DARK

Pie & Mash
Rabbit pie with puff pastry served up with mash potato 🖤
It’s all about the flavours

Nothing says I love you like a Blood Orange Meringue Pie 🥧

A cheeky cancellation means we have one last table left at 8pm tonight!

‪MENU ADDITION 🖤‬

‪Ox cheek rissoles, celeriac crisps, pickled celeriac and caramelised celeriac mayo‬

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Chicken & Scrambled Eggs in green sauce topped with our fermented chilli sauce. Banging city centre breakfast option 💥

🖤VALENTINES DAY🖤
Only a few tables left for Friday evening. Get you & your lobster booked in quick. Kitchen closes at 9pm 🍷

It’s all about the ingredients right?
So many eateries claim that they are doing things ethically and sustainably - which are such amazing buzz words
we invest everything into our end product & careful consideration is given to its sourcing. This is one of the main reasons why our dishes are so flavoursome. Not one dish is average
These are our sausage rolls made from pigeon and pork offal which we turned into ‘sausage meat’. Then wrapped in our own pastry
Made just in time for a busy night ahead 🖤🔥 @ DARK

New Pizza Special & soon to appear at Dusty Knuckle 🍕

Artichoke, semi-dried tomato, tapenade, sweet potato, basil, chive oil. With fior di latte here but is deliciously simple (& vegan) without 🌱

There’s vegan food and then there’s vegan dishes 🌱
Tempura vegetables, vegan sesame aioli, green sauce & a splattering of teriyaki 🖤

Another one fresh on the pass this afternoon 🖤
Deep fried purple sprouting broccoli with house nduja mayo 🤘🏻
Open every day except Sunday. Taking bookings & walk ins all! Be sure to check our opening hours 💥

Here’s one for all you vegetarians out there 🌱
Our purple sprouting broccoli with artichoke crisps & butter mayo courtesy of

Time for today’s pillowy pleasure...yep, they are crunchy nut doughnuts!! Now it’s perfectly ligit to have a doughnut for breakfast!

As always, here til they’re not!!

Chicken Bits Kebab 🤘🏻served up with our house kimchi, slaw & teriyaki sauce
Available to eat in if you are having a leisurely day or grab it from our hatch if you are in a dash! Our hatch will be open during each of the Six Nations matches so make sure you swing by & grab a bite. Please form an orderly queue 🤪

Rabbit Ragu Arancini with a red pepper & chilli sauce coming in HOT!
Remember we take walk ins and bookings. Check our opening times on our socials to prevent extreme disappointment 😎
It’s a busy week ahead. Burns Night on Saturday (two tickets available) & a private party on Sunday!

olive magazine

The incredibly notorious Olive Magazine came to see us & this is what they thought 🤘🏻

This has surpassed all our expectations..please read & share it far and wide.

Thank you to everyone who has supported us since our launch in mid December 🖤

We are forever grateful xx

Try lamb offal flatbreads, a modern take on laverbread and chocolate espresso donuts from Wales’s pizza champions https://buff.ly/2R4HhVC Dusty Knuckle

Little bit more experimenting this week. Working on ‘Dib Dark’ 🖤
Our take on this nostalgic sweet. Garam masala lolly with a lemon & raspberry sherbet. What do you reckon?

We are investing a great deal of time & energy in building our reputation at Dark. This business was inspired by a personal love of using less popular cuts of meat, harnessing their flavour & creating something wonderful in turn
We are fast becoming known for nose to tail, root to shoot style cooking and are incredibly proud of it
We source all our ingredients through trusted suppliers where we can track the meat to farm & veg to field. This philosophy has held strong and something we want to reflect in this project
We are currently developing our vegetarian offering to mirror that of our meat based menu but working with such delicate flavours requires a little more thought so please bear with us
If you want something a little different from your city centre eatery, a little alternative but with some insane flavour please pay us a visit & support a new independent venue
P.s. this is our pigeon salad! pigeon, black pudding, bacon with bruised kale & house vinegarette 🖤🤘🏻

Dad you are the best 🖤

Steak & Eggs hot off the griddle this morning. Don’t forget you can get your lunch to eat in or we have our hatch menu for those in a dash 🏃‍♂️
Open until 6pm. Thursday & Friday until 9pm - booking essential as we fill up quick 🖤

We are open until 9pm every Thursday & Friday 🙌🏻

Have a little look at our menu below and drop us a message to book a table 🖤

Do you need a reason to fall off the wagon? Is this it?
We give you our raspberry and white chocolate doughnut with honeycomb 😁😁😁
Freshly made this morning by us - outstandingly good! Whilst stocks last 🖤 @ DARK

This little stunner forms our steak & eggs plate.

It’s the diaphragm skirt also known as the skirt steak.

Incredibly juicy with intense beef flavour!

Served up with free range fried eggs

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It may not be the most aesthetically pleasing dish but here is our faggots served a top a bed of Carlin peas...
Available while stocks last

The many stages of faggots:

1. Onions sweat with Marsala & herbs
2. Coarsely minced pigs pluck (lungs,liver & heart) & fat
3. Minced belly pork
4. Breadcrumbs
5. Caul fat to wrap
6. The raw product...ready to cook off in a high oven and serve on a bed of Carlin peas.

