The Granary in Powys

Made a quick choice to come here for lunch to get out of the rain. Very glad we did - food was gorgeous. I had the lamb cawl and my husband had chorizo and black bean stew. Very tasty and very good value. Staff were friendly and, while busy, atmosphere was relaxed. Highly recommend

Really interesting menu of freshly cooked lunch type dishes.

Excellent cooked breakfast. Great staff and characterful decor.

Best breakfast in the area by far! Quality of the food is excellent.

We came here when we arrived, we first thought it was shut but looked through the window it was open. Very rustic and nice place. They had run out of a few dishes but managed a soup, but we found it large portions and needed seasoning. Overall, it was nice.

The way you place your order was way too long, with a long que to the front door and around the place other diners come to get water. It may be that it is a way to let the kitchen keep up, but they should figure out another system. Also, when you place your order, the one member of staff then made the drinks before serving the next person, which, again, made the wait even longer. Food was also rather average for the relatively high price. Staff we really lovlely.

We were looking for a quick lunch and had visited this cafe/restaurant previously. The menu provides a wide range but the choice of snacks for those with a dairy allergy was quite limited, although non-dairy milk for tea/coffee was readily available. Requirements are ordered and paid for at the counter, with items requiring some preparation being delivered to the table when ready. The snacks and drinks represented very good value. The environment is a little rustic (as the name suggests), and floor area is on two levels, with toilets up a flight of stairs.

Nice coffee, bacon roll and toast with lovely home-made marmalade. The service was very slow though, in fact we think they’d forgotten about our order because, when the waitress eventually came over after 20 minutes, it was to sit down and have her Full English next to us. I got up to have a word and then miraculously, the other waitress appesred with our order!

Had the leek & potato soup - delicious. Shame no sandwiches mostly main courses. Lovely staff & dig friendly.

We had been to the granary before and the food was good . Today , it was unclear whether the cafe was open ( at 1215) the member of staff that served us gazed blankly when asked what the soup was and couldn’t raise a smile. The soup and roll were good but it’s a bit pricey. My husband did point out to a member of staff that they needed an “open” sign and to their credit they had written on the board when we left.

Food is good, but it's not as quaint as it used to be

Not overly impressed with breakfast looked like it was just thrown on the plates who plates up a breakfast on top of the toast? Don't care if an affluent area but when charging £12+ for breakfast it's got to be spot on and when paying £3.50 for a flat white which was very small and served in a glass (not even thermal just normal) it's should be great coffee I make a better flat white on my barista machine at home and I have no training. Would not go back if visiting again sadly to say.

If you can get here for breakfast, it's never fails to disappoint. Great local food. All that work there are always so nice and friendly and the place is always so cosy and welcoming with log fires lit.

We had a lovely lunch here today. The staff were extremely efficient and friendly, making the dining experience very enjoyable. The menu was quite extensive, and you had the option of a takeaway meal if you so wished.

A lovely homely cafe, super staff, delicious coffee, great range of food, I asked for a ham, cheese and onion omelette and it came with a delicious lemon and mint salad. A great place, go on......try it

We had tea and cake on Sat afternoon (mountain berry pie and polenta cake 5/5), and came back for breakfast on Sunday morn and omg - the Vegi (sic) breakfast is absolutely scrumptious. Filling and savoury in the best way - spicy beans some of the best I’ve ever had.

Gorgeous bacon sandwiches and coffee. Lovely interior. Friendly staff. Definitely recommend this place.

We used to come here for an occasional treat, as it's slightly above our normal budget, but it's changed. The upstairs section is shut permanently, so customers are crammed in downstairs. The wonderful artisan sandwiches with generous salad garnish are off the menu. The cheapest items, if you want an actual meal, are soup or baked potatoes. Some of us ordered leek & potato soup whereas I picked sweet potato & ginger. It was all fresh and OK but nothing special (like things used to be) and there was a sizeable gap between each bowl arriving. The accompanying bread rolls seemed to have come from the supermarket. My coffee was average. There is nothing really wrong with the Granary but everything was a bit disappointing. You can take your dog if you want.

