Description

Voted Michelin 2007 Pub of the Year. In the beamed interior country meets contemporary, with flagstone floors and comfy sofas. Ales offered include Golden Valley and St Austell Tribute.

Stylish, luxurious and well-equipped bedrooms, including rooms with four-poster beds. All rooms have bespoke beds with the finest linen, down duvets, traditional pure wool welsh blankets and an en-suite bathroom with complimentary toiletries.

Guests can eat outside from the award-winning restaurant in warmer weather or inside on colder days. The menu is changed every six weeks and is chosen because of the locally sourced ingredients, the kitchen uses home grown food from the organic kitchen garden.

Prices

Sample Dinner Menu

Starters
Chicken
Consommé of local chicken, baby garden vegetables and lemon thyme tortellini
Tasting of Tomato
Bell's own heritage tomato salad, tomato essence, tomato and basil mousse and tomato jelly
Scallops
Pan fried diver caught scallops from the north of Scotland, garden pea purée, bacon and pea fricassee, pancetta crisps and pea shoots
Beetroot
Garden beetroot risotto, pickled baby beetroot and goat's cheese foam
Crab
Dressed Cornish crab, lovage vichyssoise, avocado ice cream and crab biscuit
Beef Carpaccio of Talgarth beef, mushroom pate, horseradish cream, rocket leaves and bread wafers

Mains
Beef
Poached sirloin of Brecon beef, thyme pressed potatoes, baby garden carrots and turnips, rainbow chard and parsley cream
Garden Pea
Warm panna cotta of garden pea, wilted spinach, baby garden vegetables, salted turnips and trifolata of courgettes
Stone bass
Pave of stone bass, lemon new potatoes, baby leeks and shallots with a cockle broth
Lamb
Rump of new season welsh lamb, minted potatoes, buttered garden peas with a mint jus
Brill
Poached fillet of brill with fennel cabbage, braised celery, citrus risotto and orange dressing
Poussin
Roasted poussin, red onion couscous, baby leeks, leek purée, sautéed shiitake mushrooms and jus

Side Orders
Rainbow chard
Minted new potatoes
Dressed garden leaves
Medley of summer garden vegetables

Pudding
Chocolate
Chilled chocolate crepe, nougatine parfait, pistachio purée and hazelnut ice cream
Taste of the Garden
Lemon verbena cream, candied and honeycomb beetroot, Pimms jelly and sorrel ice cream
Strawberry
Macerated strawberries, blancmange, strawberry syrup, olive tuile and clotted vanilla ice cream
Melon
Honeydew melon soup, pressed melon, basil pearls and coconut and lemongrass sorbet
Peach
Roasted peaches with bay leaf crème anglaise, toasted brioche and honey thyme ice cream

Cheese
Selection of Welsh cheese with home-baked biscuits, grapes, celery and garden chutney

Directions

Take the M5 south as far as junction 8, then take the M50 to Ross-on-Wye. follow the A40 as far as the Wilton roundabout. Take the A49 towards Hereford through Peterstow and turn left onto the B4521 towards Abergavenny. The bell is about 6 miles on the left.