The Grade ll listed Georgian building has been ‘transformed’ into a restaurant with seven, refurbished, en suite bedrooms following £250,000 investment by Cambrian Training Company, Wales’ leading apprenticeship provider to the hospitality industry. 

The restaurant, which has 50 covers, will welcome its first customers on Thursday 27 May subject to Welsh Government Covid-19 restrictions.

Arwyn Watkins, Cumbrian Training Company’s managing director, said: “We believe we have the right team to take forward this new business unit within Cambrian Training Company and make a difference both to Llanidloes and Mid Wales.

“We are really looking forward to offering quality food, accommodation and service, and developing the Chartist 1770 brand. We want customers to sit down and enjoy a dining experience.”

The restaurant will focus on quality, fresh and seasonal ingredients from Wales. Jo Davies is the executive hotel manager and her husband Nick is the executive head chef.

On April 30, 1839, it was at the centre of the famous Chartist uprising in Llanidloes. What began as a peaceful protest for universal voting rights for men, ended in the hotel being stormed by rioters who freed three members of the Chartists movement who had been imprisoned there. It took four days for soldiers to restore order and eventually 33 people were jailed.