Hastings and St Leonards . Restaurants in England . Uncategorized
Coquina, Hastings Contemporary: restaurant review
On July 1, 2025 by The Plate Licked CleanIt is a beautiful evening for a walk down to dinner. Coquina (styled with a small ‘c’) is easy to spot from the top of Hastings’ West Hill, near the foot of the East, and next to the darkly looming Net Shops on Rock-a-Nore Road. The bright, welcoming space they have taken upstairs in art
Restaurants in England . Uncategorized
Tonka, Hastings: review
On August 21, 2024 by The Plate Licked CleanSometimes, you meet someone who just really loves feeding you. Tonka: on the face of it, a little Hastings seafront cafe. The sort of place you might happen across as you walk the promenade, instantly feeling at home in this little room with its fourteen seats and windows picked out in plum, deep green and
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Wavey Bar, The Courtyard, Hastings: review
On February 20, 2024 by The Plate Licked CleanWavey Bar sits opposite Hastings’ True Crime Museum on Hastings seafront. That would be a gift to any writer if it turned out to be a disappointment, an easy but snarky segue into a hatchet job. Happily, this review will be anything but: Wavey Bar is the kind of place which gets under your skin
Bristol . Restaurants in England . Uncategorized
Wilson’s, Bristol: set lunch review
On May 5, 2023 by The Plate Licked CleanHow do you make a brilliant restaurant even better? Well, you do lunch for £25. You serve up five courses of remarkably poised, seductively accomplished cooking in laid-back style, and you do it with warmth. For £25, in case you missed it. Here on Chandos Road it has long been easy to eat well. Very
Bristol . Restaurants in England . Uncategorized
COR, Bedminster, Bristol: review
On April 7, 2023 by The Plate Licked CleanArriving in Bedminster early for my lunch at COR, I wander up and down North Street. I pass a launderette, a tattoo parlour, a boarded-up mini market: and yet someone has recently opened a bottle of Moet here, the gold foil and twist of wire on the tarmac. It’s an incongruous sight metres from the
Cardiff . Deliveries and Takeaways . Restaurants in Wales . Uncategorized
Eat The Bird, St Mary St, Cardiff
On September 23, 2022 by The Plate Licked CleanMoving into the former Grazing Shed on St Mary St, Cardiff’s Eat The Bird is the first opening outside Devon for a small, award-winning group. Fresh from their two silver medals at WingFest, and against notable competition too, you’d hope they have come in earnest. Reading around online though, I was prepared to write what