Easter Sunday Lunch
We thought with it being Easter we should do something slightly different for Sunday lunch. We’re still in the so called Hungry Gap when winter reserves are running out and the bulk of the spring and summer treats are yet to come, but there still seems to be a steady stream of marvellous produce coming […]
Cardamom Rice Pudding
Gabby has just come back from India and is making me jealous with her talk of all the wonderful food she ate there. Jealous, but also inspired - particularly by the sound of a cardamom laced rice pudding with candied cashews and banana chips. Cardamom is one of the spices that I’m always drawn to. […]
Walnut Sourdough
Fresh from the Milgi oven. We’ve been supplied with wonderful bread from Riverside Sourdough (formerly Hungry Planet) for a few years now, and we’ll still keep on using them for our main supplies of breakfast loaves and bruschetta. All organic, all sourdough, and now being baked in the Embassy Cafe at Cathays Community Centre - […]
Purple Treasure
It’s like a bleedin’ harvest festival round here. We’ve got mountains of colourful squash from Riverside Market garden (currently featuring in our curry special), a crate of field mushrooms picked in West Wales by Mick, pears from my Pontypridd allotment, Bramley Apples from Allensbank Road, and blackberries picked by one of our kitchen staff. This […]
Fish and Chips! Battered Brains!
Its Friday night: time for Fish & Chips! ….oh hang on, we’re a vegetarian restaurant. Ok, time for battered Brains Haloumi & Chips….no, that’s no good - Brains Beer isn’t vegetarian. Ok, it’s gonna have to be Bath Ale Battered Haloumi, triple cooked chips, pea and basil puree and preserved lemon. Available now!
