Hot tip

Cardiff’s restaurant scene is on the ascent.

Le Gallois in Romilly Crescent, Canton, 029 2034 1264, serves the most interesting food and is an ‘offal eater’s’ dream. I enjoyed lambs’ tongues with salsa verde and beef cheek with roast winter vegetables.

Brazz in the Millennium Centre on Cardiff Bay, 029 2045 9000, and Le Monde on St Mary’s Street, 029 2038 7376, are also worth a visit.

Laguna Restaurant in the Crown Park Plaza Hotel served a delicious risotto with Jerusalem artichokes and Welsh rarebit with Branston Pickle toasts.

* Fairtrade Food Evening at Ballymaloe Cookery School at 7.30pm on Thursday, February 22, presented by East Cork Slow Food and Cork ICA. Cookery demonstration. Tel Miriam at 021-4646785 or email [e-mail]. €20 for Slow Food and ICA members; €25 non-members.

* Cork Free Choice Consumer Group meets on February 22 at 7.30pm at Crawford Art Gallery Cafe, Cork. Focus on traditional breads of the North.

Admission: €6, including tea or coffee and tastings.