Let’s talk about food
We’re going to do something cool in Cardiff
So the four of us are sitting in Shaam Nights on City Road, Cardiff. And it’s great. Everything about the Syrian restaurant is good. Everyone’s always happy, the food is incredible and even the ornate decorations seem nothing more than tasteful.
— I miss coming to City Road, Becca is saying.
— Wouldn’t it be great if we could brand City Road and Crwys Road as a Brick Lane style place to come for great food? is what Dan is saying as a response.
Han and I both agreed and we all sort of forget about the conversation because, you know, the food is incredible.
But then yesterday, Dan, probably feeling a little hungry, tweeted his idea out again and tagged a bunch of people in Cardiff who do interesting things and like the city.
Evidently, us four were not alone in our agreement that these two long streets do have some of the best eating in the city — but more than that, they are relatively unknown to people who don’t live here.
My phone did not stop buzzing with Twitter notifications all day.
And so we’re getting together a group of friends, co-workers, people we admire, anyone who wants to join in, really, to start a conversation about how we could make more of this delicious secret to the people who are visiting our city.
What could be done to push people away from the chains outlets that are popular for convenience rather than cultural honesty? How could we say: Western European is not our only culinary offering? Is there a way that we can make going to Roath more easy for people who don’t know the city?
And so here we are, doing something.
We’re inviting people who want to see Cardiff’s culinary gem thrive to have dinner with us on 15 October at 20:00. We’ll chat and see how we could take this forward and do something great for the city that we’ve all loved.
Let us know that you’re in by tweeting either @dantyte or @iammarcthomas because we will need to book a table somewhere.
