Tuscan Wine Tasting and Dinner – Saturday 16th February 2013 – NO MORE PLACES Four course dinner  and a different Tuscan wine with each course. Following on from previous successful wine evenings we are repeating the formula but moving the wine focus to another part of the wine producing world. This time  it is Tuscany [...]

Abergavenny Food Festival Abergavenny is just ten miles from Gliffaes and is the epi-centre for all things gastronomic in South Wales and the annual food festival is being billed as, ‘ the Glastonbury of food festivals’. The festival kicks off next weekend,the 15th and 16th September , taking over the town centre for the weekend. At the [...]

While the hotel was closed in January Susie and I took a short drive west along the A40 to the Pembrokeshire Coast, to the village of Newport, smack in the middle of the Pembrokeshire National Park. This is one of our favourite spots in the whole of the UK and thankfully has not yet been [...]

Crickhowell has a new restaurant, well brasserie to be exact, the food offering in and around the eastern end of the Brecon Beacons just keeps getting better. This new brasserie, Number 18, (that’s the name simply because it is number 18 Crickhowell High Street) has been opened by my friend Steve Lewis who all his [...]