Delight as hotel and restaurant open in town
ABERGAVENNY Brewers Fayre restaurant and 61-bed Premier Inn have opened, delivering 60 jobs.
The development represents a £6.4m investment by Whitbread at the Merthyr Road, Llanfoist, site alongside the arterial A465 Heads of the Valleys Road.
The Premier Inn and the Brewers Fayre restaurant will be hoping to take advantage of the town’s internationally renowned food festival, which will be drawing people from near and far in just a couple of weeks.
The new hotel and restaurant were officially opened by Abergavenny’s deputy mayor, Margaret Harris.
She said: “I am delighted that the new Premier Inn and Brewers Fayre are now open for business.
“The two businesses have played a key part in bringing new jobs to the area, and with the arrival of household names like Premier Inn and Brewers Fayre, it is a great sign that businesses are showing real confidence in Abergavenny and that the town is going from strength to strength.”
James Crawford, CEO of Pontypool-based landowners Johnsey Estates, who are developing the Westgate site, said: “We were very pleased to initially sell the land at Westgate to Whitbread for this development.
“We are now delighted to be able to welcome the new Premier Inn and Brewers Fayre to Westgate at Llanfoist, Abergavenny.
“The hotel and restaurant will deliver much-needed investment, jobs and new facilities to Abergavenny at this important location on the A465 Heads of the Valleys trunk road.”
Lyndsay Roberts, operations manager for Premier Inn, Abergavenny, said: “We’re delighted to start welcoming guests from near and far to Abergavenny, and hope that even more people will now be able to enjoy all that the area offers.
“As a business, we’re absolutely committed to investing back into the areas where we operate, and are really pleased to have been able to bring so many important new jobs to the town.
“We are looking forward to quickly establishing ourselves as a valuable and successful member of the community.”
Marcus Ramsdale, general manager at the Abergavenny Brewer’s Fayre, said: “We’re delighted and proud to open our doors to the public.
“We have spent a lot of time working on the presentation of the restaurant to give our guests the ‘wow factor’ and we hope it will soon become a lynchpin of the Abergavenny restaurant scene, enjoyed by locals, as well as guests visiting from further afield.”
Mr Ramsdale added: “We are confident our visitors will enjoy the venue, food and dining experience as much as we do, and friends and families can make the most of their time here.”
Work is under way on the construction of a Costa Coffee Drive Thru, for Johnsey Estates, next to the Premier Inn and Brewers Fayre at Westgate. The new cafe will open in early October, creating up to 20 new jobs.