The Food Passion Blog

Do you love dinner parties?

Are you a great cook?

The hugely successful Channel 4 show Come Dine With Me is returning for a new, daytime series. We’re looking for people over 18 years of age in and around the SWANSEA area with a passion for cooking who want to demonstrate their skills

Over five days, five strangers, from all walks of life, take turns to host the perfect dinner party for each other. At the end of the week the most impressive host wins a £1,000 cash prize.

This is your chance to create the perfect dining experience, and YOU get to enjoy four nights dining out and a chance to win the prize!

If you or anyone you know would like to take part then please call ASAP:
020 7157 4757

or email: caroline.morris@itv.com

Swansea restaurant makes it into 2009 Good Food Guide - courtesy of Swansea Bay Futures
A Swansea restaurant has joined the likes of celebrity chefs Heston Blumenthal and Gordon Ramsay in the UK’s premier foodie league. Slice, which opened in Sketty, Swansea in December 2007 joins only a handful of other Welsh restaurants in the 2009 Good Food Guide. The guide is regarded in the trade as the food bible, perhaps because listings in The Good Food Guide are not just based on findings of independent guide judges but also on the views of customers who take the time to send in comments on their experiences.
Read more at http://www.abayoflife.com/en/news/slice-2009-good-food-guide/

Welsh cheese firms land superstores deals - courtesy of Swansea Bay Futures
Two award-winning west Wales companies are celebrating after clinching deals to supply some of the country’s largest supermarket chains with cheeses. Kid Me Not, located near Llandeilo, already supplies Asda’s 20 Welsh stores and has now signed deals to supply the delicatessen counters of 174 Waitrose stores across the UK and Morrisons stores across Wales. The Carmarthenshire Cheese Company also supplies Welsh Asda and Morrisons stores and has recently clinched a deal to supply Llangloffan farmhouse cheese to Sainsbury’s stores in Wales and the borders from October. Thanks to a distribution deal with independent food wholesaler Castell Howel, both companies are also supplying the Bluestone holiday complex in Pembrokeshire as well as many restaurants across the UK. Read more at: http://www.abayoflife.com/en/news/welsh-cheese-firms-land-superstores-deals/

City views from new city tower restaurant  - courtesy of Swansea Bay Futures
A £2.5 million deal has been struck for the 290-cover ‘Penthouse Restaurant’ that will allow diners to gaze over the city from the top of the £100 million Meridian Quay tower development in Swansea. Floors 27, 28 and 29 will be taken up by the plush restaurant in Swansea marina, which is scheduled to open next summer. The deal has been signed by Swansea-born, London-based businessman Peter Way who already employs more than 1,000 people and supplies catering staff to Wembley Stadium, White Hart Lane (the home of Tottenham Hotspur football club) and the Emirates Stadium (Arsenal’s home).
Read more at : http://www.abayoflife.com/en/news/cooking-up-great-city-views/