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All our meals are homemade and freshly cooked.During busy times there may be a delay.

Light Bites Soup of the Day with Rustic Bread & Welsh Butter (D,G)

£4.25 Oak Smoked Salmon with Pickled Shallots, Baby Capers,

Warm Potato Salad & Lemon Vinaigrette (D, E, F)£6.95

Chicken Liver Pate, Spiced Apple and Pear Chutney and Focaccia Melba Toast (D, G)£5.95

Warm Roast Vegetables, Feta and Olive Platter with Sun-dried

Tomato Hummus, Pitta Bread & Aged Balsamic (G, V)£6.85

Sandwiches Croque Monsieur (Ham & Cheese Toastie)

with Coleslaw, Mixed Salad & Honey Vinaigrette (D, G)£5.95

Open Chicken Sandwich with Tarragon Mayonnaise, Coleslaw, Mixed Salad & Honey Vinaigrette (D, E, G)£7.95

Welsh Rarebit on Toast with Confit Cherry Tomatoes, Mixed Salad & Honey Vinaigrette (D, G, V)£5.95

A choice of Farmhouse White, Granary or Gluten Free Bread is available

Children’s Menu

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Honey Roast Ham, Free Range Egg & Chips (E)£4.95

Spaghetti Bolognese & Garlic Bread (D, E, G)£4.25

Penne Pasta and Tomato Sauce & Garlic Bread (V, D, E, G)£3.95

Battered Chicken Bites with Chips and Beans (E, G)£4.75

See our Hot or Cold Beverages for your choice of drinksLunch Classics

6oz Prime Welsh Beef-burger with Crispy Pancetta, Caerphilly Cheese, Baby Gem Lettuce, Red Onion and Tomato on a Brioche Bun & triple cooked Chips (D, E, G)£10.25

Welsh Lamb Cawl with Mature Cheddar Cheese & Rustic Bread (selection of breads available) (D, G)£8.45

Salmon & Cod Fishcakes , Celeriac Remoulade & a Fennel& Watercress Salad & Lemon Vinaigrette (D, E, F)£7.25

Five Bean Burger & Guacamole served with Baby Gem Lettuce, Red Onion, Tomato on a Brioche Bun, Hummus & Triple Cooked Chips (V, G) £9.45

Honey Roast Ham, Fried Hens Eggs & Triple Cooked Chips (E)£9.45

Side Orders

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Chips (V) £3.00 Coleslaw (V. D, E) £0.95 Garlic Bread (V, D, G)

£2.95 Mixed Leaf Salad (V)

£2.75 Bread with Aged Balsamic & Olive Oil (V,D, G)

£2.65

Cakes Toasted Teacake (D, E, G) £2.25 Scone served with Clotted Cream and Strawberry Jam (D, E, G)

£3.50 Scone served with Strawberry Jam (D, E, G)

£3.00 Scone served with Welsh Butter (D, E, G)

£2.75 Selection of Cakes please ask staff for details (D, E, G, N)

£2.95 Welsh Cakes (D, E, G)

£1.75

Dietary & Allergen informationD = Dairy, E = Egg, F = Fish, G = Gluten, V = Vegetarian

All produce is sourced locally where possible

Hot Beverages Pot of Tea for one £1.60 Speciality Teas £1.95 Earl Grey, Lemon Green Tea, Cranberry Green Tea, Peppermint, Cranberry & Raspberry, Camomile, Salted Caramel, Lemon & Ginger, Strawberry & Mango Cappuccino/Latte £2.25

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Mocha£2.50

Espresso £1.95 Coffee - Black or White

£2.00 Flavoured Latte Coffee – Vanilla, Hazelnut or Caramel

£2.50 Hot Chocolate £2.25 Hot Chocolate with Marshmallows £2.50

Decaffeinated Tea and Coffee are available.

All Coffees are made from Rain Forest Allianceapproved, fair trade organic coffee beans.

Cold Beverages Fever Tree Tonic Water £2-50

Gregynog Membership SchemeWe highly recommend joining our membership scheme for

either £15/£25 (Individual/Family)per year!Membership includes; free parking, garden admission, Library

Readers membership and 15% discount on ‘hot’ food and beverages in the Café.

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J20- various flavours£2-30

Belvoir Presse, Elderflower, Ginger Beer, Pomegranate &Raspberry or Organic Lemonade

£2.00 Coke & Diet Coke £1-50 Still/Sparkling Water

£1-75 Glass of Milkshake

£1.45 Glass of Squash £0.60 Glass of Apple/Orange Juice

£1.15 Glass of Milk

£0.95

Wines, Spirits and Beers Blayney’s Brew £3-30

Exclusive to Gregynog Hall by Monty’s Brewery in Montgomery

Gwynt Y Draig Cider£3-30

Award winning Welsh Cider Penderyn Whiskey

£2-80Single Malt Welsh Whiskey

Brecon Gin £2-80Award winning Gin from the Brecon Beacons

San Miguel £3-00A crisp refreshing lager

Bottle of Red Wine 18.7cl £3-50

McPherson Shiraz from California Bottle of White Wine 18.7cl

£3-50Waters Edge Pinot Grigio from Australia

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Bottle of Rosé Wine 18.7cl£3-50

