High-profile Cardiff chefs Tommy Heaney (right in photo) and Dave Killick have teamed up to launch a ‘nose-to-tail’ restaurant with Italian influences in the leafy central district of Pontcanna. The new venture, Ember, is directly opposite Tommy’s flagship, Heaneys. Originally from Crumlin near Belfast, Tommy made his reputation at the Great House in Bridgend before […]
Tom Waters has opened his restaurant Gorse on a permanent site in Cardiff, after a successful run as a pop-up. Taking over the former site of dog-friendly cafe Fido on Kings Road in Pontcanna, he offers a tasting menu using prime Welsh ingredients to a maximum of 22 guests. Newport-born Tom trained under fellow Welsh […]
A Cardiff hospitality couple have launched two Spanish-influenced restaurants simultaneously and side-by-side at the Lakeside development by Roath Park, on the north side of the city. Bodega is a wine-bar and restaurant serving small and sharing plates of food cooked with fire and smoke, while Ballers is a pizzeria serving Neapolitan-style sourdough pizzas with a […]
Two former Gordon Ramsay and Galvin bros staffers have joined forces to launch a high-end restaurant and cocktail bar in Cardiff. Silures, which opens next Friday (19 May) in the suburb of Roath, marks the debut from business partners Daf Andrews and Andrei Maxim. The venue – formerly a nightclub called Cameo – can accommodate up to […]
Former Hedone head chef Lee Skeet is launching an oyster bar in Cardiff’s city centre this weekend, ahead of moving his tasting-menu restaurant Cora into the same venue next month. The oyster bar, Jackson’s, will be on the ground floor of the Duke Street Arcade, near Cardiff Castle, with the tiny 10-seat Cora upstairs. Cora […]
Welsh ramen wizard James Chant, whose Matsudae Ramen start-up became a lockdown meal-kit hit and a pop-up phenomenon touring Manchester, Bristol and London, is to open his first bricks-and-mortar restaurant in Cardiff early this summer. James, who had never worked as a chef, launched the business as a creative outlet three years ago after becoming […]
The top-knotted Real Madrid and Wales footballer and golf fanatic Gareth Bale is ready to tee off at new indoor golf and dining venue, Par 59, in a huge former nightclub in Cardiff next Friday, March 18. Named in reference to the elusive sub-60 round that elite golfers strive after, the operation will accommodate two […]
We just couldn’t decide which of these stunning dining destinations to drop from our list, so we’ve sneakily extended our top 10 Welsh restaurants to make it a top 11. And why not? Now you have 11 reasons to visit Wales this St David’s Day (1 March) instead of just 10. You’re welcome… Gareth […]
The celebration of Chinese New Year and the dawning of the Year of the Monkey is just around the corner. This year the movable lunar festival begins on Monday 8 February, although festivities in London (the biggest outside of China) will start in earnest on Valentine’s Day. If you’re planning to welcome the Year of […]
