"warm and cosy and great food"

Restaurant & Bar

Our Head Chef, Grant Mulholland has built a strong reputation for superb cuisine, freshly prepared with informal flair and generosity. He's been awarded not only an AA Rosette for "culinary excellence", but also an AA Egg-cup for "outstanding breakfasts". We also take our health and safety responsibilities seriously, so we’re proud to be able to say that we hold a Silver Standard Welsh Food Hygiene Award. We’re one of very few inns throughout the country to achieve this.

As you would expect from a heavyweight kitchen team such as ours, all our food is prepared from fresh ingredients on the premises: we don't use frozen stuff from a catering wholesaler. We do, however, buy in the steak and ale pies and chicken and gammon pies, both specially made for us by Helen McArdle of Chirk - so good we can't beat them.

The menu changes constantly, although certain "old favourites" - such as proper gammon egg and chips (Hand cut, of course), or slow braised shoulder of Welsh lamb, both with a rich gravy - just won't go away. There's always at least one vegetarian option, as well as fish as fresh as you fancy and with a bit of notice Grant, together with Second Chef Eifion Edwards and Commis Chef John Peace, is happy to cater for special diets.

You don't have to come for a meal: you're welcome to drop in for coffee or tea or a pint of foaming ale!

Sample Menu

Please click here to view a sample of our menu. Alternatively, view today's menu for a selection of special daily delights.

Our food heros

Fruit & veg from Mike Hughes, Llangollen
Free-range eggs from Nant Ucha Farm, Llangollen
Beef, steaks lamb, dry cured bacon & sausages from Tyddyn Mawr Farm, Porthmadog
Fresh fish from M&J Seafoods
Steak & ale pies, chicken & gammon pies & black pudding from McArdle’s of Chirk
Real ale from Weetwoods of Cheshire www.weetwoodales.co.uk
Wines from Tanners of Shrewsbury www.tanners-wines.co.uk
Real ale from Stonehouse Brewery, Oswestry www.stonehousebrewery.co.uk
Welsh cheeses and other deli products from Castell Howell Foods,Chirk www.chfoods.co.uk
Ceiriog Valley trout from Upper Mills Trout Farm & Butchers, Glyn Ceiriog

OPENING HOURS

BAR
Monday - Thursday
11.00am - 11.00pm
Friday - Saturday
11.00am - 12.30am
Sunday
12.00 noon - 11.00pm

RESTAURANT
Monday - Saturday
12.00 noon - 2.15pm
& 6.30pm - 8.45pm
Sunday
12.30pm - 2.45pm
& 6.30pm - 8.45pm

The Hand at Llanarmon Llanarmon DC, Ceiriog Valley. Llangollen LL20 7LD
telephone: 01691 60 06 66 email: reception@thehandhotel.co.uk