The Smithfield Bell in Powys

Lovely experience with my family the male bar staff were lovely and the young lady who served our food was so sweet. The food was so good wasn’t expecting it to be that nice we will be visiting again soon thank you for the lovely experience

One of the best experiences I’ve had, a beautiful family pub, service was exceptional and food was delicious. Would definitely recommend

Orders Mixed Grill and Sunday roast. Mixed Grill all meat was like rubber . Steak was cooked well well done not medium rare. Egg well it was like a crispy fried egg hard and solid !. Sunday roast no stuffing !!! Yourskhire pudding rock hard . Turkey very watery !. Very disappointed to say the least. Presentation and training in kitchen is needed . No staff member came to see if we were OK.

I would like to know if anyone has actually eaten at this place , because every time I’ve made the effort to go , we’ve been given some poor excuse to not get served , yesterday the kitchen staff were all on break at half 2 on a Saturday , the time before you didn’t have cheese for your pizza on pizza night … god knows what the other reasons were, wouldn’t recommend to any hungry people to be honest unless you like a gamble ?

Hi I said giggles with their friends but when it comes to customers, no smiles no interaction no interest no nothing. I speak as a paying customer 🦋

Fairly typical Marston's pub. Decent food. Good prices and accept Blue Light card.

Arrived here a little after 8pm to find the pub literally empty and told by an extremely abrupt female staff member that the kitchen was closed for the day, totally disgusted as we know Marston pub serve food till 9pm we left and hit a chip shop instead. Won't wast our time going back again, as not every one wants to have dinner earlier plus we had just driven from Stourbridge to visit family in Welshpool. A very poor pub sadly.

We Came here for dinner,was lovely being Greeted at the door. I had the steak and ale pie was okay but was alot of pepper on the top of it,my husband enjoyed his mixed grill. One member of staff wasn't dressed very Appropriately had a belly top on could see her belly bar had a Skirt way to far up,she had very long hair it should of been put back as she was running food.

Met up with friends, and we had very enjoyable meals, staff also attentive regular asking all OK 👍 will be going again.

Only one beer on (Pedigree) so I won't be rushing back

Friendly staff, relaxed.atmosphere, clean. Plenty of seating.

my daughter and I went one lunchtime and I could not fault the chap that served us. He was polite and eager to make sure we had a good visit. We both had the steak. The steak was cooked well and although rare.was not.tough to cut into. We enjoyed our visit and would come back again. My only disappointment was that the spicy burger was no longer on the gluten free menu.

Stopped off on way back to the midlands. Pleasant atmosphere, nice meal and pleasant service from Jade.

Booked a table, walked in and it was very dark and quiet. Two girls behind bar just stared at us whilst we waited to be seated. We went over to them after a little while of awkwardness. Told us to seat ourselves which was fair enough because it was very quiet. Waited for about 10 minutes before we realized we had to get up and get the menu (which was hidden) ourselves and order online.. would've been handy to know what to do as we expected someone to have explained that to us. Food was nice and quick, drinks were watered down with lots of ice. No one came to check if everything was okay. Just a lack of basic customer service skills. Quite disappointing. The one young girl seemed very moody and didn't smile once. Weird atmosphere.. don't think id recommend. we felt uncomfortable. But that might just be us.

Nice enough place, OK, pub decor, very nice staff. The food has changed over the time we have been going, smaller portions, and reduced menu. But still good, PS, be careful, a large glass of vino will set you back £8 ! And yes you can get a decent wine for £8 a bottle in tesco.

2 time coming and everything was perfect

Family meal out we all enjoyed the food and had great service from the staff. Mix grill was fantastic

We really enjoyed our visit, the food was hot and well cooked. The staff were welcoming and very pleasant. There was only one disappointment and that was the fish had run out and my husband had to have the gammon instead. All in all we really enjoyed our visit.

Service spot on and lovely workers behind the bar, always have a smile on their faces :)

The staff are so friendly very warm welcome and beautiful food quick service and the manager vinny is absolutely awesome. Highly recommend

Great food and service as always

We came in for lunch on Wednesday and were welcomed into the pub with friendly staff, our food and drinks were excellent. Service was great and we would highly recommend that you take a visit.

We ordered 4 steaks which were cooked to perfection, it was also nice to have a choice other than chips with them. Staff very friendly and checked everything was OK throughout the our meal. Good value for money too.

