Gerrards in Denbighshire

We are always excited by the food this team produces and, having seen the new dishes on social media, we quickly booked on an offer and upgraded to the 10 course menu. We started the evening with a couple of the new drinks available and my rhubarb negroni was a delicious accompaniment to the scrumptious canapés. An additional treat of Old Winchester and black truffle custard with crispy chicken skin began our time in the restaurant. A new pastry chef has changed the bread offering with a novel mushroom butter, soon to be followed by an inventive scallop and celeriac dish with horseradish hollandaise. A wonderful succession of dishes continued and particular favourites were the delectable crab with watermelon, red mullet with a divine cockle sauce, saddle of Welsh lamb with brassicas and a rhubarb, ginger and white chocolate tartlet – and I’m not keen on white chocolate! I even enjoyed the warm quince tart with goats cheese and I’m not a cheese lover. I could have just listed the menu really, which I think is even better than last time and the petit fours with coffee rounded off a perfect evening, with friendly service and enthusiastic wine descriptions. If you stay overnight there's an amazing relaxed Tasting Breakfast too!

Unfortunately closed when we visited, but when we tried to park in the car park to go for a walk the landlord was quite rude to us, particularly when we had made an effort to park considerately and without causing inconvenience. It would be nice to go back at some point and try the pub itself, but a foul-mouthed, rude landlord is not a great advertisment for a pub closed under unfortunate circumstances!

It's a whistle-stop pitstop that serves good grub non stop to those that need to stop, want to stop and plan to stop... full ✋️ stop

Was closed when google said it was open 😭

It was nice to sit with the steam trains behind having some lunch. Staff were friendly and helpful, food was fine