Pubs & restaurants in WalesWales

Michelin-starred dining in a former 18th-century smugglers' cottage right on Oxwich Bay beach on the rural Gower.

Swansea

Beer poured from a jug and passed through a sliding hatch in a front parlour that has barely changed in a century.

Pembrokeshire

Country-house hotel restaurant in the Pembrokeshire countryside using its own kitchen gardens.

Pembrokeshire

Estuary-village pub that won The Good Food Guide's Welsh Best Local Restaurant title and made the 100 Best Pubs.

Carmarthenshire

A traditional Cardigan Bay hinterland local crowned Wales's best pub for its beer range and community spirit.

Ceredigion

A corrugated-iron Victorian railway tavern high in the Preselis, sawdust floors, own-brewed ale and Welsh-language warmth.

Pembrokeshire

A riverside Welsh pub on the Dee named The Good Pub Guide's best new entry for 2021.

Wrexham

A remote hillside inn above the Usk valley in the Bannau Brycheiniog foothills, county winner in 2024.

Monmouthshire

A hilltop Welsh longhouse inn with wide views, named national Country Pub of the Year 2020.

Powys

Shaun Hill's long-celebrated Michelin-starred country restaurant below the Skirrid, north of Abergavenny.

Monmouthshire

Foraging-driven restaurant with rooms hidden in the wooded Wye Valley.

Monmouthshire

A thatched village pub with its own brewery in rural Carmarthenshire, county winner in 2024.

Carmarthenshire

Gareth Ward's intense tasting-menu restaurant with rooms in a remote mid-Wales former hunting lodge.

Ceredigion

Country inn near Rhayader on the edge of the Elan Valley estate, a walking and cycling base.

Powys