The Really Wild Emporium in Pembrokeshire

Excellent food and service. Loved the extra touches of foraged leaves and seaweed from the local area, they add lovely subtle flavours to each dish. We will certainly eat here again when we are back in St Davids.

Gosh! Where do I start! Amazing front of house staff, head chef came to greet us and to explain what they're food was all about... food was heavenly .. nothing else to say really! an amazing evening, would highly recommend. Calon Llawn!

Great food, good service, interesting foraged hedgegrow and seashore ingredients, with a shop upstairs selling ethical, local, natural and environmentally friendly products.

Had lunch at The Really Wild Emporium in St Davis’s. Great food, good service, interesting foraged hedgegrow and seashore ingredients, with a shop upstairs selling ethical, local, natural and environmentally friendly products.

So glad we stumbled across this place. Amazing vegan options, fantastic service and reasonably priced considering the quality of the dishes. Wish we lived closer so we could visit more often!

What a wonderful place to treat yourself Six course taster menu was amazing Service was superb - highly recommended 10 out of 10.

Simply outstanding! Local ingredients, inspired menu, lovingly prepared. Waiting staff who were very knowledgeable and enthusiastic about the food. Taster menu was some of the best food I have ever eaten.

Lunch for two of four small plates. £41. Everything was too oily to the extent that we were left with the taste of oil for some time after the meal. Potted crab butter layer too thick hiding a miniscule portion of gloopy tasteless crab. No idea why this restaurant has garnered good reviews.

Brilliant fresh and home grown food. Have the potatoes with aioli!! Service was great and they can do take aways. They also do foraging trips around St Davids

What a lovely place! Great flat white (which is a very rare thing). The small plates are presented well and the food is so tasty. Very attentive service. Thank you from a fellow cafe owner

What an amazing meal. The food tasted ALIVE. it was so fresh and tasty and the flavors were insane. I would highly recommend it.

What a lucky find! Fully booked online but we walked in on the off chance and were able.to book a table for early evening. The staff were very welcoming. The menu easy to read and choose from, with a good selection of small plates available. We chose 13 dishes between 4.of us - possibly 2.plates too much? but we did manage to finish everything. Delicious fresh fish and vegetable courses, beautifully presented and prepared. It all came quickly too! Our highlights were the sea bass and the mussels...although the falafel, calamari, potato and crab dishes were also sublime! The sourdough bread were delicious too! We had the chocolate dessert too - also delicious! We can highly recommend this lovely, wholesome restaurant!

Delicious food, beautifully presented. Great service. Relaxed and characterful restaurant. (Very clean restrooms!) A perfect dining experience.

Such amazingly delicious food! The heritage tomatoes and buffalo mozzarella is the best I've ever had (and I'm Italian) and the crab was fabulous. Everything, really, was delicious.

Good original restaurant, offering small dishes to share. Everything we tasted was very good and the service was very pleasant. Maybe a little noisy in the room.

Great food, friendly staff, and a cute shop on the first floor. We stayed in their Airbnb on the second floor and had a lovely time. The shop is very dog friendly and we appreciated everyone accommodating our assistance dog with no hassle.

We stumbled across this place whilst waiting to meet our friends and their kids for lunch after their trip to the but farm. We couldn’t resist the sound of some of the small plates on offer so decided to have a “little” snack. Everything we had was delicious, the service was good but relaxed and we couldn’t help feeling a little smug when we met our friends and their broods at a nearby rather average pub afterwards.

Beautifully tasty small plates made with love.

Just bought a load of stuff from the shop upstairs which is out of this world! And to top it off went for small plates and was genuinely blown away. Mostly vegetarian food which as a meat eater was so good. John the chef should be seriously proud of the food he puts out and the service from Lilu and Sioned topped it off. Can't wait to come back for the tasting menu in September.

What a nice experience this was! The food was great although there were some minor issues: the fish was quite dry with too much crème fraiche and the falafel was fried a bit too long. But the shellfish was absolutely amazing, as was the kimchi! Both ladies were extremely friendly, service was quick and the atmosphere was really relaxed ☺️

Nice place und good food. Especially dessert was amazing. In summer only small plates. For us it was good but a little bit over priced. All the tables were booked but many of them empty at our time slot.

