The Times
Charlotte Ivers headed to a village near Cowbridge, half an hour’s drive from central Cardiff, where locally born chef Tom Watts-Jones has returned after a career working at the Anchor & Hope and St John in London to take over the pub where he drank his first pint as a teenager.
“He has kept half of it as a classic boozer and turned the other half into … well, he’s turned it into a place pretty much a bit like St John or the Anchor & Hope. But for about a third of the price.”
It has exposed brickwork and floorboards, plus a menu featuring big hunks of local meat and veg, but everything has “a bit of show-off sparkle”. “If it had opened in Soho I’d probably think it a little derivative. But nobody is doing it quite like this around here.”
Charlotte Ivers - 2024-05-12
