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Cafe • Welsh • Vegan • British
"This used to be a lovely garden centre, but now it has developed into a shopping mall, unfortunately the restaurant requires you to queue before you are allocated a seat, (is this a garden centre or a dining experience ? However the food choice is limited and not as good as it used to be, also the food/drink section is not as well stocked as it once was. They won 't miss my cust but I 'll go elsewhere in future. Disappointed"
Pub • Steak • Tapas • British
"Just popped in for a drink Sunday night, first night of a 5 day break and was surprised by the quality of the beer, the price £3.60 was equally a pleasant surprise. Great staff, great atmosphere and the place to call all 5 nights of our stay Price per person: £10–20 Service: 5 Atmosphere: 5"
Soup • Steak • Cheese • Salads
"So I start this seated in my room with the most beautiful view it’s one of my favourite hotels which I love so much since starting chemo it’s my local ‘go to’ as it makes the world I’m in go away so I write this honestly with such disappointment. We dined in the restaurant this evening food was spot on as always! My gripe was with the gentleman who I find is the manager in the dining area. On arrival we waited to be seated, the gentleman in question seated another customer and returned back to the plinth keying into his iPad making no eye contact nor acknowledging our presence he was clearly frustrated by his iPad and was struggling to input so overlooked his ignorance as could see stressed and felt a little sorry another gentleman seated us once our mains arrived I ordered a bottle of wine sadly this did not appear to our table once we finished I said excuse me to the First Gentleman to ask for bill/state wine not arrived he glared at me (admittedly his hands were full) but said nothing whatsoever a second waiter passed with equally full hands and again I spoke to him what a difference and so polite whilst I was complaining venomously about the first waiter he advised that was the manager he returned with equal arrogance to say I said I’d come back (he definitely had not) when challenged he said ‘well you could see my hands were full’ !!!!! Do your hands operate your mouth and tongue!! Learn humility and manners from your junior colleagues however stressed you are customers deserve respect the young man could stop to speak yet you were ignorant and rude!!!"
Asian • Balti • Indian • Vegetarian
"Ordered a takeaway for 10 people. I do like Indian food, however, my local family, seem to think a good Indian includes more chips than rice. They also don’t order anything which is traditional Indian, such as vindaloo, hot curries, they go for a mild butter chicken and garlic and cheese nan, revolting. I have to push then to try vegetable samosa’s, chicken tikka, and tandoori chicken. They bypass such dishes, no problem more for me. Overall the takeaway was ok, it’s not the restaurant fault that my local family have chips and more chips. A true Indian restaurant should not be offering chips."
Cafe • Cafés • Coffee • Cheese
"I met up with a friend for an early lunch at this restaurant. It was busy when we arrived, and it took an hour and a half for our soup and ciabatta to be served. I have visited this restaurant many times over the years, but I was very disappointed this time. The restaurant was very cold, with the majority of customers wearing their coats. I found this unacceptable, especially considering the prices of the food and the fact that the restaurant was crowded. The female restroom was dirty, with black dust covering the surfaces and no soap available. I believe this is also unacceptable. The presence of a wood burner could greatly improve the atmosphere of the cafe and make it more welcoming and cozy, rather than just decorative."
Sushi • Cafés • Steak • Asiatic
"We only had dinner in the restaurant and the food was really good. Nearby activities: I went up the hill to see the castle ruins. The view from up there is magnificent! The walk, even though it's steep isn't that long and I am glad we didn't drive up. I also visited a shop that sells absolutely everything and anything. It's like stepping back in time to when I was a kid. I loved chatting to the owner and seeing all the different hardware and ceramics, garden tools, kitchen ware, you name it, this shop will have it. Can't remember the name of the shop but there's only one. Safety: It's a sleepy little town and you are perfectly safe there. Food drinks: Food was good."
