an immensely talented chef like Jonray has gone so young: it’s heartbreaking to think of Olive and Bella, on whom he absolutely doted, losing
London . Restaurants in England
Tayyabs, Whitechapel, London
On September 27, 2015 by The Plate Licked CleanTayyabs seems to have a strong foothold in popular folklore as one of those places you just have to try. As a result it is noisy, hot and crowded. Tayyabs is famously BYOB- sweetest of all acronyms- and having drawn a blank on the haul from the Tube, we happened upon Shelly Food and Wine
Bristol . Restaurants in England
The Ox, Corn St, Bristol
On September 13, 2015 by The Plate Licked CleanAs far as hiding your light under a bushel goes, The Ox takes some beating in the self-effacement stakes. Lurking beneath a Wetherspoons in Bristol’s historically grand Corn St, with only a nameless brass plate above the door, you descend spiralling marble steps to enter a kind of subterranean gloom which makes decent photographs impossible
Restaurants in Wales . Rhondda Cynon Taf
The Bunch of Grapes, Pontypridd
On September 8, 2015 by The Plate Licked CleanSometimes the best things are right under your nose. This was a perfect storm of circumstances, really: my admission I had never been to The Bunch of Grapes was greeted with incredulity by a regular. A few days later, their stall at Cardiff Brewfest was serving classic pub dishes which went down very well; and
Cardiff . Restaurants in Wales
Purple Poppadom, Canton, Cardiff : street food menu
On August 30, 2015 by The Plate Licked CleanAnand George’s new lunchtime menu venture puts his recent foray into street food front and centre. Fresh from feeding the Street Food Circus hordes- up to 200 servings a (frenzied) hour, apparently- lunchtimes now see the concept extended to an in-house setting. What’s on offer is not limited to their SFC menu. Within the familiar
London . Restaurants in England
Honest Burgers, Brixton Market, London
On August 23, 2015 by The Plate Licked CleanYou could lose hours in Brixton Village. A bustling, gaudy microcosm of London, with flags familiar and unfamiliar draped from the roof, and stalls with baskets piled high with fascinating produce from near and far, people from every corner milling around. It thrums with life and seems custom-built to give a Daily Mail reader an