About Seaweed

"I love laver seaweed"; a sentence you probably won’t hear often - but I do!

It has been a foundation of our street food since I started the business. I have built a whole menu around it; its versatility is staggering and the depth of flavour it adds to dishes constantly surprises me........

No one knows precisely when people in West Wales first started eating laver, some say it was first introduced as a survival food by the Vikings, while others say it goes back to the very first inhabitants of Wales. I am a betting man so I like to bet that it was the first coastal inhabitants, and I would to take a bow to the very first man or women who took that bold step into the unknown world of laver seaweed and put it on their plate....

Not convinced about Seaweed ? Then read more here and let us try and change your mind ! .........

In the 1950's, Kathleen Mary Drew-Baker was studying laver seaweed and was able to discover the life cycle of this complicated algae; her discoveries went on to provide vital information which revolutionised and rescued the Japanese laver industry ......

Pepper Dulse (Osmundea Pinnatifida) tastes like no other seaweed, it is nicknamed “the truffle of the Sea” and with good reason; it has an intense truffle/mushroom flavour that simply does not belong in a 2cm long frond of seaweed.