Everywhere We Ate In: Pembrokeshire, Wales

For paid subscribers: a hit-list recounting every single stop from our recent trips, this time a debut dip into Pembrokeshire in West Wales

Fourth in the series of snappy overviews of literally everywhere we ate in a destination on a short break! ‘Everywhere We Ate In…’ is designed as a listicle series lavishly appointed in one-liners rather than long guides full of prose. Everything from where we got morning buns and coffee to the wine bars and restaurants we ate in, plus a steer on some activities too.

Hi! We are Patrick and Russell, food and travel writers and The Sunday Times Ireland’s restaurant critics. Chip Paper is our space on Substack where we share long-form food writing features, deep dives, snappy travel guides and recipes, all punctuated by our own hand-drawn illustrations. We started as bloggers, built our brand on Instagram and are now freelance food and travel writers with bylines in many different places.We’re also over at gastrogays.com.

From Porto, Turin and Chicago and Glasgow, Boston and Rotterdam, we have so much more to come in this series. In case you missed the first three in the series you can catch up here: Kraków 🇵🇱; L’Isle-sur-la-Sorgue 🇫🇷; and Stockholm 🇸🇪.

Restaurants

• Paternoster Farm literally a restaurant on a family farm set in a renovated milking parlour outside Pembroke. The setting is stupendously bucolic and the set menu is dreamy, with natural wines and cocktails to boot

• Llys Meddyg A wood-fired restaurant in Newport pairing local produce with smoke and char in a fine dining setting in this beautiful boutique hotel in a historic coaching inn

• The Royal Oak Possibly the finest pub in all of Fishguard for a Sunday roast, we lucked out as there was a folk music session on while we dined there. A pint of perfectly-poured Guinness in hand too? Absolute bliss