Great food and fantastic customer service as always

Great service, quick food and very good price

Fabulous service great food. And lovely atmosphere. And jade served us. She was friendly polite and able to have a laugh. Which is a rare thing.

Place is always closed everytime I go. Staff are out the back. Please update opening times.

Really nice lunch while passing through Welshpool, an extra bonus for me is they have neck oil on tap!! I recommend the ultimate chicken burger. Jade who was serving behind the bar was great.

The pub itself is lovely and the staff helpful and friendly. However the food wasn't too good. The lasagne had hardly any flavour and the hunters chicken was dry and didn't seem to be put together too well.

A group of us about 18f have been visiting Smithfieldbell for the last 20 years. We visit on our arrival to Wales and on our way back home. We have seen many management through out our visits. But this time most of our friends were disappointed with the quality of the food It was over cooked... Especially the fish and chips Smaller Quality .....Small portions We did mention to the staff but they were not accommodating.. Which was a shame... Basically our group will not be going back... As we found a nicer Pub which has... Larger Portions.. Quality Food Friendly Staff Shame for SmithfieldBell Welshpool They lost Our custom.....

A group of us about 18 have been visiting Smithfieldbell for the last 20 years. We visit on our arrival to Wales and on our way back home. We have seen many management through out our visits. But this time most of our friends were disappointed with the quality of the food It was over cooked... Especially the fish and chips Smaller Quality .....Small portions We did mention to the staff but they were not accommodating.. Which was a shame... Basically our group will not be going back... As we found a nicer Pub which has... Larger Portions.. Quality Food Friendly Staff Shame for SmithfieldBell Welshpool They lost Our custom.....

Lovely meal. Friendly staff. Service excellent.

As a group we normally use smithfield bells twice a year. Most of the time food is fine, basic and good place for a group to gather. This time however it was different. Quite a few of us ordered fish and chips, over cooked fish or rather re cooked fish was terrible. We tried to bring to the attention of lady who seemed to be managing the place, she just said well that was cooked. We went to get some beers, they were not cold from the tap agin she said its fine no one said anything. So sorry smithfield bells, after many years of bringing many groups we don’t feel like returning

Decided to give this place another go but nothing has changed beer not got maney run out kitchen was just shutin when we came out about 645 had food was OK but choice of what we wanted was not available so will go back

Everything one would have expect of a Marston's town pub - except no draught Pedigree, or other beers

Very friendly welcoming staff, excellent service, didn't have to wait long for my food. Lovely food. Would definitely return in the future.

Had a very nice dinner here.Staff very helpful,polite,friendly.

Didn't have a lot of choice for vegetarian and intolerance. Very overpriced!! Won't go there again 🤦‍♀️😳

Decent workaday pub meal with friendly staff. I had the mixed grill which was a reasonable £15 or so. I asked for it to be cooked “medium” and it all came “well done” though. Plenty of room inside and out, although outside seating didn’t have any shades. Also had a good quality play area for kids.

Couldn’t fault it. The young lady who greeted us on arrival was very professional and kind. Food was ordered without any problems and arrived quickly. It was very well presented and hot and very tasty. Reasonably priced aswell. Will definitely visit again, sooner next time. Thanks for a great dining experience 😀

Food was lovely. Waitress at our table had zero people skills Dumped our food without speaking Collected our plates, didn’t even ask if we enjoyed ,have we finished just marched up to the table and whisked the plates from under us Off putting to say the least. We like a friendly face. There isn’t one here anymore now the other lovely welcoming waitress seems to have left

Amazing place for food and value the service was brilliant and atmosphere is very welcoming. Would recommend!

We went here for a Sunday roast and was very disappointed- I don’t think we’ve ever not been able to finish a meal before but it really wasn’t good. Firstly the starter we had to send back as the chicken was stone cold, then with the main the meat on my partner’s was so dry, the Yorkshire pudding was rock solid and the roast potatoes hard too. For the cost which come to about £45 it was definitely not worth it. The service was very fast and efficient which improved the overall experience. We went here for a meal the evening before (as we stayed in Welshpool for a weekend away) and the food was a lot better.

A bit noisy at times. Good burgers. Will be returning.

Menu deals were not explained properly to the customer in front of us. This led to the staff member and the customer having a bit of difficult conversation. This was a bit of a downer. The food took while to arrive, longer than I would have expected.

