Port Talbot Restaurant Guide

In a converted Victorian warehouse near the Prince of Wales Dock – with yachts moored nearby – this February 2024 newcomer is part of the city’s ongoing waterfront development. Opened to instant acclaim, it looks like the culinary champion this city has lacked for so long. From an open kitchen, local lad Jonathan Woolway produces a modern bistro menu steeped in ‘Hiraeth’ – a term meaning a ‘deep sense of belonging’ – with the focus being on Welsh meat and some fish and seafood. It’s yet to generate feedback in our annual diners’ poll, but in her March 2024 review, The Guardian’s Grace Dent declared herself a fan: “definitely a place for farm-to-fork lovers keen to eat every mooing, baa-ing tasty thing from across the Gower Peninsula, the Brecon Beacons, Herefordshire, and the lush farmland of West Wales and the Monmouthshire borders. It‘s also a top spot for Welsh rarebit”.