Tŷ Mawr Hotel

Head up Pantygraigwen Road and you'll find Tŷ Mawr doing what it does best — being the kind of pub where regulars have claimed their spots at the bar and newcomers feel welcome anyway. This isn't somewhere you go for craft cocktails or Instagram moments; it's where you go because the real Pontypridd congregates here. You'll find locals nursing pints, catching the match on the telly, and generally getting on with the business of being sociable. The place has that lived-in comfort of a proper neighbourhood pub, the sort where the landlord remembers what you drank last time you were in.