The best restaurants serving British food in Tawe-Uchaf Powys Mid Wales

Stopped off here yesterday after our walk to the waterfalls and what a lovely little pub, The food was outstanding every dish we had was freshly cooked and could tell it was homemade. Very homely feeling and the staff were lovely and friendly Will definitely be back to try more dishes on the menu.

Like David D. I visited the Ancient Britt. On Easter Sunday for their excellent Sunday Roast. (In fact I was there the previous Sunday for their same, and may also be there next Sunday also. Firstly, the food and value is excellent, but David D’s review seems really unfair !!!! . It was not the fault of the business that they had a power failure, and did all they could possibly do to rectify with the Electricity company. In fact they lost a lot of business on one of the busiest Sundays of the year, in this day and age of pubs struggling did he give thought of that ??? I have been frequenting the Britt. for the past 10 years, I have ALWAYS find the staff most friendly and helpful, including Sunday when they were all under intense pressure amid SOME people’s impatience and rudeness.

I ordered creamy garlic mushrooms. There was no cream. No taste no flavor. Veg balti had no ingredients of a balti curry. We spoke to the manager his reply was. Oh well other people said it was nice. Extremely disappointed.

Christmas lunch 2023, £90 per head. Utter disappointment and a truly Fawlty Towers-esque experience. We had to laugh as it was Christmas Day but it was really awful. No one in reception, sign saying go to the bar. No one in the bar, eventually found a passing member of staff and we were directed to where Christmas lunch was happening. Through a door with a large sign saying ‘toilets’ past a kitchen set up and into what I assume is their banqueting space. We managed to catch someone’s eye and rather than being shown to our table we were waved in the general direction and had to please ourselves. After ten minutes of just sitting there I had to get up and ask a nearby waitress to take our drinks order. She seemed a little bit surprised we wanted drinks… Eventually some drinks arrived but it would take four more times asking for some water for the table before it came. Starters came out eventually and were fine. We then thought it would be nice to have some wine…. Me- could we have some wine please? Waitress- ……….. Me- do you have a wine list? Waitress- …..not really a wine list no…… what were you thinking of……. Me- maybe some white wine? Nice and dry? Maybe something from New Zealand? Waitress- erm…. I think we have a Pinot?? I don’t know about wine, I’m the wedding planner….. Me- ok let’s try the Pinot… Screw top of Italian Pinot Grigio plonked on the table and three glasses plonked down upside down….. By this point we really needed the wine! Mains were served, plated turkey dinner. We wait patiently for the dish of veg seen in the middle of all the other tables. It doesn’t arrive. I catch the eye of the waitress and enquire…. In her words ‘hmmm, they have run out of veg and there’s no more. I’m not sure what the plan is….’ No apology, nil, nada. Not five mins later we see veg sailing out to other tablets. At this point not even the wine is enough to soothe and we managed to ask the only sensible member of staff in the place, who magics up some veg asap. I could go on but I won’t. What the experience lacked in terms of service, it make up for in sheer comedy value but was daylight robbery for what we actually had. Hey ho! Update- very kindly the venue read my review and got back to me directly without me having to chase. They kindly refunded the cost of a bottle of wine and £15 per head. To be clear, the food was fine, I think we expected a little more for the price though, maybe a glass of fizz on arrival, coffee and petit fours after the meal etc. Kelly was fab on the day and when replying. The rest of the service was poor as described as above.

Had the weakest iced latte ever and when I complained I was given another exactly the same. My partner had a luke warm latte. I noted there was not a 5 rating on the cafe. Sorry I would not travel to visit this place without a decent coffee on offer. The prices were the same as the chain coffee shops. Needs a good manager as its a let down.