‘Shed on a campsite’ joins top food ranks

A BREEZE block caravan park cafe which was transformed from a greasy spoon into a gourmet restaurant has been recognised as one of the UK’s top places to eat.

The Marram Grass Cafe, housed in an old potting shed with a tin roof in Newborough, Anglesey, is a new entry in the 2016 Good Food Guide.

Brothers Liam and Ellis Barrie opened the restaurant on their parents’ White Lodge Caravan Park in 2009, turning the fast food cafe into a restaurant which serves food made from local ingredients sourced from farmers and fishermen.

Good Food Guide editor Elizabeth Carter said she was tipped off about the “restaurant in a shed on a campsite” by an inspector, and described it as “an extraordinary find”.

She said: “The low building with its corrugated iron roof may channel ‘scout hut’ and ‘air raid shelter’ in equal measure, but the interior charms and the cooking shows ambition and skill.”

Liam Barrie, 27, said the family was “really proud” of the restaurant’s food and local ingredients, including-Menai mussels and linecaught Anglesey sea bass.

For the third year running, L’Enclume, set in the village of Cartmel in Cumbria, took the guide’s title of top restaurant in the UK.