Wow! What a fabulous dining experience, and an ever better concept. From sourcing and picking all of their own local food, to serving delicious plates, this place is magnificent. The tapas style mains were delicious (the baba ghanoush with hazelnuts, and kimchi were notable standouts), but the real show stoppers were desserts. Despite all 3 of us generally preferring sweet to savoury, the deserts were quite literally life changing. The dish of the evening was the panna cotta, which, despite none of us liking traditional panna cotta, was exquisite. It’s worth noting that prices reflect the time and effort it takes to forage local food, so are higher than other establishments in the area. Make sure to book in advance - we will be back!

Great meal with friends. We loved all the food presented and the ambience. Staff excellent

Wonderful food and service. Love the creative use of foraged ingredients and new flavours

Excellent food. Really inventive kitchen and good quality food. Loved it. Emporium upstairs full of great gift ideas. Best thing is the ethical principle of this place to promote foraging/biologically friendly/and natural products. Places like this need to be supported and cherished. Well done

Lovely atmosphere, fantastic food and friendly service. Had a great time and would happily go again.

We had a wonderful meal at the Wild Emporium. We had several of their small plates, and they were all enjoyable (but especially the new potatoes and the fish of the day!). One of the best meals we had in Pembrokeshire. Great ambiance and good service as well.

Stumbled into the upstairs shop here and then saw the downstairs cafe which was a real surprise. The food here is amazing. Small plates. All freshly prepared, beautiful combinations and all with a wild ingredient.

We went here early/mid July 2024. It's more fine(ish) dining than I'm accustomed to, which I often have reservations about. I wouldn't recommend going if you're hungry, but if you want to eat high quality food that you can't easily get just anywhere, I highly recommend making a reservation and enjoying yourself. I found each of our six tapas-style dishes to be fabulous and the staff most courteous.

We visit St Davids every summer and this was our first meal at The Really Wild Emporium. The food was splendid. We had the small plates and enjoyed all of them. The quality of the food was on point and presented beautifully. The vibrant colours on the table were a sight to behold. Potted crab was my personal favourite. We loved the fact ingredients were locally sourced. Service was ace too. We would happily recommend.

Very disappointed, poor menu choice, over priced for what you get and don't start me on dogs allowed in the restaurant, yuck, (it was like a kennels) total shambles, won't be back, Concept over common sense folks, better places for food in St Davids trust me.

Wonderful place! Delicious cakes made with foraged ingredients, and the best coffee in St David's. Friendly service. Excellent shop upstairs and the whole place is dog friendly. Can't wait to try an evening meal and a foraging trip ❤️

The best eating out experience of the year so far. It's always good to go somewhere where you are introduced to new ideas and when combined with fresh ingredients it's a winning combination.

Wow! What a gem. Inventive, creative and delicious cuisine (👏 for the kitchen) supported by excellent and super friendly service make the whole experience of eating here one of the best. If you are in St David’s don’t miss this treat.

Special wedding anniversary lunch treat. 3 vegan options. Unfortunately I can not eat raw onions (let them know in advance and they had checked and matked the menu for me which was good, 1 star)and so these were reduced to parts of 2 options. Service was poor despite the resturant being less than half full. 45 mins till food came and it was covered in chives and so had to go back. We asked if we could have the bread we had ordered whilst we wait, but it didn't come till the food came back. So an hour before we got the food. Still had a couple of bits of chives I picked off. We only got 2 of the 3 dishes we ordered. Expensive for 6 peices of asparagus with a blackberry sauce and some fried peices of mushroom and something else, shared between 2. We left hungry. They took off one drink for the mistake with chives. However tried to charge us for 3 plates when only 2 came, but did take that off when advised. Beware if you have allergies or are hungry!

