Entering the fishing village of Aberdaron at the far most edge of the Llyn Peninsula, you drive…read moreover a bridge. Two cafes greet you on either side of the road.
Y Gegin Fawr (The Big Kitchen) the place on the right, called out to me so I went there for lunch. This place is considered a tea room.
You place your order at the bar on the first floor, then take a seat at a table. I explored the quaint space, and decided to eat upstairs.
O.K., so I played it safe, ordering a tuna toastie, which had been pretty good elsewhere. The traditional Tuna Toastie comes with Welsh Cheddar, as did this one, and was worth every bite. A nice pot of Traditional Tea with cream was perfect since it was quite cold and windy outside.
Since arriving in Wales, I had been asking each restaurant, coffee house or tea room if they served clotted cream with their scones. Up until this place, the answer had been no. So what a delightful surprise when they said they had it.
The experience, however, was slightly disappointing, because the clotted cream arrived in a little, prepackaged plastic container. Even so, I didn't whimper too loudly, because ... they had clotted cream, for goodness sake! The consistency was different than I recall from spending a summer in London ... um, 30 years before ... but it tasted pretty good.
When I asked one of the owners about fresh clotted cream, she said that it's expensive, difficult to make and keep, so the places which do carry clotted cream purchase the kind which has been prepackaged elsewhere. She echoed what others had said. Hey, it's far better than most places, which only serve whipped cream.
Their scones are quite good, and definitely worth stopping here to try.
Y Gegin Fawr has an outdoor eating porch off of the second floor, which looked like a perfect place to eat when the weather is more agreeable. I believe it overlooks the waterways Afon Daron and/or Afon Cyll y Felin.
If you have to use the toilet, be prepared, especially during bad weather, because you have to go outside and around to the back of the building. The facility was freezing cold, though a dry retreat from the freezing rain outside.