"At the other end of the food chain is RK Palfrey, prize-winning butcher of Newport, owned and run by Peter Molesworth.  You'll find them in Church Road, and the shop window tells you all you need to know - it's loaded with all the cups they've won for bacon, sausages, pies and other sundries. Step inside and there is a glass-fronted counter laden with all manner of quality meats - Orkney beef, Usk wild boar, local lamb - in their natural state as well as transformed into sausages, bacon, pies, pasties, faggots, burgers and other stuff.  To be honest I cannot leave without a pork pie.  And a few slices of bacon - dry-cured, naturally. And salt-cured belly.  And sausages, pork and leek, if you would be so kind."

Matthew Fort writing in The Guardian Weekend

"Hearty chicken and ham pies, great for picnics"

"Wild boar and cranberry sausages - fantastic on the barbeque"

The Times Magazine

"You need a strong neck, a butcher's neck to carry off 15 gold awards, but that's exactly what the team at Newport's RK Palfrey did recently at the South Wales Counties competition.

Decorated for numerous varieties of sausages, pies, and prepared meats, the judges praised the "texture, flavour and palatability".

Ashley Nield writing in The Business Argus

"It is official -Wales' best bacon comes from Newport.

A secret family recipe landed RK Palfrey in Church Street the Best Bacon in Wales award at this year's Royal welsh Show."

Jenny Brentnall writing in The South Wales Argus

" A Newport business made another top-quality cut through the opposition at a prestigious competition.

RK Palfrey Butchers, of Church Road, took two trophies back to their shop and 13 gold awards from a ceremony organised by Hybu Cig Cymru/Meat Promotion Wales."

Written in This Is Gwent