The same things come up again and again: friendly, attentive staff, food that arrives quickly, and generous plates that taste properly homemade.
A Welsh country pub hidden down a back street in the middle of Llandudno
Open fires, wooden beams, cask ales and hearty homemade food, with a sun trap garden out front. This building spent a century as Dunphy and Sons, a grocery business that closed in 1972. It stood empty for years until we bought it, partially demolished it in May 1980 and turned it into a pub. Many of the timbers in the old bakery and warehouse were thought to come from the Catharina, a Dutch brigantine wrecked in the bay in 1869 while carrying salt from Runcorn to Riga. Her mast is still above you as you walk in, copper strip and all, and another section stands through the bar with its pulley intact.







