This is a small restaurant with the tables very close together but the food is lovely we didnt have…read moreto wait to long for it and there is the salad bar to keep you going until your food arrives They now offer the early bird option 7 days a week so it isn't expensive It can get busy at times and there isn't anywhere to wait for your table as the bar area is now being used for dining I would recomend eating outside if its sunny there is more room and if you bag a table as you get there you dont have to wait just go to the bar and order

This is one of the best restaurants i have ever been to! my boyfriend and i are such frequent…read morevisitors that the staff greet us like old friends when we go in! the service is always excellent, even when they are really busy. the longest we have had to wait is 30 mins on valentines day! i would heartily recomend this place to all of my friends and family (in fact we are just on our way out there for my sisters 18th)!

This is a superb pub with fantastic accomodation - a hidden gem…read more The food is great quality and reasonably priced the welcome from the owners is genuine and the rooms are so much better than similar at the price range. Can't recommend enough

went there as a family, restaurant was clean , well maintained and attractive…read more the staff were very friendly and very helpful. we had the nachos starter which was full of hot jalapenos, so if you want it a little less spicy ask for it without , but is was very good esp with cajun chicken added, the other starter was mushrooms with port and stilton, this tasted a little manufactured, but edible nevertheless. the main courses were traditional pub food but of reasonable quality, the desserts a little pricey. Overall had a good nite and the staff made up for the average food, service was excellent. My mum would love it here, my foodie friends not so much

Delicious gastropub with all the classics and some moderns too. The Sunday welsh beef roast dinner…read morewas to die for and reasonably priced. Friendly and efficient bar staff. If you're anywhere near here, stop for a meal, especially on Sunday.

Decor 10 food 11 service on par .. parking is a challenge but worth the effort …read more Fab old world place. Worth traveling to Wales for. Very original feeling, great wine choices as well.

The food was really nice and the Yorkshire's were massive. The food was very enjoyable. Staff were…read morefriendly and helpful.

Why have we not got a Toby Carvery in London?…read more This particular pub is quite big, and is really good for groups we were in a group on nine on a Thursday night. The pub is very homely and has carpet with wooden tables and chairs with a varnish finish and curtains. The room that we were in had quirky picture's, one was a black and white photo with a granny eating candy floss, but the candy floss was the only colour in the picture. Toby carvery has a very family feel to it as well, due the fact is a lot families and group of friends dine here. Customer service was warm and friendly, and was attentive to let me know when my pie was getting ready. I ordered a steak & Ale pie, then I had to collect my cauliflower cheese, carrots, peas and roast potatoes from the buffet. The pie was rich in flavour with a great crust. This meal cost me £5:49 and was very filling. I love Toby Carvery, I had their Sunday roast and loved it. Next visit to Wales i will definitely find Toby. :))

Very nice and friendly cafe restaurant in the town centre, with a back entrance conspicuously…read morevisible from the High Street municipal car park. Large back room, so it's much bigger than it appears from the front. I had a light lunch of scampi, which were breaded. Crunchy breading nicely set off the shrimp. My companion found the chicken in the chicken salad to be dry.

This is a favourite of mine in Aberdare. Lovely conventional restaurant almost to silver service…read morestandards. Very Good staff, incredibly Good value for money. Lovely menu with a good choice. Very well managed and clean. Highly recommended.

After several days' toil in the garden, in the rain, the present Mrs Dan and myself decided to…read morereward ourselves with a trip to sunny Monmouthshire for luncheon. http://www.thehardwick.co.uk/ Aperitifs were a Mother's Ruin for the lady and a cheeky half of Rumney Hobby Horse Bitter pour moi. A good start. We chose from the set lunch menu. At £19.50 each it's tremendous value. Some lovely bread, butter and olive oil preceded a brace of terrific starters. Mrs A polished off a delicious smoked haddock risotto cake and poached egg whilst I devoured a sensational Carpaccio of beef with an anchovy dressing. Main courses consisted of a perfectly cooked ribeye steak sandwich and chips cooked three times (twice is not enough any more, it would seem), which the better half pronounced to be "lovely", and a Pasta Rotolo containing butternut squash, goat's cheese and spinach which I will attempt to recreate myself very soon as it was cowing lush. Mrs A couldn't manage a dessert but I ploughed on and struck gold with the Amalfi Lemon Fool, which was accompanied by a shortbread biscuit the butteriness of which was indescribably marvellous. Friendly service and a relaxing ambience topped it off. We'll be going back, but next time will stay in the Angel in town and get a taxi. £60 all in, including service for one of the best lunches I've had for ages.