Pizza • Steak • Welsh • Seafood
"Suberb, personal booking followed by warm, friendly welcome. Fabulous home-cooked food, wines and real ales. Star of the show was Carl, thank you, though whoever looks after the kitchen is a true pro! Don't hesitate to book and enjoy this quaint, family, dog friendly pub, with top class pub-grub at decent prices. What a find! Thanks to Carl, kitchen staff, Wynn and Tracey!!!!"
Sushi • Kebab • Steak • Asiatic
"After me and my partner made 4 random stops here for lunch we knew that the food was good and the staff very friendly. With this track record it seemed the prefect venue for a celebratory lunch for 25 friends and 4 well behaved dogs. It was easy to plan the menu choices and availability by email and I just provided 90% of the menu choices 2 days in advance. On the day car parking was easy and friends travelling by train or staying overnight in Welshpool were able to stroll up through the town to The Raven Inn. Pre-lunch drinks in the bar satisfied every palate with tasty fresh coffee, a range of Real Ales, wines and soft drinks. Plenty of room to stand, sit and chat, a real fire log-burner and dog biscuits on the bar. With 25 of us we had a reserved dining area in the old part of the building and shortly after I had seated everyone, the starters began to be brought to the tables. Eight different starters satisfied the diners with their engaging presentation and satisfying taste. Then the main courses arrived with the personalise steaks, sausages relished by our Swiss friends, Braised Faggots from the butchers in Welshpool, fish and curries. Particular praise was from the lucky diners who had chosen the pan-fried duck breast, what large ducks they must have been! With the bar handy on two side it was easy to keep hydrated and help wash down the wonderful food. The finale was the appearance of the desserts, brilliant like finely costumed dancers with the Amaretto Creme Brulee and the Dacqouise looking as spectacular as they tasted. Nothing was too much trouble for the staff and we really felt carefree and cared for. Congratulations to all the front of house staff and the wizards in the kitchen who were the creative powerhouse. The dogs particularly enjoyed the walk along the river bank that ran from the Raven bridge upstream through the fields across from the railway."
Steak • Pasta • Welsh • British
"Absolutely amazing food. Great portions and hot plates. The food was tasty full of flavour and piping hot. We both thoroughly enjoyed it. Desserts were takeaway and were just as wonderful. The menu had a variety of choices for everyone. We had taken over an hour to get there from Denbighshire and it was well worth it. The restaurant is very clean and the staff are very helpful and so pleasant. Give it a try... you won't be disappointed All the best Les and Jan C. We will call again xx"
Steak • Pizza • Cheese • Chicken
"My husband and I visited this restaurant while staying at the lakeside campsite and what a fantastic discovery!! On Saturday, we decided to try the food without a reservation, and they said we could have a table in 45 minutes. We chose the £30 steak sharing platter, with the option to add mussels for surf and turf. We were both impressed by the amount of meat provided in the steak platter, as well as the garlic mushrooms, seasoned fries, burnt onion, and peppercorn sauce. The peppercorn sauce was creamy and delicious, just the way I like it. The mussels came with garlic bread on the side, perfect for soaking up the sauce! They were the tastiest mussels I've had in years. For dessert, we had apple blackberry pie with custard ice cream, which was also delicious. We enjoyed the food so much that we booked for Sunday lunch, which was just as amazing! We both chose the beef, served with roast potatoes, beetroot, carrots, parsnips, greens, and Yorkshire puddings. My husband said it was the best Sunday lunch he's ever had. The beef was cooked perfectly, and we loved everything that came with it. Both meals were excellent value for money (especially the steak sharing platter!). We live just over an hour away, but we will definitely return just for the food! The service from the owner and waitresses was also outstanding. It's a lovely, friendly pub that is clearly popular with the locals."
