Llandrillo Restaurant Guide

“The very best quality ingredients, the very best cooking and excellent service” have long singled out Bryan & Susan Webb’s upscale converted shooting lodge, in the rolling Dee Valley; while it no longer has the tyre men’s acclaim, the “cooking is still of a very high standard” indeed, and “this combined with the spacious dining room and lounge makes for a memorable evening”. Top Tip – “just visit quick before they sell”: after 20 years, the duo put the property on the market recently and are looking to retire.

On the edge of Snowdonia National Park, this Relais & Châteaux property occupies a former hunting lodge once owned by the Duke of Westminster, and was relaunched in 2016 as a luxury hotel. Its culinary ambitions have always run high, and were underpinned in May 2023 with the recruitment of Sam Griffths (Welsh Chef of the Year 2021) as their new head chef; Gareth Stevenson who had run the kitchen here since opening is stepping back. Griffiths was formerly the executive sous chef in The Chester Grosvenor’s restaurant Arkle.