Brasserie at the Elan — Restaurant in Wales

A total failure when it comes to food. My husband and I ordered a medium-rare steak, chicken with herbs and soup. The steak came to us well-done, smelled like it was old and was stringy, looking like a sole. we told the lady that we had ordered medium rare and she replaced it and in less than 5 minutes we got a new steak (it tasted even worse - I had the impression that it was heated in a microwave and placed on a hot pan to color the outside) and it was lukewarm on the inside - a total failure. The chicken should have been covered with herbs and we got it in a sweet BBQ sauce, THE CHICKEN WAS DRY. A cook who cannot make juicy chicken and thinks of a medium-rare steak with a well-done one is not a cook in my opinion. I will only add that I have eaten a lot of steak in my life (even my husband makes the best medium-rare or rare steak, and also chicken, juicy pan-fried chicken - it's possible, you just have to know how to do it The soup is good, too spicy but good. In general, the atmosphere was very bad because it smelled of alcohol. We were not satisfied, especially for the money. I will add that we ordered two soups, two steaks and two chickens and each dish was inedible. the cook is a total failure. I don't recommend the building from the outside, but something could be...

I find all the four and five star reviews very hard to believe. I ordered a chicken and mushroom pie with mashed potato but about five minutes later, received a cheap, tasteless microwaved ‘chicken’ burger served in a bun (which just fell apart) with a dollop of mashed potato! Who the heck would serve a burger in a bun with mashed potato? We were also told that they didn’t serve food on the grassed area even though there were other people eating there and told that they had no onion rings even though there were other people eating them. Quite possibly the worst food I’ve ever eaten. An absolute shambles from...

Overall enjoyed the hour we spent there. My wife loved her cod and chips. Fish was apparently very fresh. My Welsh lamb burger was a bit dry. Service was great. Very cheerful. It was a bit quiet, but what more can you expect on a changeable day weather wise, and it was a Thursday. The two locals we spoke to at the bar were cheerful and a definite Welsh sense of humour. All in all it was worth...