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Issue 18

• The Blues, the Big Issue and a new bridal store in Castle Arcade

• If you’re going to pay a visit to Wales’s most haunted house, why not take along a leading psychic? 

• The best of  The Big Issue at the WMC

• Two of the UK’s top psychics tell us what to expect from their nationwide tours

• Latin dining

• Three local chefs cook up the ultimate cawl 

• Frock, horror... this year, we’re more about the treating than the tricking

• Italian style and glamour at Natuzzi 

• We put five of Cardiff’s interiors shops to the test

• Hot tips to brighten up your autumn interiors

• Win a bracing weekend break for two in Dartmoor. 

• We get big and bouncy at Yume

• Meet the very groovy  Mr Huw Stephens

Issue 17

 

•  A luxurious family home doubles as the base of a successful business

• Who are South Wales’ food heroes?

• Alison Steadman on Bennett, Barry and back-to-backs

• Make a classic crème brulee

• We test five juices

• The one-stop shop for all your interiors needs

• Autumn fashion trends

• Suction treatment for the Cardiff Life girls

• Win a holiday to Cyprus

• Meet Men Aloud’s baritone Craig Yates

Issue 16:

• A trip to Big Pit

• A photographic celebration of the Welsh coastline

• Testing a Southerndown apartment

• The best wildlife photography of the year

• Cool kit for schoolkids

• Autumn fashion for the boys

• A trip to the Metropolis

• Eating out at Illtuds 216

• Cooking up the autumn harvest

 

Issue 15

• A Penylan home gets a gleaming reinvention

• Canoeing down the Wye

• Dining at the deli

• Cardiff’s best muffins

• Cook like Adam at the Parc Hotel

• Italy’s undeveloped Cliento coast

• Meet Nigel Roberts

Issue 14

• Up Close with Doctor Who

• A new exhibition about a Cardiff childhood

• Fine dining at Woods

• Back to sundae school

• The best ice-creams in Cardiff

 • Shopping in Cardiff’s best kids’ shops

• Summer fashion

• Escape to Crete

• Kids in the garden

• Meet Belonging’s Andrew Phillips

 

Issue 13

• Cook like the chef at Park Plaza

• Drive a super-car

• A leading local poet waxes lyrical about the city

• WIN a pamper day at Cardiff’s newest spa

• Get down and dirty with uber-gardener Arne Maynard

• Posh frocks at Seren

• Great food at Glo 

 

Issue 12

• Caerphilly does it

• Old Cardiff remembered

• Shopping for Fathers’ Day

• Dining at Le Gallois

• Chukkas away: it’s polo season

• Meet The Point’s Richard Jones

 

 

Issue 11

 • Our seven-page photo special of the Bafta – how many celebs can you spot? And that wasn’t all that happened during the last few weeks...

 • Life after St David’s Hotel: meet the Austrian chef who is now wowing diners in Llantwit Major

• So, what do Europe’s other capital cities have to offer? First up, Dublin... 

 

 

 

 

 

Issue 10

What's On?  Katherine Jenkins, Darcy Bussell, Angelina Ballerina and Girls Aloud, that’s what – and if that all sounds too  girly for words, there’s always Monster Jam 

 Laura Rowe takes a look at the Fifth Dimension kitchen inside Wales’ first food and wine school

The Cardiff Life team finds out who froths the best cappuccinos in town

Meet Jason Soudah, an up and coming musician who loves Roath and questions ‘Chippy Lane’

                                                                   

Issue 9  

We’re starting to wonder whether South Wales’ sporting élite are spending more time on the catwalk than on the playing fields. Fine by us girls...

Big ballerinas, Lazytown and the ’babes – what more could you want from a month’s entertainment?

We take a look behind the scenes of the New Theatre; and talk duty-free lipstick and terrorism with Pam Ann creator Caroline Reid

 

Don’t follow the trends, set them, at Pontcanna’s most individual boutique

The Cardiff Life team dine on good pub grub on an Arctic night at The Yard

An exotic little number from the head chef of one of Cardiff ’s (and Wales’ for that matter) top Thai restaurants, the Thai House

Vicky wishes they’d name a daffodil after her, like they did for Katherine Jenkins

 Issue 8 

• What makes Xantippe special?

• Win the most comfortably trainers you’ll ever put on your feet

• Escape to the south of France

• Peter Philipps of Cardiff International Airport tells us what’s special about Cardiff

• We stumble into El Puerto and discover it’s hardly a well-kept secret

• Why there’s more to the spring garden than daffodils

 Issue 7

• Ethical eating – an eco-guide to the local larder

• Fashion that needn’t cost the Earth

• In praise of snowdrops

• Venice – it’s Italy’s answer to Cardiff Bay…

• Win tickets to see Cliff at the CIA

• Recreate the Farthings dessert trolley in the comfort of your own home

 

 

Issue 6

• Neo-Georgian splendour in a picturesque rural setting

• Win a luxury weekend break for two

• Small but perfectly formed: The Grape & Olive reviewed

• Q&A with Mermaid Quay’s marketing manager

• A new year makeover from Kamigata

• Where Wales’s glitterati buy their jewellery

 

