Hardens Guide to the Best Restaurants in Llangollen
Hardens guides have spent 33 years compiling reviews of the best Llangollen restaurants. On Hardens.com you'll find details and reviews of 7 restaurants in Llangollen and our unique survey based approach to rating and reviewing Llangollen restaurants gives you the best insight into the top restaurants in every area and of every type of cuisine.
Featured Llangollen Restaurants
1. The Boat at Erbistock
British, Traditional restaurant in Erbistock
A “great location and very good pub food” are the twin attractions of this seventeenth century pub, a short drive from Wrexham, which has a beautiful location next to the Dee. The menu contains an eclectic international selection of dishes (moussaka, red Thai curry, osso bucco…) and in warmer weather they fire up their wood-fired pizza oven.
2. The Corn Mill
British, Modern restaurant in Llangollen
Dee Ln - LL20
It would be “difficult to find a more perfect setting” for a pub than this former watermill “nestling on the side of the River Dee, with decking overhanging the water and stunning views in all directions” – “in the evening there are candlelit tables with views looking out from the mill building, some situated directly above the original water wheel”. “Part of the Brunning & Price chain, it offers well prepared and varied food on a daily changing menu” and “a large selection of wines to suit all pockets”.
3. Fraiche
French restaurant in Weston Rhyn
Confirmed on Booking - SY10
2023 Review: “Marc Willkinson is a genius” and “never fails to impress” at his “compact” venue – an unexpected find “off the beaten track” out on The Wirral, in a conservation village bordering Birkenhead. It has, on several occasions, topped our diners’ poll as the UK’s No. 1 destination. With just a dozen covers, it’s very much one man’s labour of love with its “imaginative visuals and playlist”, not to mention his really “unusual” and distinctive cuisine, delivered as a six-course tasting menu. Save space for the end of the meal: chef really knows his way around pudding and chocolates. Early in 2022, there was news that the restaurant was to close, but this is not the case. Marc is hunting for new premises, though, and if he finds them change will be afoot.
4. Sebastian’s
French restaurant in Oswestry
45 Willow Street - SY11
2023 Review: Chef-patron Mark Sebastian & Michelle Fisher’s “newly decorated restaurant-with-rooms only gets better” – after more than three decades – “and is always full”, a tribute to the “high standard of its French-influenced food”. Set in three seventeenth-century cottages knocked together, it’s a “quiet place to satisfy the foodie in you”.
5. Pant-yr-Ochain
British, Modern restaurant in Gresford
Old Wrexham Road - LL12
Sixteenth-century inn ‘the Pant’ (as owners Brunning & Price fondly call it) occupies a substantial, “very comfortable” Victorian property a short drive outside Wrexham; and its conversion has created “a great pub: warm and bustling in the winter, loads of outside space in the summer” and offering a “reliably good beer selection” too. Given its high standards, the odd reporter this year did quibble with the food, but overall this “very busy” destination remains a “favourite year after year”.
6. Tyddyn Llan
British, Modern restaurant in Llandrillo
“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.
7. Pale Hall Hotel Restaurant
British, Modern restaurant in Bala
Pale Estate, Llandderfel - LL23
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.
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