Lovely tasting menu meal last night , a great end to our week's holiday. Hope to come back next year. Update: had lunch on weds 12/6/24, which was wonderful. Then tasting menu on Thursday 13/6/24. This was delicious. Amazing menu (created by "maisie?") Venison melted in my mouth, the gorse jelly was a revelation. All the other courses were just as wonderful. Love this place! Please create a recipe book 🙏🙏 staff are great, knowledgeable and friendly. Just wish we lived nearer...once a year is not enough!

Really tasty, creative menu, lovely environment and friendly staff. Not a ham & cheese toastie in sight, hurrah!

Really well cooked food with an interesting twist from the foraged ingredients. Best squid rings I have had

What a brilliant place - even on a wet lunchtime! Booked a table for anniversary & had excellent food from a great selection as vegetarians. Would highly recommend.

We had various small dishes on a Wednesday evening - tapas-style. The mussels, orzo with wild herbs and the crab pancake were excellent. For dessert I had a Rhubarb Blackberry Crumble - also great taste and the right sweetness. The service and atmosphere are very pleasant. I like both the idea of using wild-collected ingredients and the fact that materials have been reused in the decor. That's sustainability - great.

A warm welcome followed by great service Food exceptional.

We absolutely loved our drop in here for the 6 course taster menu… we were travelling around Pembrokeshire in our van and decided to treat ourselves for the evening as we are both great foodies. The 6 courses were all delicious, well presented and interesting. The staff were also super friendly and we actually ended up staying to chat for a while afterwards with them, some other customers and the chef himself. We both had a great evening. Our only small bit of constructive feedback is we think the wine selection could be a little better. We had an Argentinian Malbec which we did enjoy (and tried the merlot too) but they certainly weren’t in the same league as the food which for some people may let the experience down slightly. Otherwise it was all fab, we can’t recommend enough and would love to visit again if we’re back in St David’s.

In-cre-di-ble ! Everything on the menu was so good, even (especially) the bread and butter 🤤 I recommand 100%

Just had a most excellent taster menu meal here. 3rd visit and all have been excellent. Menu was so delicious, loved every course - excellent wine and they even rustled up a delicious dessert wine on request that wasn’t on the menu (but should be, really good). Staff and service excellent too. BIG COMPLIMENTS to the chef and team, we loved it all - exceptional value for lovely local natural ingredients and a really imaginative and well executed menu. I am a huge fan 🥰🥰

Superb and wonderful cakes with locally foraged additions. Very good coffee and service! Don’t walk past! Come in and enjoy!!!

Fantastic six course tasting menu. If you're in St David's check this place out!

Pleasant food but not as good as expected. Interesting but not outstanding as the ratings suggest in fact the mussel dish was over salted and rather small. Service was excellent and we liked the ambience. Would not return on next visit to St David’s.

An absolute gem of an establishment We were very fortunate to spend 2 nights here . A well appointed room including some' in house 'toiletries and the most comfortable of beds /pillows made for a relaxing stay Our breakfast could not be faulted We had eaten here previously and again we were wowed by the Taster menu ....as a couple we had both the Vegan and Meat /Fish menu both of which were a gastronomical delight. The whole team could not have done more for us I would highly recommend a visit ...as long as I could come along too !!

There is a reason for such high reviews. This place is so good, very talented kitchen, enthusiastic team, creative menu ... just fab. Do not visit St David's without having lunch or supper here... you will want to take them home with you.

What an awesome surprise, my wife was struggling to find a place to take me for a birthday meal and she stumbled onto the little jewel!

A lovely meal in a very peaceful establishment. So nice to see so much recycled and environmentally friendly. Mainly foraged for was a real pleasant change. Highly recommended

Awesome coffee, cake and very, very friendly service. We are locals and will definitely be back for a lunch meal. The menu looks amazing.

What a fantastic place, lovely, friendly staff & fresh tasty food made with local foraged ingredients. Absolutely loved everything about it & don't miss the unique shop upstairs too!

