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Sosban & The Old Butcher's Restaurant

“Divertingly compelling and complex cooking from a local hero” - AA Inspector

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MENAI BRIDGE, ISLE OF ANGLESEY

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Dining at Sosban is a hot ticket, and definitely not your everyday restaurant experience. There is only room for 16 at any one time and it only happens three evenings and one lunch a week. But once you’re inside you don’t have to do much but give yourself over to the prodigiously talented Stephen Stevens, who will serve up his no-choice dishes at a fixed time – ‘Forget the menu, savour the experience’ they say. The procession of dishes displays amazing creativity, compelling visuals, and mightily impressive flavours. For example, reindeer moss is a stellar opening mouthful, rich with mushroom and fermented egg yolk. Duck with beetroot, anise, yogurt and mustard leaf is superb. ‘Rhubarb and custard’ is a crisp rhubarb sphere filled with duck egg custard and poached and freeze-dried rhubarb. Complex, creative cuisine at its best and well worth the four hours you should allow from start to finish.

Awards, accolades & Welcome Schemes

4 Rosette Award for Culinary Excellence

Facilities – at a glance

Credit cards accepted

Tasting menu

Wheelchair access

Sosban & The Old Butcher's Restaurant

Trinity House, 1 High Street, MENAI BRIDGE, LL59 5EE

Phone: 01248 208131

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Features

Facilities

Seats: 8

Accessibility

Wheelchair accessible
Steps for wheelchair: 1

Opening times

Closed: Christmas, New Year, January

Food and Drink

Wines under £30: 16
Wines over £30: 10
Wines by the glass: 7
Cuisine style: Modern

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About the area

Discover Isle of Anglesey

Some of the oldest rocks in Britain form the 125-mile coastline of the 85 square mile Anglesey Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, which includes Holy Island with its busy port of Holyhead, the terminus for the Dublin ferry. The terrain inland is mainly a fertile plateau worn flat by the action of the sea, with low ridges and shallow valleys, while the sheer limestone cliffs of the east coast and on the north coast at Holyhead Mountain represent some of the most spectacular sea cliffs in Britain.

On the steep northern and eastern cliffs, guillemots, choughs, cormorants and razorbills nest, while on the huge precipice of Gogarth Bay on lighthouse-topped South Stack (Ynys Lawd) on Holyhead Mountain, expert rock climbers now find their sport where local people formerly harvested gulls’ eggs from the vertiginous ledges.

Anglesey has a wealth of prehistoric remains. On the slopes of Holyhead Mountain, a collection of over 50 hut circles and rectangular enclosures, known as Cytiau’r Gwyddelod (Irishmen’s Huts), are thought to date from the Bronze Age and were still in use in Romano-British times, and many finds indicate the wealth of Iron Age culture on the island.