The restaurant will be located within Theatr Clwyd, Wales’ biggest producing theatre, with Williams to oversee the food and drink offer at the entire venue, including its restaurants, bars, and event and retail spaces.
Denbigh-raised Williams has been chef-patron at Odette’s in London since 2008, and also runs a beach-front restaurant, café and bar at Porth Eirias in Colwyn Bay and a restaurant at The Cambrian hotel in the Swiss Alps. He also oversees the food at Touring Club restaurant in Penarth, south Wales.
“I am thrilled to be returning home to my native Wales, to work in partnership with Theatr Clwyd, an organisation I have known and loved since being a child growing up locally,” he says.
“I can’t wait to share my culinary passion for our distinct and dynamic region and its produce with my community.”
The theatre is currently undergoing a major redevelopment project that will reimagine its public spaces and create a greener, more efficient and sustainable building. The venue has remained open throughout the development.
“We are deeply excited to be working in partnership with Bryn on our food and drink offer at Theatr Clwyd. We always aim to work with people who are world class at what they do, who share our values, and who have strong links to our locality,” says Liam Evans-Ford, Theatr Clwyd’s executive director.
“Bryn delivers on all these, and we look forward to working with him to make Theatr Clwyd known as a food and drink destination, as well a venue for world-class culture and communities work.”