Restaurants in Spain
Spanish Road Trip day iii: Mannix, Campaspero, Valladolid: asador review
On February 7, 2019 by The Plate Licked Clean(Third in a series of bits from a road trip in summer 2018. The prelude is here; here’s Part One; and Part Two.) Day three: and further into the hot, arid heart of Spain. Today’s mission: we come in search of lechazo. Those three tripping syllables have represented a kind of meaty magic for decades:
Restaurants in Spain
Spanish Road Trip day i: Gueyu Mar, Ribadesallas, Asturias
On August 23, 2018 by The Plate Licked CleanThis post is one of a series from a road trip I took summer 2018. For the introduction, read this. ‘Lo sencillo es tan sencillo, tan sencillo, que es complicado.’ We leave Bilbao far behind and head west for a couple of hours along the Cantabrian coast, into the green of Asturias. We skirt the
Liverpool . Restaurants in England
Lunya, Liverpool ONE
On August 9, 2017 by The Plate Licked CleanAnd so to Liverpool. I fell in love with this city many years ago, with its pride and its humour and its grit and its grandeur, its resilience, its defiance in the face of governmental neglect and southern disdain. In England, but certainly Scouse before ‘English’. It gets under your skin, this place. This is
Bristol . Restaurants in England
Bellita, Cotham Hill, Bristol
On July 31, 2017 by The Plate Licked CleanBellita is the younger sister of Bristol stalwart Bell’s Diner and sits squarely in the ‘throw a stick and hit somewhere good to eat’ enclave of Cotham Hill. The name works on a personal level, too: it’s what my four year old used to call my mother, her first approximation of ‘Abuelita‘, which I take
Cardiff . Restaurants in Wales
Asador 44, Quay St, Cardiff: review
On March 23, 2017 by The Plate Licked CleanAsador 44 is the newest outpost in the Bar 44 empire. Taking over the old Greenwood and Brown building, mere yards from the Westgate Street branch, this is now an elegantly appointed space which, in true Bar 44 style, is careful with its details. The focal point of the whole shebang is their parilla grill, separated
Cardiff . Restaurants in Wales
Curado Bar, Guildhall Place, Cardiff
On January 19, 2017 by The Plate Licked CleanHow things change. It’s not just the this is on the site of the former Goldburger, which was just about the only place in Cardiff you could get a root beer once upon a long ago. (Clearly, no one has told them that a recent by-law stipulates that every local opening must now feature exposed