Food and Drink
MUMBLES: “Verdi’s will be back” as owner says fire damage worse than first feared
Ryan Hole says the seafront café came off worse than the family had hoped, with a fuller assessment expected next…
SWANSEA: Waterfront Beefeater up for sale — as two more local restaurants set to become Premier Inn rooms
The Waterfront Beefeater on Prince of Wales Dock has been listed for sale. Of Whitbread's four Swansea Bay restaurants, two…
FOLLY FARM: Zoo launches its own beer — inspired by a penguin’s monobrow
Pembrokeshire's Folly Farm has teamed up with Tenby Brewing Co on MonoBräu — a pale ale named in honour of…
FFORESTFACH: Swansea’s third Nando’s opens with 40 new jobs
The chain has fired up the grills at Parc Fforestfach — with 111 seats, a frozen cocktail machine and a…
COFFEE: Swansea crowned Wales’ coffee capital in UK-wide study
Swansea has been ranked the fifth-biggest coffee hotspot in the UK — the best in Wales — in new research…
FOOD: Llanarthne restaurateur chosen to lead Wales’ first national food strategy
Simon Wright, the man behind Wright's Food Emporium, will chair the expert group shaping a new National Food Strategy for…
UPLANDS: Free family party in Cwmdonkin Park on Sunday — as the pavilion café becomes a community venture
Dylan's Coffee Shop in Cwmdonkin Park throws a free summer party from 3pm on Sunday — celebrating the pavilion's new…
FFORESTFACH: Swansea’s third Nando’s opens on July 22 — with the grills already firing at Parc Fforestfach
Swansea's third Nando's opens its doors at Parc Fforestfach next Wednesday — joining the chain's Morfa Shopping Park and Wind…
SWANSEA: Carl’s Jr serves its last dine-in burger on Wind Street — as the unit re-emerges in the livery of the chicken shop next door
The US burger chain's restaurant has closed less than a year after opening — switching to delivery-only from Monday, with…
SAVE THE LOCAL: New Welsh law to give communities first refusal on buying their pub — announced the day Baglan’s Bagle Brook went up for sale
Community groups in Wales are set to win the legal right of first refusal when treasured local assets go up…
LLANELLI: Opulence closes — as prime Eastgate unit loses its third bar in a decade
The owners of the Eastgate bar say the closure is "one of strategy, not necessity" — but the unit opposite…