The best restaurants in Mid Wales

Lovely evening with friends great food reasonably priced, the bruscheta was especially good best we ve ever tasted. I recommend highly a favourite place to eat.

This old school pub is just superb. Lovely traditional pub atmosphere with a great selection of real ale. Even better, Wednesday through to Sunday they do food. Not ordinary pub food but a Jamaican/Welsh fusion. Everything that I have eaten here has been fantastic. Hard to name a favourite but do try the goat curry, oxtail and beef rib accompanied by Jamaican rice and peas, (black eyed peas more like beans). You will not be disappointed!

What a lovely find! Stopped off in Builth for some lunch and saw cafe sign so thought we’d take a look. So glad we did. On entering the quaint characterful Tea rooms we were welcomed by a lovely lady who treated us with courtesy and friendliness and made us feel very welcome. Food was excellent ,reasonably priced, plentiful and of great quality. Definitely recommend and definitely going back.

A limited but interesting menu. Every dish is beautifully presented and cooked to perfection. Great staff as well. It was a real surprise to find such overall quality in the rural backlot of Mid Wales. We all enjoyed our meal so much that we are already making plans to visit again. In the meantime to others seeking something different in your culinary experience, make the effort to visit this restaurant The lamb was perfection, loved the crab based starter but felt the crab portion could have been larger and with some brown meat. Everyone agreed that the various potato sideplates [chips, mashed etc] were delightful.

Lovely welcome from two cheerful men. Really accommodating with our Gluten Free Breakfast plus my awkward request. Everything cooked to our liking and how we requested. Everything was extremely hot, great hot chocolate.

Definitely go here if you can! The atmosphere was really friendly and cosy, with a roaring fire, great food, interesting books, and a delicious array of local beers. The locals were rightly proud of their local and we can't recommend it highly enough!

A friendly welcome and excellent Sunday lunch. Marvellous choice of desserts. And an added bonus of being introduced to the locals who were very entertaining. Thank you for making us feel so welcome.

Very friendly! Fast service, lovely food!

Called in here for coffee and cake before visiting Brecon cathedral. The staff were lovely - huge smiles and very helpful. Cakes were delicious - lime and courgette was good. Made for a very pleasant stop. Cathedral interesting - so glad we came here.

Quite possibly one of the best places we’ve ever eaten! We were travelling home today after storm Darragh and came across Plas Yn Dinas. There were 10 of us altogether and from the moment we walked in they made us feel so welcome!! The food was absolutely outstanding and all 10 of us left raving about it. So much so that we’re actually debating making the 4 hour round trip in the future to eat there again. Can’t recommend enough!

Worst take away meal we’ve ever had from an Indian. Had a Makhani and a Mowgli. The food was very watery and absolutely tasteless. Even the pineapple ring had no taste. We’ve had this experience there before but decided to give it another try. Most of my husband’s food went in the bin.

This was a very quirky delightful hotel. The landlord and his grandson couldn’t have been more helpful and pleasant. Would certainly recommend

We used to use the Palace many years ago and after returning to the area thought we would pay it a visit - sadly a mistake. The evening didn’t start well. We were asked to wait rather than being seated while the staff sent out take aways. When we were seated the room for diners was cold. Guests were eating with coats on…. We ordered a drink and poppadoms and main courses. The main courses arrived nearly an hour after we entered the restaurant. The staff told us they had been prioritising take aways. The lamb dish advertised on the menu was really poor. There were four slithers of lamb and the meat was tough. The Chicken Balti was also not good - the dish was ruined by far too much rough cut onion. When this was pointed out to staff the response was to try and tell us that this is how the dish is served in India - laughable. Please don’t tell brummies how a balti is served India - we invented it…. After making polite observations to the staff they went into a sulk. We won’t be returning.

We visited McCowans for breakfast today and it was great! I had the Traditional Breakfast and my wife the Waffles with Crispy Bacon and both were really tasty. The service was very good.

Amazing staff, great food and another lovely Christmas visit warm by the fire. We also have visited in the summer season which is nice to sit out and have a drink.