The Ancient Briton Reviews Summary

Staff and Service

Pros:

• "Staff were very friendly and efficient."
• "Waitress very friendly and accommodating with personal tweaks to menu including added side orders once food delivered."
• "Friendly staff make you feel welcome and as if a home from home."
• "Fantastic phone manner friendly polite and very helpful."
• "The staff are very friendly and helpful, and compliments to the chef he is doing very well."
• "Staff are friendly and very efficient."
• "The service was friendly, helpful and courteous."

Cons:

• "Firstly, the owner really needs to sack the mature waitress with glasses and hair to shoulder length because she was the most unwelcoming and miserable person ever."
• "teenage female waitress rude and unprofessional."
• "Customer service want great at first but as it got quieter, staff got better."
• "Service was appalling. Lady behind the bar today was rude, unhelpful and lacked professionalism."
• "Staff friendly enough but service in general quite poor."
• "Our food came and we tried to get the attention of a waitress to get more gravy, salt and pepper but got ignored."
• "Poor attention to customer requirements when booking in for the campsite by young bar tender."

Food Quality

Pros:

• "The food is nothing short of brilliant, with every dish bursting with flavor and served to perfection."
• "The food was really nice, I had the special belly pork, it was stunning."
• "The food was genuinely homemade and incredibly tasty."
• "The food is freshly made everyday, I must say it was a lovely meal will definitely go back."
• "The food was absolutely delicious I can't recommend it enough."
• "The meals were generous and tasty. High quality ingredients throughout... the salads were crisp and interesting and the home made chips were gorgeous."
• "Delicious Mussels starter followed by an epic Steak (locally farmed beef) & mushroom pie, very impressed by the quality of food & service."

Cons:

• "Quite an expensive meal."
• "We called in on a off chance as we wanted a meal on a Sunday was very very disappointed as all the meals were cold."
• "The two steaks ordered were stone cold as were the mushroom and peas, 1 steak was pure gristle, neither dish could be eaten."
• "It was ok but a bit expensive for what you get food looks beautiful on the plate but not as tasty as it looked."
• "Not the same hearty meals as Sunday lunches, particularly mean were the chicken pies they were tiny."
• "Two orders of scampi at £13 each were really poor."
• "The meals arrived with a very loose and slightly gloopy nutroast."

Ambience and Location

Pros:

• "The bar was cosy with a great selection of local beers."
• "Great location. Close to Walters arena."
• "The bar area was lively with the feeling of a friendly village local pub and the seating was far enough away so it was unobtrusive."
• "If you are looking for a comfortable Inn, in a great location for exploring the Brecon Beacons look no further!"
• "Lovely clean grounds, large benches and large umbrellas as coverage from the sun."
• "The location is great for exploring the waterfalls and monkey sanctuary etc…"
• "A nice English pub in Brecon Beacons national park with a massive car park and nice green lawn outside to sit if the weather is warm and sunny."

Cons:

• "The place was quite dark and gloomy, I know it's a traditional put but still, decor was just dark and miserable."
• "Got asked to move to the pub area as they don’t allow dogs in the restaurant."
• "We were seated by the staff in the restaurant with our dog, in the tightest corner which was cramped to hell, then asked to move because dogs weren’t allowed in the restaurant which was embarrassing when we were moving again."
• "Right next to the road. As it was warm, windows where open, and the noise coming from passing motorcycle was overwhelming."
• "Unfortunately the gaggle of middle aged fish wives who started playing their own music via phone and speaker at 8pm completely ruined it."
• "Nice pub inside but the regulars didn't seem that friendly, muttering etc."
• "Everything was fine except for the toilet/shower block. No toilet paper on the Saturday morning until later that day."

Value and Pricing

Pros:

• "Wasn’t cheap but food was excellent."
• "It was all very reasonably priced too."
• "Excellent value for money. We will definitely be returning."
• "Not cheap but generous portions and all excellent."
• "The food was delicious and reasonably priced."
• "Good range of food; prices are a little more than you might initially expect but the quality of the food is correspondingly higher and worth it."
• "The food was worth the wait, it was hot, freshly cooked and delicious."

Cons:

• "Ancient Briton, with futuristic Briton prices!"
• "Very expensive for the quality on offer."
• "So we decided to order just the Veg - they then charged us the price of a Full Dinner for a plate of Veg."
• "Called in on a sunny Sunday afternoon for a burger and a pint from little Briton in the beer garden. Extremely expensive, plastic cheese and a soggy seeded bun."
• "The burger was cooked perfect but very bland and pull pork was very bland."
• "My aunties cod arrived with overcooked batter and raw fish inside."
• "Fish and chips were awful. Supposed to be fresh. I suspect fresh from brakes foodservice."