Stopped off for a quick lunch. Very tasty homemade soup and excellent goat’s cheese salad. An excellent spot with a good, varied menu and swift service.

Came here with the family a few days before Christmas for the 3 course set menu. The scallops for starters were fantastic. The main and deserts were very good. Lively atmosphere as it was Christmas celebrations so was quite difficult to converse. Still would highly recommend and shall be visiting again.

I thought that £15 for a roast beef sandwich was a touch expensive. I WAS WRONG. A slice of rye bread with a mountain of fabulous salads on top with terrific dressing. Then FIVE slices of beautifully cooked, tender and tasty roast beef. It was WONDERFUL and the others were delighted with their smoked salmon and falafel plates.

So disappointing. Food was a little pricey but we accepted that as we were in Hay. However, a smile costs nothing. The service was indifferent at best. While there were less than 10 people in the cafe, we had to wait 30 mins for a bacon roll and eggs on toast. Which arrived 15 minutes apart. When I asked why, I just got a weak ‘sorry’. The people on the table next to us also had their food delivered in dribs and drabs. One of the cooks wandered out to put out some napkins and moaned that she was cold. No customer care or attention to detail.

Avoid at all costs. Dirty bathroom, sticky tables uncleared and very rude staff. The food isn’t good value for money either. The place needs a deep clean, some decent staff and a new menu

Gorgeous, friendly, cosy and the food is delicious

A while since we visited the Granary, we were regular visitors for many years our Sunday drive out and then lunch. So today, we decided to give it a try, well have to say disappointed! The food was o.k, maybe not quite what it was, miss the lovely self service soups, they had in the old days, but appreciate things change. However, my biggest complaint was the appearance of the place, yes appreciate it is a rustic granary, but not the toilet seat on the floor ! everywhere needs a good scrub and coat of paint. The final blow was when a party of 6 people sat close by us and continually allowed a dog to walk across the table to one another !! sorry but that is totally unacceptable, imagine the repercussions that could have for someone with allergies, babies etc. I complained to the waitress within ear shot and of course got some dirty looks ! I know we are a country who now seem obsessed with owning dogs, and they are now welcomed everywhere, yes quite happy with that, but sorry when they eat at the dining table that is where I draw the line. A notice needs to say, dogs welcome, on the floor, not on the chairs when covered in mud and certainly not on eating surfaces. To add I love dogs and have always owned one who we loved, but he was a dog.

Very nice attractive environment, although no accessible toilets and tables needed clearing and wiping. Menu was interesting and the food was tasty and reasonably priced. Service was indifferent at best. Long wait to get minimal attention. Little responsiveness to requests.

This is the best cafe I think I've ever visited. The quality of the locally produced food was superb, excellent coffee and wonderful cakes. And the owner and staff were very welcoming and helpful too.

Known of this place for many years and decided to try it. Notices around to ensure you don't miss the step which runs down (near) one side of the restaurant/cafe. Despite the notices, I consider it and health and safety issue. My husband had a slice of sponge which looked dried to me, he said it was okay (to use of the word nice). We had a coffee each is small class mugs. Coffee not filled to the top but the froth over ran the mugs, spilling down the side and over the tray. It tasted okay but have had better. Don't think we'll bother going back.

Fabulous tasty food and good sized portions. We enjoyed it so much we came back for more. The cakes are delicious too. We were too full to eat them after lunch so took some away for teatime.

Very slow service, 6 luke warm Breakfasts were randomly served over a period of an hour, unacceptable that you don’t all eat together

Absolutely delicious lunch at the Granary today. The chorizo and bean stew was very tasty and wholesome, the fish cakes and salad were 'to die for' and my feta and olive quiche and salad was amazingly flavoursome. Brilliant value.

Food, staff and decor were perfect. My only complaint is the prices were really steep! Quiche, salad and latte cost me £17!

Went in for a coffee stayed for 2 and then ordered lunch, which was an excellent salad

Like being at home but better food and company!

