Tŷ Medi — Restaurant in Wales

We stopped off in Machynlleth for lunch on a trip heading further down south to Cardigan. We walked around and it is very pretty little town, and we saw this place had tables outside and every one had someone eating something that looked good, so we thought we'd give it a try.

I tried one of the specials, an aubergine and tamarind stew with a nice salad including some sweet potato, roasted beetroot, walnuts and grapes, some slaw, with a few new potatoes in butter and herbs. My wife had the falafel in a wrap, with a similar salad, and my son had the halloumi fries, with a garlic mayo dip, and we all shared a bowl of chips. My son had a smoothie with raspberry and coconut too.

All the food was really good, the chips were amazing, super crunchy on the outside and almost burning hot and fluffy in the middle. My stew was tangy and sweet, and properly filled me up after three and a half hours driving. I had a good iced latte to finish, the bill was very reasonable at £42 including some other soft drinks, and the place was clean with nice relaxing music on softly in the background.

I really liked this place, so I expect I'll drop in again when I'm driving this...

What is there to say about an amazing place like this? I could tell you that it's a beautifully aesthetic place with great artwork and a rustic charm. Or I could tell you that the staff are extremely pleasant and polite whilst being very accommodating of our canine friends. Perhaps, the fact that it is one of the cleanest cafés we've been to, where the slightest touch of the dog warranted our waitress to exclaim "Well, best go wash my hands now" with a beaming smile. But you obviously care about that. What you want to know about is the food! Well, I'll tell you now; as far as vegan/vegetarian food goes, theirs was top of my favourites! The wraps were delicious, very flavourful and exceptionally more-ish. The prices were very fair and we were actually surprised it didn't cost more. So, go here, have some brilliant food, soak in the aesthetics and enjoy the pleasant atmosphere and cheerful staff. Go now,...

We regularly visit Mach, and this is a place we looked forward to going to, so were really sad and disappointed with our recent experience. We arrived at 11.35, found a table, and I went up to the counter to ask for menus, it took some time of the two people behind the counter of chatting to acknowledge me. I asked for a menu, to be responded to quite gruffly, and told whilst pointing at a board "We don't serve until 12". I said that wasn't a problem, we can have some drinks and maybe biscuits etc and then order lunch. They then stated "Well actually it's more like 12.10 that you would even be able to order" distain on their face. I felt really uncomfortable, our children were hugely disappointed. What a shame. Normally a lovely place. We promptly left, as we're clearly...