Yr Hen Lew Du in Ceredigion

Best pub in town for Atmosphere, and staff

An excellent pub in Aberystwyth Very tasty food, and neat beer. Thank you

Very tasty Bale Burger. The spicy fries were not too spicy and had just the right amount of seasoning. Excellent service.

We went to a family party there and we had a lovely time

food is high quality and always so good. the delivery driver was super friendly too

nice local business with nice food

I ordered the lasagne, spicy chips and garlic bread on Deliveroo. First off the guy came 15 minutes earlier than the estimated time, a very nice chap, food was piping hot. Lasagne and garlic bread was an easy 10/10, chips were an 8.5/10, they were a little burnt but still nice

Waiting ages get served nearly walked out wish I had beer and wine shocking

Been many times over a number of years. Place remains excellent. Good variety of great cocktails.

Highly recommend a visit cosy pub friendly atmosphere

Best burgers in town and delivered early!

Class food and friendly driver 👍

Amazing burgers. Love you can add your own options.

Food was excellent quality and delicious. Really worth it. Was perfectly on time also. Perfect all around will 100% order again.

Short staffed, but that’s not really the clients problem!

Fantastic food and lovely service

Good food, nice atmosphere and if you want a real treat, ask for a moo milk.

This was an unplanned visit firstly. Arriving in Aberystwyth rather early for our dinner booking, and it being freezing cold, we chose the closest pub to our parking to warm up. Yr Hen Lew Du was the closest pub. Unfortunately, it was not the warmest! We entered the pub and it was rather empty- 6pm on a Friday, I can only assume that the pub is frequented primarily by students, who were on a half term break. It gave me a very 'student' vibe. We were, however, greeted politely by the staff. My husband went and got me a drink whilst I visited one of the smallest toilet cubicles known to man. I am 5ft 2 and very minimally overweight (probably less than UK average still) and I struggled to get in and close the door. The drinks were nice and cold, which ordinarily would be a plus, but it was so cold in the bar I wish I had ordered a coffee. I would assume when it is busy it is much warmer. The bar caters for both Welsh and English speakers on it's menu which is lovely. The staff were very polite and friendly. I'm just not sure it is a place for a 40 year old married couple. It wasn't unclean either. Upon leaving the bar, I can be certain the temperature inside was the same as outside. I hope the staff have a little heater behind the bar!

One of my favourite places to get food in town. Awesome burgers and my partner always has the steak. Lovely staff too. Bwyd a gwasanaeth bendigedig!

Watched a rugby match here, decent enough with TVs all over the place. Some funky meals on the menu but we had a loaded chips dish that was nice.

Fantastic food - highly recommend the burgers, and anywhere that does home made chips gets a thumbs up from me.

Stopped for a beer late on a Saturday, was busy but quick service and a gòod atmosphere.

Steak was nice but chips weren’t all that

Had just drinks but Guiness was fabulous

Very friendly, lovely home made beef burger

Burgers to die forgreat food good staff well recommended

A good pub with friendly staff and a good music

We’re here from Shropshire visiting and seen the reviews so thought we would try it out, and it’s so nice! I had the bbq chicken and chips, james had the bbq burger and we ordered nuggets for the dog and they was all amazing! Honestly the food tasted lovely. Would recommend people to eat here. Was a good price too.

Het was een hele rustige avond dat wij er waren. De barman was een zeer vriendelijke man. Het eten is goed, maar de porties zijn wel groot. Het dessert hebben we twee porties besteld die we met vier hebben opgegeten.

Friendly atmosphere and good service.

Fri 24 June / Sat 25 June 2022 Just spent the weekend in Aberystwyth and visited the Yr Hen Lew Du on both days A nice rustic pub with a good selection of beers. Very quiet on both evenings as were many bars in the town. Although I did not eat here the food did look good as it came out of the kitchen. What did disappoint massively was the condition of the urinal trough in the men`s toilet . . absolutely disgusting . . seriously come on !!!. A bottle of Cif, some wire wool and some gloves would fix this in about 30 mins but I dread to think when the last time a cleaning product was used here. Of note there is a very worn pool table in the pub at an advertised cost of £1 per play . . the table actually works without putting a £1 coin in the slot.

Un o leoliade gore Aberystwyth- tafarn ddigymar a lle gwych os yw'r rygbi ymlaen. Diodydd yn rhesymol a'r bwyd yn dda hefyd.

Only had one real ale on tap. There is nothing really wrong with the bar, great service but for me just lost it on choice of drinks.

