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“Have you tried `Moules a go go` in Chester ? really brilliant.Llandudno and area used to be great for nice restaurant, but recently I believe there is very few places of excellence.Anyone got recommendations.One of my favourite Nicky Ipps has gone very expensive recently but his lunchtime menu at the wine bar is quite good value. “
I have tried it a few times at lunch time, very nice, good value for money and a nice crowd of people in there, Piccolinos, and the Living Room good to, Black Horse Grill Mixed.
Around this area I have to be honest I think it is very poor these days, so where do you go?
Queens Head, I have to say I think has gone down to what it was, still better than average, the Groes, well the menu always seems to read better than it tastes, Carlo’s was bloody awful, how any one can serve a curdled pasta dish is beyond me, a friend of mine had the same thing happen when he and his wife went there, Fat Cat at lunch, gone down the pan.
Maenan Abbey very good value, clientele a little older, but older people are generally wiser and know what value for money is all about, good marks to them.
Nikki Ipps, well that has gone overpriced as a reader says, he rarely if ever cooks there now, much prefers to socialise both in and outside his restaurant, never been the same since his his now wife turned up, what an attitude.
The Thai in Deganwy was bloody good when it was there, sadly long since gone.
Pen Y Bryn, always a good steady one, except those too large bits of potatoes they call chips, hell, a chip should be a chip for God’s sake, not some wedge!
But it is good.
Osbourne House a funny one, Empire dependable, have not been to the Quay for a while, very so so still from what I hear.
Enoch’s haddock very good, but would hardly go there for a special meal as such, but the fish last time I sat in was very good!
Old Bull’s Head Beaumaris , excellent, but not really around here as such.
Alfredo Conwy should no longer trade under that name, it is not the Alfredo of years ago, no sir it’s not.
Again not in area as such, White House I think, on the road out of Betws, very nice,
Talardy, Ok ish!
The Floral, 70 degrees all long since gone, more is the pity, Number 1 wine when Steve was there as was the wine list, FIRST class!, as was Richards, I have not been to the Sea Horse as it is now called.
All in all there is no where in a radius of a few miles I would particularly pick as a venue for my last supper!
Must have missed a few off,
my most memorable meals of late have been away
or Sunday lunch at Chez Oscar!
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Well the posting has certainly received some good feed back, a couple of other places I have been to that were quite good, one was the Kimnel Arms at St George, very nice pub come Restaurant, Nant Hall in Prestatyn was very good the first 2 occasions, but the 3rd and 4th time, gone right down the pan, sister Restaraunt to the Castle Hotel in Conwy, so off we trotted there, the night we went it was not up to much, maybe the captain of the Welsh culinary team was not in attendance that evening!
Amelies across the road in Conwy is run by an ex head chef of many years of the Queens Head, each time I have fancied going it was a lunch time, and he only serves a very limited menu at lunchtime, no excuse not to be good there though, as he was an excellent chef when at the Queens Head, and of course he is only down the road from one of the best butcher shops in the country, so if that does not work, well!
The other place that in it’s day was something else, but we are talking a long time ago, was the Faenol Fawr, Bodelwydden, run by David Hall and family, that in the late 70′s into the 80′s was something else, we have been to the Brooke house Mill, Denbigh, run by his brother for the last 25 years or so.
Not bad at all!
In the nicest possible way, a very 1970′s menu, prawn cocktail, mixed grill, crispy duck, gammon etc, a very local busy place.
The other cheap and cheerful of the 10980′s was the Mountain View in Mochdre, run by Mr Davies and family, a good old fashioned pub serving good pub grub in it’s day, I am told the Albert in madoc Street is very similar, so one for the list .
Cantina has just opened in Deganwy, can say that is very Piccolino like menu, not bad , very busy, but that may be the new broom sweeps clean scenario, the called set will be there for a while, so will not be going of an evening for another few weeks, if you know what I mean!
All in all, it seems as if the place to go at present is the Seahorse, which does not surprise me, and also Signatures in Conwy.
I suppose at the end of the day, they are all only as good as their last service, although if I have been a few times and had good food I will give it another chance, I rarely give another chance if they get it wrong first time though, right or wrong, I never return.
flintshire Collectables
llandudno, lunch time, maenan abbey, pen y bryn