Definitely a labour of love, but done properly and utterly delicious. Will be on the menu from midday tomorrow. I suspect these are going to fly so get in quick.

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We will be CLOSED on Sundays going forward to allow us to plan our menu’s & let our creative cogs have some respite
Launching an oinkingly 🐷 good dish next week so be sure to come see us
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We give you vanilla ice cream with olive oil, fennel pollen & orange zest
Quite possibly the most incredible ice cream EVER. It may not be the season for it but how could you not? 👀 AT IT
Open until 6pm today 🍦

A banging review of our newly opened home! Come check us out - be like Ed at Gourmet Gorro 🤘🏻

New on the blog is the delicious Dark by Dusty Knuckle, Cardiff city centre
https://gourmetgorro.blogspot.com/2020/01/dark-by-dusty-knuckle-cardiff-city.html

*Introducing Fiery Chicken & Eggs*
Chicken thighs, fresh chillies, fermented chilli sauce & fresh parsley
It’s a firm DARK favourite for shizzle 🤘🏻

It’s official - we are in the weird bit between Christmas & New Year 🤘🏻
To help you cope with the post Christmas sale nonsense & back to work blues here are our opening hours over the next week:
Saturday 28th 10-6pm
Sunday 29th 12-5:30pm
Monday 30th 10-6pm
NYE - CLOSED
New Years Day - CLOSED
Thursday 2nd - CLOSED
📸: Crisped Beef Tongue with a gribiche sauce
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Heading into with another stunning menu courtesy of 🖤

First look inside Dusty Knuckle's new restaurant ‘Dark’

An excellent write up 🤘🏻

Thank you Rhys..

https://wales247.co.uk/first-look-inside-dusty-knuckles-new-restaurant-dark/

wales247.co.uk The team behind an award-winning Cardiff pizzeria have opened brand-new restaurant in the city centre. Those familiar with Dusty Knuckle name, know they are renowned for their wood-fired pizzas and family friendly environment. However, DARK is a completely new venture for the husband and wife team.....

Our ethos is simple: creating rustic indulgent dishes using forgotten cuts of meat & the lesser loved vegetables
We cater for meat lovers, vegetarians & vegans. Our menu will be changing weekly in line with the seasons and what we can get from our lovely local suppliers
We take table bookings, walks in & you can grab something from our hatch menu if you are in a dash
We are open everyday from 10am until 6pm, with extended opening hours on Thursday & Friday (9pm close)
📸: Crispy Jerusalem Artichokes served a creamy ajo blanco sauce with fermented leek tops

One of the dishes from our plates menu ➡️
Slow cooked in our oven this melt in your mouth lamb shoulder has been teamed up with laverbread & pickled cockles
Perfect on a chilly winters day right?

What a difference a week can make 🖤
It’s taken a huge amount of effort and it’s caused phenomenal levels of frustration & heartache but we are finally OPEN. We welcomed our first customers last week as we settled into our launch menu
This week sees us more confident and more settled in our new home allowing us to make a few tweaks each day. This week we go a little darker, a little more what we aspired this new Cardiff eatery to become.
Come check us out. Open daily for early lunches, late lunches, dinner (check our opening times) & everything in between!
From the team behind Dusty Knuckle welcome to DARK by Phill & Deb Lewis 💥
📸 1-3 renovation complete; 4-5 mid process hell 💪🏻

KEBAB
This is our chicken bits kebab which is smothered in teriyaki sauce, house kimchi, sesame aioli and fresh crunchy salad.
Available to eat in or grab it from the hatch if your in a dash!

Kimchi butter for days! Started fermenting this kimchi 6 weeks ago. Now blitzed with butter ready for some smoked kippers and gochugaru pickled cucumbers.....now serving at DARK 🖤

It’s finally here, the day we have all been waiting for....launch day is happening & it’s TOMORROW 🍾
Here is a copy of our DARK menu, followed by brunch menu and lastly a homage to the hatch that Cafe Minuet became famous for. This is a cheaper, more fast food based menu including kebabs & pizza for those lunch time fixes 🖤
Open 10-9:30pm
We are mega chuffed to finally open our doors 🔥

It’s taken every ounce of our being to be ready to open tomorrow but sadly one ill fitting gas hose & some dodgy historic electrics means we won’t be seeing your beautiful faces until Thursday at 10am for brunch!

It’s an incredibly exciting time for us as Phill heads up the kitchen in this beautiful new venture of ours.

It's On Cardiff

Let’s fire up the oven, turn on the lights, pop the prosecco & throw open the doors 🖤🔥

Open Wednesday 11.12.19

Dusty Knuckle open brand new concept 'Dark' next week!!

It’s been a frantic few weeks getting ready ahead of the festive season
All being well we are opening our doors on Wednesday 11.12.19 🔥🖤
Keep up to date with all our launch info by following our socials 🙌🏻
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