Hardens Guide to the Best Restaurants in Gwynedd
Hardens guides have spent 33 years compiling reviews of the best Gwynedd restaurants. On Hardens.com you'll find details and reviews of 10 restaurants in Gwynedd and our unique survey based approach to rating and reviewing Gwynedd restaurants gives you the best insight into the top restaurants in every area and of every type of cuisine.
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1. Portmeirion Hotel
British, Modern restaurant in Portmeirion
“The setting in the hotel within Portmeirion village is completely unique” – “wonderfully situated overlooking the water” of the Dwyryd estuary and at the heart of the incredible ‘Mediterranean’ village constructed between 1925 and 1975 by the late Clough Williams-Ellis. “They are happy for you to dress to impress or just feel comfortable” and “the quality of the food is of the highest standard”. (You can even stay in Patrick McGoohan’s room if you are old enough to remember cult 1960s TV series ‘The Prisoner’.)
2. Nomi
restaurant in Pwllheli
53 High Street - LL53
"Nomi Wine and Kitchen: A Fusion of Passion and Indian Culinary Artistry in Pwllheli"Nomi Wine and Kitchen, nestled in Pwllheli, North Wales, is a culinary haven where Indian flavors meet heartfelt hospitality. Founded by Nomi and Kartik, the restaurant is a celebr...
3. The Gunroom Restaurant
British, Modern restaurant in Caernarfon
Plas Dinas Country House, Bontnewydd - LL54
The Gunroom Restaurant is located at 5* Plas Dinas Country House, the former home of Lord Snowdon and the Armstrong-Jones family. It is an AA 2 rosette awarded restaurant in Caernarfon, North Wales. The restauant was added to the MICHELIN Guide in Apri...
4. The Marram Grass
British, Modern restaurant in Newborough
White Lodge - LL61
2021 Review: “A lovely, warm dining environment and excellent tasting menu” is the main impression given by this well-known, slightly offbeat fixture: a converted shed in a caravan park, which in the evening offers three-course, five-course and seven-course menu options. There was also the odd letdown reported last year, however.
5. Dylan's Restaurant
Fish & seafood restaurant in Menai Bridge
St George's Road - LL59
There’s no dissent about the “great setting” of this “busy, buzzy” modern waterfront establishment, overlooking the Menai Straits; the food, however, tends not to live up to it, being “competent rather than interesting” (though “vegetarian dishes perform better than fish”). Despite recurrent grumbles, the business opened its fourth North Wales link in September 2023: a baked goods and general store, on Conwy’s High Street, and with a restaurant offering epic views to the castle.
6. Sosban & The Old Butcher's
British, Modern restaurant in Menai Bridge
1 High St, Menai Bridge - LL59
Stephen Stevens continues to impress those who visit this converted butcher’s shop just over the Menai Bridge, which has won renown as one of Wales’s top culinary destinations. You are encouraged to ‘Forget the menu and savour the experience’, which is only available three nights per week and remains at £175 per person.
7. Catch 22 Brasserie
restaurant in Valley
London Road - LL65
2022 Review: This large, family-run modern brasserie serves a well-received mix of standard dishes including burgers and pasta, with a choice of more unusual signature ‘Singapore-style’ curries. In fact, there doesn’t seem to be a catch at all.
8. Y Marram
restaurant in Newborough
White Lodge, Penlon - LL61
Opening summer 2024 in a converted shed on a caravan site, the re-boot of Marram Grass, which ran for 10 years until the pandemic. Brothers Liam and Ellis Barrie have earned a strong reputation for warm hospitality and top-class, ingredient-led cooking, and they also invite a roster of guest chefs.
9. Oyster Catcher
Fish & seafood restaurant in Rhosneigr
Maelog Lake - LL64
This unusual beachside destination – a contemporary glass-walled and environmentally friendly Huf Haus – is a “lively and colourful place, full of character”, serving “quick and efficient” meals that tick all boxes for “families and surfers”. With its “great views”, it might well be “the best of what’s available on Anglesey”.
10. The Jackdaw
British, Modern restaurant in Conwy
High Street - LL32
Llandudno-born chef/patron Nick Rudge cut his culinary teeth at The Fat Duck; his small two-year-old venue occupies part of a gothic building that was formerly a cinema and bingo hall. It has won some renown for his ambitious, locally rooted cuisine, and our feedback this year was also enthusiastic (if still too limited for a rating): “lucky to get last table for two at short notice: great menu and wine flight with links to Wales for both food and wine, with strong results across all courses and very attentive and professional service… would recommend”.
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