I’ve always got an eye out for a good deal.
It’s one of the upsides of paying for your own meals rather than reviewing freebies. It’s a lot trickier to judge the value for money of something when you haven’t paid for it with your own hard-earned cash.
So, it’s one of the reasons why I can’t stop talking about
Bar 44’s bargainous set menu, which offers three dishes and a drink for £20. Oh
look, there I did it again.
Another good value menu which recently caught my attention is the Heathcock Bakery’s meal deal, which offers a sandwich or a toastie, a coffee and a sweet treat for £10 between 8am and 4pm seven days a week.
Located on Llandaff High Street, the Heathcock Bakery and
Deli is run by the same team behind the brilliant Heathcock pub. As well as
serving freshly baked goods, cooked breakfasts, sandwiches and salads, there’s
an excellent range of produce on offer from Welsh and further afield producers like
Caws Teifi, Cacklebean and Rockfish.
On both my lunchtime visits, I ordered the £10 meal deal and service was super quick - I received my food within around five minutes of ordering.
A very good flat white, made with Hard Lines coffee, had no
hint of any unpleasant bitterness whilst an iced americano ticked all the right
boxes.
A BLT sandwich was as good an example as you’ll find in Cardiff. The thick sliced, soft crumbed sourdough was a fine vehicle for two rashers of top notch thick sliced bacon, perky lettuce and tomato and excellent yellow-hued silky homemade mayonnaise.
A toasted sandwich was made with more of that lovely sourdough, this time grilled to a golden crisp and filled with a generous ooze of tangy melted cheese and thick slices of baked ham. A minor quibble, but it wasn’t made with the air-dried Carmarthen ham that was advertised on the menu.
Onto the sweet stuff, and a chocolate brownie was light and gooey all the way to the edges with a good chocolate intensity and a topping of a mix of white, dark and milk chocolate buttons.
A jam doughnut was a shade darker than I’d have liked and could have been a bit more squidgy, but it had a fresh crumb and a filling of proper thick jam. On my return visit, the doughnuts on display were a better colour.
For the quality of the food and drink on offer, the Heathcock Bakery’s £10 meal deal is cracking value. If like me, you’ve got your eye out for a good deal, then it’s a Cardiff café which should definitely be on your hit list.
The Details:
Address - Heathcock Bakery and Deli, 48 High Street, Llandaff, Cardiff CF5 2DZ
Web - https://www.instagram.com/heathcockbakery/
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