A MORFA Nefyn chef will recreate the memorable meal he cooked for legendary tenor Luciano Pavarotti when he appears at this year’s Llangollen Food Festival.

Dai ’Chef’ Davies, who was raised in Aberystwyth, but now works as the executive chef at The Cliffs restaurant, will be appearing at the festival in October.

The celebrity chef has cooked for a whole host of superstar singers, including José Carreras and Dame Kiri Te Kanawa.

However, the highlight of his glittering career was spending a week as the personal chef to Pavarotti when he headlined during an emotional return to the Llangollen International Musical Eisteddfod in 1995.

Dai said: “At the time Pavorotti came to stay, I was executive chef at the Bryn Howel in Llangollen.

“I was appointed as his personal chef for the week and used to serve him in the restaurant and in his private suite.

“On the Sunday night after his smash hit concert at the Eisteddfod, just up the road from the hotel, I created a special meal for him and his 450 guests.

“I’ll never forget what it was. The starter was a smoked salmon and soft cheese roulade and the main course was Welsh sirloin beef flamed in whisky served in cream of wild mushrooms."

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