Seaside samphire and seabass – alfresco dining at it’s best.
With the smell of salt sea air to wet the appetite and looking out on amazing views over the bay to calm the spirit, a dinner of seabass and samphire served with watercress sauce is an ideal treat to come home to. Match this with locally grown Gower potatoes and baked vegetables fresh from Swansea market there couldn’t be a better meal to end a day at the seaside.
Serve the seafood on vintage dinner plates from an old ocean liner with designs inspired by a nautical compass and cutlery with bone handles. The table has been candlelit to ward off the midges and to add an ambient lighting that can only be matched by the stars on a dark and balmy evening.
Miss matched tartan linen cushions in blues, creams, navy and duck egg blue sit on wicker chairs around a wooden table bleached by the sun. Berry coloured vintage glass bottles, jugs and glasses serve a Chilean Merlot red wine bought from a seriously large selection at Mumbles Fine Wines.
The table is decorated simply with flowers from the seaside garden, a terracotta shell vase glazed inside with a duck egg blue and a Victorian box to hold secrets, embellished with shells, both found from local charity shops. Colours co-ordinate amongst the painted beach huts with nautical stripes and blue and white lifebuoy.
Summer holidays on the Gower coastline, if the weather is good can rival any Mediterranean destination. With its wonderful sandy beaches and glorious sparkling clean seas, superb restaurants and fabulous local produce you simply can’t beat Welsh hospitality.
The place of writers, composers, painters and poets and birthplace to Dylan Thomas and Catherine Zeta Jones, come and see for yourself.
