RestaurantsCeredigionAberystwythSY23

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December 23, 2023: Closed just before Christmas 2023.  https://www.walesonline.co.uk/whats-on/food-drink-news/acclaimed-michelin-star-restaurant-sy23-28301706

Harden's says

Local produce - "foraged, farmed or fished" - is cooked over fire at this tasting menu spot; there's also Y Sgwar, an all-weather, small plates, outside dining area with fire pits built into the tables.

survey result

Summary

£135
£££££
5
Exceptional
4
Very Good
3
Good
* Based on a three course dinner, half a bottle of wine, coffee, cover charge, service and VAT.

“Remote but worth the journey” (at least “if you are lucky enough to get a table”) – Nathan Davies’s industrially styled venue has a “great many similarities to Ynyshir, where he used to work” and is “going from strength to strength”. The lively, moodily lit dining room delivers an “excellent tasting menu” strong on foraging, fermenting and charcoal grills, but there’s also an “outside area serving barbecued lighter snacks”.

Summary

£132
£££££
5
Exceptional
4
Very Good
3
Good
* Based on a three course dinner, half a bottle of wine, coffee, cover charge, service and VAT.

“We live in West Wales and none of us ever thought we might, one day, say ‘Let’s go and eat in Aberystwyth’. But we did. And it was good!!". Nathan Davies’s brave venture is “very much in the mould of Ynyshir” (from which he’s an alumnus) “but not to be dismissed for that!”. With its “chunky industrial decor and loud heavy metal, it has a totally different vibe” from typical rural restaurants. “The food is primarily cooked over coals” and its ten-course tasting menu delivers “unusual flavours, beautifully presented” and realised “to an exemplary standard”. It quickly won recognition from the Tyre Men in February 2022 and was named their ‘Opening of the Year’. But it stands out from the typical ‘haute’ norm: “perhaps there is a sameness in most one-stars now, or maybe we are world-weary and have eaten out too often, but this place is well worth the detour!”. “The best meal we have had for a long time!”

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2 Pier Street, Aberystwyth, SY23 2LJ

Restaurant details

8+

Prices

Availability 2 courses 3 courses coffee included service included
Always   £135.00
Drinks  
Wine per bottle £0.00
Filter Coffee £0.00
Extras  
Bread £0.00
Service 12.50%
2 Pier Street, Aberystwyth, SY23 2LJ
Opening hours
MondayCLOSED
TuesdayCLOSED
Wednesday1 pm‑4:30 pm, 6:30 pm‑11 pm
Thursday1 pm‑4:30 pm, 6:30 pm‑11 pm
Friday1 pm‑4:30 pm, 6:30 pm‑11 pm
Saturday1 pm‑4:30 pm, 6:30 pm‑11 pm
SundayCLOSED

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