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<a href=press.php target=_top>Back</a><br /><br /> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0 width=300> <tr><td bgcolor=#9DB783><img src=images/spacer.gif width=1 height=1 /><br /></td> </tr> </table> <br /> <b>The Gastropub Cookbook</b> <span class=date>October 2003</span><br /><br /> THE FOXHUNTER, NANTYDERRY<br /><br /> The menu at The Foxhunter reads prosaically: artichoke soup, herb risotto with mascarpone, smoked haddock fishcakes with wild garlic mayonnaise. There are no fancy phrases or even much detail about cooking methods so the impact - when the food is delivered - is all the greater. There aren’t many meals where you sit and wonder what tricks the chef has pulled to make the food taste this good. Chef-owner Matt Tebbutt, who trained in London with Alistair Little, is a bold, confident, exceptionally gifted cook.<br /><br /> His risottos are among the best you will eat, either here or in Italy. His sorbets are so intense they stop you in your tracks. There just isn’t a duff on the menu. If Tebbutt’s food was fancier, he’d be in line for a Michelin star but thankfully that’s not his aim. He just cooks modern classics, from the Med to Thailand, with skill & polish.<br /><br /> The place is contemporary-country: flagstones and woodblock floors, slick beech furniture, big church candles burning in uncurtained windows, and wooden bowls of pears and gourds on the shelves. There’s a log fire, open to both the bar and the dining room, and watercolours and pastels by local artists. <br /><br /> Tebbutt comes out to chat to people, often with his baby in his arms. The Foxhunter is a calming, civilized place – worth a trip even if you have to drive for miles.<br /><br /> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0 width=300> <tr><td bgcolor=#9DB783><img src=images/spacer.gif width=1 height=1 /><br /></td> </tr> </table> <br /> <a href=press.php target=_top>Back</a>
AA Notable Wine List 2008 & 2009
Perfect Pub Awards : Best Food 2007
Wales the True Taste (Cymru y Gwir Flas) - Dining Out Gold 2005
AA Restaurant of the Year for Wales
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