When you venture away from home, sometimes it is hard to work out where to get the ingredients for your special holiday meals. Below are some of our family favourites, but if you know of any other gems local to Dinas and Fishguard then please let us know in the comments. We are always on the lookout for new things!

We love to use the local shops to get our meat and vegetables. For a turkey (or other festive meats you choose to cook), start thinking about placing your order now. There are plenty of local butchers to choose from in the area. We love the little butcher in Newport (T.G. Davies and Sons, Newport), 5 minutes down the road from the cottages in Dinas. Gwaun Valley Meats (https://www.gwaunvalleymeats.co.uk/) and Carn Edward’s (https://www.carnedward.co.uk/) are great for beef and mutton. If you are travelling a little further down the road to Cardigan (approx. 25 mins), then why not pop in to Dewi James’ butchers (https://dewijamesbutchers.co.uk/index.php).

For the vegetables, there is Glebelands Market Garden (http://glebelandsmarketgarden.co.uk/). The farm shop is open Thursdays to Sundays and vegetables are grown onsite. Or you can visit the local markets. Fishguard’s Traditional Thursday Market is a chartered market and the original local market. Held in the Town Hall every Thursday 08:00-15:00 (http://www.gofishguard.co.uk/project/thursday-market/). The Fishguard Farmers Market is open in the market hall of Fishguard’s town Hall every Saturday from 09:00-13:00 (http://www.gofishguard.co.uk/project/fishguard-farmers-market/).  No matter the time of year, you’ll always find the markets busy selling local produce from bread, cakes and delicacies to eggs, poultry, meat, seafood, cheese, vegetables, and many local crafts too.

Cheese is also made locally. For cows and goats milk cheeses why not try Pant Mawr Cheese (https://pantmawrcheeses.co.uk/).

And last, but certainly not least. There are a couple of local breweries not far from the cottages. (https://www.bluestonebrewing.co.uk/ and http://www.gwaunvalleybrewery.co.uk/)

I hope you have fun sampling the local delights in Pembrokeshire. There are so many out there, maybe you will have to visit a few times to try them all out! If you do discover some places not mentioned in the post, please do let us know.