OUR SUPPLIERS
We source as many of our products locally. Where there are not local suppliers we buy fairtrade and organic as much as possible.
Meat
Our meat comes from Aberduna Farm in Maeshafn and from Williams and Bonham butchers in Mold. All this meat is locally reared and the bacon home cured. The gammon we use in our ciabattas and salads comes from these sources and we cook it ourselves and then use the stock to make our delicious pea and ham soup.
Poultry & Eggs
We only use free range eggs and chicken. Eggs come from Hollies Farm at Cinypandy just outsdie Gwernaffield. We have visited our hens and know they are having a wonderful life with lots of grass making their yolks a rich yellow colour. Our free range chicken comes from Ty'n y Celyn Farm Llanbedr.
Ice Cream
We only sell ice cream in cones as a way of helping to reduce waste. All our ice cream comes from Cheshire Farm www.cheshirefarmicecream.co.uk This is a traditional dairy ice cream using fresh milk and cream with no artificial flavourings. We stock 7 delicious flavours - vanilla pod, chocolate, strawberries and cream, rum & raisin, mint choc chip, millionaires shortbread and Jane's favourite honeycomb. In the summer months we also sell our ice cream from our fabulous ice cream trike out on the grass.
Potatoes
We use lots of potatoes, to make our wonderful spicy wedges, as a thickener for soups and as toppings for main courses such as fish pie and lamb hot pot. Our potato supplier is perhaps our most local supplier - Sam Griffiths who farms on the Cilcain Lane - just a few hundred metres as the crow flies.
Fruit Juice
We sell Cheshire Farm Apple juice from Eddisbury Fruit Farm on the edge of Delamere Forest. This is a cloudy apple juice with a fantastic flavour. www.eddisbury.net
We also do clear organic apple and orange juices.
Cheeses
We use 3 Welsh cheeses in our Ploughman's and for Ciabatta sandwiches and the vegetarian main meals.
Pont Gar Blue, a soft blue cheese from Carmarthenshire www.carmarthenshirecheese.coThis was awarded the titles of ' Best new cheese - Blue' and 'Best Welsh Cheese' at the 2007 World cheese awards.
Snowdonia Thunder from the Snowdonia Cheese Company www.snowdoniacheese.co.uk is a mature cheddar with garlic & garden herbs and comes in a distinctive green wax coating. We serve this with tomatoes in a Ciabatta and as a cheesy topping for our Vegetable Charlottes.
Caws Llyn Mature Red Cheddar comes from South Caernarfonshire Creamery www.sccwales.coWe use it for the Gammon and Cheese Ciabattas and in our Welsh Rarebit and cheese scones.
Chutneys
Our ploughman's lunch comes not only with 3 welsh cheeses but also 3 chutneys. One of these is our own Irish Marrow chutney made with marrows and onions grown in Jane's garden in Tafarn y Gelyn and apples grown at Cae Madoc Tafarn y Gelyn. The other 2 chutneys are Fig and Port and Real Ale from the Eat Me Food Company in Hoole Chester. We also sell jars of these and other preserves from this company.
