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 is 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 Gower's tidal marshes and gain their main nourishment from a unique pasture consisting of saltmarsh grasses, samphire, sorrel, sea lavender and thrift, giving the meat its distinctive and very special flavour. Gower Salt Marsh Lamb awarded prestigious gold prize
Cheese. Carmarthenshire Cheeses, 'Kid Me Not' goats cheese and Caws Cenarth have won some of the industry’s top awards at the prestigious British Cheese Awards.
cockles©Crown2008
Cockles and Laverbread have been collected from Swansea bay since Roman times and have 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 at 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 thier ice creams 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 food guide for Swansea Bay, Mumbles and Gower is packed with great ideas on where to dine and where to get fresh local produce.
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, a food guide and restaurant search. Carmarthenshire is famed for its Welsh Black Beef, Carmarthen Bay cockles and seafood, Tywi salmon and sea-trout, sweet Carmarthen ham and some of the tastiest award-winning farmhouse cheeses on the planet. There’s even a chocolate farm in the area!
Carmarthenshire Food and Drink Directory
Did you know?
- Several Swansea Bay restaurants made the Good Food guide 2011, new Welsh entries include Rose Indienne in Swansea, ‘raising the bar for Indian food’.
- Fairyhill Restaurant, renowned for its high quality cuisine, has appeared for 12 years running in The Good Food Guide.
- Jamie Oliver is to serve up cockles in his restaurant.
- No Sign bar is one of the UK's top ten destination bars in 2011.
- Swansea's food scene attracts the attention of the Guardian in 2011.
