Hardens Guide to the Best Restaurants in Powys
Hardens guides have spent 33 years compiling reviews of the best Powys restaurants. On Hardens.com you'll find details and reviews of 9 restaurants in Powys and our unique survey based approach to rating and reviewing Powys restaurants gives you the best insight into the top restaurants in every area and of every type of cuisine.
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1. The Clive Restaurant with Rooms
British, Modern restaurant in Ludlow
Bromfield - SY8
Limited but positive feedback on the eating possibilities afforded by this 17-room B&B in a Georgian House a short drive from Ludlow. It offers a straightforward menu majoring in steaks, burgers and cuts of venison.
2. Checkers Pantry
French restaurant in Montgomery
Broad St, Powys - SY15
2023 Review: In Spring 2022, Andrew Birch (erstwhile head chef of London’s Savoy Grill) and his wife Rachel relaunched this well-known coaching inn, part of a small scenic town in rural Powys. The main option is a seven-course tasting menu (with a vegetarian alternative), but there’s also a simpler lunch. No feedback as yet in our annual diners’ poll.
3. Stagg Inn
British, Modern restaurant in Titley
This well-known border-country inn is “still one of the best places to eat in the area”, with “well prepared and flavoursome food”. Long-time regulars miss Steve & Nicola Reynolds, who retired a couple of years ago, but the new management team of chef Tom Tudor and his partner Vittoria Turolla, FOH, have settled in well and the place is now “performing better again”.
4. Upper Rectory
French restaurant in Welshpool
Berriew - SY21
2022 Review: Kerry Huber serves “wonderful ‘posh nosh’ meals” in her home, a beautiful old black-and-white house full of atmosphere – “highly recommended” and very good value at £35 for seven courses, served ‘supper-club’ style. Top Tip: guests rave about the signature twice-cooked soufflé.
5. Llangoed Hall
British, Modern restaurant in Llyswen
2023 Review: This “fab former stately home” set in “beautiful grounds” in the Welsh countryside was restored by Laura Ashley co-founder Sir Bernard Ashley. Known for its “exceptional food”, it has lost two highly regarded head chefs in recent years, Nick Brodie and Sam Bowser, but still achieves strong ratings across the board.
6. The Old Black Lion
British, Modern restaurant in Hay-on-Wye
Lion St - HR3
2022 Review: This “busy” seventeenth-century inn is appreciated for its “simple, tasty, well-executed dishes” of “good honest food”.
7. Chapters
British, Modern restaurant in Hay-on-Wye
Lion Street - HR3
“Highly recommend if you are around Hay on Wye” – a “small but perfectly formed restaurant” which puts its emphasis on “very locally sourced dishes that are well prepared” from a “carefully-put-together tasting menu” (five courses for £60 per person) “with unexpected but lovely flavour combinations”.
8. Old Downton Lodge
British, Traditional restaurant in Ludlow
Downton on the Rock - SY8
Ideal for a “hideaway date night in the shires”, with a “combination of discrete modern features melded into an ancient, beautiful and comfortable building” (whose stone dining room was built at the time of the Norman Conquest) – Pippa & Willem Vlok’s country-house guarantees a “really great experience”. “Truly remarkable staff” include head chef Nick Bennett, whose “highly skilled cooking” produces meals to savour.
9. The Felin Fach Griffin
British, Modern restaurant in Brecon
Felin Fach - LD3
This “top-of-the-range gastropub” on the edge of the Brecon Beacons National Park has long been one of the most famous in Wales for good reason and is “always busy” as a result. “If only there were a lot more rural pubs working so hard on all aspects of the dining experience” – from “impeccable and considerate service” that creates “a lovely, welcoming, characterful ambience” to “flawless meals with an excellent selection of brilliant-value wines”. The menu changes daily with seven starters and seven mains showcasing meat from the lowland hills, vegetables from nearby Penpont and fish delivered fresh from Cornwall.
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