The Globe Inn Reviews Summary

Category: Pub Porthcawl

Address: Bridgend Rd, Porthcawl, CF36 5RN, United Kingdom

Phone: +441656773344

Rating: 4.3
based on 158 reviews.

Staff and Service

Pros:

  • "Wow! Staff were so welcoming."
  • "Very friendly staff & lovely food. Nice atmosphere, dog friendly in the bar & reasonably priced."
  • "Decent variety on menu. Food was pretty faultless tbh. Nice clean environment. Very friendly and accommodating staff. Definitely worth the reasonable prices."
  • "Fantastic service friendly helpful staff clean environment not too noisy well lit and AMAZING meals that really do fill you up."
  • "Staff were friendly and very polite."
  • "The staff were very attentive and courteous all in all a very enjoyable evening, will definitely call again."
  • "Food was lovely the young girls who brought our menus to us and took our order were brilliant and polite would highly recommend coming here for food great vibe great food."

Cons:

  • "The whole experience was very uncomfortable, and we left as soon as we finished eating."
  • "Ambiance was lacking a bit. Waitress didn't even look up & say Hello."
  • "The waitress was incredible rude."
  • "Have to say bog standard pub food, nothing exciting at all, then to top it off a waitress came into car park and said we not paid."
  • "We definitely won't be returning there. Which is a shame as it is a lovely-looking pub."
  • "The youngish guy wearing a suit was arrogant and had very bad customer service."
  • "Service was appalling waitress very rude made us feel uncomfortable as soon as we walked in."

Food Quality

Pros:

  • "Shoutout to Chef Dewi Howells and his team for their incredible work."
  • "Very friendly staff & lovely food. Nice atmosphere, dog friendly in the bar & reasonably priced."
  • "Decent variety on menu. Food was pretty faultless tbh. Nice clean environment. Very friendly and accommodating staff. Definitely worth the reasonable prices."
  • "Fantastic service friendly helpful staff clean environment not too noisy well lit and AMAZING meals that really do fill you up."
  • "Nicest Carvery I've had in a very very long time."
  • "Lovely food and lovely service I had a carvery (pork) and was stunning can't fault that at all and a great price."
  • "Absolutely lovely fish and chips, batter was beautifully crispy."

Cons:

  • "To be avoided at all costs if you have any kind of allergy. Chef didn't even know what kind of oil he used."
  • "Absolutely shocking carvery, beef was swimming in blood, only choice of veg was carrots and leeks? So tasteless."
  • "Disgusting cost us 40pound for 2 adults and 2children absolutely shocking wouldn't waste your time going there."
  • "Never do reviews, but thought this place was worthy of one, food is awful, with very little choice on the menu which is a laminated A4 sheet."
  • "Food was great. very rude and ignorant staff felt very uncomfortable."
  • "Unfortunately the Sunday dinner was awful very bland no taste at all (the meat was ok)."
  • "Oerded classic burger chips was nice burger was like rubber won't recmend this meal gammon meal wasn't hot."

Ambiance and Environment

Pros:

  • "Get more for your pound here, than the holiday park, with a lovely atmosphere also."
  • "Pub is clean and tidy."
  • "Don't be fooled by the outside of this inn it looks small from the outside but inside it's big."
  • "It's like the tardis, much bigger on the inside."
  • "The atmosphere was perfect."
  • "What a lovely pub. we had a lovely meal today. it to was top. as was the warm welcome from the lovely barstaff."
  • "Lovely outside area very clean."

Cons:

  • "Ambiance was lacking a bit. Waitress didn't even look up & say Hello."
  • "It was a bit loud but it was fine and needs a bit of tidying up."
  • "Live music probably not going to bring a lot of people into the pub, very quiet for a Friday night."
  • "The food itself is not so bad but we were put off by the clumsy presentation and having far too much food on the plate."
  • "Dangerous chairs in this pub! Please take care while sitting on the blue chairs in the lounge."
  • "Food was average, decent price but don't expect the best Sunday roast of your life."
  • "Nice quiet relaxing atmosphere."

Management and Organization

Pros:

  • "We booked a fortnight in advance and rang up the day before to ask if we could add 3 children to our booking, we turned up 12, to find the female we spoke to had not added the children to the booking."
  • "Would definitely recommend, especially if you are staying at Trecco Bay as just a short walk."
  • "Can't fault it, even with my crazy family they managed to sort us out."
  • "The staff were very attentive and courteous all in all a very enjoyable evening, will definitely call again."
  • "Owner Cally is wonderful and a great host."
  • "We enjoyed our meal at the Globe today... we hadn't booked but we're told we could use the bar or tables outside as the restaurant was full."
  • "The service has been great, the staff are always very pleasant and helpful and just cannot do enough for you."

Cons:

  • "We waited an hour and a half for our food, we had complaints as my 21month old daughter was crying because she wanted food....so we didnt have food in the end...."
  • "Booked twice first time 10th January for my 60th cancelled on me trouble with electricity."
  • "Really disappointing!! Ordered 3 meals and 2 came but the owner left us waiting almost an hour for the 3rd l, with no explanation."
  • "On 20th July 2021... I fell flat on my face. I am 76. Assistance came from customers only... The male behind the bar was utterly disinterested. No attempt was made to take my details, or produce an accident book, or make any kind of record of the incident."
  • "Once we went to order food we was told there was a 40 minute wait, which we couldn't understand because the restaurant was only half full."
  • "She asked us to move tables even though we had our disabled father with us who couldn’t walk down steps."
  • "Didnt even get to taste the food booked a table for carvery only to be told that they lost our ticket and only had turkey left so we left it."

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