Lovely quirky pub very relaxed inside. The food was very well presented and tasted Lovely

Great little pub. Food was amazing

Stopped in for a few pint later in the evening when visiting Aber. Live music and the pub was busy, cracking pint and friendly staff.

Friendly pub, good atmosphere, great staff, and food was really amazing. Definitely going back. Thanks to you all x

Amazing pub with all your sports. The food here was cheap and amazing. Butcher bought meat and fresh chips...would highly recommend here for your meal pint and sporting event. Burgers were flame cooked..lovely

Lovely little old fashioned pub.

What a hidden gem. Lovely rustic pub with amazing food. You have to try the loaded fries and Welsh rarebit steak sauce 👌😋

Booked a table but when we arrived first impressions were not good how wrong we were Went in very dark and rustic Beer was excellent and the food was top quality And price was very good 5 stars from me

First visit but it's s clean friendly place shame they don't have any real ales.

Lle gwych llawn Cymraeg. Lively Welsh speaking pub with a welcome for all.

Classico pub gallese, atmosfera accogliente, buon cibo

great atmosphere. family run. good value

The best place in town. Nachos are life

Had a pint here whilst out shopping,very good beer,young man serving was nice and helpful,sat outside watching the world go by,big pub inside though.

Had a nice pint here whilst out shopping, barman really helpful and friendly,sat outside to drink and watch the world go by! A bit off the beaten track but excellent find.

Ymwelais i â'r dafarn hon er mwyn cefnogi "tafarn Gymraeg", er mai siaradwyr uniaith Saesneg oedd y dwy ddynes oedd yn gweini yma ar y pryd. Roedd y bwyd a diodydd yn flasus ac yn rhad, ond gwelais i yn y ffenestr ar fy ffordd allan bod ganddynt sgôr hylenid bwyd o 2 allan o 5, a faswn i ddim wedi bwyta yno pe taswn i wedi ei wybod o flaen llaw. Wel, gwnes i fyw i adrodd y hanes, ond baswn i eisiau gweld gwelliant yn ei sgôr hylenid bwyd cyn i mi fwyta yno eto yn y dyfodol.

Traditional pub favoured by Welsh speakers but do not worry if you don't speak Welsh the welcome is just as warm. Good food but could do with a lick of paint perhaps.

Lucky to pop in when the local Welsh boys were singing! The food is good too as are the beers (I'm told).

Lovely food, friendly service, very reasonably priced. Will definitely go back

We were looking for somewhere to eat that offered good value, quality food and an ale. The Hen provided that 2 ales bith good and a menu that catered to our needs. Burger with blue cheese was good, steak pie great as was the chicken. Prices were around £8.50 meal which i think was good value for the quality served. Very much like home cooked food. Open fire was a bonus. Friendly staff keen to have a chat.

Enjoyed a great afternoon here with friends. They serve a good pint and have decent prices. They also serve home cooked food. I especially liked the bilingual menus and Welsh speaking staff. Diolch.

Lovely Welsh pub, great location

Great home cooked food with some incredibly generous deals. Our group had a mix of steaks, char-grilled chicken, chili and scampi and all thoroughly enjoyed their meals. As it was Wednesday night, we were given the chance to win a prizes with every meal purchased via a prize draw, and we won some money back and vouchers for free meals and drinks on future visit.Incredibly generous, will be visiting again very soon.

Great Welsh bar. With great home made dishes. I had a chicken in bbq sauce and chips and a brownie for dessert. Also great place to drink and watch football or rugby.

Very nice pub with good beers, reasonable prizes. You can get several types of Welsh drinks. Good place for friendly conversations.

Lle braf iawn a Mari ac Iestyn hawddgar yn gofalu'n dda am y gwesteion. Gwres, cwmpeini a stecen fawr.

I really don't leave many reviews on this site, but I have to say we spent a great evening here last night, a really warm welcome from the staff and customers, gorgeous, cheap food, and most of all, they really made my dog Maisie feel so welcome too. We had scampi and chips, and puddings after, chocolate and sticky toffee, they were lovely. Can't praise it enough.

Bwyd blasus iawn gyda cwmni da a pobol ffein. A really tasty meal with good friends and attentive staff. Da iawn well done

Had pub grub with friends after work - empty plates all round! I had bacon egg & chips, others lasagnia or burgers with chips. No room for dessert. Delicious pub food, excrlkent fast service. Will definately come gere again. Diolch

Great food: really enjoyed the veggie option for the burgers.