We went at lunchtime and chose from the £5 lunch menu,I had scampi and chips and my partner had fish and chips,nice and like a mini meal so good as a small dish... Decor nice inside,staff helpful and as quick as they could be...

16.04.24. Closed @ 20.10 staff inside playing pool...... In reply, I rang you twice, it rang out after 2 min of no reply! 3rd time lucky I was told the manager Vinny? Was on leave!

Went there the first time yesterday lunch time, was recommend by family. Nice and clean lovely staff really helpful and pleasent. Returned later on and had a meal which was excellent. Returned again this evening and had a different meal, very nice. A family member asked if they could have mash instead of chips. No problem at all.. Excellent service. Highly recommended.

Omg call this soup staff not helpful when I asked was this it. baguette was dry tough to eat . would of got more in a tin of soup than what I've had to day

Friendly helpful staff. Served quickly for drinks. Food arrived in good time. Nice food, no complaints. Party of 7.

Nahco starter was a big portion to share which was great. Steak was cooked to perfection and the fish and chips were delicious. Highly recommed a visit. The staff were welcoming and lovely.

Omg call this soup staff not helpful when I asked was this it. baguette was dry tough to eat . would of got more in a tin of soup than what I've had to day

The restaurant was very unprofessional with the waitresses standing around talking to their friends and not interacting with anyone else. The wait for food was 45 minutes with only a small order with half the food hot and half cold. When the food came it was also incorrect with the wrong dressing on one plate and the children’s meals incorrect. When questioned on the wait there was no apology made by the staff at all, a definite avoid.

I’m glad I have a chance to congratulate your staff, in particular I presume the manager. A warm friendly welcome. Showed us to our table which I had booked in advance. I am disabled so I like to have room around me, also to be able to see my Granddaughter play in the outside play area. On our last visit 6 months ago, the service was poor, the food was terrible. Because the pub is so handy for me personally we tried it again. I am so pleased we did. The food was GREAT, I had scampi, garden peas and chips. My Granddaughter had cheese and ham pizza ( child’s menu) . The manager brought our drinks over as I’m on crutches. THANK YOU we loved being back to a favourite pub and we shall visit again shortly. Please keep the standards up so that I can recommend. 5 ***** .

Food was bang on and not too expensive and the staff we're really friendly and polite

Beautiful food and the service was great 👍

Excellent. Really enjoyed my visit here today. Really friendly women at bar and food was also great with only a 10 minute wait. Very clean, cosy and plenty of parking. Ideal place and I really liked it. 👍

Probably wise to call in advance to check food is actually being served as we arrived at 7:55 pm on Tuesday March 5th to be told they were only serving drinks.

I was disappointed this time. The food was not nearly as good as previous times. It wasn't busy at all but waited 40 minutes for our food. 2 of us had roast beef which was tough. My mashed potatoes were lumpy and it was all lukewarm. Like it had been sitting under a heat lamp for ages. I don't know what's happened but it's not good! I'll try somewhere else next time.

Clean and welcoming, food was really nice everyone in our party and there was 9 of us enjoyed there food. Will definitely be coming back soon

Dreadful. No butter on jacket potatoes, tuna mayo is just tuna with a bottle of mayo to add your own, veg chilli and cheese hardly any veg chilli the cheese was mozzarella a tasteless cheese that is not suitable for a baked potato. One of the waiters had cut his hand and was serving with blood running down his hand, the tea was not nice, and the kid’s blackcurrant cordial was really weak and served in adult glasses. To add some balance the pizza was ok but all in all it was very poor and we won’t be back again.

called in today Sunday for a drink and coffee looks at menu but beer pumps only one beer pub was dark no smell of food no atmosphere. remember when first open great place allways busy food choices compared to now pub is dead shame marstons Don't care should sell it of love to see a harvester or weather spoons. beef eater . but welshpool allways behind other towns thank you for reply but when I go to other towns real ale is still popular also stop at other marstons inns plenty of beers . pity they didn't build a hotel here but that's not your fault best of luck

Food was very nice, service quick and pleasant, restaurant very clean definitely will be back

We were served by Yasmin who was very pleasant and accommodating

Lovely Yasmin very friendly and approachable definitely come back again

Great lunch here, friendly staff, excellent service, good pub grub and nice clean facilities will come again. Fairly priced to.

