When you go to a restaurant whose USP is definitively 'small plates', you typically - or I do, anyway - think of the classic Spanish tapas, pintxo or Italian cicchetti. But in recent years, foodies in Wales have seen the introduction of small plate restaurants - Kindle and Nook for example - that have no particular link to a certain country and simply celebrate good food that has been cooked with love and skill.
So when I went to Pasture's new restaurant, Parallel - which lies directly next door to the Cardiff steak restaurant - I was excited to see how it was, firstly, different to its sister restaurant and secondly... well, just how delicious these small plates were.
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