Good pub for veggies on the A483 between Newtown and Chester?

Heading up through mid/north Wales on Saturday evening and want to stop somewhere for a decent bit of pub food before pressing on to the Lakes. We’d really rather spend our money in a proper pub rather than a chain but they aren’t always great for vegetarian food options.

Any top places out there you’d recommend please?

I thought this was peak STW 😢

Pubs! Wales! Food! Driving!

Bradford Arms in Llanymynech. Have stopped there a couple of times.  Not sure about how many vege options they have, but food is good.

Welshpool or Oswestry must surely have something worthwhile.

Have a look at the menu http://The Pant-yr-Ochain

Was going to suggest same as binman, the Brunning and Price places usually have 3-5 veggie mains including salads, they are reliable for good food and Pant yr Ochain has a nice setting and not far off the dual carriageway. You need to book.

In Chirk, Castle Bistro is reliable, pizza pasta salad burger type food for veggies. Again, you need to book.

Thanks folks. I’ll have a look at those. MrsL is a veggie and it’s really annoying for her when the veggie ‘option’ is a crappy burger or nut roast.

Don’t laugh but there’s fantastic cafe in a garden centre just off the road north from Newtown

https://www.greenhousecafeandkitchen.co.uk/

Maybe have a really nice meal earlier in the trip?

Welshpool or Oswestry must surely have something worthwhile.

Nope – this is farming country where vegetarianism hasn’t been invented yet. I was going to recommend somewhere but just looked at their menu and only 1 veggie dish on it!

McDonalds at Welshpool, Oswestry or Chirk?

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Pant yr Ochain has a nice setting and not far off the dual carriageway. You need to book.

This is the one I was going to recommend, but the online menu isnt very veggie friendly.

Yeah, it’s a bit of a desert for veggie stuff it seems. When we head north usually are passing through mid Wales over lunchtime and take sarnies to eat somewhere with a view. We’re going later so want to have a ‘nice’ meal to start our holiday but it’s not looking good. I’ve clicked on A LOT of pub and restaurants via Google maps but have only found crazy expensive places or shit pub menus. Nowt in between.

Yeah, it’s a bit of a desert for veggie stuff it seems.

Erm, I reckon you’re not looking hard enough or you’ve not adapted your expectations to match the opening hours of cafes etc. There are excellent places in mid-Wales. Also mid-Wales is huge area with not many towns.

Have you ever been to the Great Oak cafe in Llanidloes? It’s amazing !! It shut down due to the cost of living crisis but then quickly reopened as The Wild Oak cafe.

Machynlleth is also notable for having great cafes for many years.

I love mid-Wales, Machynlleth and Aberaeron particularly, but they aren’t on the A483 on the way from Pembrokeshire to Chester…

There is veggie food on most of the menus I’ve looked at but it’s nice to have more than a couple of choices. The crappy halloumi burgers and veggie lasagnes are often just token offerings. I eat meat so am happy wherever but it’s nice if the resident veggie is happy too.

You could try the Stonehouse Brewery in Oswestry. 2 mins from the A5.

Nice beer and food, although to be fair the food isnt quite as good as it used to be. Lovely place though !

Check the opening times and book, it gets very busy

https://www.stonehousebrewery.co.uk/bar-and-shop/

Dont know why I didnt mention it to start with !

but they aren’t on the A483

I agree, travelling through the “green desert” of mid-Wales is tricky as there are not any major towns, let alone veggie friendly places . Therefore you have to be willing to make little detours to find good things like the cafe in Llanidloes. It’s not like driving from Brum to Manchester on the A6 where there are lots of towns and places to eat. My previous comments were clumsily failing to say this

The green desert of Wales isn’t between between Newtown and Chester though, and seeing as he’ll pass through or near Newtown, Welshpool, Oswestry, Wrexham and all that dual carriaged, built up non-desert of northeast Wales then you’d hope that someone could come up with a better suggestion than ‘drive miles in the wrong direction.’ 😀

 ‘drive miles in the wrong direction.’ 😀

They want somewhere on the way from Pembrokeshire to Chester, Llanidloes is a minor diversion as they head north, Google reckons 6 extra miles and about 10-15 extra mins. So yeah it’s an enormous detour 🤦‍♂️

I’ve done the trip many times and there’s really not much in it. Get stuck behind a tractor or a big truck on any of those roads and your travel time changes a lot.

it’s really annoying for her when the veggie ‘option’ is a crappy burger or nut roast.

Or the dreaded mushroom stroganoff. I have never met a single person who has eaten a mushroom stroganoff and yet many country pubs continue to have it as their only veggie option.

They want somewhere on the way from Pembrokeshire to Chester

No, they are driving from Pembs, and want to stop somewhere between Newtown and Chester as per thread title, and, given that it’s quite a built up part of the country, you’d assume that it wouldn’t be too difficult to find a veggie option. But nothing so far…

Llanidloes is a minor diversion as they head north

Minor diversions aren’t always welcome when you’ve got a 6+ hour drive anyway, especially when it’s to head to a cafe that may or may not be open, this being rural Wales. And ‘sorry, cash only’. 😀

Welshpool or Oswestry must surely have something worthwhile

That’s a brave assumption but sadly incorrect whatever you are referring to.

Not a pub, but it’s a casual feeling place, just a few minutes into Wrexham and it’s a local college thing, local suppliers etc.  Ial Restaurant. Not eaten veggie there but the options look less generic than many.

The Corn Mill in Llangollen and Pant yr Ochain (both Brunner ng and Price) have 5 veggie options on their menus. The Navigation at Maesbury Marsh has 5 choices. The White Kion in Whittington has 8 options… though yes there is lasagne on there, lol. The area around Wrexham is ex-industrial, and not that well off, so most pubs aren’t going to have enough through traffic to justify having a big menu, so you do have to detour off the A483 a few miles generally. But I am sure you’ll find somewhere appropriate.

All the suggestions above that are not right on the A483 between the source and destination are useless

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Where did OP end up? Eating grass in a field near Welshpool ?