I spend many a happy hour in The Granary. They are kind and friendly, their food is always beautifully presented, tasty and consistantly good. This morning I had fruit pie with Apple, Wimberry and juniper, the pastry was excently and the fruit rich and juicy. The only issue being how do I stop myself having a second peice 🤷🏻‍♀️

After a walk around Hay-on-Wye we fancied a coffee stop, we found what looked like a lovely little coffee shop, when you walk in it looks very charming and cute! That’s where the good points end! Once we decided what we were drinking I placed the order with a very sullen lady behind the till, no smile, no thank you just “your drinks will be at the end of the bar”. When the drinks were ready I went up to collect them, sat down and then had to get up again as there were no teaspoons with the tea. The atmosphere in there was like a library, no music playing and you felt like you couldn’t speak. We didn’t order food but it looks like when you do they bring it to your table without cutlery so you have to get up and collect that! After we had finished our drinks I went to the toilet, there was no hand soap and no paper towels! This could be a great place it’s just a shame that the staff in there seem to be so unhappy!

Good food (mostly) but a slightly chaotic system for delivering it. Took the quarters of an hour to get a couple of croissants and a veggie breakfast, coffee (not quite hot enough) arrived first and was quickly finished while we waited for the food. Then the breakfast came (very nice), then one croissant arrived baked hard and the second arrived give minutes later. The place is a bit in need of a good clean and re-decorate, toilets were a bit grubby.

Had fishcakes with salad. Fishcakes were good but some of the flavours in the salad overpowered the fish & really didn't compliment the dish. A shame as I expected a more complete meal at the price

Great food. Fresh, tasty produce which shows in the eating. We recommend the open steak sandwich and the veggie falafel! Well worth a visit.

Very over priced for breakfast and the food was very average. Service was appalling. A smile goes a long way on hospitality. Would not recommend.

Generally good food, though goat's cheese salad price was overpriced.

Nice little cafe reasonable for location

Stopped for a coffee, pleasant atmosphere.

Overpriced, poor quality, cheap cutlery, shody service. Go elsewhere.

Great food, helpful service. A few more vegan options would behave been a bonus, especially on the cakes, but what we had was superb, and the service was quick and helpful. Very atmospheric too!

A very tasty Welsh breakfast, in an amazing building, which I am assuming was actually a granary in days past, with associated décor, equipment and implements clearly on display. Our breakfast was promptly served by polite staff. And most importantly our dogs were welcomed and made a fuss of. Will definitely by eating there again.

Lovely food, staff and atmosphere. Stew was amazing.

Il personale è stato gentilissimo. Abbiamo spiegato loro il poco tempo a disposizione e, con incredibile velocità, ci hanno servito il pasto accompagnato da un sorriso gentile!

Luke warm milkshake after 5 minutes staff deciding who would make it. Cake base rock hard needed a chisel.

Absolutely delicious, wholesome food. Friendly and quick service - can’t wait to go back! Goats cheese & strawberry salad and open beef sandwich to die for 😍

This is one of our favourite places in Hay on Wye! Most Thursdays (market days) we have breakfast or brunch here, accompanied by our beautiful Irish Wolfhounds. There are tables inside and outside and well behaved dogs are always welcome. There is plenty of variety in the menu and everything is freshly prepared. I have to mention that the team working here is really lovely. The decor is cosy and charming and there is plenty of room for larger families inside. As this is a very popular place, especially on market days you may have to wait a bit for your food. But, we love coming here. So, this is definitely a place we are happy to recommend to anyone visiting our beautiful little town.

Such a wonderful and cosy cafe! Make sure to stop there when in Hay. We went thee to have lunch and I had the sweet potatoe with feta. It was so delicious and there was so much great salad with it. It was such a huge portion, I could hardly finish :) We sat there for a long time because it was so cosy and we needed to rest after our hike on the Offa's dyke path. They also have books in the cafe, which one can loook through. Overall, a great place to go and we will definitely come again! The staff is super nice!

What a lovely little quirky independent cafe. We enjoyed a great lunch whilst visiting Hay on a soggy Sunday in July. I had the Ratatouille and my husband had the roast beef, both hearty portions and absolutely delicious!! The owner (didn't get her name unfortunately)...

