Food and Drink

Exterior of the Bagle Brook in Baglan, showing the sign, entrance and picnic benches
Baglan

BAGLAN: Bagle Brook is coming back, under the new owner of 57 old Whitbread restaurants

Shut since September, the Baglan institution has turned up on a new company’s opening list. Who they are, and when…

Four fishermen in waterproofs and a man in a grey T-shirt stand beside a bluefin tuna hung by its tail from a hoist on the quay at Milford Haven at dusk
bluefin tuna

BURRY PORT: Wales’ first commercially caught bluefin tuna went over the counter at a Saturday morning fish market

Five fish landed at Milford Haven under a Welsh Government trial were cut and sold by Whitfish in Burry Port.…

Aerial view of the Patti Pavilion with its curved green roof in Victoria Park, Swansea, with the St Helen's ground, Mumbles Road and the beach behind
hospitality

PATTI PAVILION: Swansea’s 1920 seafront hall to open seven days a week, with an eye on the St Helen’s crowd

No ticket needed: The Patti says it is getting a new look, new seating, drinks offers and a student discount,…

Aerial view of the rebuilt St Helen's ground with its green artificial pitch, white marquees at the Guildhall end, and Swansea Bay and the beach across Mumbles Road
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ST HELEN’S: Verdi’s owner takes over the food at the Ospreys’ new ground, and promises ‘Swansea’s biggest party space’

Ryan Hole’s Secret Hospitality Group, which runs The Secret across the road, ROK and The Lighthouse, will run hospitality and…

A bartender garnishes two cocktails on a dark bar in front of a lit back bar of bottles at a Cosy Club venue
Beaujolais Day

SWANSEA: Hidden terrazzo floor uncovered at the old Pandora’s as Cosy Club opens its books for Beaujolais Day

The marble floor under decades of nightclub coverings will take centre stage when the Exchange Buildings venue opens. The first…

A volunteer carries a box of meals into the Goods Shed in Llanelli, under a sign reading Sied Nwyddau Goods Shed
Antioch Centre

LLANELLI: Home-cooked meals for £2 from a freezer at the town’s old railway goods shed

It’s pay what you can, with meatballs, stews and lasagne cooked from scratch by volunteers. The freezer is open four…

The glass and stone frontage of Westminster Magistrates Court in London, with the royal coat of arms above the entrance
animal cruelty

CARMARTHEN: Three men charged with conspiring to supply unfit meat after food crime investigation

Two of them also face an animal cruelty charge. All seven defendants are due at Southwark Crown Court next month.

Three long hot dogs in cardboard trays seen from above, one with pickles and spring onion, one with crispy onions, ketchup and mustard, one with red chilli and sesame seeds
Albert Hall

SWANSEA: He fell for New York’s hot dog stands. On Friday he opens his own in the Albert Hall

The Dog House has been turning heads from a spray-painted truck. Now it’s getting a permanent counter on Cradock Street,…

A performer in a chef's hat and false moustache holding a red and green umbrella, in a costume that makes him look like he is riding a giant chicken, on a wet Neath street with stalls behind
Cllr Cen Phillips

NEATH: Food festival back for both days this year, after Storm Amy stole last year’s Saturday

Free, in the town centre, 10am to 5.30pm today and tomorrow, with more than 40 stalls across five streets. Gower…

Alcohol on shop shelf
Alcohol

ALCOHOL: Cheapest booze goes up 30% in Wales from today, and the deaths it was meant to stop are at a record

The minimum price of a unit rises from 50p to 65p from Thursday. Ministers say it will save hundreds of…

People in white protective suits examining the burnt-out kitchen at Verdi's in Mumbles, with scorched walls, ceiling and steel counters
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MUMBLES: Verdi’s aims for an Easter return, but the owner warns it could be summer

Insurers have accepted liability for July's fire at the Knab Rock café and the hunt is on for a contractor…