Wynnstay Hotel, Machynlleth, Wales - Hotel, Restaurant & Pizzeria

Please do BOOK your table

Residents are asked to book a table, with a time, when they book a room, to avoid disappointment, even if you are only booked in on a B&B basis. We do allocate time slots so our talented chefs can give your table their undivided attention! Sorry, but if you have not booked we cannot guarantee that a table will be available.

Last minute - Outside Diners

Please give us a call, even on the night, we may have space: 01654 702941

Vegetarian options & special dietary requirements

There are always vegetarian options on the menu. Please do advise of any special dietary needs or allergies, we can usually accommodate them, though it is always helpful to give prior notice.

Organics

We'd love to be totally organic but we can't afford it! Or rather, it is not yet practical and the costs so high that few would pay the extra. However, more and more of our local farmers are going organic, and we do support them as much as we can. Welsh lamb would probably be considered ÒorganicÓ in any other country in Europe.

Children

Children are welcome to eat with us. We have high chairs and do our best to provide children with similar quality to adults: please ask the waiting staff, who will help all they can.

Catch enough fish, you can pay for your stay!

Catch your own fish, we'll be delighted to cook it for you. If you do catch some good fish, salmon, sea-trout, brown or rainbow trout, or good sea fish, our chefs will most likely make an offer to buy it. Nothing we like better than fresh wild fish!

Wynnstay leads the charge in exporting Welsh food

It's not all a one way street. The Wynnstay has been instrumental in promoting Welsh lamb in Italy, getting Welsh lamb dishes onto Italian restaurant menus in Rome and the North.

Best Wine List in Britain Award

Les Routiers awarded our wine list their Best in Britain award, 2005. Here Sheila and Gareth accept the accolade.

Wynnstay wins "2004 French Award for Wine with Food"

The Sopexa French Wines Match is an annual competition where teams of two Chef/Sommelier have to match a three course menu created by chef Richard Corrigan from a selection of about 30 French wines. The Wynnstay team of Luca Todarello, Restaurant Manager and Executive Chef, Gareth Johns, came runners-up to Michelin-starred Northcote Manor, with an honourable mention for in-depth food knowledge, in the hotel /restaurant section. Since the Wynnstay's main strength is in Italian wines, this was especially pleasing.

Napa Valley hosts Wynnstay chefs

Joseph Phelps, one of California's leading wine producers, selected Gareth Johns to prepare dinner for their annual "Wine Dinner" in 2005. Each year Joseph Phelps select top chefs from around the world for their special dinners. Assisting Gareth in California was commis-chef, Gareth Jones, who so impressed that he has been invited to spend a month at the French Laundry.

The Wynnstay is fortunate to have access to an abundance of wonderful, fresh, local produce: the best lamb and beef in the world (Oh, yes, we do!), sea fish from Cardigan Bay, including wild sea bass, crab & lobster; and when in season, game such as pheasant, duck, partridge, woodcock; and wild salmon, sea trout, brown trout. We also enjoy brilliant Welsh cheeses and some wonderful wild mushrooms, Porcini, Chanterelles, etc.

For a flavour of what we have on offer, see the menu below.

A menu that is distinctive, different, healthy. Something to please the gourmet and the arch traditionalist. Dishes that are sometimes a little unusual, but always interesting. Very Welsh and sometimes very Italian! Italian?

Please download our menu here

There is menu is the same whether eating in the bar area or the dining room. You may go for the set three course dinner at £25 or a lighter or a fuller selection from the a la carte. Lighter and full lunches are available.

The Wynnstay serves breakfast, lunch and dinner seven days a week, with more traditional lunches on Sundays,

The Wynnstay chefs will usually be seen cruising the weekly Wednesday market to see what's interesting for the table!

Best Wine List in Britain Award 2005

Les Routiers awarded our wine list their Best in Britain award, 2005. Here Sheila and Gareth accept the accolade.

The Wynnstay wine list is definitely not a round up of the usual suspects. A great deal of time, effort and expense has been invested in sampling wines, going to vineyards, talking to producers, sampling again. A tough job but someone has to do it. We do have wines from all over the world, mainly from places where one of the directors has stayed and enjoyed some great wines, though, since two of us have our family base in Italy, Italian wines are our speciality and we now import a number ourselves, some of which will be found nowhere else in Britain. We do have wines from France (we'd buy more if they bought more of our lamb and beef), we have wines from the new world, our preference being South America.

Please download our wine lists below.

White Wines / Red Wines

Compared with London prices, you can stay the night with us for the difference in price on the wine!

The Wynnstay stocks a range of quality real ales. We are proud of our entry in the Good Beer Guide and we do not sell any keg beers! We also sell a real cider during the summer months (the chefs love it as it is an amazing cooking ingredient) but as with all real ciders, it is over 8% proof, so be careful! We always include a quality quaffing ale, or "session beer", usually Greene King's IPA, and two or three other premium real ales such as Speckled Hen or Brains "Reverend James", and premium beers from Brains, as well as some micro brewery ales. Our attitude to beers is the same as our attitude to food, if it's good we'll take it, if it's local, so much the better!

The Hotel bar normally closes at midnight, 11.30 p.m. on Sundays but may remain open later at the discretion of the duty manager. If you wish to have a later bar, please advise us in advance - so that we can ensure that we have staff to cover that.

In 2004 the Wynnstay opened a real Pizzeria at the rear of the hotel. A wood fired traditional Italian pizza oven was installed and now the Wynnstay offers real hand made pizzas. If you have never tried the real thing, just those express pizzas from the chain & hut places, do come and try a real pizza. There are a few classic Italian pizzas but also a few special adaptations, making the best of our local produce.

says "The Wynnstay Pizzeria is the "Big Eat", top pizza restaurant in the UK"