Eating & Drinking in Brecon Castle, Wales
For fantastic fine dining in Wales,
The newly-restored Georgian restaurant at Brecon Castle Hotel is a perfect setting for dining out.
Our award-winning Head Chef, Sean Gibbs, produces daily menus which represent the best of seasonal British cooking. Modern and traditional dishes sit comfortably alongside each other, all freshly prepared, using the best of locally reared meat and Welsh cheeses wherever possible, and fish fresh from our suppliers in Mid-Wales and Pembrokeshire.
The Restaurant at Brecon Castle Hotel
Our full fine dining menu is available together with a daily specials board using locally sourced meat and fish dishes. Bread, pasta and desserts are all made in our own kitchens by our talented team of chefs.
We recommend booking ~ including Sunday lunch
The Lounge Bar ...
A delightful, Georgian room, with two cosy fireplaces, deep leather sofas, comfortable armchairs and a superb mountain views. Visitors may relax here from early morning with 'bean fresh' coffee or tea and homemade shortbread biscuits and Welsh cakes. The lunch menu of starters and light meals, and paninni selection is added to with dishes popular with locals and visitors alike. Afternoon teas with homemade cakes and a selection of 'casual eating' dishes are served throughout the afternoon. In our bar we aim to provide excellent and traditional pub food with a twist, local real ales and wines in a relaxed and informal atmosphere.
In the bar area, an intimate and traditional coaching inn bar, Penderyn whisky, Breconshire and Rhymney Breweries and Gwaint-y-Draig ciders and perries are available as standard, with weekly guest ales such as Wye Valley, Marstons, etc. The bar achieved a score of over 90% from the British Institute of Innkeepers and holds the 'Cask Marque' for the standard of its ales and beers. The wine list has been carefully selected by our wine merchants Tanners of Shrewsbury to contain both old and new world favourites. Vintage ports, malt whiskeys, vintage cognacs, armagnacs and Champagne also feature on a separate menu.
For many months of the year visitors can enjoy a quiet drink in our riverside garden sitting next to the waterfall on the the River Honddu with the backdrop of historic Brecon Castle or else our south facing terrace with extensive views over Georgian Brecon town and up to Pen-y-Fan and the Brecon beacon mountains will enhance any outdoor eating and drinking experience.
Our menus are changed on a daily basis
Private Dinning Rooms ...
We can offer five increasingly popular private dining rooms, each with a different atmosphere, from cosy Georgian paneling and open fire to medieval stone walls, which are used for business lunches, family special occasions or simply groups of friends wishing to dine together. In addition to our regular fine-dining and bar menus we offer a range of banquet and function menus to suit all budgets and occasions.
If you wish to pre-plan a special occasion in one of our private dining rooms please contact hotel reception well ahead of the proposed date.
Private Dining in The Crug Room
Bookings & Reservations
Brecon Castle Hotel operates on an informal basis with reservations taken only for the Restaurant & private dining rooms. We do advise, however, that if you are coming as a group you make a booking as suitable places can be limited and popular, especially on weekends. For parties of ten or over opting for a restricted menu may also be recommended at busy times.
No smoking is permitted in any public rooms but we do have specially designated smoking areas and shelters in the gardens.
A salute to our Suppliers:
At Brecon Castle we believe in procuring the finest quality ingredients in order to ensure that we can serve food which is a real experience. We also take great pride in sourcing virtually everything from Wale's finest larder: the Black Mountains and Brecon Beacons of Mid-Wales. From traditional suppliers to entrepreneurial newcomers, Mid-Wales now offers an unrivalled selection of the finest speciality food and drink.
Mr. Morgan in Brecon sends us beef from his famous herd of Welsh Black cattle. The fine marbling of the meat ensures that it cooks to perfection. Our free-range poultry, venison and wild boar is sourced direct from farms in Crickhowell, Llandovery and Usk. The award-winning butcher, Mr. George of Talgarth, supplies most of our beef and lamb, which has a particular sweet taste thanks to the mountain meadow grasses. His animals are specially selected by him and all reared on farms within a 20-mile radius of the hotel. At his butchers shop and abbattoir in nearby Talgarth, our meat is humanely dispatched and the beef is hung for a minimum 28-days.
Our fresh water fish is supplied locally from the River Honddu in the Black Mountains and our sea-fish merchant runs his own trawler out of Pembrokeshire and his catches are delivered to our door ocean fresh.
The nearby Black Mountains Smokery supplies our smoked salmon, trout, duck, quail and cheeses.
Vegetables, salads, fruits and herbs are provided by Russell Jones & Son and marvellous chemical-free produce is also supplied from our own market garden in the Llanthony Valley.
Our ice-cream is supplied by Mr. Bromwel of the Rheld Dairy at Rheld Farm in Crickhowell using organic milk and including such famous flavours as The Crickhowell Crunch and Penderyn Whisky Ice Cream.
These are just a small selection of our local suppliers who all assist award-winning Head Chef, Sean Gibbs, in his preparation of bold, innovative, mouth watering dishes. at the Bracon Castle Restaurant, Wales.
