Hi, I'm Gaby I was born in Muntii Carpati, in the Carpathian Mountains in Romania in 1977, Paul's told me that was the year he first holidayed in Scotland where the sun shone for 2 weeks! I've been the Head Chef of the Siabod Cafe's since we first opened for business in 2012. It's been a great challenge from designing the menu's, managing the Kitchen & making decisions that use to be made for me. I get a real high to see people enjoying our food as I try very hard to keep coming up with new ideas & recipes to entice you with. In recent years I have introduced a weekly 'Special' cake at our Cafe at Pentrefelin so keep an eye out for these on our Facebook site. One of my proudest achievements is to have held a 5 star Food & Hygiene certificate in three different locations consecutively for 14 years. To be in this business together with my sister Dorina & having a share in the business itself feels great for us, we hope you enjoy your experiences at our Cafe's.

Hi, I'm Paul My first introduction to mountains was a family holiday to Snowdonia in 1976, I remember spending long summer days by the Black Waterfall near Dolgellau (26 years later I bought a house less than half a mile away from it) as well as ascending Snowdon (I hate to admit by train), even in the summer of 76 it was cloudy on top! The lure was never far away though & in 2002 with a successful business I was able to buy the house near Dolgellau. Business being Business I still found little or no time to get out & enjoy the mountains averaging no more than a couple of outings a year. Thankfully all that changed in early 2010, it needed to & now I cannot imagine life without them. So in later life I became both a mountaineer & runner & these to hobbies have changed me in so many positive ways. But arguably the biggest surprise is how I adapted from working in construction for over 28 years to helping set up & run a Cafe, it has been a very rewarding transition in many different ways. We have loved becoming part of the community at each of our different locations, firstly Capel Curig & more recently Pentrefelin & Bangor. This photograph of me was taken on the summit of Gasherbrum II one of the World's 14 '8,000 metre' peaks in 2022, it was an expedition with some scary lows & exhilarating highs in equal measure.

Hi, I'm Dorina Like my sister Gaby I too was born in The Carpathian mountains just a year later in 1978. Our village was small, we lived of the land & hid from the Wolves in winter. Leaving school I moved to Bucharest to work in a Restaurant run by a typically flamboyant Italian. This was a great way to learn the catering trade & served me well ever since. I followed Gaby over to North Wales once she had settled here working in a hotel in Capel Curig. Despite living in Capel Curig for a couple of years I hadn't found the time to explore the mountains around me until one snowy day Paul offered to take me up Moel Siabod, how funny it is that we were soon setting up & running the Moel Siabod Cafe. We enjoyed the success of our Cafe in Capel Curig albeit being extremely hard work more often than not. Times move on & I have similarly enjoyed our new location at the Fisheries in Pentrefelin & most recently helping Gaby set-up our latest venture 'Siabod @ Storiel' in Bangor. On a personal level I have followed Paul into both running & Mountaineering with highlights being running the Eryri (Snowdon) marathon in 2024 & earlier that year climbing my first two 4,000 metre peaks in the Alps. We never know what challenges we are capable of until we reach out & try do we.