A CRICCIETH restaurant has been chosen as the recipient of this year’s prestigious Rural Wales Award.

Dylan’s Restaurant has been handed the award by the Campaign for the Protection of Rural Wales (CPRW), Wales’ foremost landscape charity.

Dylan’s was chosen in recognition of the rescue and restoration of the Morannedd Café building, the restaurant’s premises in Criccieth, and its surrounding land and seashore. CPRW has also highlighted the importance of the associated economic benefits the development has brought to the area.

At a ceremony held at Dylan’s Restaurant last month, a group of notable CPRW officials gathered to present directors David Evans and Robin Hodgson with a unique plaque made of Blaenau slate and a framed certificate to commemorate the recognition.

Frances Llewellyn, chairman of CPRW’s Caernarfonshire branch and a noted Welsh historian and archaeologist, said: “Dylan’s was nominated for the Rural Wales Award 2016 for a variety of reasons that relate to the ideals and ideas of CPRW.

“Morannedd was designed by Sir Clough Williams Ellis in the early 1950s and has since gone through a mixed career during the following decades. In recent years its condition slowly declined.

“In 2015 Dylan’s Restaurant Ltd started the process of restoring the building in a way sympathetic both to the original plans and to its important shore location on the course of what is now the Wales Coast Path.

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