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Cameo Club & Bistro
Once a notorious after-hours drinking den, this private members' club is much more respectable these days, but it's still the hub for Cardiff's arts and media scene. Anyone can now partake in the delicious food offered in its effortlessly hip bistro, but the bar is members-only after 5pm.
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Çakır Restaurant
About as chilled out as dining can get, the Çakýr brothers' restaurant overlooks a pebble beach and rickety wooden platforms above the water. You can pick meze and mains such as kalamar (squid) and köfte from the fridge.
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Cafe Sobe
Board games and cool tunes make this buzzing cafe-restaurant a popular hang-out. The tereyağında (trout) and sautéed biftek (steak) are among the favourite menu picks.
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Cafe Paradiso
A contender for best eatery in town, this down-to-earth vegetarian restaurant serves a superb range of dishes, including vegan fare: how about sweet chilli-glazed panfried tofu with asian greens in a coconut and lemongrass broth, soba noodles and a gingered aduki bean wonton; or spring cabbage dolma of roast squash, caramelised onion & hazelnut with cardamom yoghurt, harissa sauce, broad beans and saffron-crushed potatoes? Reservations are essential.
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Cafe My Kitchen
This 'international' restaurant, fashionable among up-and-coming young Bursans, is somewhat upscale and does excellent pastas and salads. Fleshed out with eclectic modern decor, it's wine bar's also good for a drink.
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Café Mocha
All manner of juices, coffee drinks, teas and, yes, hot chocolates are served at this kid-friendly cafe. There are a few sandwiches and tarts but the real food joy centres on a long dessert list. Look for the narrow entrance to stairs on the main shopping drag.
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Café Gandolfi
In the fashionable Merchant City, this cafe was once part of the old cheese market. It's been pulling in the punters for years and attracts an interesting mix of die-hard Gandolfers, the upwardly mobile and tourists. It's an excellent, friendly bistro and upmarket coffee shop. Book a Tim Stead-designed, medieval-looking table in advance for well-prepared Scottish and Continental food. There's an expansion, specialising in fish, next door.
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Café del Mondo
A bohemian cafe that serves excellent fairtrade coffee as well as hearty homemade soups, artisan breads and hot lunch specials that use organic, locally sourced produce.
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Cafe by Özel
Chowdown Central caters to anyone and everyone ('Holland's kroket', anyone?).
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Cafe at No 4 Queen St
This chic little corner cafe, right in the middle of Carmarthen, brews the best coffee in town and serves fantastic homemade cakes and scones as well as soups, salads, sandwiches and daily specials.
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James Martin at Cadogan
Run by the eponymous celebrity chef, this place exudes aromas of ripe cheese and freshly baked bread – sample some at a tiny table for just £5 per platter.
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Büyükfırat
With a fountain and breezy outdoor seating, this restaurant-cafe-fast-food place dishes up burgers, pizzas, stews and kebaps, and freshly squeezed orange juice.
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Bustopher's
This longstanding Truro bistro has benefited greatly from a contemporary refit. The food is mainly British bistro standards (steaks, fish, salads) delivered simply and efficiently, and the cosy candles and wood panelling give things an intimate ambience.
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Bushmills Inn
The inn's excellent restaurant, with intimate wooden booths set in the old 17th-century stables, specialises in fresh Ulster produce and serves everything from sandwiches to full à-la-carte dinners.
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Bulman Bar & Toddies
This is seaside eating at its best. Escape from central Kinsale to this gastro pub in an unspoilt harbourside venue, where salty informality is a style in its own right. Seafood excels here, whether swimming in chowder or laid out seductively on a platter. Much of everything is sourced locally; herbs are right from the kitchen garden. The more formal restaurant Toddies (dinner only Wed-Sat) serves an excellent range of beautifully prepared seafood – the lobster risotto (€18.95) is recommended.
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Buee
Local and not-so-local ingredients are given a simple Gallic twist at this brand-new bistro just off the Quayside. A great light lunch spot with big-window people-watching possibilities downstairs or a more substantial dinner in the upstairs dining room with Tyne views – whenever you come the food, plated up by a real French cook, is first rate.
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Bryson's
Keswick's renowned bakery is known for its fruit cakes, Battenburgs and chocolately florentines.
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Brú na Bóinne Visitor Centre Cafe
On the lower level of the Brú na Bóinne visitor centre, this surprisingly good cafe's extensive vegetarian options include nut and lentil loaf, and eggplant and zucchini cake, plus plenty of other treats like salmon and leek tart and beef lasagne.
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Brown Betty's
Close to the castle, this is a good choice for cheap cheerful sandwiches, bagels and ciabatta, light pasta and salads and artery-challenging fry-ups.
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Britons Arms
Fifteenth-century thatched restaurant serving classic English dishes in a historic setting. Cash only.
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Brimpts Farm
They've been serving cream teas here since 1913, and its still one of the best places to tuck in on the moor. Expect freshly baked scones, homemade jams and utterly gooey clotted cream. It's signed off the B3357, Two Bridges–Dartmeet road.
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Brasserie du Commerce
Stucco ceilings, gilt mirrors and opulent chandeliers catapult you back to the more glamorous age of belle époque at this buzzy brasserie, rustling up classic fare from fresh fish to beef carpaccio.
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Brasserie Blanc
Raymond Blanc manages to create a surprisingly intimate and romantic space amid the cast-iron pillars and red brick of an old Victorian warehouse, with a scatter of outdoor tables for sunny lunchtimes beside the river. The menu is unerringly French, from escargots (edible snails) to Toulouse sausage. The lunch and pre-7pm menu (6.30pm Saturday) offers three courses plus a glass of wine for £14.
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Brasserie Blanc
Get a taste of French home cooking, Raymond (Blanc) style, at this super-sleek chain. The celebrity chef may not necessarily sauté your starter, but the chicken stuffed with morel mushrooms and the Toulouse sausage with onion gravy are full of Gallic charm.
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Brasserie Black Door
Less a gallery restaurant and more a restaurant in a gallery, the Black Door serves up excellent modern English fare – which generally involves a twist from pretty much any other part of the world – in a bright, elegant dining space. A great spot for lunch even if you're not visiting the gallery.
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