Waters Edge White Zinfandel Rosé from California Bottle of Prosecco

£3.80Gentle sparkling wine from Italy

Local SuppliersWe strongly support the use of local suppliers & local produce where possible.The following is a list of some of the local suppliers we use to bring fresh food to the menu:

R.W. Pandy, Butcher, Llanfair CaereinionBeef, Pen Dwy Rhiew Farm, Cefn CochWelsh Lamb, Craig Wen, LlangyniewChicken, Higher Heath, Whitchurch******A. C. Edwards

Fruit & Vegetables, Oswestry

***Harlech Foods

Cheese, Caernarfon

******Monty’s Brewery

Bottled traditional beer exclusive to Gregynog, Montgomery

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******Henllan Bakery

Bread, Denbigh ******Talerddig BakeryBread, Talerddig

Forthcoming Events at GregynogWorld Book Day Sunday 5 th March, 12noon - 4.30pm The Library will be open today to coincide with World Book Day.Rare books from the Gregynog Press will be on display for visitors to handle and admire.

Mothering Sunday, 26 th March Treat your Mother to a 3 course Sunday Lunch, arrive for pre lunch drinks at 12.30pm, and sit down at 1pm in the Music Room, £23.95 per person / £11.95 per child. Each Mother will get a complimentary gift. Booking is essential.

Easter Bunny Trail, Friday 14 th April – Monday 17 th April Come and enjoy this ever popular trail which runs over the Easter Weekend. Lots of family friendly fun following our trail through our magnificent gardens. The biggest bunnies in Montgomeryshire will be making a return and have a go at our crazy golf. £5 per child and includes an Easter Gift.

Easter Lunch, Sunday 16 th April Relax over Easter with family and friends to a 3 course Sunday Lunch, arrive for pre- lunch drinks at 12.30pm, and sit down at 1pm in the Music Room, £23.95 per person / £11.95 per child. Booking is essential.

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House Visits at 2pmBank Holiday Monday 17th AprilSunday 14th MaySunday 9th JulySunday 6th AugustSunday 20th AugustSunday 24th SeptemberSunday 22nd OctoberExplore the Hall with our Librarian Mary Oldham. Discover the history, its heritage, treasures and the characters that have lived here for 600 years. £8.00 per person which includes, Tea & Cakes in our café after the tour. Booking is recommended.

KEY FACTS FROM THE HISTORY OF GREGYNOG The house is about a hundred and fifty years old, though parts of an older house

have been incorporated, and there has been a hall on the site since at least the 12th century.

The name Gregynog may derive from either ‘grug’ (Welsh for heather) or the personal name ‘Grugyn’ with ‘og’ added as a place name ending.

From the 15th century onwards Gregynog was the seat of the Blayney family (Blaenau in Welsh) until Arthur Blayney died in 1795, a bachelor. There are many references to it in the poetry of the period, it seems to have been particularly noteworthy for its hospitality.

In the 19th century the house belonged to the Hanbury Tracys, later the Sudeleys. In the 1840s Henry Hanbury Tracy pulled the old house down and rebuilt it in its present form, later adding the fake concrete ‘half-timbering’. He was a pioneer in the use of concrete as a building material.(He built the concrete cottages, farmhouses and the school in Tregynon.)

The carved parlour known as the Blayney Room, dated 1636, was retained when the house was rebuilt. The carved heraldic shields include one bearing three spear-heads, said to be the arms of Caradog Fraichfras (Caradog Strong Arm) who is said to have been a Knight of the Round Table!

The Sudeleys lost money in the Newtown flannel industry and in 1894 sold the Gregynog estate to Lord Joicey who kept it until 1914, when the estate (18,000 acres) was broken up and sold, mainly to tenants of the farms and cottages.

The Hall itself was bought by Gwen and Margaret Davies, the wealthy grand-daughters of David Davies of Llandinam, one of Wales’s richest self-made men of the 19th century.

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The Davies sisters lived at Gregynog from 1924, and turned it into an important centre for music, the arts and fine printing. They decorated it with their priceless collection of paintings by Renoir, Monet, Cezanne and many others. These works now hang in the National Museum of Wales in Cardiff but many lesser known pictures and some fine prints and pieces of sculpture remain at Gregynog.

In the 1930s music festivals were held at Gregynog, attended by famous musicians such as Sir Adrian Boult, Walford Davies and Gustav Holst. Other famous visitors included George Bernard Shaw and Joyce Grenfell.

Conferences were also held here, often to discuss Welsh economic and political problems arising from the depression of the 1930s.

The Gregynog Press started up in the early 1920s and became one of the leading printers and publishers of fine books in Britain.

During World War II Gregynog was used as a Red Cross convalescent home. Gwen Davies died in 1951. Her sister Margaret died in 1963, having bequeathed

Gregynog to the University of Wales. Courses, conferences and concerts have been held here since 1964.

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The Courtyard Café Winter/Spring opening hours are:

Wednesday - Sunday,

11:00am - 3:00pm.

Last orders at 2:45pm