Tyddyn Llan wins Welsh Restaurant of the Year

Tyddyn Llan Luxury Restaurant with Rooms in North Wales has for the third time in five years been awarded the accolade of Welsh Restaurant of the Year by the Good Food Guide published on September 18th. Three successive editors of the Guide have been impressed with Chef Patron Bryan Webb’s cuisine and his wife Susan’s running of the front of house since they purchased the hotel in 2002.

“Tyddyn Llan in the tiny village of Llandrillo is very typical of a Welsh Rarebits Hotel that is based on the personal service from the proprietors, who play the major part in maintaining the high degree of luxury and comfort expected of member establishments.” said Emyr Griffith of Welsh Rarebits. “I am delighted they have been recognised three times for Bryan’s fine cuisine, and for the inspirational way they run Tyddyn Llan.”

Bryan and Susan Webb owned the highly acclaimed restaurant Hilaire in Old Brompton Road, London from 1987 to 2001 when they sold to move back to Wales. At Tyddyn Llan he combines his highly regarded skills as a chef with his use of the locally available produce from the Welsh countryside and coastline, cooked in his own style of modern grand cuisine.

Bryan Webb’s dedicated seasonal menu uses freshest produce. Seafood such as crab, lobster, scallops, turbot, bass and red mullet, plus Welsh lamb, beef, game such as grouse, partridge and pheasant will feature on the autumn menu as the season unfolds. Springtime specialities included asparagus, sewin (Welsh sea trout), spring lamb and sweetbreads.

“I like to use things only in season so the menu becomes interesting as the produce becomes available. I’m not one for strawberries and lobster at Christmas. They are for summer, and so to try the range of our cuisine it’s necessary to come many times during the year.” Bryan Webb commented.
“Perhaps now critics are aware that this is the most honest approach to real cuisine, and it’s what I have always done. Naturally we are delighted with the third Good Food Guide award in five years.”

Tyddyn Llan has been totally refurbished in the years since Bryan and Susan have owned the hotel. It is now rated as a five star restaurant with rooms. It has thirteen luxury bedrooms including a large suite. It is set in four acres of well tended gardens in the peaceful Vale of Edeyrnion. It is close to the Snowdonia National Park, Lake Bala, and the festival town of Llangollen. It’s under an hour from the North Wales coast, the seaside town of Llandudno, historic Conwy and the tranquil Isle of Anglesey.
For more information, visit Tyddynllan.co.uk.