This is a great little bar. Always full if friendly happy people enjoying a few drinks. It's not expensive and always has a nice atmosphere.

Es medio siglo desde que por primera vez bebido aquí, pero esta era mi primera visita fuera de términos académicos en la Universidad. Un viernes por la noche estaba bastante concurrida, pero con un montón de habitación y nos dieron asientos fácilmente. La música parecía más altos pero los clientes eran claramente gozando. Parecía tener bastante menos de lo habitual ambiente galés, quizás porque los estudiantes de habla galesa siempre tendía a estar aquí.Cervezas era de color púrpura y un Moose ale house, y bien cuidada y agradable. Es siempre vale la pena una visita.

Really lively atmosphere. The layout is good and the regulars pick some cracking tunes on the jukebox.

Great food! Great atmosphere! Great prices! And the strange hairy mangers also quite nice! Must visit !

Excellent pub. Caters for a variety of people. If you want a good night out in Aber, this is a must visit pub.

Vinimos aquí para tener comida y ver el Gales vs Escocia Rugby 6 Naciones Unidas. Optamos por banners y puré - puede ser el mejor que he probado es adecuado como salchichas carnicería. No sé lo que la gente decía sobre antipático al inglés. Somos una pareja de ingleses, el personal del bar recomendado nuestra comida deliciosa y el ambiente era genial.

A very pleasant evening with good friends.I really enjoyed the food especially the proper mash and cauliflower cheese! Diolch yn fawr iawn

the manager mr evans was damn right rude because he assumed I was some posh English guy. actually i'm not even English! anyway service terrible, food awful. never go there. awful.

The landlord made us very welcome in this real Welsh pub. He said it was lively when the rugby was on. Good food and we drank wine by the bottle which was cheaper than by the glass.

We spent a couple of ours here to watch the rugby international. There was a fabulous atmospher there just as if you had been in the stadium, The commentary for the game was in Welsh on all the TVs

Great staff, good food and the best point of Guinness outside the brewery in Dublin. If you come to Aber dint miss out on Yr Hen Llew Du.

Great Welsh pub, sports on all day, BRILLIANT BURGERS, slight wait for larger groups. Great food overall and full bar - perfect location at the top of town.

We popped in for a pre-prandial drink and the place was empty. We went back post prandial and it was full with a quiz night going on - joined in and did appallingly badly Friendly bar staff too.

Good option in town! Not the best atmosphere, but great beer options, good food, pool table and a couple of tables outside in the front.

Good size pub great food and black dragon cider real ales pool table

Great atmosphere for Wales games - football or rugby! My go-to pub to watch the national team! Cwrw da a bwyd lyfli hefyd :)

Good pub on Bridge Street, decent range of beers and when we went plenty of space to sit and chat with mates.

A great place to visit for a pub meal of quality. Amazing atmosphere during rugby or soccer games on TV too!

Had a great hearty meal today as always. Tasty (very), always hot and fast service. Home cooked meal without having to do the dishes. It's a regular haunt for our family as our children are extremely fussy but they LOVE the home-made chicken nuggets and so do I! Wide choice of meals.

I took my young nephew to this pub as although he had lived in Aberystwyth for three years he had never visited it, being uncertain of its reputation as a hot bed of Welsh culture. (Although brought up in Yorkshire he is a descendant of Owain Glyndwr.)Early Sunday evening is not the best time to judge pubs, and we were the only customers. The beer as usual was very good and the barman chatty. I like the decor, basic though it is. I have visited this pub at irregular intervals for almost fifty years and its always a good place to socialise when it has a couple of dozen more customers. It was a pity we could not stay longer, but my nephew was impressed and will visit again.

Lle arbennig i yfed yn Aberystwyth. Da iawn Mans a'r teulu!

Absolutely love coming to the Llew Du for food - fantastic home cooked and always a good portion. We tend to come on a Wednesday for "wheel of fortune" night, where you can get the chance to win a free drink, free pudding, your dinner for free or .. a lollipop! Everyone's a winner!Only niggles - can get quite cold during the winter months! Bwyd gwych - diolch yn gawr iawn!!

Dined here last night 13/08/15 6 of us in total . What a lovely pleasant little pub. The food was absolutely delicious with real chips yum yum. The staff were very polite and friendly would definitely recommend .

We had to wait a while for our meal but the pub was very busy, good menu plenty of choice and the food was very nice.

