Carl Say gets fresh with our taste buds in this rapidly growing themed chain (three branches in Bristol, one in Bath) which started life as a takeaway providing restaurant-quality food. Carl hails from southern Africa but has travelled the world and it shows in the cuisine which takes the emblematic Italian dishes and gives them an international twist (Kalahari pizza, would you believe).

Freshness is a fetish here, all the pasta is made in the kitchen from the finest ingredients and every ingredient in every dish is sourced to the highest quality. Deep fry, preservatives, colourings, artificial flavourings: all banned. Oh, and its fun and great value for money. How can anything that does you this much good still be legal?