Even the bus stops are upmarket in this posh village, where Josh and Hannah Byrne are up to something beyond bold. And not everyone is delighted about it.
In deepest rural Monmouthshire, in the little corner of Bettws Newydd, the couple who moved here from Bristol to live above the Black Bear Inn in 2018 for an idyllic life running the pub downstairs and growing vegetables in the garden couldn’t have picked a more quintessentially middle class British location.
Yet, they didn’t think twice about ridding the villagers of their beloved Sunday roast at the local. “We certainly changed a few things,” 35-year-old chef-landlord Josh laughs, talking to me at a table inside the cosy pub with a low ceiling which has two small casual rooms separated by a roaring log fire, reports WalesOnline. “Some did take umbrage (with no Sunday roasts).
I can laugh about it now, but at the start it was hard. Try MEN Premium now for FREE... just click here to give it a go. "We’ve never done things the easy way or maybe the most financially beneficial way, but we knew what we wanted and we thought the majority would get behind us.
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