We visited last weekend for Sunday Lunch as a Family of 4 for a birthday celebration…read more I wouldn't call us regulars but the number of times we have visited is in double numbers. From start to finish the experience was awful. We arrived and were escorted to a table with only 2 chairs for 4 of us. My wife and I stood in a fully seated restaurant for a couple of minutes whilst the waitress went off to commandeer 2 chairs. We were then seated where we remained with no drinks, no menus, and no service for nearly half an hour. The waitress then reappeared and apologised profusely for forgetting that we were there. In fairness she offered us complimentary drinks by way of apology. No harm done at this point. These things happen. Now you would think that a real effort would be made from here to make sure service was good but sadly not. Service was slow throughout. Starters arrived in dribs and drabs. The final starter eventually arrived and was completely wrong. Starters were way below usual standard. A different waitress appeared and explained that she was aware that we had ordered something different but there was some sort of mix up with the order. Starter was taken and eventually replaced after the rest of us had finished our starters. By this time, the extension dining room was completely empty apart from the 4 of us and random people bringing small children in for a rest from the main dining room. Nearly all the food was really poor. The beef was cold and dried out. The mash potato was cold and no more than an egg cup full. The smoked baled beans were tasteless and bland. The por shoulder was actually a terrine of shredded pork and not nice. The veg for the Sunday dinners was forgotten. When we asked if there was any, a plate with 2 pieces of cauliflower and literally 4 cabbage leaves were brought out. The room was so cold, my 2 children asked for a cup of tea with desert just to warm up. The wine was also served cold (not at decent room temperature) which spoiled it completely. I asked the waiter if there was any heating and he confirmed that there was absolutely none in the extension. When the bill was presented, the waitress immediately apologised for our experience and informed us that they had taken 25% off the bill. The acknowledgement was appreciated but did not make up in any way for the bad service, food and temperature. The whole thing really was so bad we will Never return. SO Goodbye Hardwick. It is a real shame that this restaurant has gone so far downhill as it used to be really good.

This was our splurge meal. It was also one of the best meals I had while in Wales…read more The food here is more about quality and less about quantity. If you are an American and reading this review, you will know what I'm talking about. We eat too much as a society. I'll admit it myself. I am used to getting and eating a lot of food. It is amazing I am not overweight. Anyway I went off on a tangent there. Sue and I read about this place in a travel book she had for Wales. We decided on the airplane that if we were going to have one really good meal while in Wales, it would be at the Walnut Tree. Not exactly around the corner from where we were staying in Barmouth, but we had plans to be down around this part of the country so it was a no brainer. We got here quite early on a weekday evening. The night was beautiful and we decided to secure a table outside. Before we left all of the tables were filled. Not sure if that was the case inside as well as the only time I was inside was when we initially walked in and asked if we could sit outside. Started out with a refreshing elderflower drink. We decided against alcoholic drinks as we were a distance away from our home base and had a long drive back to get there. The drink was the perfect drink for a warm summer night. After our drinks came, they also brought out a small fish cake to whet the whistle. A nice extra touch that was unexpected. Our food started out with a few appetizers. A Panzanella Salad along with monkfish with tomato, chilli and ginger. Good choices both on the starters. The monkfish (similar taste to lobster) was pretty damn amazing if I have to say so myself. I just did. For my main I had suckling pig, morcilla (blood sausage) and empanadilla. The suckling pig came bone in. It was fun getting every little piece of pig that I could get. Presentation was A+ and the quality was too. Nothing wrong with this meal at all. When it came time for dessert, our server (one of a few that took care of us on this night) asked if we had any room for "puddings". He pronounced it poo-dings. You have to love the Welsh accent. We did and made room for the orange and almond cake. A good palate cleanser. This was a 5 star meal if there ever was a 5 star meal. Again, you aren't going to get a ton of food here, but you will happily leave satisfied and you won't have a gut bomb to deal with. I highly recommend this restaurant.

I love everything about this restaurant. The food is amazing and doesn't cost the earth, but the…read moreprice does limit the amount of times I eat here. The service is great and the cocktails are outstanding. The dessert menu is wonderful and the flavour is always there. The restaurant is pretty small but that's not a complaint, it does make the noise level high. The toilets are outside but again that's not a problem. The location is out of the way but always worth the journey.

My wife and I went here while looking for somewhere local to have lunch. The name initially caught…read moreour interest so we thought we'd give it a go. We were incredibly pleased with how lovely the place is. Great outdoor dining area, and incredibly cosy inside. The staff were incredibly courteous, and the food was just unbelievably good. I'll admit, when I first ordered, I did think that they were a little expensive. However, it turns out that was because I was expecting the food to be of a lower standard. What they brought out to us was worth every penny. This is a fantastic little place, a hidden gem. Worth driving over an hour to go to, seriously.

The best meal we'd eaten out in years. Will definitely be recommending it to everyone and will…read moredefinitely be back!