The Pant-yr-Ochain Reviews Summary

Setting and Atmosphere

Pros:

• "Another great pub from Brunning and Price in a lovely old building located down a quiet country lane."
• "Amazing rural pub in fantastic setting."
• "The garden is stunning, the inside rooms are comfortable, full of interest, beautifully decorated, spotlessly clean."
• "A lovely evening. Very pleasant surroundings with a well developed and maintained garden."
• "Beautiful setting, excellent procedures in place to protect customers & staff from Covid."
• "Great atmosphere with a lovely fire going and beautiful views."
• "The ambiance is terrific. It's essentially a very large house, so the dining areas are all broken up into what were the various rooms, so you don't get the sense of the scale."

Cons:

• "This place frustrates me as it flatters to deceive every time I eat there!"
• "It was very busy and as a consequence very noisy making conversations difficult."
• "Car park is too small for when they are busy and a bit chaotic."
• "The view was beautiful however it didn't make up for the lack in atmosphere as we felt judged by everyone who looked at us as though we didn't belong there."
• "It was very loud in the pub (we sat in the conservatory) and we couldn't hear each other talk."
• "The noise of banging from the coffee station plus the loud voices of staff who should have been otherwise engaged was most intrusive and stopped our conversation."
• "Parking very squashed and a little chaotic."

Service

Pros:

• "The staff are very friendly and attendant."
• "Staff were pleasant and helpful."
• "Service was just brilliant and very speedy!"
• "Staff very friendly Our waitress Lizzy was lovely."
• "Staff very nice and did their best coping with large numbers of customers."
• "Service second to none."
• "Friendly staff. Great service."

Cons:

• "Very disappointed waited just over 3/4 of an hour before our food was ordered."
• "Booked a table for 1:30 on a Sunday, had our table pointed out to us from across the restaurant and then left for 20 minutes, no drinks offered, Not even a Menu was handed to us."
• "Today's visit did see extremely slow service."
• "Waited ages to be served at the bar on arrival."
• "The service whilst good was slow, and the food very slow to arrive."
• "Waited an hour and 10 mins for food with no apology for the wait."
• "I can honestly say that the staff were plentiful but very unattentive and blasé when we complained!!"

Food Quality

Pros:

• "Food wise, it's at the better end of pub grub and cooked to a high standard."
• "Chowder is extremely good!"
• "The food is incredibly good."
• "the food is always excellent, if a little on the pricey side for what is basically good pub food."
• "Offers a variety of traditional British pub meals done perfectly."
• "Consistently good food and service."
• "The food is of a high quality and had really fresh flavours and served piping hot. Absolute value for money."