Steak • Welsh • British • Vegetarian
"Wow, wow wow, just collected the family Sunday lunch takeaway... not only was everything wrapped and sealed thoughly for transport.. the meal was outstanding in presentation and amazing value.. can't recommend high enough.. will diffinately be ordering again.. thank you all"
Full • Pizza • Steak • Lunch
"We has a two day mid week break here between 14th and 16th of December courtesy of a Travelzoo deal. Given the generosity of the terms we weren't expecting too much, but were really pleasantly surprised by the experience. Despite outside temperatures down to as low as 11C overnight and a local outbreak of seasonal lurgies that meant that they were short of staff the welcome was warm and courteous. The Wynnstay appears to privately owned and this means that it packed with thoughtful and charming little personal touches. Real coffee bags and Welsh tea in the rooms, fresh butter on the table cut from an actual block, not in the usually ubiquitous individual foil packs. Catering here is superb. All ingredients are locally sourced and cooked to a uniformly excellent standard by a multiple award winning kitchen. I urge you (if you are either carnivore or omnivore) to try the chef's signature duck. Worth going back for on it's own, (and we will), but everything that we tried was of a similar standard. Wine is imported by the owner directly from single vineyards in Italy and is both very good and reasonably priced, not an equation that one comes across too, as was the menu, which meant the £30pp allowance we had with our deal went quite a long way . I loved the décor, not made over by some corporate entity, but clearly painstakingly collected and augmented over a long period of time and the Christmas decorations were lovely. There was plenty to do in the locale despite the cold snap. The town has some lovely shops pubs and cafes, small enough to walk around in an hour or so, big enough to lose an afternoon browsing and or indulging. There are plenty of interesting attractions in a half hour drive or so, including the coast and of course the local Welsh countryside is beautiful. All in all a real find of a place for us. It deserves to be overrun, but selfishly, I really hope it isn't. It really is a little hidden gem."
Kebab • Pizza • Asian • Chinese
"It was a chilly day we were looking forward to some hot sour soup... boy, were we ever disappointed! Hot sour soup should have very few ingredients... tofu, mushrooms, onion, a few other things... it should b very thin, spicy should NEVER... EVER contain shrimp, duck, chicken or other meats! It was thick, grainy, reddish-orange actually had a few types of meat... it actually made me sick we won’t b back... I gave the place 2 stars because the fried rice vegetables were good"
Pub • Tea • Pubs • Steak
"arrived for a 3 night stay on Monday 9th August. Already knew we couldn 't book in until 5.30 due to extra covid cleaning but did not realise the pub doesn 't open until 5pm on a monday so as it was raining we sat in the car in the pub car park until the owners arrived. When they did we were promptly asked to move our car as it was in a nearby neighbours parking spot, in a pub car park clearly sign posted for customer use only . we were however given our keys to our room early and grabbed our bags and entered through the door at the back of the pub to be greeted with the smell of damp, some 1970s lino and curtains hanging off the rail. we went upstairs to our room and just stood and looked around in dismay. it was awful. you expect old as in sloping floors ect in such an historic building but it was just awful. not enough room to swing a cat. one of the two wall lights hanging off. the smallest en-suite i have ever seen but to be honest we would have coped with that but it was the filth everywhere . dirt and dust thick on everything. light fittings, tv, windowsill, even the kettle. there was scum around the bathroom taps, the shower seal was black and the wallpaper was peeling off. considering the place was having extra covid cleaning i was stunned. £75 a night for that. We took a walk down the high street and managed to get rooms elsewhere and returned to collect our things and gave the keys back, happy for them to keep the deposit as in the small print for cancellation but it has been paid back to me."
Cafe • Welsh • Brunch • British
"Twice now i have been here and ordered a Vegan Cheese toastie and twice the meal has come with non vegan coleslaw on the plate. The first time this happened the waitress came over to me after 10 minutes of me receiving my food and told me 'btw the coleslaw is not vegan '. I told her that in future they should not put this on the plate as the meal is advertised as vegan, but i personally was fine to continue with my food and just leave it on the side. I tried to get the point across that this is really bad practice as people with allergies order vegan and this could have caused the cafe to be shut down if given to the wrong person. She couldnt understand my point and said 'but its fine as we make sure we tell people afterwards '. But after the plate has been put down may be too late for some people and cause an anaphylactic reaction, as i had already has my plate for 10 minutes before being told. She then went and spoke to the chef and came back out and said in future they are going to put the coleslaw in a pot on the side of the plate on the vegan meals instead. To which i said that is still so bad. It just shouldnt be on the plate at all. We left it at that as i dont think my point was getting across to the chef or the waitress. I then visited again last week and my sister ordered me a vegan toastie. Again, the meal came with non vegan coleslaw. This really needs to stop as you are going to give this to someone with allergies and this could shut the cafe down."
