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Fortune favours and Asian flavours

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”

Chocoholic Easter Dreaming….

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….”

Celebratory March Menus

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”

Wild Horses and their Stables…

So after an absence of a year and much feedback from the powers that be (you guys) the Stables Lodge is back!

All the industry research in 2016 pointed to the fact that guests wanted more hotel facilities with their rooms, more room service, more leisure options, more enhanced room features so we set to task upgrading our room packages, adding in service levels and bringing the lodge rooms into the main hotel portfolio… and then what happened was you guys told us you it wasn’t more room facility you wanted but more choice – and you missed the flexibility of our room only rate!

Wales in Love

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”

Paul’s Festive Treat

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”

More of the new this Autumn

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”

And now for something totally new…

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…”

Party Season News

with Autumn now fully upon us and the Betws landscape looking like a riot of orange and yellow hues we thought we’d get a season ahead and bring you a bit of news to make your Christmas sparkle ….

the alpine Hut is back in November at Y Stablau and they’re letting us book it out for your Christmas parties… so if you want an exclusive venue for your seasonal shindig give us a call on the usual number….. #hutparty

Year of the Legend 2017

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”