Pete's Eats
Created | Updated Apr 21, 2004
Just been climbing near Snowdonia, you're starving freezing or just generally miserable. On the horizon you see a gaudily painted cottage-type building, in your imagination you play track number 4 - angelic choir. That's right, it's Pete's Eats, the climbers cafe, the walls of which are covered with photos of climbers and travel. Home of the big plate, massive mug and divine vegeburger.
Location
Pete's Eats
40 High Street
Llanberis
Gwynedd
LL55 4EU
How to get there: From any of the Llanberis crags, walk north up the pass (or hitch) until you reach the town. Follow the signs down a left fork off the main road until you reach the caff at the far end of the high street.
For drivers there is lots of free parking round the back by the lake, about 100 meters from the cafe.
Contact
Pete's Eats Website
You can contact any of these people: Peter Norton, Ted Silvester or Elaine Jeffery
Telephone:
- Kitchen Café: 01286 870 358
- Office Telephone/fax: 01286 870117
Email: [email protected]
Food
Simple, but quality and quantity are assured. The food is prepared by paid locals. Recommended dishes inclued the walnut and cheese vegeburger and the chip buttie - order it on bread not a roll for a carbohydrate fest. The omelettes are big and tasty, and the chips are numerous and hot. The biggest meal is named Big Jim - it's a combination of nearly everything on the menu. It's named after Jimmy Jewel, legendary welsh climber, who was killed around 1993, as he was the only one who could finish the plate. If you're chilly the hot drinks are served in very big pint mugs. Tea is apparantly the best one, however all of them are lovely, and warm you up from your nose to your toes.
Facilities
- Bunkhouse accomodation
- internet (you have to pay)
- printer
- map room
- (improved!) toilets
- free jukebox - the selection is about as eclectic as the clientele - world, classical, blues, country and rock.
Critisism
It used to be cheaper - it's still pretty good value but you'll no longer get change from a fiver for a snack and a mug of tea.
In wet weather at the weekend it gets very busy - at times there are no tables at all.
Customer's Comments
- "Their jacket potatoes (particularly with garlic and cheese) are fantastic. It's a bugger trying to get a large mug of black tea there though, as their tea machine makes it automatically white."
- "Britain's best cafe"
- "Veggie or not, the vegeburgers are divine"