Wonderful menu of fresh mainly organic food. Excellent rainbow coloured salads with nuts and seeds. Vegan friendly but the organic beef was heavenly. Nice atmosphere and friendly staff. The latest research on diet (look up Tim Spector on Zoe) can make it difficult to eat...

I had the best halloumi salad in my life!! We sat outside and my partner had ratatouille and a delicious scone. Loved the atmosphere, everything!! Will come back for sure!! Highly recommended!

Really lovely lunch, fresh wholesome food in a gorgeous converted granary

I had a fabulous lunch here, and loved it so much I came back for breakfast. All the food was cooked with love and care, and the raw ingredients carefully selected. We have spent the last week touring Hereford and Shropshire, enjoying many meals, but this stood out as the best. Wonderful fresh salad with a home made feta and olive tart for lunch, and a beautiful Welsh breakfast the next day. The bacon and sausage were outstanding. Thanks team, really appreciate the hospitality ❤️

Disengaged staff, Really dirty, sticky table, crumbs all over, generally filthy dirty and tatty/unloved. Totally over priced, small sized coffee in dirty cup, another tall coffee, ham (fatty), egg and few chips and small piece of salmon on a slice of GF bread some salad £35, you must be joking its not Paris! I'd advise you tain your staff to be engaging and at least pretend they care, deep clean the place and price accordingly. My partner said is was 8/10 three years ago, I'd give it 1 now. Best avoided.

Absolutely amazing. Service is fast and courteous. Warm and inviting atmosphere. Excellent black pudding. Do not miss it if you’re in town!

Lovely rustic space, great food and vegan options available. Recommend highly to anyone. The vegan brownie was delicious as was the soup.

Food was incredible and Becky was one of the kindest, most efficient hosts we have ever encountered… and we eat out far too much!! The food arrived in minutes, the garlic mayo was to die for, the chat was rib tickling… Thoroughly recommend.

Very homely and friendly just had americanos

My wife and I visited yesterday 25.06.23 for a snack. While we were waiting, we observed the staffs incredible manner with their customers including humour, interaction with children and teenagers. The team offered food (which was not on the menu) to meet the young man's...

Overall great and would for sure recommend!

I'm afraid the member of staff had no regard for those queuing but seemed more interested in the father and two small children. Having already queued for more than ten minutes whilst I had to listen to inane conversation the situation was made worse when...

Absolutely fabulous! Just read some other reviews , and quite frankly I have to disagree. The food was fantastic ,well presented and fresh ,wholesome! You couldn't ask for more and good portions . The staff were polite and couldn't do enough to make our fathers...

Like the other reviews have said, extremely expensive for what you get. We paid £12.95 for an open beef sandwich, the salad which it came with was lovely but the bread was a very small slice of rye bread. We called at Morrisons later for...

Good food, service not great. I ordered the poached 🥚 on toast and asked for crispy 🥓 on the side. Only to be told they don't like changing the menu. They do fried egg with 🥓 and toast.....

Top notch prices but this frankly failed to deliver. Beef open sandwich turned out to be a couple of slices of beef on top of a heap of salad which made the small square of rye bread beneath go soggy. Some indication that this was...

Exceptional family run eatery. I cannot recommend highly enough. Care and quality at a good price. Well done.

We’ve been coming in here for years but it’s not anywhere as good as it used to be. The menu used to be extensive and reasonably priced but it changes after six to a fishy menu and the prices are slightly awe inspiring. I miss...

The food was superb, we had a breakfast which was fresh and tasty. It was expensive for what we got, £12.50 for a breakfast, plus and extra £2.50-£3 for a tea or coffee. We wanted scrambled instead of fried eggs, but we were told "what is on the menu cannot be changed!" The service was very abrupt, boarding on rude, hence the low score. They also forgot the beans off all (5) breakfasts.

Hello I haven't eaten here I'm a contractor working in the kitchen on the main hood the staff are friendly and polite and special thanks to Abbi for a great cup of coffee . So if you're in hay on Wye call in the staff are great and polite . More than five stars needed .

