The Rose Inn — Restaurant in Newport

Literally only giving the second star because the staff were lovely and my little girl loved the playground which is always great to see at a pub. The pub was crawling with flies, spent half the meal swatting them off the food and when we looked up at the ceiling it was absolutely covered! Really puts you off your food which was a struggle to get through in the first place. Stay away from the garlic mushrooms and chilli prawns, both came drowned in sauce and sat on top of the cheapest, thinnest white toast that was basically still bread from being so under-toasted and sopping wet from the sauce. Fryers must not be hot enough because chips and fish both soggy and too dark from having to sit in the oil longer to cook through. Hunter's chicken looked like someone had thrown it up onto the plate. Desserts all bought premade, to the extent that a sundae was still inside its plastic container and then just popped inside a sundae glass! Pavlova was mostly cheap strawberry ice cream, but the apple pie was the worst, so undercooked it still looked raw. Never mind that most of the mains were north of £15 each. I'm sure this a lovely pub just to have a pint in the garden on a sunny evening, but please...

Booked for a party of 11 for Sunday Lunch , it was freezing in there sat with our coats on not the best way to start food ok but unfortunately one in the party found a stone in his food not grit a stone as big as my fingernail he told the waitress who took the food away , they did offer him another but it wasn't wanted so he asked the waitress to take the food off our bill , with that the owner came over thinking he was about to apologise but NO he was ranting that the food had been eaten and we would be paying for it , ws asked the waitress over who confirmed the food had not been eaten and we insisted we would not be paying for the one meal the owner then threatened to call police ridiculous. All other meals were paid for...

Friendly staff. Busy pub, fully booked for dining. Not a good pint of ale, very cloudy, didn't taste good, then shortly after the ale was taken "off". Fairly basic menu. Pie was a very average casserole with puff pastry lid. Chilli very bland. Desserts not brilliant. Profiteroles covered in squirty cream, profiteroles themselves not brilliant, looked similar to those in freezer in supermarket. Pavlova was actually an ice-cream dessert, and I don't eat ice-cream, completely different to what was described so I asked for it to be taken off of the bill, which was done without question. We were hungry and needed...