Llangollen, French Restaurant Guide

You only get Marc Wilkinson’s address on booking at this relocated venue – just outside Oswestry. Having made his name at a quirky 14-seater near Birkenhead, he’s swapped it for a chef’s table actually inside his new home in rural Shropshire, where he’s been set up for a year now. Fans applaud his “usual flair and innovation… his skill and knowledge that shines through in every morsel… and the standard and quality of the dishes he creates that never fail to tantalise the tastebuds”. You eat from a £130 per person tasting menu served to the whole table at once with reservations months ahead released on the first of each month. He also offers a “stunning overnight stay” for £150 per person. All reports say he’s “really excelled himself at this new venue”… “and I love the treat of being in Chef’s own front room… it’s private dining on a new level… a really special experience” that is “just getting better and better as it evolves!”

2023 Review: Chef-patron Mark Sebastian & Michelle Fisher’s “newly decorated restaurant-with-rooms only gets better” – after more than three decades – “and is always full”, a tribute to the “high standard of its French-influenced food”. Set in three seventeenth-century cottages knocked together, it’s a “quiet place to satisfy the foodie in you”.