DISCOVER A REAL TASTE OF PEMBROKESHIRE

Like other counties, Pembrokeshire has its own distinctive local cuisine.

There is superb locally reared (and often organic) meat and excellent sausages, pies and other tasty local products made using it. You’ll often see the Pembrokeshire Produce mark, which identifies local food producers. Other specialities to look out for are the excellent local farmhouse cheeses – many of them award winning – and honeys, preserves and cakes.

Bara Brith you’ll find in most bakers – the well known speckled fruit bread of Wales. But Pembrokeshire has its own local favourites, such as Pembrokeshire Yeast Cakes, which were a traditional part of New Year celebrations, and Fishguard Gingerbread.

You may find these and other local specialities when you visit the farmers markets in Pembrokeshire too. Haverfordwest Farmers Market was voted one of the UK’s top six farmers markets and is held on alternate Friday's in the town centre. Fishguard’s Farmers market is held at Fishguard Town Hall on alternate Saturdays and there’s a daily indoor market in Tenby.

Six food outlets participated in the TWIGS programme. They are:

Shortlands Farm
The Farmers Arms
Folly Farm
Morgan's Restaurant
Sharon's Kitchen
Whitesands Beach and Cafe Shop

Click here for information on Pembrokeshire Food & Drink

Pembrokeshire has some of finest sea fishing in Britain, especially for bass, pollock and mackerel, with plenty of boats offering mackerel fishing trips. The rivers are renowned for salmon, trout and sewin (sea trout) which is preferred by many to salmon and enter the Cleddau river from early May.

Shellfish such as cockles, mussels and limpets are all collected locally and a particular local delicacy since Tudor times – oysters – used to be farmed on the Cleddau estuary. The site of one such farm is now a naturist centre!

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