Top 10 places to stay in Wales for food lovers

There are sublime views from this eccentric Victorian country house with Italianate campaniles and 20th-century porte cochère, in wooded grounds overlooking the River Usk.

Second-generation hosts, Judith and Michael Cooper with their son Oliver, welcome new arrivals with tea and Welsh cakes in the lounge or in the ‘lovely’ garden at their pink-washed Georgian house on the bustling main street of this small town on the Nevern estuary.

Brothers Charles and Edmund Inkin keep a welcome in the vales at their relaxed, brick-red dining pub-with-rooms, amid sheep-grazed pastures, just outside the Brecon Beacons national park.

Foodies flock to Susan and Bryan Webb’s restaurant-with-rooms with views over the Vale of Edeyrnion for good reason – Bryan has been cooking up a storm for 45 years and Susan is the consummate hostess.

Anne Hathaway meets Heidi in the hybrid architecture of Pierre Mifsud’s former hunting and fishing lodge, beautifully situated in the foothills of Mynydd Epynt, with a trout lake and the River Irfon running through.

The picturesque Wye valley is the setting for this 17th-century manor house that opened as a hotel in 1990 under the late Sir Bernard Ashley, of the Laura Ashley fashion and textiles empire.