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3 Souls in a Bowl, The Source, Hastings: review
On August 20, 2026 by The Plate Licked CleanSomehow, it seems a very Hastings thing to answer the question, ‘What shall we do with that disused subterranean Victorian swimming bath complex on the seafront?’ with ‘Why, turn it into the world’s biggest underground skatepark, of course! And while you’re at it, why don’t we have a clutch of places to eat and drink
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Booh, Old Town Hastings: restaurant review
On January 11, 2026 by The Plate Licked CleanOx cheek pie. Duck liver parfait. Locally-caught plaice, roasted whole and served with cider butter sauce. Oysters, three ways. Cullen skink. Scallops. Ribeye and bone marrow. Chips cooked in beef dripping. Goose. Fish pie. Yes, Booh, you have my attention. I’m on the train out of Charing Cross, and already smitten with Booh’s menu, when
Cardiff . Cheap Eats . Restaurants in Wales . Uncategorized
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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The Little Bulgaria, Hastings: café-restaurant review
On October 7, 2025 by The Plate Licked CleanThere is an easygoing, lived-in feeling to The Little Bulgaria, this small café on Queen’s Road. It’s the jar of lollipops on the counter, next to the wine rack. You see it in the cushions in the bold white, green and red bands of the Bulgarian tricolour. It’s the small rural scenes hanging on the
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Legacy Indian Cuisine, Wellfield Road, Cardiff: review
On July 13, 2025 by The Plate Licked CleanI’ve got an ulterior motive for buying you dinner tonight, he says. Alan is a regular here. Wellfield and Albany are his home patch, and hardly short of Indian restaurant alternatives, but it’s here, to Legacy, he keeps coming back. This is his seventh or eighth visit, he reckons. I get it. There’s something reassuringly
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Coquina, Hastings Contemporary: restaurant review
On July 1, 2025 by The Plate Licked CleanIt is a beautiful evening for a walk down to dinner. Coquina (styled with a small ‘c’) is easy to spot from the top of Hastings’ West Hill, near the foot of the East, and next to the darkly looming Net Shops on Rock-a-Nore Road. The bright, welcoming space they have taken upstairs in art