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Lyalena Lounge, City Road, Cardiff: review
On December 14, 2025 by The Plate Licked CleanYour starter for ten. ‘All the men want it…I don’t know why! All the men love it. Women, they don’t seem so keen. But men? They always want it…’ We’ll find out soon enough what my server, the lovely Haja, was talking about. And no, it’s not that. Among City Road’s vape shops, barbers, peri
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U Mi Chinese Noodle and Rice Restaurant, Churchill Way, Cardiff city centre: review
On November 22, 2025 by The Plate Licked CleanNo, this isn’t a Chinese restaurant-only blog, though it It probably feels like it recently. This one makes it three in a row: a few visits to the ultimately underwhelming Fresh Feast, before BBQ Xiang‘s siu mei roast meats on Caroline Street restored my faith. Now, we head downstairs to a Churchill Way basement for
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BBQ Xiang, Caroline St, Cardiff: Chinese roast meats restaurant review
On November 11, 2025 by The Plate Licked CleanGood things have a habit of happening in this little room in the middle of Cardiff. It was once Malai Thai; you might remember their extraordinarily good value set lunch a few years ago, although it’s almost quaint now to think of a city centre meal, fresh from the wok, served on an actual plate
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Fresh Feast, Charles St, Cardiff: Chinese restaurant review
On November 9, 2025 by The Plate Licked CleanThere’s a wall-mounted touch screen in this most orange of rooms. It’s there for anyone to walk in and order a takeaway. If that sounds novel, wait until you settle at your table and send your order, from the tablet provided, to your server standing a few feet away. Open for just over a month
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Afghan Cuisine and Catering, City Road, Cardiff: restaurant review
On October 20, 2025 by The Plate Licked CleanYou can’t put a price on contentment, they say. They are, of course, wrong: you can pretty much guarantee a few precious moments of the stuff at Afghan Cuisine. Take your seat, place your order. Bread will appear. Freshly baked, doughy-crisp bread, and little pots to accompany: black olives, hummus and yoghurt trickled with rivulets
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Qamariyah, Four Elms Road, Cardiff: restaurant review
On August 10, 2025 by The Plate Licked CleanSo often, restaurants are where we make important memories. Several local places I’ve loved have changed hands recently, and it’s hard to walk back through those doors without the past tugging at your sleeve. Take the newly opened Qamariyah: when this was the city’s only Persian restaurant, Mowlana, it gave me my favourite memory of
This blog is a very simple thing.
I won’t try to sell you any hand lotion, exercise programmes, coffee syrups or Patagonian nose flutes. You won’t find tips on dating, ‘wellness’ or yoga mats.
I write because I love it (and food, as indicated by my increasing girth). Greed happens to be my Deadly Sin of choice, but at least it is never shy of providing me with subject matter.
A simple thing, then: all you get is me wittering on semi-coherently about places I’ve eaten at; hence a ‘restaurant blog’ rather than a ‘food blog’, although there are a few recipes scattered throughout.
From mezze to Michelin ‘fine dining’ and all points in between.