Pant-y-Gwydr French and Vegan Restaurant Menus
in addition to in-house dining, we are continuing to serve our takeaway menu seven days a week
(order any combination of French and Vegan dishes
to take away with 24 hours' notice (48 hours for weekend orders) )
Pant-y-Gwydr French and Vegan Restaurant Menus
(order any combination of French and Vegan dishes)
The appetizer is a warm pancake made with cream cheese (milk), egg, chives, garlic,
and buckwheat flour which is wheat-free.
French restaurant starters
Soupe de poisson £9 Traditional fish soup with whole pieces of white fish – as you might find served in the port of Marseille fish, celery the soup is served with a crouton (wheat, rye) and a rouille sauce made with olive oil, egg, piment, potato, saffron, garlic, fish soup (fish) fish, celery, egg, wheat
Moules marinières £9.80 (according to availability) Mussels cooked in white wine with celery and garlic. mollusc, milk, sulphur dioxide (wine), celery (wheat-free)
Escargots de Bourgogne £9 Snails from Burgundy – six snails served in a potato case with garlic butter and parsley milk (butter), mollusc
Bouchée à la Reine £10.80 Melt in the mouth puff pastry with veal sweetbreads, chicken breast, button mushrooms, light creamy sauce milk, wheat, celery
Coquilles Saint Jacques poêlées au Bara Lawr et à l’encre de mer £14.80 Pan-fried scallops
with laverbread and squid ink dressing olive oil crustacean
Soupe à l’oignon £9 French onion soup - onions, butter (milk), chicken stock (celery), bay leaves, white wine milk, sulphur dioxide, celery served with a crouton and French mature Comté cheese milk, wheat
Gougère de chèvre frais rôti, caviar d’aubergine (v) - £9 Fresh goat’s cheese in a choux pastry with aubergine caviar, wild rocket milk, wheat
Gambas avec pomme duchesse £9 Two giant prawns, served with a duchess potato, a hint of garlic, flambéed in Cognac crustacean, milk (butter)
Pavé de champignons, compote d’oignons (v) £9 Melt in the mouth mushrooms in a crispy coating, with onion compote, mushrooms, shallots, breadcrumbs & flour (gluten), olive oil, nutmeg, honey, wild rocket, pink peppercorns Allergens: milk, eggs, gluten
Aile de pigeon poelé, raisins, jus (v) (according to availability) £9 Pan-fried breast of local, wild pigeon, grapes, millet and red wine jus Allergens: celery, vinegar (this dish is wheat-free)
Vegan restaurant starters
Potage cultivateur £8.50 Vegan French country vegetable soup with carrot, celery, petits pois, potato, leeks, cabbage, turnip, olive oil celery (this dish is wheat-free)
Smooth vegan paté £9 Puy lentils, walnuts, soya, beetroot, rosemary, thyme, sage nuts, soya
Millefeuille de légumes, duxelle de champignons £9 Vegan rainbow layercake with button mushrooms, olive oil, potatoes, carrot, spinach, parsley, chervil, tarragon, chives. This dish is wheat-free
Classic Restaurant main courses
Navarin d’agneau £24 Navarin of Welsh lamb, slow-cooked in white wine with a pretty decoration of carrot, courgette, celery, turnip and potato celery, sulphites Iwheat-free and milk-free)
Estouffade de boeuf bourguignonn £25 Beef slow-cooked in red wine with lardons, button mushrooms and onions, steamed potatoes celery, sulphites Iwheat-free and milk-free)
Suprême de volaille normande £21 Pan-roasted chicken breast, cidre, pommes caramelisées £21
Pan-roasted chicken breast, Normandy-style with cider and caramelised apples served with triple-cooked chips celery (wheat-free)
Magret de canard aux baies de cassis £28 Pan-roasted Duck breast, blackcurrant and jus, dauphinois potatoes milk, celery (duck stock) (wheat-free)
Fillet of beef £38 (250g/8oz approx) served with triple-cooked chips and a Cognac and Green Peppercorn Sauce celery (stock), milk (cream)
Tournedos Rossini £38 (250g/8oz approx) served with triple-cooked chips
Fillet of beef, toast, pâté, truffle and truffle essence, a classic Madeira sauce (demi-glace). A 19th Century recipe created by French chefs in honour of the Italian composer Rossini, a reputed gourmet.
