Cardiff Life celebrates the best of city living. Published every three weeks, it includes the very latest on property, arts, dining and shopping, in Cardiff, Cowbridge and Penarth

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WELCOME Croeso

Issue 42...out now! 

 

Saving the planet without really trying....

‘Tis traditional at this point in the calendar for local magazines to turn their attention to all things eco – it’s a kind of a belated, new year resolution kind of of a thing with us. But rather than going down the worthy, look-no-chemicals route, in this issue we take a look at the more enjoyable aspects of being green, whether it’s buying food at a great local market (page 14), combining sharp fashion sense with sustainability by buying vintage (page 36) or visiting a gallery-cum-shop that ‘celebrates the best of the old and new’ (page 52) - could saving the planet be any easier?
We also visit one of Cardiff’s top hairdressing salons (page 56), uncover the source of the city’s best steak and chips (page 42) and offer some alternatives to the usual Mother’s Day offerings (page 48).
Back soon, in a distinctly spring-like mood....

Deri

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 LATEST ISSUE

Issue 42

• Only Men Aloud have been nominated for yet another award, while the RSPCA has been working its magic in Barry
• Laura Rowe gets chatting to a few of the stallholders at Cardiff’s farmers’ markets
• Guests get ffresh at WMC and brides get ready for the big day at the Manor Parc Country Hotel and Restaurant
• Peter Andre, Lady Gaga, Lynyrd Skynyrd, and so on and so forth
• Know your retro from your antique? Alexandra Shakespeare talks us through shopping for vintage
• Does Miller and Carter offer the best steak in town? 
• The gang at The Beech Tree Inn cook us a fishy dishy
• Mother superior – have you got your mum’s present sorted yet?
• Roath’s newest gallery-cum-gift shop celebrates the best of the old and the new
• Vidal Sasson’s a cut above the rest, reckons a newly sleek Deri Robins
• Rhi Lewis is dazzled by a contemporary new build in the Vale
• Our regular update on the movers and shakers of the Cardiff business community
• Meet Go Evans, MD of local ethical clothing brand ArcEnd