Beaumaris, British, Modern Restaurant Guide

This “busy restaurant with a lovely view of the Menai Straits” from its “airy” conservatory – is “a good place for an everyday meal” – “mussels and seafood are not-surprisingly a good place to start your choices” – on a menu that combines Welsh produce in popular dishes from around the world. The Menai Bridge originally opened in 2012 and has been followed by four branches across north Wales, the most recent of which opened last year in Barmouth.

Under chef Stephen Stevens, this moodily converted butcher’s shop just over the Menai Bridge has become one of the most accoladed dining destinations in Wales, providing “a unique culinary journey” based on “a series of dishes using the best locally sourced produce available… on the day” for £175 per person. Feedback remains more limited than we’d like, though, and remains a tad up and down. The least favourable view? “Very good but overpriced”.

“Be prepared for a treat”, with “impeccably sourced ingredients, wonderful cooking and great presentation” combining for “Welsh cuisine at its best” at this four-year-old venture from locally born ex-Fat Duck chef Nick Rudge, whose nine-course tasting menus reflect his interest in Welsh history (a ‘Jackdaw’ is a traditional nickname for people born within Conwy’s castle walls). There’s a “long and interesting wine list organised by distance”, which introduces “the interesting concept of wine mileage”, with “help at hand from the friendly and well-informed front of house staff”.