Penbontbren
Hotel

Glynarthen
Llandysul
Ceredigion
SA44 6PE
Tel: 01239 810248
Fax: 01239 811129

New owners Miles and Jackie Glossop intend to keep faith with the well-established traditions of this pleasantly converted farm. Its museum still contains many artefacts used here over the years and the restaurant, once a hay barn, now sports re-pointed stone walls and a cheerful atmosphere.

Welsh produce features heavily and is imaginatively used, as in laverbread pancakes with asparagus and cheese and Black Mountain smoked salmon served with fennel mayonnaise. Smoked chicken and goose breast with crab-apple and redcurrant shows adventure and the choice for vegetarians is impressive. Port and Stilton pate and wild mushrooms in a creamy sauce are among the options.

Chicken breast with prune and bacon cream sauce, lamb cutlets, Halibut with dill sauce and Welsh Black fillet Diane all describe the traditional side of the menu, while vegetarians get a whole page of imaginative choices to themselves.

The dessert trolley hovers nearby, perhaps too close for comfort, displaying a tempting variety; lemon layer cake, meringues with fruits of the forest and fruit crumble and custard with Welsh cheeses an available alternative.

Easier to find than you might expect, the hotel is well worth a trip through country lanes north of Cardigan.

MEALS: L by prior arrangement; D 7-9 £15
Closed: please call
Cards: All
PROPRIETORS: Miles and Jackie Glossop
WEB: 3 ***
Rooms: 10 en-suite
LOCAL INTEREST: Farm Museum and Cardigan Coast.