The Dining Room

It would be folly to describe Y Goeden Eirin as a restaurant in the conventional sense. Coming here for a meal is like going to someone’s home and being personally welcomed by the family. There is room for only about a dozen to fifteen diners at the same time, and the atmosphere is warm and easygoing.

The dining room has a slate floor, an exposed granite wall and beams. Kyffin Williams’ oil portrait of John Gwilym Jones hangs on the wall, as well as a variety of paintings by other eminent Welsh artists such as Gwilym Prichard and Peter Prendergast. There is an old Welsh oak dresser and the tables are plain oak. There is a comfortable settee for pre-and post-prandial drinks. A resident pianist will usually be present to play classical music on the Bechstein grand piano.

We are dedicated to offering fresh homemade food, cooked in or on the Aga, and there is hardly any choice on the menu. Of course, if you have any dietary requirements, they can be discussed over the phone, and we will try our best to create a menu around them. Whenever possible we use locally sourced raw materials, some of it organic (from a Caernarfon butcher, a Llandudno fishmonger, with vegetables from local farms, and herbs from our own garden), but this doesn’t mean that the cooking is totally traditional. We like experimenting, and fusing ideas from around the globe – whether from Thailand, Morocco, India or wherever. Yet the core of the cooking is Welsh and European.

We don’t have designated opening hours, but it is likely that we will not be open for lunch. Booking is essential as we cannot take random visitors.