In addition to breakfast, we are happy to provide quality home cooked two or three-course evening meals by prior arrangement. The three-course meal is a dinner-party type menu, particularly suited with those who enjoy fine dining or have something to celebrate. No matter what the menu, we aim to use fresh seasonal ingredients in all our meals; our apple crumble really does start with the peeling of an apple and, in September, benefits from the addition of locally gathered blackberries!

Enjoy a home cooked evening meal at Coed Cae

You don’t have to take our word for it, here are some comments from our visitors book: In the apple crumble Olympics, yours is a gold medal winner Great food and fantastic company Excellent food- even for veggies! We would recommend eating in, the meal was fantastic! First class food – very glad we stayed in to enjoy a home cooked meal with great company

The AA also liked what we do, describing our meals as “skillfully prepared, imaginative food,” and presenting us with a dinner award indicating a “very special dinner, with an emphasis on freshly prepared local ingredients.”

As we have no drinks license you will need to provide your own favourite drinks and wine, but we’ll be ready with the glasses, corkscrew, and ice, and of course we do not charge any corkage fee.

Our guests are served meals at a single table enabling you to chat to the other visitors and share your plans and experiences. So, whether you’re eating in our cosy kitchen or having a dinner party with friends in the dining room with the fire crackling away, you can be assured of a carefully sourced and prepared quality meal.

If your day is taking you out and about, why not order one of our packed lunches? We can even provide a flask of coffee or hot chocolate if you think that the challenges of the day will merit one.

We are keen to support the local community and to reduce food miles as much as possible. As such our priorities for food sourcing are: Local, Welsh, British, Fair-Trade.

We buy most of our meat from the local butcher (including dry cure bacon and home-made sausages). When meat comes from the supermarket, we seek out free range or assured food standard British products.

Eggs have the shortest journey from producer to table, being grubbled out from under our resident chucks each morning and travelling the full length of the back garden.

With a slightly longer journey (from the patch at the end of the house), our vegetables and rhubarb have a more perilous existence, having to run the gauntlet of the chickens, rabbits and Jacky (especially the peas). Other in-house products (although, to be fair, not our house) include Graham’s Mum’s jam and marmalade, and his Aunt’s Chutneys.

Locally, we have the Dolgellau farmers market, and family butchers in both Dolgellau and Barmouth. Other shopping is done at the local supermarkets, especially the Co-op with its wide selection of British products. Our cheese, butter and milk are British, and the local deli in Dolgellau offers local honey and a variety of great Welsh cheeses for the cheeseboard. All of our tea and coffee products are fair-trade varieties.

For those of you wishing to stock up on fine provisions before you leave, the Dolgellau farmers market is the third Sunday of every month (except for Jan and Feb). The town has a butcher and deli, as mentioned above, both of which serve a variety of local produce. Welsh ales are available at the deli, and in the Co-op. Slightly further afield (about 40 minutes from Coed Cae), Machynlleth boasts a quality butchers, deli and a street market every Wednesday, again with a good variety of local food available.