Hardens Guide to the Best Restaurants in Craswall
Hardens guides have spent 34 years compiling reviews of the best Craswall restaurants. On Hardens.com you'll find details and reviews of 5 restaurants in Craswall and our unique survey based approach to rating and reviewing Craswall restaurants gives you the best insight into the top restaurants in every area and of every type of cuisine.
Featured Craswall Restaurants
1. The Walnut Tree
British, Modern restaurant in Llandewi Skirrid
Llanddewi Skirrid - NP7
“Top-quality produce is served straightforwardly” at this celebrated rural gastropub, which originally won fame in the 1970s (under the Taruschios) and was for decades seen as one of Wales’s few decent culinary destinations. Chef Shaun Hill has been at the stoves for over 15 years now and some reporters still see a visit as a “sentimental journey”, recalling his stint as chef-patron at Ludlow’s legendary Merchant House (long RIP). “A long-time favourite, results are still excellent” from an à la carte menu that mixes modish ingredients into classical dishes. Top Tip – “if you can eat outside on the terrace (small and intimate) you can enjoy beautiful views of the countryside and a most delightful kitchen garden”.
2. Chapters
British, Modern restaurant in Hay-on-Wye
Lion Street - HR3
“A lovely small restaurant” in a converted, ancient ecclesiastical building which bills itself as ‘Dining & Bottle Shop’, “where you can enjoy unusual flavours and be taken through the menu by the delightful staff”. All reports are enthusiastic about its approach, which includes sourcing from the venue’s own garden, delivering “amazing food” of diverse inspiration and “good value”. Foodwise, it was the highlight of the year for some reporters.
3. The Felin Fach Griffin
British, Modern restaurant in Brecon
Felin Fach - LD3
This famous and “top-quality pub, serving excellent food with friendly and efficient service” may be “out in the sticks, but is well worth the journey” for anybody visiting Brecon Beacons National Park or Hay-on-Wye. A regular on lists of Welsh country boltholes for decades, it’s also “highly recommended” for its “excellent accommodation” – “I can’t fault my experience at this lovely place”.
4. The Angel Hotel
British, Modern restaurant in Abergavenny
15 Cross St - NP7
In a “fine old building” close to the English border, this coaching inn (“cosy old bar” plus “sophisticated restaurant”) is “consistently good”, especially if you go for one of the “good- value” set menus (featuring “some unusual selections but all very well executed”). It’s part of the growing House of Caradog family, which now spans numerous local outposts: a sibling hotel, a bakery, an art shop and café, plus inn and restaurant The Walnut Tree, two miles off. Top Tip – “lovely and plentiful” afternoon tea – “everything is handmade and elegant” with a “superb tea choice and great array of savouries and cakes”.
5. The Gaff
British, Modern restaurant in Abergavenny
4 The Courtyard, Lion Street - NP7
A “brilliant little place” in three smartly converted town-centre sheds that’s “what a local restaurant is all about”, turning out “great, fresh seasonal food” from a concise but “interesting menu” of small plates (that are also “great value” too). It’s a particularly “good lunch spot” but also just a great “place for a natter and catch-up” (possibly in the courtyard if the weather is clement). Sadly owners Danielle Phillips and Dan Saunders, who launched this venue in 2019, shuttered its younger Bath spin-off in mid-2024, citing low foot traffic and high rental rates.
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