Corn Mill

Pub Details

Address
Dee Lane, Castle Street
Llangollen
Wales
LL20 8PN
Telephone
(01978) 869555
Opening Times
Weekdays
12 - 11 (10.30 Sun)

Location

Good Pub Guide Recommended

Excellent on all counts, with personable young staff, super food all day, good beers, and a fascinating riverside building Dramatically positioned right on the rocky rushing River Dee, this enjoyable all-rounder is housed in a restored mill. Quite a bit of the working machinery remains - most obviously the great waterwheel, (sometimes turning) and the interior has been interestingly refitted with pale pine flooring on stout beams, a striking open stairway with gleaming timber and tensioned steel rails, and mainly stripped-stone walls. A bustling chatty atmosphere greets you, with quick service from plenty of pleasant young staff, good-sized dining tables, big rugs, thoughtfully chosen pictures (many to do with water) and lots of pot plants. One of the two serving bars, away from the water, has a much more local feel, with pews on dark slate flagstones, daily papers, and regulars on the bar stools. As well as Phoenix Brunning & Price, they have a great range of drinks, with four guests from brewers such as Caledonian Deuchars and Woodland, around 50 sensibly priced malt whiskies and a decent wine choice. A long narrow deck along one side of the building juts out over the water, with views from its teak tables and chairs across the river to the steam trains puffing away at the nearby station, and you may see a horse-drawn barge on the Llangollen Canal.

Good Pub Guide Food

The pub can get busy, so do book if you're planning to eat. Good food from a daily changing menu includes sandwiches, ploughman's, crab linguine with red chilli and coriander, gnocchi with roast butternut and salsa verde, steak, mushroom and ale pie, fried bass fillet with sautéed bacon, roast pork belly with dauphinoise potatoes and grain mustard sauce, marinated chicken breast with saffron, pea and broad bean risotto and watercress sauce, and rump steak with horseradish butter.

Bar food times: 12 - 9.30 (9 Sun)

Good Pub Information

Rating

  • Currently 3/5 Stars.
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Rating: 3/5 (400 votes cast)

Reader Comments

davidllewelyn

Saturday 24 July 2010 7:59:50 am

The Corn Mill is a superb conversion of an old mill next to the River Dee, in a very picturesue location, with the water wheel in motion as a real feature (one of the upstairs rooms has glass panels looking down on it).
It always has an excellent range of real ales which are changed regularly, and very good food in the upstairs restaurants or outside on the terrace. The young and enthusiatic staff make a visit to it a real pleasure.

ATStevenson

Tuesday 13 July 2010 10:53:17 am

Just an additional endorsement for this excellent pub. We had two meals over the past weekend at their busiest time of the year and both were excellent. "Lite bites" were what many pubs would call full meals and the staff were consistently cool and friendly despite imense pressure. Deserves a high award for food quality.
Alastair Stevenson

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