Life Of Gower News, reviews and food

I have an addictive personality.  I also get bored of things and activities easily unless they interest me and engross me completely. As I have got older,  I have maybe preemptively identified symptoms of Adult ADD, yes dear reader my attention span is that short. But one thing that has always held

If I was in to fluffing out my review titles with a tagline, I would say that it was ‘A little bit of London in Exeter‘.  The atmosphere, the bustle and professionalism of the service felt like something that was more akin to central London fine-dining than an Exeter cafe. Tori and I met some [...]

So you’re hungry, you’re looking for somewhere nice to eat that is in between the Royal Devon & Exeter Hospital and Tescos, and you don’t want to pay the earth and you want to go down Topsham Road and turn left at the Countess Wear roundabout?  Well, oddly enough you have a few options.  You [...]

Some of the more astute of you will remember a few years ago I wrote a review of Starz Bar and Restaurant in String Beans/Veget8 which you can read here.  Initially I was quite scathing about the lack of vegetarian options, the oppressive surroundings and well pretty much all of it.  In fact I was s

I have written about the Epicentre Book Cafe before in Veget8, so read it here.  It is one of the positive beacons of cafe-goodness in Devon at the moment, and they’re going from strength to strength after two years of hard slog.  I love this place and everything they stand for, but furthermore they

About two years ago, I wrote a review on the Inn On The Green in Paignton.  I can’t remember where I wrote this review, whether it was in my imagination or even in a dream I did write about it.  Possibly in http://veget8.wordpress.com or http://eatingexeter.wordpress.com  I was pretty positive about

Earlier in the week I gave a brief review of the Temptation Cafe in Newton Abbot and now I am following a theme by writing a bit about a very brief visit to Terry’s Cafe in Exeter after their recent revamp.  I didn’t eat but had a cuppa, with Tori having a latte (below). Terry’s [...]

Devon is a county of contrasts.  It is interesting to see the contrasts between places like Gidleigh Park and the Royal Clarence in Exeter, Jack-in-the-Green in Rockbeare or The River Restaurant in Dartmouth, and then some of the places that I have been to like The Willow Tree café in Torquay and Le

One trick that I learnt, back in the heady days when I had more time to kill than responsibilities at work was how to read interesting stuff without being caught.  When I worked for Employer Direct in a call centre, there were times when I wasn’t needed to be on the phone and I was [...]