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 eggs over-easy, […]

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 […]

EV SPOTTED this place on that Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives show (you know the one, it’s the programme presented by what a cheese fry would look like if it was human, only less intelligent). As we hadn’t been to a diner in ages we decided to head there and asked Jamie and Chris to come with us.

Thanks to its appearance on DDD the place was packed and we ended up waiting about 2o minutes, but it was well worth it. Our table was right at the back and pretty cramped but as I was dying to get my teeth into some […]

ALTHOUGH it’s only a couple of miles from our place on Studebaker Road (or as Emily the GPS unit likes to call it, “Studd-eh-bakker”), we’ve never been to the Fantastic Cafe before. We’ve seen it a few times when popping into the 7-Eleven opposite but it wasn’t until an emergency coffee stop last week that we made a decision to give it a go.

It’s pretty basic inside but the menu is extensive and reasonably priced. There’s no waitress service; you just order at the counter, take your number and go find somewhere to sit. After having a look at what’s on […]