Narberth Food Festival lived up to its reputation as the friendliest food festival in Wales when it welcomed happy crowds to the town at the weekend.

With more stallholders than ever, a great line-up of celebrity chefs, children’s activities, live entertainment and food, glorious food galore, the event defied the uncertain weather forecast to serve up another great event.

“It’s been a fantastic weekend and, as you would expect, Narberth was absolutely buzzing,” said festival chairman Huw Jones.

“Although our attendance was slightly down on last year, that didn’t affect the traditional atmosphere one bit, and our stallholders have all been delighted.”

Amongst the happy traders were Ritec Valley Organics of Penally, which provides produce boxes to 100 customers every week.

“We’re really pleased with the weekend,” said Ritec Valley’s Nick Joseph. “We’ve signed up several new customers and there has been a lot of interest in what we do.”

A long-time supporter of the festival is award-winning Narberth butcher Andrew Rees, who always creates a special sausage to mark the event.

This year, he chose the unusual taste combination of black pudding and apricot, and was pleasantly surprised at the response from the public.

“We’ve made around 5,000 sausages for the festival, and they have pretty much all gone,” he said.

A quartet of top chefs packed out the festival’s Food Theatre with their demonstrations.

They were festival patron Angela Gray, Will Holland from Coast, Saundersfoot; Ludovic Dieumegard from The Harbourmaster, Aberaeron and Indian food specialist Anjula Devi.

Angela, who also hosted a spice rub masterclass, said: “This is such a welcoming and lovely festival. I always look forward to coming to Narberth - it’s so enjoyable and has a unique atmosphere.”

The festival’s theme of Well Being also inspired the Narberth traders’ shop window competition, won by The Golden Sheaf.

It also provided food for thought at Friday’s Education Day which was enjoyed by youngsters from Narberth, Templeton and Tavernspite Schools.

Along with learning about food for animals and how to make bread and sausages, they tried out some yoga poses and got busy with food-themed craft.

The schoolchildren were also given the important task of judging the Great Historical Bake-Off competition, run in conjunction with Narberth Museum.

Entrants were given the task of creating one of four cakes from history, and these were then tasted, scrutinised and marked by the pupils.

The winner of the adult category was Kay Scourfield, with Lara Whitfield winning the children’s section. Both win £10 vouchers for the museum.

The not-for-profit festival is run entirely by volunteers, and the committee was assisted over the weekend by the volunteer team from Valero, Narberth Guides and Narberth and Whitland Rotary Club.