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Tea shop, organic food, home cooking, Welsh Marches tea shop, Powys tea shop, evening meals in the Welsh Borders, Welsh Cheeses, Welsh Ice-cream, Montgomery Tea shop, Montgomery restaurant, Border restaurant, quality food, Digital Photography, Digital Photography tuition, Lamp makers, Wood turners, Greetings cards , Christmas cards, Graphic Artists. Digital Photography courses, Lighting, wooden bowls, candle sticks, candles, computer arts.

Publishers of Greetings Cards, Topographical paintings and illustrations, Photographs of Wales and the Marches, Portrait commissions, house and animals painted

Salvaging old Oak beams to make into lamps

Ivy House Teashop & Gallery

Montgomery

Sit in Old World comfort and enjoy the very best of food

Fine food using fresh local organic produce whenever possible. Eat and relax in comfort and watch out over historic Montgomery.

You will be sure of a great welcome at The Ivy House

Open seven days 10.00am to 5.00pm, Sunday 12.00pm to 5.00pm

Featured on national TV twice in the last year.

Private parties catered for.

We will be open for evening meals on Friday & Saturday evenings

from the beginning of September.

Bookings advisable

Tony and Maeve Caplin have established a centre of excellence at Montgomery.

Fine food, and a gallery of pictures, photographs, digital images and woodcraft.

Food

Maeve concentrates on the food, constantly looking for new recipes for her soups and lunches for which she has a growing reputation, leading to her being featured twice on TV.

. There is a full lunchtime menu with a specials selection changed daily. The ingredients are organic and locally sourced where possible. Along with regular favourites such as cream and afternoon teas, an array of home made cakes can enjoyed ensuring a relaxing and tasty time at The Ivy House. Cheese lovers will delight in the wonderful selection of Welsh cheeses.

A typical choice for lunch would be homemade soup followed by Homity pie or Spring Onion, Dill and Salmon tart and a pudding of sticky toffee, lemon roulade, bread pudding or a selection of Welsh ice cream. Many other choices are on the permanent menu.

Evening meals can be booked on Friday and Saturday evenings, see sample menu. We are not licensed but you are very welcome to bring your own wine, there is no corkage charged.

We hope to restart our monthly Monday poetry evenings again this autumn. We also take special party bookings any other night of the week.

Arts

Regular monthly exhibitions of paintings, from abstract to wildlife, including acrylics, woodcuts and watercolours, mainly from artists in Wales, some with international reputations. These can be viewed in the tea-rooms which is furnished with comfortable Lloyd- loom chairs. The other tea-room has a permanent exhibition of Tony’s work, including paintings, photographs, digital paintings, prints of old maps, greetings cards, and woodturning, with the best selection of local cards and prints in the area can be sorted through at your leisure, all of which are produced at The Ivy House.