Hardens Guide to the Best Restaurants in Powys
Hardens guides have spent 15 years compiling reviews of the best Powys restaurants. On Hardens.com you'll find details and reviews of 27 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.
Featured Powys Restaurants
1. Gareth Ward at Ynyshir
British, Modern restaurant in Eglwys Fach
“Ynyshir is incredible: something totally unique and somewhere the whole of Wales should be proud of”, according to fans (that is to say just about everyone) who report on Gareth Ward’s “exquisite” cuisine at this “beautifully situated” house (next to an RSPB reserve, and whose history includes having been owned by Queen Victoria). “An exceptional 18-course tasting menu was unlike any other dining experience. Each course is presented at the table by one of the chefs and thoughtfully introduced. Each mouthful is intensely flavoured, often with nostalgic aromas of childhood seaside holidays, or rhubarb and custard boiled sweets. The cooking shows incredible skill, dedication and careful sourcing of local and foraged ingredients”.
2. Llangoed Hall
British, Modern restaurant in Llyswen
“Nick Brodie’s honest hard work” produces some “stunning” results at this impressive-looking and well-regarded country house hotel – a “lovely” property handy for Hay Festival goers. In the evening, the choice is from either a six-course or nine-course tasting menu.
3. The Felin Fach Griffin
British, Modern restaurant in Brecon
Felin Fach - LD3
“An oasis at the foot of the magnificent Brecon Beacons” – this well-known gastropub (on the site of an old cider mill) has been a foodie feature of the area for decades – a “busy venue (book ahead)”, with food that’s “consistently excellent”.
4. Pysgoty
Fish & seafood restaurant in Aberystwyth
The Harbour, South Promenade - SY23
“Right on the seashore, but raised above it”, this “small, unique” converted Art Deco toilet has distinct California vibes; sit on the terrace eating “SUPER FRESH fish”.
5. Ultracomida
Mediterranean restaurant in Aberystwyth
31 Pier St - SY23
This well-known tapas and Spanish wine merchant is a “real find”, despite the “cramped” back-of-deli seating (on stools or at a shared table); the owners, who also run a Narberth sibling, launched tapas joint ‘Curado Bar’, in a former Burger King on Cardiff’s Westgate, in 2016.
6. Gwesty Cymru
British, Traditional restaurant in Aberystwyth
19 Marine Terrace - SY23
“A good buzz and an excellent outdoor terrace” – “made more special when you’re able to enjoy sunshine and drinks watching the movements along the promenade” – help win praise for the restaurant of this posh, contemporary hotel on the seafront. The cooking? “not bad…”, “solidly reliably good, if a little unambitious”.
7. Carlton Riverside
British, Modern restaurant in Llanwrtyd Wells
Irfon Cr - LD5
Though “quiet and quite slow” – well, it does sit in Britain’s smallest town – this relaxed restaurant-with-rooms of some renown still turns out “excellent cooking” that’s “worth supporting”; even a regular who felt it “lacks the creative inspiration of old” said “the food is still perfectly cooked”.
8. Checkers
French restaurant in Montgomery
Broad St, Powys - SY15
After eighteen years, the Shropshire and Mid-Wales region has lost its last star – or handed it back, after Checkers chef Stéphane Borie opted to focus on private clients. Under the aegis of his wife Sarah Francis and her co-owner sister Kathryn, a more casual breakfast and lunch spot, Checkers Pantry, was due to open in November 2018; it was too early for a rating as we went to press.
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Checkers
The Felin Fach Griffin
Llangoed Hall
Carlton Riverside
Ultracomida
Pen y Cae Inn
Gwesty Cymru
Gareth Ward at Ynyshir
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