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, specially made for
us by Helen McArdle of Oswestry - so good we can't beat them.
The menu changes constantly, although certain "old
favourites" - such as steak and ale pie, or slow braised shank
of 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!
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Our food heros
Fruit & veg from Mike Hughes, Llangollen,
Pen y'r Issa Market Garden at nearby Llanyblodwel,
Free-range eggs from Nant Ucha Farm, Llangollen,
Dry cured bacon, sausages, black pudding & Ceiriog Valley
lamb from Piersons Butchers, Llangollen www.piersons.co.uk,
Fresh fish from M&J Seafoods,
Steak & ale pies & chicken & gammon pies from Helen
McArdle, Oswestry,
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,
Welsh Black beef & steaks & Ceiriog Valley trout from
Upper Mills Trout Farm & Butchers, Glyn Ceiriog,
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