Abercrave Inn Reviews Summary

Atmosphere & Setting

Pros:

• "Lovely relaxed surrounding and garden area with waterfall."
• "It's a lovely place with a beautiful quiet garden and a pretty little waterfall at the back."
• "What a gorgeous beer garden it was, with a beautiful stream & pond at the bottom."
• "Absolutely stunning country pub with rooms."
• "A lovely Inn on the edge of the Brecon park."
• "Very nice atmosphere, garden and staff."
• "The Inn itself is pleasant with good decor we were served by friendly efficient staff."

Cons:

• "Despite there being a nice grassed beer garden out the back, they don't allow dogs there."
• "One issue is that our window didn't open and also no curtains."
• "The bathroom ceiling also had water damage and the paint had fallen off into the sink and all over the floor."
• "Only thing that was odd was the music that was playing."
• "Small damp room away from the inn."
• "The first room I was offered had not been checked, as the bed had Christmas decorations all over it and a Christmas tree in the corner."

Service

Pros:

• "Thank you to the attentive staff for making the evening special."
• "Brilliant service from the whole staff, excellent food (especially the cheesecake), clean restaurant."
• "Staff were professional and very helpful and I thought it was good value for money."
• "The staff were very accommodating even with us having 2 children."
• "The waitress was so polite and efficient."
• "The staff were really great, nothing was too much trouble."
• "The landlord was outstanding, checking that everyone was ok. Excellent service and the waitress was also very Friendly."

Cons:

• "Service is slow at best ! And manager let you wait at the bar while you waited to pay the bill after waiting at the table for 20mins."
• "Very unwelcoming bar man. Didn't seem to know his main ales on tap."
• "The general waiting staff are polite but ignoring customers and leaving them linger is never good, chatting at the bar is not a good enough excuse."
• "A 40 minute wait for no one to come and take our food order, so we paid for our drinks and left."
• "Abysmal service, 20 minute wait for a waitress to come and take our drinks order."
• "Upon waiting at our table for a further 15 minutes receiving no service for food or drink, other customers were escorted to their table and their drinks order was taken immediately."
• "We waited 20 minutes before anyone asked us if we had been seen too."

Food Quality

Pros:

• "Excellent pub perfectly located with outside area which is dog friendly."
• "The food was priced well and very very good."
• "Food was lovely, reasonably priced and well portioned."
• "Battered cod was lovely and crispy with succulent flaky fish."
• "The minted limb cutlets were excellent along with a Guinness."
• "It was one of the best Sunday dinner's I have ever had, the lamb was tender and veg was cooked to perfection."
• "The beef was the best I've had in a long time."

Cons:

• "Would avoid the lasagna as it's very much a tomato only flavour."
• "Watch out for broken egg shell if you have eggs in the morning, both our scrambled eggs were filled with bits of shell."
• "An expensive bottle of New Zealand Sauvignon Blanc was not available and was substituted with a (very) cheap alternative."
• "I ordered the Tuna. It was so overlooked that I may as well have ordered a [dry] chicken breast."
• "Mash was so thick it was more like butter, gravy had a skin on top."
• "The described 'Bread & Butter' actually tasted like low cost 'Margarine' which was quite thickly spread and quite acrid tasting."
• "My tuna was a white, leathery lump, I’m not sure how it had been cooked but it had not been seared."