INDIAN food. It’s the best, except maybe for my nan’s Welsh­cakes. Any­way, with me being home and bored on a Monday night there was little else to do except call Flynn and see if he and Becky fan­cied an Indian. And they did.

Photo by Jonathan Billinger, cour­tesy of geograph.org.uk (I for­got to take an out­side shot)

Zam Zam’s has got some rave reviews on tripadvisor.co.uk and we’ve eaten there a few times, although Ev is yet to try it. Monday is three-courses-for-a-tenner-night and you can’t argue with that. It was crowded down­stairs so we were taken to the much quieter upstairs […]

ONE of Ev’s col­leagues told her about the Starling Diner, so today we headed back to our old stomp­ing grounds of Bel­mont Shore to try it out. We got there around 10am and it was packed out, but at least park­ing was easy. After wait­ing 10 minutes for seats we were shown to our table and looked over the menu.

The diner is on the small side but they’ve put plenty of tables inside. Both of us wanted brekkies so I went for the apple­wood smoked bacon and ched­dar scramble with pota­toes and baguette slices:

Oooo, lovely. The bacon is mixed in with the […]

THIS is one of those places we’ve driven past a few times but never stopped at. Well, until today. It has all the prom­ise of being a great diner and looks awe­some - it even matches my Mini’s roof. So this morn­ing, after being diver­ted all over Bel­mont Shore thanks to a fire at the Mar­ina Paci­fica mall, we gave up on going to Hof’s Hut and headed for the Best Place Cafe.

It’s a big place, clean and tidy and there’s counter-service only. The menu is large Spe­cials are advert­ised on the win­dows and I chose the ham steak with three […]

THANKS to the Fant­astic Cafe hav­ing a line of cus­tom­ers stretch­ing out the door, we decided to give this little place a shot on Sunday after­noon. Both of us are big fans of crêpes thanks to La Crêperie on 2nd Street so it would be inter­est­ing to see how the Delight­ful Crêpes Cafe com­pared.

It’s nicely dec­or­ated inside and well-lit. After enquir­ing at the counter, we were told there was waiter ser­vice so we took a seated and waited. And waited. And waited. After 10 minutes of being wait­ing and being blinded by the sun­light com­ing through the win­dow, we decided to change […]