Tuesday 2 June 2015

Bodnant Welsh Food Centre

Bodnant Welsh Food Centre

This is somewhere I go on a regular basis to buy Welsh speciality food and can highly recommend a visit.  I have also been on their cookery courses a few times and have enjoyed them immensely. 

Bodnant Welsh Food Centre handed industry Oscar for conservation work

www.bodnant-welshfood.co.uk/


A WELSH centre of excellence has been handed an industry Oscar for its conservation work at an historic Conwy farm.

The panel of judges in the prestigious RICS awards praised Bodnant Welsh Food Centre for breathing new life into the 250-year-old Furnace Farm complex at Tal y Cafn.

Calling the £6m project “an exemplar of sensitive conservation that is truly sustainable,” the judges also commended Bodnant for creating viable jobs and apprenticeships and promoting local food and drink.

The annual contest celebrates inspirational initiatives in the land, property and construction sectors. The awards were handed out at an event in Cardiff, hosted by ITV News presenter Andrea Byrne and attended by more than 220 property professionals.

Bodnant, which picked up the Welsh Building Conservation Award, now goes through to the national RICS Awards, where it will compete against other projects from across the UK later this year.

Based in a restored building dating from the 18th century, the food centre includes a farm shop, tea room, restaurant, wine cellar, cookery school and farmhouse accommodation.

Chris Morton, managing director of Bodnant Welsh Food Centre, said: “We are proud of the work carried out here in preserving the old buildings and giving them new life.

"It would have been easy to replace them with a modern construction. However the choice was made to rehabilitate them to create a project of which the area can be proud.”

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