The Classroom: restaurant review

The Welsh capital isn’t famous for food but this really excellent catering college showcase could change all that

The Classroom, CAVC City Centre Campus, Dumballs Road, Cardiff CF10 5FE (029 2025 0377). Meal for two, including drinks and service: £60

Even the greenest of cities have their tattered edges and Cardiff, which is greener than most, is no exception. If you get a window seat at this week’s restaurant, try not to look straight down. You’re more likely to catch sight of copulating seagulls on the battered roof of the industrial unit across the road than anything particularly inspiring. (Unless shagging seagulls does it for you; each to their own.) Fix your eyes instead on the verdant horizon, on the lush parks that run up to the hills surrounding the Welsh capital.

That Graduation Menu reads like a cooking syllabus