REDHANDED

Situated on the road to Ogmore, I’d often fancied popping in to The Pelican in her Piety after a day on the beach but had always been thwarted in my attempts, so came with no preconceptions. What we found was a centuries old building bursting with character. We turned-up with our two-year old boy in tow, and were blown-away by the quality, variety and originality of the children’s menu – especially as the mains were also available in half-portions. Once too often sucked into headache inducing neon ‘kid friendly’ restaurants, it was reassuring to be in a ‘grown-ups pub’ that also served kids so well.  For him we chose the children’s Grazing Board: chicken, carrot sticks, cucumber, apple, grape, breadsticks (£5). Fresh, nutritious and colourful. My partner J and I started with the Fisherman’s Sharing Board – whitebait, fish fingers, prawn cocktail, cockles/bacon/laverbread, smoked salmon, tartar sauce and aioli (£15). All very high-standard and as if plucked from the sea off Ogmore itself that very morning – with the smoked salmon one of the stand-outs as well as the Laverbread and the moreish home-made bread.