Tower - Powys

We had three meals in total afternoon tea; dinner and breakfast. I’ve included my review of breakfast within the ‘hotel’ review as this was included as part of the stay. That said, the ‘theme’ for all of our meals was ‘good quality produce in general, but poor execution in terms of quality of cooking’. The main positive was the staff especially at breakfast and dinner they were really receptive, friendly and welcoming. Afternoon tea the small cakes were superb. Tasty, well made and very nice overall. And the actual tea (loose leaf was lovely. That’s where it ends. The Welsh cake was horribly dry and the scones which are normally the centre piece of an afternoon tea were really dry and lacked any sort of flavour. For £18 each, this wasn’t great value I’d go elsewhere. Dinner similar story to the afternoon tea. Well presented, looked brilliant and the quality of produce was great. But the duck and lamb were both over cooked. The pork belly was undercooked on the skin which is obviously meant to have that beautiful crispy taste. The beetroot starter and hummus weren’t bad at all. Cheese and biscuits were superb, but not great value (I think they were £12+ . There’s a restaurant called ‘Seeds’ in Llanfyllin that we also went to this was incredible I’d suggest going there instead!

Fantastic service , like clockwork with quality well presented food for evening meal. Breakfast was equally well served and tasting. Cant recommend the stay enough absolutely exquisite!

We’d booked this restaurant based on their own website the view of the lake. We wanted to stop for a relaxing lunch on our journey. This place was taking us off our route, but we were happy to do that. The view was spectacular, but that’s really the only real positive thing, which is a shame. We had booked a table, but there was no table reserved, which meant we were extremely lucky to even get an uninterrupted view! They were just sitting people at tables in order of arrival. A lot of the chairs didn’t even have backs to them! We had tapas to be honest, it was average has made us decide never to have tapas unless in a Spanish country or restaurant. Another weird thing was the toilets need updating there were no windows open! When there are still COVID restrictions, a boiling hot day no fresh air!

No hot food today and no warning. Wasted visit and shocking. Asked for a window seat and told no when wed requested it months ago and plenty available

We were travelling to bala and stopped here for a burger and a beer. The burgers were terrible cheap quality the hot dogs were those from a jar. And the beer was like drinking a week old open can of carling. Social distancing was out of the window staff and customers walking around with no face covering. Premium price for terrible quality. Next time we see the sign we wont stop and will keep driving to pale Hall (separate review . And after raising concerns to management a very sheepish woman (no mask just chuckled to herself and said she would pass the comments on to the kitchen and restaurant manager