Wetherspoon unveils special menu with all-Welsh produce

PUB company JD Wetherspoon is launching a new menu tomorrow across its 50 pubs in Wales, with the emphasis on supporting Welsh farmers and suppliers.

First Minister Carwyn Jones will be visiting The Wyndham Arms, a Wetherspoon pub in Bridgend, today to meet with some of the suppliers ahead of the menu launch and to sample a selection of products.

The new menu will be printed in both English and Welsh and will showcase a range of food and drink from suppliers across Wales as well as meat from Welsh farms.

The meals include Welsh Dragon sausages and mash (three Welsh pork, leek and chilli sausages, Caerphilly cheese and leek mashed potato, peas, caramelised onion and Brains SA ale gravy), Welsh beef and ale pie as well as Welsh Celtic Pride beef cottage pie. The Welsh sausages are Celtic Pride farm assured pork.

As well as a range of real ales from Welsh brewers, including Evan Evans Brewery and Glamorgan Brewery, the pubs will be serving a choice of craft cans, bottled cider and spirits from Welsh producers.

They will be serving Gwynt y Ddraig Old Crow Cider, produced in Pontypridd, Penderyn whisky and Brecon gin, both produced in Brecon Beacons, Brains Gin Lane (craft can produced in Cardiff by Brains) and Boss Beatlejuice (craft can produced in Swansea by Boss Brewing).

Wetherspoon’s regional manager for west Wales, Richard Bond, said: “We are proud to serve a standalone menu in our pubs offering the best of Welsh food and drink, alongside our regular menu.

“It is a wonderful opportunity for our pubs to offer superb Welsh-produced products.”