The Café Môr website describes itself as having a passion for 'great seafood, hand picked local seaweed and celebrating classic Welsh dishes, with a modern twist'. We asked for the homemade focaccia too, mostly because we fancied the idea of mermaid confetti and seaweed oil.įresh oysters, harvested off the Angle coastline (Image: Laura Clements/WalesOnline) It was pasta for her and the whole baked mackerel for me. It was a toss up between the homemade crab tagliatelle and the pint of prawns for my companion but when Annie said the pasta was made by hand at the pub that swung it. They're as fresh as fresh can be, she promised. The oysters came from just over the water she said, pointing across to the spot they were harvested from. They clearly need a few more staff on the team but the service from Annie was exemplary and she let us in on a few of her secrets as we consulted the menu. It's busy - they've been fully booked every day since they opened, informs our server Annie. It opens during the daytime serving light lunches and drinks but in the evenings it's all about the restaurant. Asked if we'd like to sit inside or out we plumped for the picnic tables outside so we could watch the sun setting behind the Josie June. We were just ahead of the tide and so we arrived entirely dry, we informed Joanna. Arriving at the end of the track feels like a world away. On this exceptionally still evening the water reflects the boats like glass and birds skim the water surface. In fact, the drive down a long stony track skirting the Angle inlet is part of the experience of the Old Point House. Anything over 7.4m and cars would be getting wet. High tide was just moments away and it was a particularly high one this evening she said. The way in was part-covered by the high tide when we visited (Image: Laura Clements/WalesOnline)Īs we arrived for dinner on the warmest day of the year manager Joanna Levell rushed out the low-slung door asking if we got across okay. But it still has that intriguing air about it perhaps in part due to its fairly remote location and the intoxicating smell of salty seaweed from the shoreline. Perched just a stone's throw from the tidal East Angle Bay, the pub has been spruced up somewhat with a bright clean whitewash and classy downlights at the front. It's not hard to imagine smugglers hunkered down in the low ceilinged bar of the Grade II listed pub with their small wooden row boats pulled up onto the shingle. Read more about Café Môr's story: 'I quit my office job because I was homesick for the sea and food of Pembrokeshire' Now after several long months of refurbishment works at the old pub, which dates right back to the seventeenth century, the Point House restaurant is finally open for the summer, complete with Café Môr anchored in the garden! You can get more restaurant news and other story updates straight to your inbox by subscribing to our newsletters here. The boat is still going strong - indeed you'd be hard pressed to find a better setting to savour that famous crab with a splodge of Café Môr's signature seaweed kelpchup, sold through the overarching Pembrokeshire Beach Food Company.īut somehow the team behind the distinctive brand have managed to take what they do best - great seafood and hand picked local seaweed - and take it to the next level. It's moved to an old smugglers inn down a road that occasionally gets cut off by the tide.Ĭafé Môr have relocated their Seaweed Boat, The Josie June, to The Old Point House on the Angle Peninsula in Pembrokeshire.

The iconic blue and orange boat that served fresh crab rolls on a Welsh beach has found a new anchorage.

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