Amazing little gem of a place! Super comfy rooms, great freshly cooked food and alternative therapy shop suitable for open minded individuals looking to support local brands. Ideal for lone travellers and couples looking for rnr! Will be back, thank you lovely people ❤️

We absolutely loved our mini break at the Emporium. 2 nights in a cosy yet luxurious room - with views of the sea, St Davids head and rest of the city. Breakfast was fresh and delicious but the 6 course tasting menu blew us away. You'll struggle to find better quality of produce in Wales. Can't recommend the breakfast, shop, stay, soap, lunch, dinner, coffee, bakes, location and staff highly enough. Huge thank you to everyone at the Emporium!

We came for the tasting menu and really loved it - the food was so delicious and such a unique menu with fresh, quality ingredients. The staff were lovely and the vibe was great. Defo recommend!!

Absolutely brilliant. Food was incredible. Staff lovely and friendly. Couldn't fault it. Lovely restaurant with a great atmosphere. Chef came out and spoke to everyone.

Such a nice use of a lovely building. Food was imaginative, tasty and fresh. The people who served us were charming and efficient as well as wishing me Happy Birthday! Just what a lunch bite should be

Great menu full of unusual food and deserts. Worth a visit. Would I return? Not likely as it was extremely expensive.

After entering the restaurant, you close the door and you are immediately surrounded by a comforting ambiance. The food was amazing and extremely tasty. Front of house Sina and Mille made us feel very welcome. Excellent service. They were extremely friendly and knowledgeable, taking time out to make the experience a real treat. Lae loo (sorry for misspelling) great local sourcing knowledge. We’ll be back. Compliments to the chefs

What a lovely experience! Interesting, delicious food, with friendly service. Highly recommend it. 💖

We popped in for lunch after nearly walking past on a hunt for lunch, and we are so glad we did. The lunch menu was fantastic, a perfect mix of small plated which were great for sharing - and plenty of options considering one of us is a vegan, which on the most part can be pretty limiting. All the dished were fresh, tasty and went down beautifully with a local cider. We will be back!

Delicious cakes - especially recommend the carrot cakes. Lovely coffee and friendly, helpful staff. Loos are great too!

Amazing food and service,St David's hidden secret ! Booked a table for lunch (advisable) the small plates were ideal for us. Staff so helpful and friendly and accommodating to all the walk ins we saw. Will definitely be returning on our next Pembrokeshire break away Thank you !

Having really enjoyed the tasting menu last year we were keen to repeat the experience during this year's visit. Initial disappointment that the tasting menu had been replaced by a Festive Tapas menu was soon dispelled on seeing the exciting dishes being offered - we could design our own tasting menu! Wow, each and every dish was delicious bursting with unique flavours and textures. Such talented chefs. Thank you too to the charming front of house staff who also played their part in making our visit so memorable.

Exceptionally delicious, very thoughtful & creative small plates… and an excellent carrot & sea buckthorn cake to finish. I only wish it were closer to home!

wow what a great night out here with family, the tapas was exceptional, I eat out regular around Pembrokeshire and the really wild has come tops, a wide selection to choose from my partner loved the chocolate torte, and the truffles the chef bought out finished of a great night me, highly recommended if your in the area,

Such a fantastic food offering! Food of this quality is hard to find. When found it should be cherished. Having eaten here several times it still retains its freshness and innovative surprise. A gem in St David’s crown.

Such a fantastic food offering! Food of this quality is hard to find. When found it should be cherished. Having eaten here several times it still retains its freshness and innovative surprise. A gem in St David’s crown.

Fabulous restaurant. Very friendly staff. Delicious food. Good value given the quality of the cooking. Absolutely no complaints

Delicious 10/10 food, we had the tasting menu. The staff were so warm and kind, lovely drinks options. The chef was very friendly and clearly very passionate about not only his food but also looking after the customers.

Michelin quality, bistro prices.

We visited for lunch after a morning walk along the coastal path. A welcome refuel, we both had the 'pie of the day' Squash and Duck and Kelp, never had a duck pie, so it had to be done. Both were amazing, served with Chervil mash, Kale and gravy. We thought we would have enough room to sample a cake for desert - no chance, we were both stuffed! If you do visit, do also take a look in the shop upstairs.

