Shopping for food and other essentials from Bryn Teg

Feel free to make use of food you find in the fridge or the kitchen cupboards and foil, cling film &c. in kitchen drawers; replace anything you finish. Please do not use food from the cupboard in the scullery or from the freezer. Obviously make use of the freezer for your own food.

In the village

Please patronise the Spar in the village as much as possible. Tell the staff you are staying at Bryn Teg. The shop has just (July 2018) changed hands so reports on visitors' experiences shopping there would be welcome. It has been particularly go ahead, helpful and welcoming in the past and we very much hope this will continue.

Further afield

The nearest place with a good range of food and other shops is Llanrwst. Most of the shops in Betws-y-Coed are geared to tourism; in Blaenau Ffestiniog, which has been rather down-at-heel, the newly-opened Eurospar is very promising. It is run by the people responsible for the Pwllheli Spar which won the Best Local Retailer award for the second time in four years at the BBC Good Food Show in Birmingham in December 2012. In Llanrwst, we particularly like Jones's butchers in Denbigh Street (beware: the map in the link is not very accurate!), Scilicorn's bakery (a few doors up from Jones's), Siop Iechyd, the health food shop (down the road from Jones's and across the road from this image on Google Street View because the shop has moved) and Blas ar Fwyd. There is a wholesale greengrocer in Llanrwst which will sell to casual customers. It operates from a lock-up garage behind the Tir-a-Mor fish and chip shop and is the nearest thing to a proper retail greengrocer in the valley. The weekly market on Tuesdays has an excellent greengrocery stall.

Llanrwst is good for a day out - it has antique shops, galleries and a wonderful furniture and home wares shop called Ty (pictured here). There are several excellent cafes and tea shops, particularly the Fair Trade Cafe Contessa. There is a pleasant stroll along the river and a town trail - details from the Library.

If you are having a day out in the direction of Porthmadog then the truly wonderful butchers D G Davies in High Street, Penrhyndeudraeth is worth a visit.

There are medium-sized Co-op supermarkets in Blaenau Ffestiniog and Llanrwst; the nearest big supermarket is Tesco at Llandudno Junction (aagh!).