Friendly staff good service and great food.

Very poor value pasta and sauce Coffee served in small water drinking glass !

Poor value for very basic pasta meal Coffee in drinking glass !! very weak Service not great Low point of a day in lovely Hay on Wye

Had to wait ages for a bowl of soup I could see others were having the same problem, the soup was very nice but not worth the wait or price

A chance late lunch call. We parked by their door and walked into a very old style cafe. The decor and furniture heralding back to the buildings previous life . A very pleasant lady took our order and within 10 minutes our open beef sandwiches arrived. The buttered bread was topped with a good portion of salad items, pickled vegetables and 2 slices of roast beef, sliced very thinly. A very interesting dish we thought. We also had two cans of ginger beer to wash the meal down with. Quite enjoyable snack . Prices were a bit on the high side , the two sandwiches and two cans of pop came to over £30.

We loved The Granary for its great food and lovely staff. We had a very nice breakfast and we can thoroughly recommend it. Huge selection of delicious looking cakes.

A lovely array of cakes and drinks, reasonably priced, the staff are very friendly and welcome well behaved dogs. Just wish we had time to go back for the breakfast.

The cafe/restaurant consists of two main rooms on different levels due to being located on a hill. We were looking for somewhere that provided "dairy free" snacks and found that the Granary had a limited but suitable option with a good range of dairy free...

Have visited here a couple of times now with family when we’ve stayed in the area. We all had the Welsh breakfast this last time and it was really tasty. None of us like black pudding, so when we asked about swapping they instantly offered...

Really nice atmospheric place with good food. The cawl on a cold day is awesome.

Enjoyed the nicest cooked breakfast I've had in a long while, two days running. The coffee was decent too. Very friendly staff as well and the place isn't absolutely rammed full of tables (like some other smaller cafe type places) so you never feel like you're sat atop the table next to you.

The Welsh Breakfast is very tasty and good value for money. The same cannot be said for The Granary's coffee which was bitter and pricey. We found the service slow but despite that, we would return again.

We have lunched here several times over the last few years on our visits to Hay and have not had a bad meal yet. The place is two largish rooms and can become noisy when busy but that has never troubled us. At times, due...

Food very tasty (beetroot & carrot falafel with houmous and salad). Good portion sizes. Decor terrible. Needs more tables for 2 or 4 customers. No menu outside to catch passing trade. Out of stock of many drink options.

Yummy breakfast and gorgeous location. Only wish I could have stayed longer and sampled more of the menu!

Upon entering the Granary. I waited with another person at the counter to be served. There were three people behind the counter. The staff made no eye contact with either of us. They didn't acknowledge we were there directly in front of them. They couldnt...

Although the cakes and tea were fine, it really was like Bedlam in the Granary today: dogs barking; children running around unchecked (I very nearly fell over one, whilst trying to reach my table with my tray!) and our table remained uncleared from the previous...

Great food quick friendly service. You cannot beat the Granery

Stopped in for lunch with our puppy after a very cold and windy walk, and very glad we did! Staff were lovely and friendly, and our dog was clearly very welcome. We ordered fishcakes and a jacket potato, both of which were spot on, but...

Always like the Granary, but disappointed with the menu; used to be able to get a tasty sandwich with a variety of fillings, but now seems mostly full meals. However, the coffee is very good 👍

Lovely food and friendly family service. Very dog friendly.

Great, homemade food. We had a stilton ploughman's and a smoked mackrel pate and both were super tasty. Afterwards, we both had the apple strudel which was to die for.

stopped here on way home from a holiday. i had the lamb cawl stew it was delicious very filling but excellent. staff where brilliant as there was alot of us..

Not the friendliest of staff, lacking in customer service.

We came here a few years ago when we were staying near Hay so decided to stick with somewhere we knew and the menu read well. But of course a lot can have changed since covid. The food was tasty but expensive for what it...

Great place: breakfast a bit salty, sorry. Otherwise fine!

wonderful friendly cafe with a fantastic shared workspace upstairs if you need a full or half days office space. Great value, dog friendly and warm!