Came here for Sunday lunch when passing through and it was a great experience from start to finish. The service is prompt and welcoming, the pub is nice and the food was amazing. Will definitely be coming back!

Very helpful staff, clean tidy and food arrived promptly

Dog friendly not. Dog tolerant maybe as in a dedicated uncomfortable area! Pub far stretched assumption? My Beer difficult to determine if drinkable or off. Best avoided thankfully didn't sample food. Atmosphere arghhHHH. Place for children definitely! Toilets OK. Staff OK.

We like going here for dinner. It's better than mcdonalds burgers, and the same price.

Six of us met for lunch and wanted somewhere easy to get to with parking. This was perfect for us. Everything was good, the food, staff and atmosphere. Really enjoyed ourselves and will definitely go back.

All staff were very polite and tentative and helped make my sons birthday meal enjoyable. Food didn't take long to come out and service was with a smile

Food was ok but the service was appalling. However, this isn’t due to the staff and their efforts but down to the amount of staff on duty. One person on the bar and one young lady waiting on. Over 70 people dining and drinking. Completely unacceptable from the management and Marstons. The poor staff were doing their best but there is only so much patience from customers. 20 minutes stood at the bar waiting to order with so many more people waiting after us. Sort it out Marstons. No managers working either. Staff deserve better and more protection from complaining customers (who were within their rights to do so). And finally, no food offers any longer so not a value option any more.

Fantastic service. food served very quickly and tasted lovely. The staff are very helpful and always get fantastic service. One of are favourite places for pub grub.

We were a large group, food came out at the same time, excellent service and very good value for money. We will call again.

It was a lovely Christmas lunch and a great thank you to all staff who worked

Yes I will be very pleased to come back again

I had arranged to take my partner and family for Christmas Day dinner to celebrate her birthday. After paying out alot of money, I feel a little let down by the Smithfield Bell as the meal was a little disappointing. The soup as a starter was only luke warm, the main was as if it had been plated up and left standing for to long was cold to touch, the gravy as been the hottest thing we had did warm it up slightly. As for dessert, I suppose they did get that right as it was mainly ice cream. The "manager" did come around to ask if everything was OK, but before any of us could say anything, he was gone, plus we were told he wanted the table empty by 2pm, which we were aware of anyway, but it was the way he asked. As you can gather from this I won't be returning there again, and hope other customers don't get the service we did, also that Marstons can get they're act together and stop this happening to people who pay good money.

Worst Christmas dinner I’ve ever had, the food was Luke warm at best the hottest thing about the meal was the extra gravy. Majority Vegetables were teeth breaking worthy and felt very rushed to get in and out. For the price it was I expected better, a lot better. Very poor and awful atmosphere

It was a meal for my 60th Birthday as it is My birthday on Christmas Day, so my Children and my Grandchildren were all excited as was I as it was a surprise. We were met by the Manager who was very rude and abrupt and told us our table was from 12 to 2 and he needed our table to be empty by 2pm. He said 'Your starters will be served at 12 so be ready at the table for them!' We sat and were ready....Soup arrived and it was cold, next the main Turkey meal 😳, cold and in my 60 yrs I have never had a load of fat on my Turkey(which was cold), it was like Pork fat.....under cooked Yorkshire Puddings and don't get me started on the veg 😤.....the only thing that was warm was the bloody gravy... it was supposed to be a beautiful meal for my big birthday as I have cooked every Christmas Day for all of my family so my 60th Birthday treat for me and my family was a total disaster. So would I recommend to eat here....NOT A BLOODY CHANCE AND THANK YOU FOR THE WORST AND MOST EXPENSIVE CHRISTMAS MEAL I HAVE HAD.....DIGUSTING🤬🤬🤬🤬

Book table for 8 people the gave me table for 6 so had to move to table that was in the corner and the lighting was dim so asked to move to window but was reserved we were there from 12 pm till 2.50pm and was still not being used do we could of sat in window in fact the resturant was empty for most of our stay good food and drink just a shame about the lights and resevation mess up

It's always very nice, the only issue is whenever we go there, there are several items off the menu that are unavailable. The restaurant does need to stock up more.

We visited the Smithfield Bell on our way through Welshpool to Oswestry for some lunch. The restaurant was quite quiet but the staff were slow and didn't look very happy. We had the fish and chips (I'll rephrase that. The overcooked batter with not much fish). Next time we make this journey we certainly won't be calling here.

