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Time For a Change

Not the most title given the Valentine's week ahead but as they say, with change comes opportunity as well as chaos!

I thought that you would like to see how the recent redecoration of the Reception and Cocktail bar evolved last month, finishing precisely on time on Friday 28th January - as the builders walked off site, the first customers walked in to be seated - a seamless handover! My thanks to Harry Roberts, Dave Bradley, Mike Pearson, Neville and all of their colleagues and sun-contractors for thier application over the 4 weeks.

I should also mention Richard Williams of Snowdonia Slate and Stone for supplying the fantastic slate top - measuring 50mm (that's about 2 inches in old money) and sourced from the quarries in Blaenau Ffestiniog in traditional blue/grey stone, it is a lovely piece. Visit http://www.snowdoniaslate.co.uk for further details.

Today's lunch menu

Daily Lunch Menu
Two Courses £10.95 Three Courses £13.50
served from 12- 2.30pm
Starters

Melon & Fresh Fruit Cocktail

Chefs Smooth Game Liver, Redcurrant & Orange Parfait

Fricassee of Garlic Butter Mushrooms in White Wine Cream Sauce

Tartlet of Llandudno Smoked Salmon with Lemon Zest & Parsley

Pressed Terrine of Chicken & Parma Ham

Cream of Vegetable Soup

Main Course


Roast Welsh Beef with Yorkshire Pudding

Local Leg of Traditional Roast Pork, Sage Stuffing
Royal Oak Speciality; Creamy Game Pie
with Mustard Glazed Short Crust Pastry

Supreme of Salmon on Creamy Winter Cabbage, Lemon Cream Sauce

Pot-Roasted ½ Pentrefoelas Pheasant in Smokey Bacon Vegetable Gravy

(V) Mushroom & Vegetable Stroganoff on Basmati Rice

Sweets


Traditional Rhubarb and Apple Crumble with Custard

Lemon Meringue Pie

Cinnamon Panacotta with Honeyed Figs

Tiramisu Cheesecake

Rich Chocolate Fudge Cake with Vanilla Ice Cream

8th February

We all busy catching up after a busy weekend and our first wedding of the year - there was a fantastic atmosphere with plenty of high spirits, laughter and happiness without any over indulgence!!

The weather seems set fair albeit cold and fresh - perfect winter weather - let's hope its a precursor to a perfect summer.

Welcome Back

A happy new year to you all - a distant memory for some, I'm sure. So much has taken place since we last wrote, we will try and break it down. Our staff have all preformed really well and the feedback we have had through our monitoring, both internal and external, has been fantastic - a thank you to all.

The game season is drawing to a close but it has far exceeded our expectations - we are already planning next seasons'! Especially successful dishes have included our own smoked pheasant, delicious creamy and tender mustard glazed game pie as well as a very fine game liver parfait. We have also served a stunning pan fried loin of Pentrefoelas Hare with mushroom risotto.

We are just attending to our first wedding of the year in our newly refurbished reception and lounge area and are looking forward to the half term and valentine's next week.

New Game trailer arrives

In preparation for this season's game season, the hotel has purchased its own refrigerated trailer to allow us to go the the local shoots and hand select our own game for processing in house. Coupled with the recent addition of our own smoking machine, the team is looking forward to the autumn and winter with fresh interest - smoked breast of woodcock and wild mallard should feature. The addition of trailer will allow us to enhance our menus with quality local fresh game. The in-shore duck and partridge season starts on Tuesday and we are hopeful that some wild Mallard will be served up later next week on our popular specials board.

August Holidays

~The last few weeks, despite the rather typical British weather, has still seen plenty of activity and visitors to the village. The team have worked very hard at a time when it remains very difficult to cater for with continued uncertainty of economic times. Everyone has played their part and got on with the task at hand which has been great to see - not always plane sailing but then that's the same in any industry. Just over a week now before the school holidays finish - they seem to flown by. By the laws of averages, we are due some sunshine in September - an Indian Summer after an Australian roasting - one can only wait and see.