Archive review: Foundation Bakery, Newport
Uncategorised 26th March 2013
This is an archive review. The Foundation Bakery has now closed. The Foundation Bakery is the latest venue to jostle for a place in Newport’s crowded lunchtime market. Just when things seemed to have reached a critical mass with the arrival of national coffee outlet Costa Coffee, and rumours... Read more
Hare and Hounds, Arreton
Uncategorised 24th February 2013 4
Think back to your childhood, and one of those family days out to meet the relatives. If you’re anything like Matt and Cat, such a visit would have either been the best thing ever, or a dismal chore that nobody looked forward to. Some relatives always seemed to be... Read more
Archive review: Café 44, Carisbrooke
ReviewsUncategorised 14th November 2012
This is an archive review. Cafe 44 no longer exists. If you are a contestant on one of the ceaseless merry-go-round of televised cookery shows, you must practise, practise, practise your recipe. It’s no good window-shopping the sexed-up photographs in a celebrity chef’s recipe book the night before and... Read more
Isobel Centre Café, Pan
ReviewsUncategorised 20th August 2012 6
Matt and Cat’s lunch breaks are usually taken within a set radius from their Newport workplaces. Their invisible umbilicus allows them to range to Olivo, French Franks and the Blue Door. Tugging a bit tighter on the string, they can make it to the Noodle Pot and even Original... Read more
Newport Café, Scarrot’s Lane
ReviewsUncategorised 2nd August 2012 3
Even the most casual reader of this website can’t fail to have noticed that Matt likes a fry-up. Cat will, if pressed, eventually confess to being partial to a cooked breakfast – usually a bespoke combination of eggs and mushrooms with, occasionally, some bacon added for valuable protein –... Read more
Oggies, Newport
ReviewsUncategorised 9th July 2012 1
Remember that day, that marked the End of Days? The first day of the Isle of Wight Festival, when the heavens opened, the roads closed and the fields around Fairlee Road turned to welly-eating sludge? Of course you do! The county’s day-long gridlock monopolised the media, caused angry residents... Read more
Noodle Pot, Newport
ReviewsUncategorised 5th May 2012 1
Matt and Cat are big lovers of sci-fi. Matt, who fancies himself as a writer and a scientist, combines those two interests in a bookshelf chock full o’ the works of Asimov, Heinlein and Iain M Banks. Cat prefers to have her sci-fi injected straight into her eyeballs. In... Read more
Archive review: House of Legends
ReviewsUncategorised 4th April 2012
House of Legends is now closed. A legend used to be an unverifiable but historical tale, handed down the generations in a tradition of story-telling. When it opened, Newport’s House of Legends was a themed eatery focussed on showbiz ‘legends’, such as film stars, musicians and the like –... Read more
God’s Providence House, Newport
ReviewsUncategorised 3rd March 2012 6
God’s Providence House is in a fine old building in the heart of Newport. This beautiful and historic tea room has since the dawn of time run on the most traditional lines, and evokes a feeling almost of time travel. One can imagine oneself taking refreshment in a more... Read more
Love Coffee, Newport
ReviewsUncategorised 21st February 2012 10
The day after mourning the closure of High Street stalwart Island Images, Cat and a pal ventured into the heart of the town to try Love Coffee. Technically a new venue, this centrally-located coffee shop is probably more well-known as its previous incarnation of the franchise Coffee Republic. Occupying... Read more