Pub • Cafés • Steak • Pizza
"Really poor food I'm afraid. Steak was full of sinew, very chewy, cooked very raw when asked for medium well, peas tasted very strange, pie tasted stale and tasteless. Beer also poor, asked for a pint and a pint of shandy, the pint tasted very much like the shandy but was assured it was beer, in which case it tasted appalling. Paid for extra bacon on our boy's pizza but hardly any was added. And for the poor quality it was extremely expensive. Food: 1"
Cafe • Cafés • Cakes • British
"Worst experience of a coffee shop we've ever had. We stopped for tea on our way from Gloucestershire to Haverfordwest. The floor was dirty, my partner was given a cup with no saucer, nothing to stir his tea with and nobody told us we had to ask for sugar as it was held behind the counter. To top this, we returned to the car to find that I didn't have my mobile phone. I returned to the cafe and asked if a phone had been handed in. No was the reply. I was asked for a contact number in case it was handed in later. As all my contacts were in my phone I asked for their number so that I could call later. Another member of staff looked for their telephone number and then asked me if my phone was brown. So my phone had been handed in but the staff didn't share the information with each other. Absolutely dreadful customer service, will possibly never visit Coffee#1 again."
Cafe • Lunch • Brunch • British
"I arrived at the restaurant around 2.30pm, hoping to enjoy a hot meal. When I went to order at the counter, a staff member seemed uninterested and simply stated that they had stopped serving hot food. There was no eye contact and she was quite abrupt. Despite the sign on the door indicating they were open until 4pm, I have frequented this place numerous times while passing through Machynlleth, but unfortunately, I will not be returning. I ended up going to a nearby cafe where I received a warm welcome and enjoyed hot food. This cafe will now be my new go-to spot when I am traveling."
Pub • Pizza • Asiatic • Mexican
"What a great pub. Good food, just had a Massive New Yorker Butger and fries, with onion rings, slaw and salad on a wooden platter. Excellent fresh coffee too and I had a freezing cold Desperado with a chunk or lime. This was mid afternoon too, on a Wednesday. Do not eat anywhere else in Crick, especially the Bear, which is mediocre if you're lucky and top dolkar. We were made most welcome on artival,by a lovely chap behind the Bar, not sure if he was the landlord. Setvice was fast and accurate. Well done all at the Britannia you made our day. Da iawn, we'll be back in numbers next time, for sure. Top banana"
Meat • Steak • Coffee • British
"Yesterday (22nd. November) was our first visit to The Griffin and as soon as we walked in we experienced a warm welcome enhanced by the warmth from the log fire in the bar. We were taken to a table and handed the menus which were more extensive than expected. The service was always with a smile and timely ensuring that the food and plates arrived nice and hot. My “Lamb’s liver+bacon+mash+veg:” selected from the day’s ‘Specials’ blackboard was delicious. The two ladies accompanying me had the Pork Escalopes from the main menu and declared them to be really excellent. Afterwards, although a ‘macchiato’ was not on the list of available coffees, the lady serving us offered to try and make two. The first attempt was not quite right but the second attempt was perfect. Our lunch at the Griffin was a very last minute decision due to the Wye Knot Stop café opposite being closed (despite their website saying otherwise) and as it turned out, we were pleased that they were. It was due to the efforts of those who served us and especially those working in the kitchen that our lunches at The Griffin were so very enjoyable . . . so it’s a “Hvala” from Croatia."