Blue Boar Pub - Powys

Enjoyed a lovely meal here. Great food proper home cooked pub grub. Such a lovely and cosy atmosphere with the fire roaring and jazz music playing in the background. Would highly recommend and look forwards to returning.

I’m sure the staff involved tonight will be expecting this review and hopefully it will be food for thought. Lovely meal and service can’t be faulted as far as serving the meal goes, but bring your glasses if your wanting to pay by cash There’s two small signs on the bar saying card only and if you miss them as we did you will be humiliated In front of the whole pub for trying to give cash!! If you had a sign up saying no dogs, then walked in with a dog, the bar staff would point to a sign saying ‘sorry no dogs just in case you missed it.’ If you’re going to be card only establishment, surely it would be sensible thing to make the customer fully aware of your card only policy. The obvious opportunity for this is upon placing their order or even on their pre booking a table !!! Also just a note, shaming people for being ‘the only people to want to pay cash in x amount of time’ is absolutely not appropriate. We have never felt the need to write a review ever, but our treatment tonight for trying to pay for our meal with legal tender was appalling. Very disappointing end to our stay.

We had a wonderful experience at this charming pub with friendly staff and lovely open fires. We were in search of a delicious Sunday roast and we were not disappointed! The vegetarian option was one of the best roasts I have ever had. I highly recommend this place. The Sunday roast is available until around 4:30pm, after which their regular menu is served in the evening.

Visited for an impromptu lunch this Friday afternoon. Great welcome from the staff and excellent friendly service from everyone. Open fires and atmosphere will lovely house music. Food well prepared, presented and plentiful.

I had booked the table about 10 days in advance due to it being the Hay Winter Festival weekend. Unfortunately when we got there we were told there was no record! When I described who I'd spoken to the staff exchanged a look. They did find us a table thankfully. I think it would be a good idea for them to start taking online bookings rather than relying on the phone if the diary is not kept updated. We had the Camembert and white bait starters. The Camembert was much smaller than the standard supermarket ones, so felt pricey for the size of it. We then both had roast. Unfortunately they were clearly left under the heat lamp for a long time as the gravy had a skin on it! Overall not particularly impressed but maybe it was a busy day.