One of the best meals we have ever had in our well lived life, and one of us used to be a French chef. Faultless service complements amazingly tasty food over 6 courses. A wide range of ideas and local products create food of the highest quality, with superb combinations of texture, flavour and tradition mixed with intelligent new approaches. We would go back here in a heartbeat, all the way from Australia.

What a warm welcome. Delicious food and fantastic service. I'm looking forward to eating the chocolate & seaweed brownie later.

We celebrated our son's 21st birthday at The Real Wild Emporium sampling the 6 course taster menu. AMAZING food, friendly service, great settling. The front of house staff made us feel at home as soon as we arrived and the chef came out to say hello and introduce the menu. They are passionate about local produce which became evident as each course came out. The flavours were all really good and spark some great foodie conversations around the table. I would highly recommend a meal here and we will be coming back again. Thanks to all the staff for a memorable birthday night.

First time for a foraging tasting menu which was liberating! Ate things we’d never tried before. Thoroughly enjoyed all the dishes. The staff were great and very helpful. Would definitely go again and recommend to everyone!

Our annual autumn trip to St David's wouldn't be complete without an evening at the Really Wild Emporium. Ask ever, outstanding food, service and value. One of our three favourite restaurants in South Wales (and the other two are a long way away!)

Incredible restaurant. I love what they stand for in terms of their purpose using locally sourced or foraged seasonal foods. The food was superb, we had the 6 course tasting menu and every course was exquisite, perfectly prepared, cooked and presented. The staff were great and we loved our experience. I'd highly recommend a visit. Wishing you the best of luck for the future.

Fantastic meal, lovely knowledgeable staff, great service. First time to visit but we Will definitely visit again. 5 stars

Excellent Tasting Menu, good and interesting wines, wonderful service. Highly recommended. But book!

Lovely find in the middle of St. Davids. If you're looking for something out of the ordinary, this is for you. The staff are fantastic, they make you feel at home and very welcome. The food isn't the cheapest but it's delicious. excellent quality and presented beautifully. You really get what you pay for here, and you'll find dishes you won't come across elsewhere.

Had a lovely meal at this wonderful restaurant on Saturday night. I was fairly confident that we were going to have a good meal due to reviews and images I'd seen but it was exceptional in every way - way beyond my expectations. The building has lovely old fashioned glass frontage with door in the middle and a rustic chilled vibe inside. Light and airy with very cool music playing nicely in the background. They definitely have the music right - nobody felt the need to raise their voice so all the chatter was private which made for a relaxing evening. The tasting menu was generous and incredibly good value at £58. Each course was of michelin star standard in our opinion and impressively inventive. It's hard to pick stand out courses but the venison and Damson/Blackberry cake were both amazing. Great bottle of South African red too (about £27 I think) - very good value. Last but not least - the staff were charming, friendly and super efficient. From the moment we walked through the door until we left they made us feel at home and couldn't do enough for us. I can't recommend this restaurant highly enough, it's comfortably the best restaurant we've been to in Pembrokeshire - we genuinely can't wait to get back there (plotting the 5 hr drive to get there as I write this).

Wonderful evening tasting beautifully presented plates with exotic flavours of locally sourced and foraged ingredients. Staff friendly and enthusiastic. A lovely experience and definitely recommend.

Although I appreciated the vegan menu and the concept, some of the food was not properly prepared, the pudding was solid frozen for instance and the wild ingredients were hardly there. Feedback was given in an extensive email and whilst there but ignored. RESPONSE TO OWNER'S RESPONSE: I have attached a picture of the email I sent and your automated response. You certainly got the the email because I got your automated response. It's sad you can't take any feedback and use this to improve. Yes I have sent negative feedback to other restaurants but also very positive feedback which you seem to have missed. The reservation was on my husband's name. We were going to come as a family but when we called to double check if you have high chairs, you said you don't accept infants. The result was he had to stay behind to care for our toddler. The reason you gave us was that you don't have enough room which later I saw that wasn't true. Some of the food was solid frozen and some other burned, I can assure you that's not properly prepared. RESPONSE TO 2nd RESPONSE: Interesting how you surreptitiously deleted your first response. I don't think I'll be back to your restaurant.

