Nature-Friendly Food
We are extremely lucky to be the home of Grub Kitchen: the UK’s first edible insect café/restaurant. However, it’s not just insects on the menu and the main ethos of Grub Kitchen is serving freshly-cooked, full-flavoured, local and sustainable food.
A brand new, innovative, nature-friendly menu launched in 2026 with a focus on Traditional Welsh dishes with a twist. Ingredients are organic and/or regenerative, farmed in West Wales where possible, with insect ingredients farmed in the UK.
Due to ever-increasing demand, a ‘Grab & Go’ street food box menu launched in 2026 for busy periods, so that diners can choose between a quick lunch and food cooked to order. But don’t worry, Grub’s signature bug burger is still on the menu! There is a focus on plant-based dishes and children’s meals are always available.
Unless otherwise stated on our opening times, Grub Kitchen is open when The Bug Farm is open. Lunch is served from 12:00 noon – 2:30pm (until 3:30pm during the Welsh Easter Holidays, May Half Term and Summer Holidays) and teas, coffees and cakes are available all day.
Award Winning
Founded by award-winning chef Andy Holcroft in 2015, Grub Kitchen has been met with rave reviews since opening, with visitors coming from all over the UK and further afield to try the fare. Delicious edible insect dishes include our own VEXo Bolognese, Grub’s signature gourmet bug burger and, of course, the famous Cricket Cookies – made onsite at Bug Farm Foods – the UK’s first insect food facility, which won the GO Wales Award for innovation in sustainable business in 2019. Grub Kitchen has received the Visit Wales Quality Café Award each year and is now a finalist in the 2026 Wales Food & Drink Awards.
Grub Kitchen welcomes diners who are not wanting to visit The Bug Farm too. However, all diners must still sign in at The Bug Farm Ticket Office on arrival. Priority is given to Bug Farm customers and, if the site is full and you haven’t booked into The Bug Farm online in advance of your visit, you may be turned away (this generally only happens on rainy days in school holidays). As table space is limited, there may also be a wait for a table on busy days. Grub Kitchen does not take bookings and operates on a first-come-first-served basis.
You can find out more about Bug Farm Foods, where our VEXo and Cricket Cookies are made, here.
What’s On the Menu?
Andy’s creativity and the availability of seasonal produce means that the menu changes regularly. As soon as we write this, he will have innovated a new dish!
Cooked to Order Menu:
- Gourmet Bug Burger – Made with our own VEXo insect and plant mince, served with homemade coleslaw, VE cheese, chilli jam, garlic mayo, gherkins & rustic fries (VE + insects)
- Oomph Burger – served with homemade coleslaw, VE cheese, chilli jam, garlic mayo, gherkins & rustic fries (VE)
- Crempogs – Butternut squash, sweet potato, spinach and red pepper fluffy Welsh pancakes with a Welsh rarebit sauce, Welsh laverbread (seaweed) plant-based mayo and optional UK-farmed crispy chilli crickets (VE/+insects)
- Soup – Hearty Leek and Potato Soup served with a crusty roll (hopefully soon to be made with our own Bug Farm flour) (VE/V)
Grab & Go Menu:
- Welsh Street Food – Glamorgan sausage balls with leek and laverbread, a plant-based rarebit sauce, with tomato chutney, lemon mayo and an organic salad (VE)
- Pasta Salad – Northern Pasta Co. spelt pesto pasta, green salad, hummus, fennel and orange slaw, Bug Farm roast beetroot, olives (VE)
- Spanish Omelette – Organic, free-range egg omelette with red pepper and spinach, side salad, garlic mayo and olives (V)
- Kids Tomato Pasta & Veg – Northern Pasta Co. spelt pasta with tomato sauce and roast veg (VE)
Sprinkles – Add crispy chilli crickets, plain crickets or curried mealworm taster pots/sprinkles
Kids Menu
- Jacket Potato – With cheese and beans (V)
- VEXo insect and plant Bolognese – With Northern Pasta Co. pasta (VE + insects)
- Bug Burger – Made with our own VEXo insect and plant-based mince, served with rustic fries and salad (VE + insects)
- Cheese and Tomato Flatbread Pizza (V)
We have some outdoor picnic benches if you want to eat outside or plan to bring your own picnic with you. Due to demand for table space, there is nowhere indoors to eat picnics.
To reduce the use of single-use cups, Grub Kitchen operates a #ContactlessCoffee service, so please bring your reusable mug or cup/bottle for cold drinks with you.
For all enquires related to eating at Grub Kitchen, please contact The Bug Farm.
The Farm
Our 100-acre farm is managed following results from our research, putting science into practice