celery, milk, sulphur dioxide (Madeira wine), wheat (toast)
Couscous Royale £23 Michèle's favourite! A fragrant and gently spicy dish from Algeria - Couscous semoule (wheat), miso paste (soya), olive oil, onions, leeks, celery, carrots, courgettes, fennel, turnips, tomatoes, chick peas, bouquet garni, sage, Provence herbs, ras-el-hanout, harissa, fresh coriander, lamb, chicken and Pant-y-Gwydr merguez sausage (100% homemade - beef, lamb, onion and spices, including oregano, mild piment, harissa and aniseed) soya, wheat, celery
Filet de bar grille, risotto de kasha, sauce à l’oseille £23.50
Grilled fillet of sea bass, roasted buckwheat risotto, sorrel sauce (milk-free) fish
Potée de lotte £25.50 A recipe from the south of France – casserole of monkfish, baby squid and mussels, aioli (potato, egg, garlic, olive oil, chicken stock (celery)) croutons (wheat)
fish, crustacean, mollusc, egg, celery, wheat
Filet de merlu, sauce vierge. £27 Grilled fillet of hake, sauce vierge (olive oil, tomatoes, capers, lemon, chervil, chives, basil) and triple-cooked chips fish (milk and wheat-free)
Our menu is complex and offers lots of choice – it’s difficult for us to change garnish at the last minute – please order an extra side dish if you prefer a different garnish
Sauté de boeuf “Zelensky” £25 Beef sauté “Zelensky” – strips of fillet of beef sautéed with paprika, red onion, Welsh vodka, served in a roasted red pepper with triple-cooked chips on the side milk (butter, cream cheese), celery (stock)
Our supported charity in 2022 was the British Red Cross Ukraine appeal
In 2023, we will be making donations to the Salvation Army
Additional side dishes £4.50
Green beans with butter (milk)
Triple-cooked chips or
Dauphinois potatoes with julienne of leeks, Comté or gruyère cheese & cream (celery, milk)
Vegan main courses
Tempeh sauté £20 Fricassée of Tempeh with leeks, butter beans and green and red peppers soya, celery (trace)
Vegan Couscous a fragrant and gently spicy dish from Algeria £21
Couscous semoule (wheat), miso paste (soya), olive oil, onions, leeks, celery, carrots, courgettes, fennel, turnips, tomatoes, chick peas, bouquet garni, sage, Provence herbs, ras-el-hanout, harissa, fresh coriander with Vegan Tofu Croquette tofu (soya), seitan (wheat), chia seeds, gram flour, yeast, fenugreek seeds, cumin, Provence herbs soya, wheat, celery
Strüdel au sarrasin et au noisettes, chiffonade de choux rouge £20 Vegan buckwheat strudel (leeks, onions, cauliflower, walnuts, hazelnuts, almonds, soya cream, olive oil) with an accompaniment of gently simmered red cabbage and raisins soya, nuts
French Cheese
Les fromages français £14
A selection of five French unpasteurised cheeses which change with the seasons – Brie de Meaux AOC a soft cheese from Normandy; Pont-L’Évêque, a soft cheese from Calvados in Normandy, Roche Montagne, a pressed blue farmhouse cheese from the Cantal; 6-12 month aged Comté, an Alpine cheese; Saint Maur de Touraine, a goat’s cheese from the Loire Valley.. Served with artisan biscuits and with ‘pâte de fruits’ (artisan apple and pear jelly) milk, wheat, rye, soya, nuts (traces)
Classic Desserts
Tarte des demoiselles Tatin - £9, caramelised apple tart served warm with Pant-y-Gwydr vanilla ice cream milk, eggs, wheat
Le Chocolat £11 Chocolate egg with chocolate mousse and crème, white chocolate sorbet, ‘oeuf à la coque’ with warm chocolate ganache and Merlin cream liqueur Ten minutes cooking time
milk, eggs, soya (wheat-free)
La Vanille – £11 our vanilla trio - Mini-crème brulée, warm vanilla fondant and vanilla ice cream milk, eggs, wheat
‘Aveline’ £11 - the hazelnut dessert: hazelnut confection, hazelnut ice cream, milk chocolate, praline crème anglaise nuts, milk, eggs, trace of soya
Le Caramel £11 - warm chocolate and caramel fondant, caramel log and caramel ice cream
milk, eggs, buckwheat, soya Ten minutes cooking time
Le Citron £11 Three miniature lemon desserts - cream of lemon and meringue, "citron" with mascarpone, zingy ‘bitter lemon’ and mint, lemon sorbet. milk, eggs
Les glaces - £7.50 (3 scoops). Pant-y-Gwydr ice cream - vanilla, caramel, hazelnut, dairy milk chocolate, pistachio or mint-chocolate chip (contains fresh mint leaves and Saint Domingue dark chocolate). eggs, milk, wheat (biscuit), soya
Les sorbets - £7.50 (3 scoops). A choice of strawberry, banana, lemon, lime & basil, apricot, passion fruit, raspberry or white chocolate sorbet
eggs, wheat(biscuit), soya (soya in white chocolate sorbet).
Vegan Desserts
“La Dame Blanche” - £9 vegan vanilla ice cream, vegan chocolate sauce, grilled flaked almonds
soya, nuts
Vegan dark chocolate fondant with Pant-y-Gwydr “milk” chocolate vegan ice cream £9 wheat, soya
Cannelés £9 warm vegan French ‘pastry’ flavoured with rum, served with raspberry coulis soya
Pant-y-Gwydr VEGAN FRUIT SORBETS with vegan biscuit 3 scoops £7.50
A choice of lemon; raspberry; passion fruit; lime & basil, banana or strawberry – vegan biscuit contains wheat
Restaurant opening times (reservations are requested):
Tuesday from 6pm (closed at lunchtime on Tuesdays)
Wednesday to Saturday lunch (12pm-3pm) and dinner (6pm-11pm)
We kindly ask that you do not bring birthday cakes to the restaurant -
please let us know if you would like us to place a candle in a dessert for your birthday guest