The best restaurants in Montgomery Powys Mid Wales

We left with a mixed experience of the Checkers after our stay in January. Highlight was the tasting menu. Fantastic courses each with a delightful blend and mix of flavours. Credit must be given to chef Andrew for his expertise and presentation style. Excellent too at £85. You will have to go far to find a tasting menu of similar quality and value. The service and hospitality though was solemn and sedate. Greetings on arrival were somewhat formal with little conversation and this was the approach to service throughout our evening and overnight stay. Each course being served without the passion they deserved, being functionally presented. We never saw Andrew either and he didn’t come out to chat to his guests. The overnight accommodation was very well presented with good facilities, although quite cold with the heating going off before we retired for the night. We can’t comment about breakfast as unfortunately we were slightly late after 9:30am due to an urgent family call we had., my partners mother being taken into hospital. We apologised to Rachel who advised that we were 8 minutes late and the kitchen had closed. There was only ourselves and another couple who stayed over that evening! A very strange way to treat guests who are paying well over £400 for the experience. So go to the Checkers for the excellent Michelin rated cuisine, but not if you expect warm service and hospitality to support the dining experience.

We stopped off here on our way home for breakfast. Everything was fresh and good quality. I had a full English and my partner had eggs Benedict. We enjoyed our meals and the service was good. My only reason for not giving five stars is that I felt some of my items were a bit too greasy. This is easily rectified though and so I would definitely return. Oh and the cakes looked amazing!!!

Love the room and the food. Owner was really friendly and local to Montgomery so recommended lots of walks for us during the week

Great food!! What a nice buffet in a wonderful wine shop! Several choices of meats and vegetables with cornbread and rolls! Delicious

Excellent food very tasty and choice of 3 meats most of all value for money . Home from home and even dog friendly . Well done

Went to find this pub for Sunday lunch, Aug 2021 The pub is no longer operating. Also tried The Dragon in Montgomery which was only serving food to residents at present.

Lovely charming building , lovely staff grey food and . Comfortable rooms well worth a stay we will be back Montgomery was a lovely town as well

I can hardly find the words to describe how special this place is., and I am VERY fussy. Everything - tea, coffee, scones were superb. The lovely owner runs the cafe and post office single-handedly, but still found time to chat and gave us lots of tips about local places of interest. She bakes the cakes and scones herself each day, and it shows - everything tasted wonderful and fresh. She offered us newspapers, and came back to ask if we had enough jam and cream ( we did)….all the while serving post office customers too. A post office in such a small village is probably pretty vulnerable to closure, so she is a real hero, working so hard to keep it viable and open for the local community. The cafe is tiny, only 3 tables. A local couple there when we arrived were very friendly too, so we had a lovely time in Montgomery. Do not miss out on this place if you are within reach of it, Ivy House is unique and absolutely amazing.

Visited this chip shop today as I pasted it earlier and fancied some traditional chip shop chips However I found myself walking into what could only be described as a a rats den Cash only in 2024 (tax avoidance) The chips where tasteless and green The sausage was under the heat lamp to long and tasted like cleaning products I would not recommend this place to anyone