Hive on the Quay
Cadwgan Place
Aberaeron
Ceredigion
SA46 0BT
Tel 01545 570445

Cafe-Restaurant (Licenced)

Visit our quayside Restaurant complex in a converted wharf in Aberaeron, West Wales.
The single storey stone building you enter may look like an Ice Cream Parlour from the outside, but there is serious eating to be enjoyed here.
- By the fire in the whitewashed café.
- In our spacious conservatory.
- Outside in the courtyard, overlooking the harbour.
- Access is easy.

This year we are returning to our original "Savoury Stuffed Pancakes" (some of you may remember them from the '70's?) made with buckwheat or white flour and a variety if tasty fillings in addition to Ploughman’s Lunch of local cheeses and homemade pickles, soups and chowders, crab and lobster salads is served from 11am until 4:00pm.
Cardigan Bay Crab Sandwiches on sourdough (among others), cakes, espresso coffee and Honey Ice Cream Sundaes (including some new creations) are served all day. The Hive will not be open for evening meals during August this year.

Almost everything we serve is homemade, much of it organically produced and does not knowingly contain genetically modified ingredients.
We make our own cakes and ice-creams and serve local cheeses, Jersey cream, Cardigan Bay Lobster and Crab in spectacular salads – lots of Real Food prepared with care and imagination.

 

 

 

A Sample of our Special Dishes of the Day

 

 

 

Savouries served from 11- 4.00

Welsh made Pasta – see boards for today’s version.

                                        

Frittata – see boards for today’s version  4.25

 

A Plate of Charcuterie with olives, salad & crusty bread 12.50

 

Roast Ham Salad  9.50   smaller Ham Salad  5.50

 

Cold Roast Ham & free range-eggs  7.50  small Ham 4.50

                                                                  

Bowl of Salad – 3 different salads  4.95  salad leaves only  2.95

Today’s salads can be seen at the counter

 

Ploughman’s Lunch with Welsh cheeses & homemade chutneys, salad & crusty bread  8.95 Small Ploughman’s 5.95

 

Half a dozen Rock Oysters  8.00 

with a Bloody Mary  11.50

 

Smoked Fish Platter: smoked Scottish salmon, peppered mackerel & succulent smoked mussels, served with crusty bread & remoulade  14.00

 

Fresh from Cardigan Bay – weather permitting

Cardigan Bay Crab Salad, cracked & presented with salad & crusty bread  13.50

 

Local Lobster Salads:

half lobster & small salad from  15.00

whole lobster & large salad from  30.00

both served with mayonnaise & crusty bread

 

Shellfish Platter: half lobster, a crab, 6 oysters, served with mayonnaise, chilli sauce, Tabasco & crusty bread  26.00

 

Sandwiches:  Cardigan Bay Crab

                   with cucumber  5.25

                   Roast Ham  3.25

                   Brie, Rocket & Cranberry  3.85

                   all made with sourdough bread

 

Hive Chowder with crusty bread  6.95  Small  4.00

Our chowders are sometimes fishy, other times meat or bean based. Please see blackboard for today’s version 

 

Sweet Aberaeron Mackerel, grilled & served with

bread & butter  6.50   Small Mackerel 4.00

When in season

 

Hive mayonnaise is made with fresh organic eggs.

 

 

 

 

Organically produced house wines 12.50 bottle

 

 

 

 

Chef: Sarah Holgate.

August 2007: BBC Good Food Magazine - Dine Beside The Sea

July 2007:  The Times top bargain restaurants

June 2007: Guardian Guide to the Seaside,
                   The Independent - 50 Best Ice Cream Parlours

April 2007: Guardian readers' guide 'UK's best Ice Cream' - 1 of 5 in Wales

In September 2006 we were featured in The Sunday Times 'Real Food Guide', and in July 'Country Living'  included us in an article about essential places to eat and drink in Wales.

In March 2006 'The Independent' chose us as one of their '50 Best UK Cafes' - "This whitewashed café looks like an ice-cream parlour from the outside, but once inside you'll realise there is much more to the place than its acclaimed home-made honeycomb ice-cream."

In 2005, 'The Independent'  included us in their Top 50 best places to dine on a budget - £25 for 2 people.

In November 2005 'Olive' magazine included the Hive in their top 100 restaurants in the UK, and in September, we featured in the best family friendly restaurants.

Our Orange and Honey Yoghurt Ice won a Bronze from Taste of Wales Food & Drink Awards. The judges said, "Simply the best yoghurt ice cream we've ever tasted. Fabulous - has lightness and sharpness, the flavours come zinging through".

Also commended were:                                                Honey Hazelnut Ice Cream                                          Cinnamon & Ginger Honey Ice Cream                            Honey & Mandarin Sorbet - "this has a wonderfully fresh, original, clean sherbert flavour - a real 'wow' factor"                                                                                Strawberry Honey Sorbet - "flawless"                               

In 2002, Les Routiers awarded us both the Café of the Year for Wales and the Joint Winner of the Café of the Year for the U.K.
‘Les Routiers signs means warm hospitality, individual character, local cooking, good wine lists and a genuinely friendly welcome to you and your family.’

Again, in 2004/05, Les Routiers have awarded us Cafe of the Year in Wales and the U.K.

 

Guides that we are in:
The Rough Guide to Wales
Great Little Places to Eat (in Wales)
Eyewitness Guide to Great Britain
Vegetarian Visitor
The Good Britain Guide
The Organic Directory
Where to stay and eat by Organic Centre Wales
 
Hive on the Quay, Cadwgan Place, Aberaeron, Ceredigion SA46 0BT
Tel: 01545 570445   
Email:hiveon.the quay@btinternet.com

 

 

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