Ultracomida

Ultracomida means, roughly, 'ultra food', and the Narberth original — a Spanish deli at the front, a tapas restaurant at the back — has been quietly one of the best places to eat and shop in west Wales since 2001. Shumana Palit and Paul Grimwood, a couple who met in Narberth and started the business out of Paul's love of Spain (his mother is Valencian), have imported directly from Spanish producers from the first day: the deli shelves are a proper Iberian larder of jamón, cheese, tinned seafood and wine, and the restaurant turns the same ingredients into tapas. It has grown — a second deli in Aberystwyth, bars in Cardiff — but stayed the couple's own, and the Narberth shop remains the heart of it. Narberth is Pembrokeshire's food town, and Ultracomida is the reason a lot of people first drove there. Shop at the front, eat at the back, and take Spain home in a bag.