 

Issue 5

•  WIN three months’ membership to the Bay’s most beautiful spa

•    We visit a popular Bayside brasserie

•    Learn to cook some haute Indian cuisine

•    Why detoxing needn’t equal deprivation

•    Keep warm while looking cool on the slopes

•   Meet Welsh Woman of the year Julia Cartwright
 

Issue 4

• We offer you a chance to win a shopping spree at House of Fraser

• Dave Williams fights his way through a Cowbridge gale to sample some traditional pub grub

• The head chef of Mezza Luna offers up a Lebanese feast

• Laura gets cooking with the month’s seasonal larder



• Kate gets glitzy with this winter’s range of glamorous make-up, and talks us through the best frocks for the party season

• The second in our two-part look at the best of Cardiff’s historic arcades

• We meet the Welsh Woman of the year 2007
  

 

Issue 3

 

A Penarth home with views of the sea, and a fascinating architectural pedigree is the home featured in this issue’s Property Showcase

Our usual round of homes with a wide variety of locations, styles and prices. All that remains is deciding where to put the Christmas tree . . .

The Cardiff Blues as you have never seen them before, and the Teletubbies turn on the lights all featured in our social diary.

With a Winter wonderland theme -  Christmas Day takes up roughly 24 hours of the holiday. What are you going to do with the kids during the other days? And what’s with the Elvis connection?

We also look at why the traders in The Friary are simply having a wonderful Christmas time.

We blank out the unprintable bits of Francis Rossi’s interview, and relate the heartwarming tale of a Cowbridge artist. After all, it’s Christmas.

Are you planning a polar expedition, or just feeling a bit chilly in Caerphilly? The competition this issue is a jacket that will keep you cosy.

It’s out with the old and in with the new at this excellent St Fagans eatery is featured as our restaurant review this issue. Still on the subject of food we travel to the wilds of Llandaff for this month’s recipe. ‘Tis the season to wrap your icy hands around a nice cup of hot chocolate. We put some to the test.

The Cardiff Life team are a bunch of overgrown kids, we get all excited about decorations for the tree. We are also dreaming of a white (as opposed to grey, overcast and mildly nippy) Christmas? Why not head for Lapland’s fields of cold...

We have a ho-ho-holistic time at Neal’s Yard Remedies and if you fancy some fresh air then Joe Woodward takes on the sporting side of life.                              

Issue 2 

Cardiff Life features some great properties this issue. Looking for a Plas close to town? You could do a lot worse than this uber-trendy Cathedral Road conversion... or maybe you would like to look at something old, something new, something Merthyr, something Bute...

We have pictures from the Cardiff Life launch shindig, naturally; some pop stars, and a party for the hardworking press.

We go Out and About and get mediaeval with William Burges at Castell Coch. Santa and his reindeers come to Cowbridge on 25 November.

There's a Shakespearean comedy at the New Theatre and the Swn down at Chapter; let it never be said that Cardiff Life does not cast a wide cultural net.

We find some of the best Indian cooking in town behind the modest façade of Moksh. On the subject of food we find out who bakes the best brownies in town - yum. Even if you can't cook, won't cook you will still want the kitchen accessories featured in this issue's editors choice.

After all the food talk we get some serious pampering at Holm House in Penarth. We will be returning.

We have two competitions this issue. A pair of tickets to win a flight to New York City, how cool or if you fancy staying put then you can win tickets to hear the mighty Quo.

Joe comes over all Richard Hammond as he tests the very sleek Aston Martin V8.

Plus lots, lots more...

Issue 1

 

Meet the team! We introduce you to Deri, Laura, Kate and Joe – the team behind Cardiff Life.

Our Property Showcase this issue is a striking converted Victorian water tower on Cyncoed Road. The prize-winning conversion blends old (Gothic castellations, tall windows, Victorian brick) with new (aluminium, glass, clean lines, open plan spaces) to breathtaking effect. The property is on the market with Fine & Country.

Other properties featured include Colby Moor, a 16th Century farmhouse in Llawhaden boasting a wealth of original features as well as 11 acres of grounds, Craiglas, a Grade II country residence with far-ranging views over the Usk Valley, and neo-Georgian manor house Angleton Hall, whose old style grandeur and modern layout offer the best of both worlds.

Elsewhere, Deri visits St. Fagan’s National History Museum, where their newest addition, St. Teilo’s Church, originally situated in Pontarddulais, has just opened its doors. This month’s restaurant review is of Tides Bar & Grill, with elegant, watery views and a chic interior the venue exudes an air of sophistication – pick up a copy of the magazine to see whether the food matched up to its surroundings.

Our Reader Competition this issue offers readers a chance to dine in style with a fantastic three course dinner for two and a trip in a chauffer driven Bentley – look out for details on page 60.

For all this plus Laura’s trip to Cowbridge ahead of its annual food and drink festival, Kate’s pick of Cardiff’s cosiest accessories and a trip to the Park Plaza’s luxurious spa, look out for Issue 1 of Cardiff Life, out soon.