Food & Drink

Enjoying a coffee in Mumbles

Swansea Bay is a region rich in farming and fishing with many regional delicacies and award winning local produce and drinks.

Food…

Delicacies of the region include Welsh Black Beef, Salt marsh Lamb, award winning Cheeses and our famed Cockles and Laverbread.

Welsh Black Beef
Available at restaurants and butchers throughout the region this breed of beef is renowned for it’s taste.

Gower Salt Marsh Lamb,
The sheep graze on this tidal marsh and gain their main nourishment from this unique pasture, which consists of saltmarsh grasses, samphire, sorrel, sea lavender and thrift. gives the meat its distinctive and very special flavour that is so sought after.
Gower Salt Marsh Lamb awarded prestigious gold prize

Cheese
Carmarthenshire Cheeses, Kid Me Not and Caws Cenarth winning some of the industry’s top awards at the prestigious British Cheese Awards.

cockles©Crown2008

Cockles and Laverbread
Cockles have been collected from Swansea bay since Roman times and has been sold in Swansea since the middle ages. Laverbread is boiled edible seaweed collected from the coastline. Both are available throughout the region as delicacies and can be bought through the regions markets.

Ice Cream
The region hosts not one but four Award winning ice-cream makers
Carmarthenshire's Mario’s,and Frank’s ice cream, and Swansea’s Joe’s and Verdis are all worth a visit and can be bought at various retailers throughout the region.

 …& Drink

Try a tour of the Penderyn Distillery and see the whisky-making process close up as well as learning about the importance that wood and water plays in the success of the whisky!

Or why not arrange a visit to Hurns Brewery; makers of Tomos Watkin ales such as Cwrw Haf (Summer Ale) made locally here in Swansea Bay, are now sold in USA and a number of European countries.

Swansea Bay is developing a reputation as an exciting place to eat out. The café culture is expanding with a huge number of venues from beachside to dockside, city centre to remote romantic villages. There’s definitely something to suit every pocket.

Online guides and publications

 ‘Food Passion’ the area’s FREE local guide for Swansea Bay, Mumbles and Gower.Packed with great ideas on where to dine and where to get fresh local produce.

Download this year's guide below or visit www.food-passion.co.uk.

Take a look at www.visitswanseabay.com for a range of eating out opportunities, further information on local produce and markets in the Swansea Bay area.

Visit Discover Carmarthenshire for details on Llanelli and Carmarthen Markets farmers markets, food guide and restaurant search.

Carmarthenshire Food and Drink Directory