The Best Places to Eat Near Blas, by the Record
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Named for the Welsh word for taste, this modern restaurant in a converted windmill hotel keeps the cooking focused and local: Solva crab and lobster, Welsh lamb, produce pulled from the Pembrokeshire coast and hills, finished over the grill with little fuss. Sundays bring a traditional roast. The team runs the room warmly, which counts for a lot when you're this far out on the peninsula and the weather has opinions.
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A pistachio soufflé, properly risen, tells you most of what you need to know about a kitchen. This six-table restaurant sits inside a country hotel better known as a wedding venue, which means it runs quietly under the radar in the far southwest corner of Wales. The short à la carte follows the seasons and leans on local suppliers, and the team brings the kind of focused attention you'd expect from a room that small.
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A dining room at a Welsh country house hotel where the walls lean into ferns and the tasting menu reads like a nature walk, dish names like "Walled Garden" promising more than they let on. The kitchen pulls from its own gardens and the surrounding Pembrokeshire landscape, and the results arrive with a level of detail the spare menu descriptions do nothing to prepare you for. Two lengths of menu, flawless pacing, and staff who seem to genuinely enjoy the reveal.
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Rank 4. ANNWN
Welsh British
A converted bank in the middle of Narberth that now feeds you slow-cooked duck egg and salt marsh mutton while the chef circles the room with top-ups and stories. This is a proudly Welsh modern restaurant, rooted in foraging and local produce, with the kind of warmth that makes a former vault feel like someone's front room. Occasional foraging days let you earn your dinner before you eat it.
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The ale bread arrives with whipped marmite butter, and after that the tone is pretty much set: unfussy, confident Welsh cooking inside Tenby Golf Club's spacious clubhouse restaurant. The chef leans hard on local produce without making a fuss about it, and the beach next door gives you a solid excuse to linger. The Michelin Guide lists it among its selected restaurants.
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Stone chapel, then printworks for a local paper, now a small-plates restaurant that holds a Michelin Bib Gourmand in a West Wales market town. The building has been lovingly restored to something bright and unfussy, and the kitchen leans on seasonal produce, sometimes drawing meat from the team's own family farm. The menu shifts with what's around, which is exactly the point.
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Rank 9. Y Polyn
British