At first glance the menu seems limited, although the GF options areclearly marked, however, the good news is that the daily sodcials, six of, were all gluten free. I had the balti, with exta pupadons instead of naan. Very good indeed. Helpfulstaff, great food, recommend! Great venue, very interesting!

This time it was with two family members that were visiting the area. And yet again it was perfect. Four brilliant meals, well looked after beer, a fair price point, lovely staff, and on this occasion (although not intended) a great quiz. The staff even presented the quiz bilingually so that our guests could play. All in all a lovely little gem in the centre of Aberystwyth, but please don't tell everybody!

Love the burgers at the Llew; all made with local ingredients from a great local butcher. Amazing chips as well. A few nice ales and a good jukebox too.

Tripadvisor can be a bit confusing for Welsh Blacks and Black Lions (Yr Hen Llew Du - The Old Black Lion) in and around Aberystwyth, simply because someone has failed to notice that 'Bow Street' is not a street in Aberystwyth but is instead a village of that name some five miles to the north. Whereas Talybont is another five or so miles even further towards North Wales and is certainly not Aberystwyth. Yes, 'Yr Hen Llew Du' is its correct Welsh name, but many will and do refer to this excellent pub and restaurant as the Black. So this review is about the one in the town of Aberystwyth and not the few scattered far and wide outside.Well that came as a very nice surprise indeed. Previously this would not have been my first choice venue for a group function or indeed a drink and or meal with wifey. But after that lovely experience the owners and staff of the Black will be seeing a lot more of us. The place is spotless, the staff lovely, and the food excellent. I had the gammon, egg, chips, and pineapple. Wifey went for the Lasagne and chips. But it doesn't stop there as we were part of a group of sixteen, and the one with the vegetable curry and rice thought it was excellent. As did the two with the Spaghetti Bolognese. The chap with the Panini and chips seemed to be enjoying his nosh. We only heard one negative out of sixteen meals. The chap with the sausage and mash thought that the gravy was too thin and the mash wasn't solid enough. I can give tips on that: next day mash is far better than same day mash (wifeys croquettes are testament to that), and make the gravy up as per the Sunday serving and freeze the portions up to defrost and use as when a sausage and mash person walks through the door. But hey ho folks, 15 out of 16 perfect meals is no mean feat, and lets be fair, the sausages and mash plate was cleared as well. Nothing went back to the kitchen and the beer was good too. I'm annoyed that we moved on, as I was enjoying that experience a lot. Although theres no need for me to sweat as I am back at the Black on Saturday. Now that's a lovely look forward too.TIPS: (1) they are lovely people so if in the very unlikely event anything is not to your liking, just mention it the staff and I am confident that they will sort it out for you, (2) we thought that the chips were home made, now you can pay a lot more for frozen to be put on your plate, so think about that if you intend to eat elsewhere, (3) there were loads of tables and chairs so getting a seat should not be a problem, and (4) the menu is far more extensive than I am able to describe here and includes various courses and types of food

All in all, the food is most excellent with there being a wide choice of good quality food for a decent price. Service is good as everything is cooked from quality and local ingredients.The only problems that I have had from my various visits is the stickiness left over from spilt alcohol from the nights previous (though these nights previous have a brilliant atmosphere in their own right), and the volume of the music player can sometimes be too loud for the early afternoon when people are trying to hold conversations with each other.A great place since it's refurbishments and there are no doubts about coming back again.Lle ardderchog oni bai rhai arwynebau gludiog.

Very tasty food and lovly staff

Been here most Wednesdays for a few years now -great food at good prices. Also on Wednesday's they have a spinning wheel and whatever you land on you get a prize - one of which is your money back! Friendly staff and good beer too. 100% recommended.

The Llew Du has been serving great local produce since it was refurbished and it doesn't perhaps get the credit it is due. The Llew sources its produce from local quality suppliers and this is apparent with the quality of the food. The portions are very generous and the staff are very helpful. I recently had a bacon cheeseburger there and I can honestly say that it is the best one I have bought, handmade burger over an inch thick and quality back bacon. The Llew used to be a rugby/student pub that might not have been top of your list to get a decent lunch at, but since they redeveloped it really is a great place to get food whilst still being a great traditional pub. If you are a visitor to Mid Wales you will find no better place to experience a true Welsh pub and hear the Welsh language.

Consistently good food - homemade chips are lovely, good portions and reasonable prices. They have a spin to win on a Tuesday where you can win a free pudding or drink or have your meal for free