Food & Drink In Wales

John Savage-Onstwedder amongst shelves of cheese

A passion for provenance

Good food begins with good ingredients and producing great food and drink is something Wales knows rather a lot about.

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Dyfi original gin bottles lined up on shelf

Dyfi's wild Welsh botanicals

Discover The Great British Food Awards top rated craft gin, tucked away in beautiful Dyfi Valley.

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170,000 people work in the food and drink industry in Wales, generating £17.3bn to the economy

Strait talking: the best produce in the world

Discover the Menai Strait's first class restaurant, seafood and local produce.

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Employee holding hamper in Halen Mon gift shop

Halen Môn: salt seller

Discover how world-famous sea salt from the Menai Strait achieved its mark of quality and authenticity.

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Great spirits

The established Penderyn distillery has won international awards for it's Welsh spirits, while the Dyfi distillery are among a new generation of craft gin producers creating a real taste of Wales.

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Making coffee for customer behind counter

The new black gold

Find out how award-winning coffee is helping to regenerate the Welsh town of Ammanford.

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Hywel Griffith sat at a table in his restaurant Beach House.

Hyper-local cuisine at Beach House

A hyper-local, hyper-seasonal approach won Hywel Griffith, head chef at Beach House, AA Restaurant of the Year in Wales.

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Shaun Krijnen of Menai Oysters standing with a crate of mussels

Menai's mussel man

Shaun Krijnen has single-handedly revived Menai’s oyster industry and restored its old mussel beds.

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Sheep grazing on the salt marshes of Weobley Castle Farm, Gower.

Magic of the marshes

Welsh lamb and beef is among the best in the world but the unique lifestyle of Will Pritchard's Gower Salt Marsh Lamb makes it stand out from the flock.

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Close-up shot of hands holding Celtic Promise cheese.

A Celtic Promise

John Savage-Onstwedder has been making some of Britain’s best cheese at Caws Teifi Cheese in Ceredigion, Mid Wales, for more than three decades.

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A sun-dappled hand picking apples from an apple tree .

The pick of the crop

Andy Hallett is using his skills as an engineer – and borrowing techniques from French wineries – to make first-rate cider in the South Wales Valleys.