The most lush and cozy atmosphere and good food and drinks!! So so nice to just relax and soak it…read morein.

I started going to Coffee#1 back in 2010. I used to go to Starbucks(Newport) but the service was…read morejust terrible. I wasn't expecting much from Coffee#1, but I was pleasantly surprised. The drinks are always made perfect and the service is incredible. Within the second time of going there, the staff had already remembered me and were very welcoming. Their food is also good quality(for a coffee shop). The reason why im giving it four stars and not five, is there's always the same annoying people outside all day, everyday. They were friends with the staff so, of course, they have first digs on the outside seating. They don't let anybody sit down and will not move for nobody. I guess that kind of makes a dent on the business for people who want to sit outside.

Another Caffe Nero but what a surprise! Haven't been to Newport town centre for many years and…read moreit's been transformed just look at the pictures. Imposing buildings, pedestrianised through roads and cafe culture excellent. And of course, the usual Caffe Nero benefits - excellent taste again, very friendly staff, spotlessly clean consistency is king. Recommended.

Charlie's makes THE most amazing sandwiches. It's a tiny little shop and there are usually two…read morepeople serving behind the counter, and most lunchtimes the queue is snaking out of the door and back along the street it's that good. The sandwiches are made with hugely thick slices of bread they bring new meaning to the term 'doorstop'! They sandwiches are all made up fresh in front of you, and you can have whatever combination of filling you like from the display. I once asked for peanut butter, cheese and jam (which was delicious!) and apart from asking me with a smile if I was pregnant and having strange cravings (which I wasn't - cheeky!), they made it up exactly how I wanted it. They also sell baguettes, toasted sandwiches and baked potatoes, and recently have opened another shop opposite which is a bit like a carvery, and sells sandwiches and baguettes with hot meats yum!

Costa is always a classic, and with delicious varied drinks and friendly staff it's the perfect…read moreplace to. relax, alone or with company.

This place is stupidly overpriced, at least their take away menu is…read more £4 for a panini, £2 for a can of lemonade and £3.80 for a small piece of brownie. I don't recommend eating here unless you wanna spend daft amounts. The food is average, you could get the same sandwich for much cheaper anywhere else.

Should you ever find yourself in Newport, Wales - and there's absolutely no reason to think you…read moreshould unless you live there or are lost - then you will find a lunchtime trip to Ridgeway Bar and Kitchen a wholly satisfying affair. We stopped here on the way from London to Pembrokeshire. It's half way and it was lunchtime and call us mad but we weren't fancying the Little Chef. A quick look online had some bizarre suggestions for good places to eat just off the M4 including a Mcdonalds and a service station where you could buy sandwiches. We needed to dig deeper. Eventually we found a write up for a small place in the Newport suburbs which didn't sound grim. The write up did it a disservice. It's an excellent place. Nestled on a residential road with bungalows and rhodedendrums everywhere, you wonder how anyone but a local would ever know about this place. Perhaps that's all they need because the place full when we got there. It's a bar/restaurant which has been done out in a sort of American pantry style, lots of whitewashed wood, all bright and airy. The menu is full of good classics, calamari, smoked mackerel pate, ham hock etc, and there's a grill section with burgers and steaks. If you ordered two courses in the right combination you could get a lunchtime deal of £12. Cue finding the most expensive things available on that deal. I had hanger steak, the missus had a fish medley and Stanley had the usual. It's fair to say my steak was nothing short of excellent. Full of flavour as that cut always is, but with the added charcoal grill charred criss cross. Very satisfying. Crispy fluffy chips accompanied and so did a juicy field mushroom and tasty grilled tomato. I chose a bernaise sauce which was unctuous and tasty, with the nice sharp vinegar reduction. The only bit of nit picking was that it wasn't quite warm enough. Didn't stop me mopping up the lot. A simple dish executed to perfection. The fish plate was a similar story. Small chunks of battered cod done perfectly, some very tasty calamari, a trout pate and some good bread to spread it on. Great stuff. Stanley's hamburger was juicy and tasty and the bun had a good glaze but was satisfyingly doughy. Buoyed by the superb mains and encouraged by the lunchtime deal we ordered a brownie and an apple crumble. Both were stupidly tasty and moreish which was lucky because the portions were generous in the extreme. It occurred to us that the people here are concentrating on keeping the food simple but executing it perfectly. Nothing is worse than a simple dish done badly. Nothing better than a simple dish made with love and care. The service was wonderfully friendly, two bright and breezy sisters who were happy to stop and chat even though the place was packed. Newport may not be the most buzzy of places but the locals are lucky to have the Ridgeway Bar and Kitchen, as good a lunchtime stop off as anywhere 150 miles east up the M4. We'll be stopping here on the way back.

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