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Set your appetite ablaze as Chris ‘Flamebaster’ Roberts cooks his way across Wales. From top restaurants to local takeaways, it's all about fire, food and fusion.
2025
In his hometown of Caernarfon, Chris cooks a tasty beef and oyster pie and stunning brisket buns, and goes fishing for a barbecued mackerel dish. He also finds some unusual mushrooms.
In Caerphilly, Chris cooks an amazing Persian/Welsh fusion ox heart flatbread dish, goes supersized with a giant oggie and makes a massive Welsh rarebit with four local cheeses.
In the ancient town of Conwy, Chris discovers a master chocolatier, shows the locals a unique way to cook Conwy mussels using hay and fire and cooks a medieval porchetta.
For his first ever visit to Swansea, Chris cooks a monster steak for rugby legend Alun Wyn Jones and invents a Chinese-fusion faggot dish where modern east meets traditional Welsh.
Chris takes a train to visit Rhyl, a favourite seaside haunt from his childhood, where he makes crab doughnuts, goat lahmacun and a Jamaican-style Rhyl-sourced jerk sea bass.
In Brecon, Chris draws inspiration from the vibrant Gurkha community to create a stunning Nepalese-inspired Welsh lamb burger. He also smokes a local trout with a gin-infused glaze.
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2026
Chris 'Flamebaster' Roberts dives into Cardigan’s wild west: oracle fishing, driftwood crab feasts and wood-fired calzones bursting with local flavour.
Chris cooks Wales’s highest pancake on Yr Wyddfa, grills a quarryman’s supper in Dinorwig Quarry and ends with a landmark whole-cow BBQ in Llanberis.
Chris explores the real Wrexham, from historic lager and five-generation fruit farms to vegan pioneers, Portuguese flavours and a fire-cooked feast celebrating local produce.
Chris explores Arberth’s indie food scene, from Spanish tapas and wild Welsh vermouth to Dexter beef, foraging and a fire-cooked feast celebrating Pembrokeshire creativity.
Chris explores Porthmadog from Nomi’s Indian-inspired dishes to forest-foraged mushrooms, Purple Moose beer, and a flame-seared venison feast at Portmeirion.
Chris explores Anglesey with Halen Môn’s smoked water, wild prawns, unique Damara lamb, a kebab-house takeover, and the growers shaping the island’s flavours.
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