The World of Siân

Ok, I don’t tend to normally like to rant on here but there is one thing that really annoys me.  This is the latest trend by restaurants etc. to insist on serving your food on what is basically a chopping board!! I really don’t understand it at all, especially with foods that come with a sauce which in turn sees said sauce racing towards the edge of the board and then onto the table cloth and on occasion into your lap. I also think this way of eating is very unhygienic.  Foodstuffs and sauces can become engrained in the wood and difficult to remove, so do you truly ever have a clean board?  Also you wouldn’t catch me eating my main meal off a chopping board in the house.  There is a reason plates were invented and have been used for thousands of years and this is because it’s a result of progress. Call me a snob, call me what you will but I do not see how eating off a chopping board is the height of fine dining and sophistication.  Give m...

Well this lucky lady had the opportunity to dine in the Social in Cardiff. I have to say it was gorgeous and the food amazing, it was a little pleasure sensation with every mouthful, almost orgasmic in its way. The surroundings were pleasant, not too modern that it was in your face and garish, but subtly so and tasteful. We were greeted and served by lovely staff whose nothing was too much trouble attitude shone across and was genuine, which is unusual to see these days without an underlying tone of sarcasm, or being overly nice you know they don’t mean it. We started with a lovely glass of prosecco which was divine. Seeing some rather different things on the menu that I hadn’t tried before I had to go for them, this is a thing of mine, if there is something I haven’t tried before I have to go for it, and to be fair I am never disappointed. For starters I chose frog’s legs with a shrimp and chorizo salad, the fantastic Mr Bus had faggots, and both were gorgeous ...