Love this place. Great Christmas meal out with my wife. Would recommend.

We came in for lunch on Saturday, we was served by Jade and we had a lovely time. Great food and service even though the place was very busy.

Really enjoyed my visit to the Smithfield tonight, really lovely greeting from the manager vinay and great service from Steve Thanks guys can’t wait to come back xx

Really enjoyed the Harry Potter quiz, food tasted amazing also

Booked on line waited more than 40 minutes as advised, 2 of the 3 meals were palatable but not hot or even warm. Do not know where the problem lies as it was not even busy, will not be revisiting any time soon.

If I could give 0* I would. The service was shocking was left feeling unwelcome and rushed seen as it was my birthday. The food was out right awful to the point I was throwing up all night. I had the fish and it was questionable and so heavy I had to go straight to the toilet with a bad stomach straight after eating it. The atmosphere was horrible to say the least. No checkback was made otherwise they would of known the food was bad and had left half my food. Avoid the place at all cost!!!! Edit: none of this false and you would of known that if you or one of you staff members had bothered to make a check back. As getting a review removed because it paints a bad picture for you and declaring it so publicly that your doing so is unprofessional to say the least

Service provided by Yaz and Steve excellent and Jake and Vinay was mouth watering delicious overall excellent service

I booked a table for our party, we were early but you accommodated us. Your team communicated with us clearly and were friendly and helpful. We all enjoyed our meals, I've waited months to have another veggie burger, they are THE best I've had. If there are any critical points, it's the pizza oven being broken and unavailability of some meat on the roast dinner. However there's so much choice on the menu we all found things we wanted. Thank you for a good visit.

We ordered through the app. Ordered the starters, they were OK but nothing special. We then ordered mains through the app and it re-ordered the starters! When it arrived, 4 of the 6 mains were inedible. They were returned, and all the manager offered at first was a £20 voucher. They did eventually refund the second set of starters and the 4 mains. The staff were great, but the manager is a joke and so was the standard of the food. AVOID AT ALL COSTS

We stopped today for Sunday dinner. And what a mistake it was £60 down the drain. We ordered 2 adult & 3 kids meals. Food came out with half the items missing off the plate no stuffing, no roastie, some plates had one carrot on others had nothing, mash was hard as if it's been left standing on a hot plan, Originally ask for more carrots and we were bought black carrots,( which I was told I'd have to pay for after) then asked where our other veg and roasties were to be offered roasties after food had gone cold. The lady behind the bar was lovely and tried to correct what she could but it was to late by then. What we ordered was completely different to what we got. Walked away £60 down with 3 hungry children Wouldn't recommend

Please avoid at all expensives !!! We had driven past and decided we wanted some pub grub but honeslty wish we went to the mcdonalds down the road. It was a bank holiday and it was near enough completely dead which was a concern. After deciding which dirty table to sit on we ordered the food nd drink on the app and waited over an hour for it to arrive. We were so close to leaving after nobody seemed botherd but then it finally arrived. The food was okay but nothing special I had a chicken burger and the Mrs had a bacon burger. The next day I woke up to severe food poisoning and felt like the world was falling out of my arse. Please do not fall for the trap !

All’s I can say is WOW! myself and my family came here yesterday evening and we’re are so happy that we did and we shall be visiting again! The food was cooked well, the staff we’re amazing. In particular Vinay, Jade and Steven we’re extremely polite, tailored to our every need and nothing was to much trouble for them, I completely appreciate how patient and understanding they were with us and overall it’s a very welcoming, friendly environment which I would suggest to all! THANK YOU!

We attended with our dog. Very helpful, gave us a water bowl for her without even requesting one. Food really fresh and plentyful. Helpful and friendly staff.. We'll be back

Good food at a reasonable price

Very tasty regular pub fare. Had limited, but delicious veggie choices. Had gluten free menu. Clean, spacious, nice staff.

Not happy with with our meals. Orders didn’t come as asked. No food ok menu. My chips freezing cold, my friends chips were hard and burnt. Hunters chicken was meant to be grilled came out southern fried chicken. Asked for onions rings and didn’t come but paid for them. 1 meal out of 3 was only to standard. Will not be coming back again.

Standard modern pub with a standard menu. It is saved by the fact that they have a bank of EV chargers in the car park making it an ideal stop on a trip into Wales.