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Address: Ryder St (off Cathedral St), Cardiff, CF11 9BR
Telephone number: 029 2022 7842
Website: N/A
Date of visit: 28 November 2009
Approximate cost per head: Around £5
Comments on wine list/beer: Brains, Everad Tiger, Becks etc
Summary:
OK, so what is a squash club doing on BottlesandCooks.com?
The answer is Rugby!
I was at the Wales v Australia game – the less said the better – and I ended up here.
There are plenty places in Cardiff to park – park and ride is best if you want to go straight after the game. The other two places are the multi-stories near the Meridian Hotel and Newport Station – a short train ride away and you bypass all the congestion. However, beware, as on the 28, they closed the line to Newport because of bad weather.
On the other hand, you can park, drink and eat at the Squash Club – 15 minutes walk to the Millennium Stadium (West Gate). Sober up during the game – after moderate drinking – and go home.
Parking is £5 per car and admission to the club is £2 per head for non members. No bouncers, no ques!
The food is not haute cuisine. Pie chips and peas, curry, burger, hotdog etc. Meals start at £4.50 and they put gravy on everything. So if you don’t want gravy, say so. Food is served all day.
Eddie
Location: Reading Road, Cane End, RG4 9HE
Web site: www.palmtreeindian.com
Telephone number: 01189722477
Date of visit: 23/11/2009
Approx. cost per head: £15
Comments on wine list/beer: Variety of wines from all over the world
Review:
I was recommended by a family friend .It was my first visit with my wife. It was excellent, the food, the staff and the hygeine level is absolutely outstanding. Very impressed with the toilets, very clean indeed.
Excellent meal with very extensive dishes and rare dishes that you will not see in any other restaurants in the locality. Very well mannered staff – excellent and attentive
Tapali dish
Duck Flambe
Palm Special
Seafood – Salmon fish kebab and more
Mouthwatering taste
Highly recommended.
You must view the website, they have a great informative website with lovely photo galleries to see past events…plenty of review from local press as well
great great…fantasic
James
Location: 58 Headley Road, Woodley, Reading RG5 4JE
Web site: www.redrosewoodley.com
Telephone number: 01189440908
Date of visit: 26 October 2009
Approx. cost per head: £10 plus
Comments on wine list/beer: Stick to the beer – Kingfishere or Bangla
Review:
This is a neighbourhood Indian Restaurant that only gets busy during weekends. It does a roaring trade in takeaways and home delivery (free on orders over £15).
On the night we went, we had chicken tikka masala and the tandoori chicken with rice, nan and a couple of side dishes.
The tandoori was excellent and you get 4 legs when you order a whole chicken. I have always found this strange – a whole (or as they say “full”) chicken always comes with 4 legs and chicken tikka and the rest of the wet dishes are only “breast meat”. Have the Indians (or Bangladeshis)discovered genetic manipulation long before the rest of the world?
The nan bread was excellent and is one of the dish that you can only appreciate in a restaurant – they go rubbery when stored in a bag.
For side dishes, we had sag aloo and mushroom bajee which were fine.
I wasn’t entirely happy with the chicken tikka masala as it looked too red (unnatural) and tasted too sugary. I wish restaurants would stop using red dyes. Other than this, we had a nice meal. The service was good and apparently, this was rated as one of the top 100 Indian Restaurant (UK) a couple of years ago.
Parking is at the front of the restaurant. Its on the 63 and 65 bus route.
Eddie