Nature-Friendly Food
We are extremely lucky to be the home of Grub Kitchen: the UK’s first full-time 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 regenerative produce, 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.
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
Butternut squash, sweet potato, spinach and red pepper crempogs (fluffy Welsh pancakes) with a Welsh rarebit sauce, Welsh laverbread (seaweed) mayo and optional UK-farmed crispy chilli crickets
Hearty Leek and Potato Soup served with a crusty roll (hopefully soon to be made with our own Bug Farm flour)
Grab & Go Menu:
Glamorgan sausage balls with leek and laverbread, a rarebit sauce, with tomato chutney, lemon mayo and an organic salad
Grub Kitchen’s Superfood Salad Box
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