If you walk down Wellfield Road in Roath, you'll be met with a proper lush cosmopolitan mecca for foodies. With everything from Turkish cuisine to Italian, and from restaurants to delis to cocktail bars, it's a food frenzy all squeezed into one quaint one street that leads onto the luscious Roath Park. But with so many shops packed tightly together, it's easy to walk past the small Sushi joint that has been nominated for Restaurant of the Year in the UK's first ever Uber Eats awards - unless, like me, you were on the lookout. And although tucked away, once you try its menu, you can easily see (and taste) why it's been given a gold star.
We were late for our booking. Cardiff had decided to enter monsoon season and every man and his dog, it seems, had jumped in their car to beat the weather creating even more traffic than usual at rush hour. To make sure we didn't lose our 5.15pm slot, I quickly gave the restaurant, which opens at 5pm each day, a call to see if we can move our booking 10 minutes later, painfully aware that we had our table for only an hour and a half - it was more than fine, they reassured me on the phone.
We park up a few streets over, just off Albany Road, and powerwalk to Sushi Life to make sure we don't miss our allotted time. As we walk through the front door, which is mildly overshadowed by the Globe's painfully blue entrance, we are immediately greeted by one of three waitresses who checks our name and shows us to our table.
