Our first BespOak event! Combining the skills of catering manager Paul Adams and Head Chef Sam Plester and their two passions-  travel and food we bring you our first Pop Up event on the 11th May 2018…

Asiana

Sam’s travels across Vietnam, India, Cambodia and Thailand have introduced her to new flavours and subtle spicy nuances. She first encountered street food in Bangkok on a stopover enroute to Australia. So enamoured with new ingredients and ways of cooking she’s spent the past five Januaries heading back out to Asia and creating her own spice trail…   Combine that with Paul’s love of the avant garde and they’ve developed an eight course street food tasting menu with a dash of theatre thrown in… Continue reading “Fortune favours and Asian flavours”

In time for Easter Sous Chef Nathan has let us in on one of his favourite recipes (and also one of the most popular!) Here’s a recipe that makes 6 of them – so that’s one for each of the family including granny… Continue reading “Chocoholic Easter Dreaming….”

Special Menus – from St Davids Day to Mothering Sunday book your table for a lunch time feast on either celebratory day! Continue reading “Celebratory March Menus”

Love is in the air…… If you’re in Wales on 25 January, then St Dwynwen’s Day, is the date we honour our Welsh patron saint of lovers. It’s our very own version of St Valentine’s Day – we’re celebrating both days here at the Oak (being such old romantics we can’t help it…)

So who was St Dwynwen we hear you ask….

She was a 4th-century Welsh princess,the most beautiful of King Brychan Frycheiniog’s 24 daughters but who was so unlucky in love she became a nun… Continue reading “Wales in Love”

Festivites galore

Our Catering Manager, Paul, has just made us taste test the most Christmassy of treats (it’s a hard job but someone’s got to do it)…

we just had to share it with you…… it uses ingredients you’re bound to have in the cupboard at this time of year, including chocolate and mince pies, and it gives a festive twist to a classic pud! Continue reading “Paul’s Festive Treat”

We believe Sundays were made for sharing, and this autumn cannot wait to introduce our Sunday Lunch Sharing Platter for 2 (or more!) in the Llugwy River Restaurant.

Bring on the Welsh Winter with hearty food to keep you toasty! Continue reading “More of the new this Autumn”

In anticipation of those Autumn days when you’ve explored Betws’ beauty and oohed and ahhed at all the gorgeously scrumptious seasonal colours on display and then thought “oh now I need something equally as scrumptious to munch on..”

High Tea at the Llugwy River Restaurant starts every weekend from the 28th of October … macaroons and Earl Grey in front of a roaring fire… count me in Continue reading “And now for something totally new…”

Following Visit Wales’ The Year of Adventure in 2016 and the success of all those great adrenalin giving activites North Wales is becoming renowned for, 2017 is designated to be ‘The Year of Legends’ so we thought we’d write our very own favourite legend list all within a half hour of Betws-y-Coed… Continue reading “Year of the Legend 2017”