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            Welcome to Been there. Your tips on the places you know - that you love,
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                <title>Chapter</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[Chapter houses the city's only arthouse cinema, a great bar, a cafe (food is good though service can be slow when busy - allow plenty of time if you're eating before a show or film) and a theatre. It's an easy bus journey or a 15-20 minute walk from the centre of Cardiff.]]></description>
                
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                <title>Canteen on Clifton Street</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[A vegetarian restaurant that also serves some meat dishes. Vegans also catered for. Great fresh food, menu changes every two weeks, puddings to die for. Really.<br>Atmosphere buzzy and fun. Great value with three courses for £13.50. Licensed with fine wines and welsh beers.]]></description>
                
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                <title>Lisboa Restaurant</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[Portuguese-owned and run by Celia Soares and Maria Santos. Fantastic real Portuguese fare, fish dishes, all served with courtesy and smiles. Wines superb! Genuine menu and choice, excellent food. Highly recommended.]]></description>
                
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                <title>Copthorne Dinner Theatre at Copthorne Hotel</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[An excellent and innovative new concept at the Copthorne Hotel Cardiff.  <br><br>They have a professional theatre company in house who offer four different West End-style shows. We saw the "West End to Broadway" show which was amazing - the cast are a very talented bunch of people.<br><br>The food served was excellent and the whole evening was fantastic value. The standard price is £27.50 but we booked a special offer with dinner theatre, room, &amp; breakfast for only £89!<br><br>We have just booked for the Swing show next week! They also have a rock n roll show and a Western-themed one. They told me that there will be brand new shows for 2008!]]></description>
                
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                <title>Clwb Ifor Bach</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[Great club with three floors with different flavours of music on each. Big with the student crowd but it is fairly eclectic all round. Open past 1am at weekends. There's a small cover charge overseen by the most friendly bouncers on Earth(really) and the drinks are priced at a song compared to anywhere but Laos. A winner.]]></description>
                
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                <title>Wales</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[More steam trains and castles than anywhere else in the UK. A distinct culture and language. Space. Few crowds and little traffic. Beautiful green scenery, coastline, mountains and water everywhere. A much more interesting and varied region than SW England.]]></description>
                
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                <title>Cardiffpedia</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[This is a wiki about Cardiff, which gives info on places to eat and drink as well as things to do and see.<br><br>Maintained (but not exclusively) by the capital's residents, so you might find something that's not included in your average guide.]]></description>
                
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                <title>Y Mochyn Du</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[This is a pub very close to the city centre, near the Institiute of Welsh Sport and Sophia Gardens cricket ground. It has a good choice of real ales, mainly from Wales. If you'd like to hear Welsh spoken, all staff are fluent and this is a popular pub among the Welsh capital's sizable Welsh speaking community.]]></description>
                
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                <title>Casanova restaurant</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[The most fantastic Italian Restaurant in Cardiff, probably in Wales. Casanova is run by four young Italians who are passionate about their food. Finally an Italian restaurant without Spaghetti Bolognese and garlic bread on the menu!<br><br>The food is wonderful, superbly cooked, beautifully presented and top quality.The kind of place where the most important thing is the quality of the food! I can highly recommend a visit here.]]></description>
                
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                <title>Barfly</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[I recommend Barfly to visit on 28th Aug 2006 as Jon Wilks' favourite Japanese band - Nanbanjin- are playing there. Excellent music from 1 Welshman, 1 English/Irishman and a mad New Zealander! Not to be missed.]]></description>
                
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                <title>Gio's Italian Restaurant</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[Good value, good atmosphere, friendly staff.]]></description>
                
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                <title>Cardamom Indian Restaurant</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[Visiting Cardiff on business, I took the wife, and on a recommendation visited Cardamom Indian Restaurant on a Thursday night. What a little treasure this place is! Fantastic cuisine excellent service and a very contemporary feel. A night to remember. Thank you Cardamom.]]></description>
                
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                <title>Southerndown beach</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[Its the best beach close to Cardiff - a real gem on the Glamorgan Heritage Coast.]]></description>
                
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                <title>Casanova</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[Italian Restaurant in the shadow of the Millennium stadium. Friendly, good value, authentic Italian food - the sort of place which would be unremarkable in Cremona but helps it stand out amongst the pizza'n'pasta joints of Cardiff. Good value set lunch menu.]]></description>
                
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                <title>Travelodge, St Mary Street</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[Not the place to stay if you want a quiet night's sleep. This part of Cardiff turns into party central over the weekend and the hotel is directly above one club and adjacent to others. Great if you want somewhere handy for the clubs - no good for families or those whose clubbing days are behind them.]]></description>
                
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                <title>Woods Brasserie</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[The best restaurant in the Cardiff Bay area by some distance - in a nicely converted old dockside building with a rooftop terrace in summer. The food is modern British bistro food with lots of good fish and other local ingredients.]]></description>
                
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                <title>The arcades</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[Five victorian shopping arcades which run off St Mary Street and High Street. The arcades are shopping centres as Jules Verne might have imagined them; beautifully ornate yet ever-so-slightly ramshackle. Full of interesting independent shops and cafes.]]></description>
                
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                <title>Castell Coch</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[A romantic, fairytale castle just outside Cardiff. Rebuilt from a medieval ruin, its gothic interior is crammed with ornate murals, lavish gilding and elaborate wood carvings. <br><br>If you like this over-the-top style, you might also want to visit Cardiff Castle in the centre of the city. Both were designed by William Burges.]]></description>
                
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                <title>St David's Hotel &amp; Spa</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[A new five-star hotel also in the Bay area. There are 132 guest bedrooms, all with private balconies and views across the bay, and 20 suites. Guests also have full use of the St David's marine spa, which claims to be the first health facility and hydrotherapy spa in Wales. Rooms from £260 - £550.]]></description>
                
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                <title>Jolyon's</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[A big fuss has been made about Cardiff’s first boutique hotel, Jolyon’s. The restored Georgian townhouse has six lavishly furnished bedrooms, with king-sized beds, wi-fi facilities, free-to-view television, tea, coffee and cafeteria, and views of Cardiff Bay.]]></description>
                
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