I’m a huge fan of meal kits that allow you to create a restaurant-style meal at home easily and deliciously. Like many people, I first started purchasing such kits during Covid, when many restaurants pivoted to an offering designed to enjoy at home and delivered chilled or frozen by nationwide couriers.
Initially a little sad when No. 57 cafe, restaurant and deli in Usk closed, I was more than mollified when The Bank opened in the same space in autumn last year. Offering a coffee, breakfast and lunch menu during the day (seven days a week) and a Mediterranean menu of mezze and mains on Thursday...
One of my must-visit places on our last trip to Japan was Obuse, a town in the northeast of Nagano Prefecture. My enthusiasm for including this small and pretty town in our itinerary (read more about Obuse here) was driven mainly by its association with artist Katsushika H...
Located in the north of Nagano Prefecture, just 9 miles from Nagano (city), Obuse is a small and pretty town known for its association with artist Katsushika Hokusai, as well as its high quality agricultural produce. We spent three nights here as part of our recent 5 weeks in Japan, and it turned out to be one of our favourite places of the trip.
Usually when I’m posting about Leyli Homayoonfar’s food I’m eating delicious Bab Haus Mex food at one of her food court restaurants, usually the one in Newport Market. But on a recent Saturday evening I finally got to enjoy her amazing Persian food at the last of a current set of pop-up su...