A terrific experience, with dishes ranging from good to superb. Minor niggles kept it from being excellent which I’d have hoped for at the price. Let’s get those out the way: the restaurant was much too hot and I was uncomfortable throughout. I asked to have the radiator turned off and unfortunately that wasn’t possible. The ambient noise was quite loud for me (though I am autistic) possibly because of the hard surfaces; but I wore headphones and that was fine. The savoury food was all slightly too salty for me and the sweet food all slightly too sweet. Finally, I would have liked to see foraged food take a starring role: I was particularly excited about eating a variety of seaweed, but found it limited to garnishes or subtle components. Now, onto the good stuff. None of the dishes were close to being bad: all brought something interesting and exciting. There were also very slight variations from the printed menu I had been given, which added some extra excitement to the experience. The food was presented beautifully on very nice crockery, and the portion sizes were good: I left feeling quite satisfied. My highlights were the lavercake, which was divine paired with some heritage tomatoes; the tofu, which was firm and flavorful; and the home-made kimchi, which was so good I kept a little ramekin, and ate a bit after every course, including the final. The sorrel granita also gets a special shout out. Best of all was the artichoke dish, which was astonishing. Every mouthful I couldn’t believe how delicious all over again. If I was being very picky, I would say the beetroot wasn’t needed as part of that dish, and a little more parsnip would’ve been better for providing the sweet note. Overall, the experience was exciting, the food was good, and I enjoyed the aesthetic and values of the place. I would definitely go again in a different season.

Lovely food with a wild twist and friendly service

An absolutely delicious meal with wonderful combinations of flavours, beautiful presentation and served with a beaming smile. The fact that many of the flavours came from foraged plants made the evening all the more interesting.

We chose this restaurant based on its focus on sustainability and freshly forged ingredients. The restaurant is small and intimate which is perfect for couples. The 6 course taster menu was well put together and the waitress explained every dish as it was brought out....

A truly memorable evening with exquisitely prepared and presented locally sourced food. We brought home the menu so we could research what we enjoyed.

A wonderful 6 course tasting menu combining interesting locally sourced and foraged ingredients. The venison was melt in the mouth amazing. Each course beautifully presented and explained by the friendly staff. What a great way to spend an evening !

We are a family of four - two adults and two children aged 13 and 11. We went on one of the hedgerow foraging walks. It was a really enjoyable - we all learnt loads and it was so exciting learning about the different plants...

Visited whilst on holiday ,not sure what to expect but enjoyed a pleasant evening with some very different tastes ,well looked after by the very capable Lottie . We’d definitely return if only we were nearer ,but can throughly recommend to passing holidaymakers( and locals)...

Fantastic place. The food tastes wonderful with gorgeous fresh flavours. Enjoyed the kelp beer as well. Thank you.

Amazing! Absolutely loved our visit to this little gem. The tasting menu was superb, the staff friendly and knowledgeable and what a lovely touch for the chef to come out and speak each table individually. I think this is my favourite meal ever and I want to move to St David's. I will definitely be back, thank you for a perfect evening.

Delicious seaweed brownie! Could not tell it was vegan and gf. lovely friendly service. Highly recommended.

Fantastic taster menu, 6 courses. Delicious food, highly recommended.

We had heard that this restaurant was wonderful, so decided to go in for lunch. The luncheon menu was a bit expensive, so we opted for coffee and cake. The staff were friendly and the cakes good, but when my partner went to pay in...

REALLY special food at the Really Wild Emporium! (inc. gluten free adjustments) Enjoyed a fabulous 6 course taster menu on Saturday evening. Fabulous foraged food from squash and wild garlic soup (with tasty gluten free bread) followed by 'laver tempura oyster mushrooms with back garlic...

It's always a pleasure when you try a food venue for the first time and instantly it becomes a favourite, especially when it's in your special place to visit, St Davids. Firstly, the warm welcome of waiting staff at 'THE REALLY WILD EMPORIUM' was topped...