When you think of where our country's top chefs like to go, McDonald's isn't one that usually pops into your mind, is it? Specifically the McDonald's in Welshpool. This particular cheap, fast food restaurant was an unusual entry from Gareth Ward, who heads up the UK's best restaurant, Ynyshir, when Wales Online spoke with him some weeks ago to ask about his favourite places to eat.
Now, his two other choices were more than understandable - Baravin in Aberystwyth and a local fish and chip shop called Caersws Fish Bar, whose experimental chippie dishes seem to be pushing the boat out, as described by Gareth.
But McDonald's shocked us as a firm favourite of his, with the chef of a two Michelin star, five AA rosette and multiple award-winning restaurant stating it could possibly claim to be the best Maccy D's in the world; Gareth even went so far as to say second best restaurant in Wales - after his award-winning Machynlleth restaurant and rooms, surely?
