Tafarn Pencei — Restaurant in Wales

You just cannot walk past this lovely pub, which is situated in the corner of Porthmadog Harbour, not far from the Yacht club. For many years, we've visited Porthmadog walking from Black Rock Sands along the coast line through Borth-y-Gest and arriving in the harbour where you need a little break, so we popped into Tafarn Pencei. Outside the pub, there are benches, but to the side of the pub, there's a rooftop terrace with a lovely view of the harbour just a note that this pub is very dog friendly, Tess loves it anyway. Inside it has a dining area to the left and the centre of the pub is the bar which has seating beyond and to the right a further 4 large tables. The landlord and all the staff are very friendly and attentive, which includes the chef and kitchen staff as your food is absolutely amazing (5✨️) The bar has 3 to 4 real ales on Bass, a favourite, is always on, good selection of largers and a nice wine list which are all reasonably priced. The Pencei is a go-to pub and restaurant it has its regulars, who I must say are also lovely but what we love about it is the atmosphere the way that the landlord is checking that your ok "have you had a good day" I hear him say, you don't get this very often and this is why we come back every year. The food served here is outstanding from the fish & chips, mussels, steaks, and smashed burgers all home cooked. So don't just walk around the harbour pop in and try for yourselves. I must say, you won't be disappointed at all.

So thank you to you all at Tafarn Pencei for making our little break away so special we'll see you...

We arrive at the cafe bar at around 1pm on the Thursday during half term it was busy and we found a table to sit down opposite another large party of people who where drinking- we where approached by a member of staff who rudely stopped us all from talking asking if we where all eating to which our table replied yes and the other no. He advised that the kitchen couldn't cope with such an amount of order before storming off, causing members in our party to comment how rude he was. We where disappointed with this as our experience here has always been very good and had recommended our family and friends meet with us this day to eat here. Our orders where taken rather abruptly and as our friends had already ordered at the bar said gentlemen did not bring them any cutlery making a point that he didn't take there order! We couldn't believe his attitude to the business being busy and thriving and discussed within our group how rude he was again- I beleive this was overheard by the bar staff and then resulted in our sandwiches- yes sandwiches taking 1 hour 20 minutes to arrive at the table by this point our children where all very hungry and we'll abit fed up.

We love this place usually and come quite regularly when visiting portmadog but after this trip I think we will go elsewhere which is a shame as the...

Myself and my family stopped here earlier this week, the place was very charming and the lady that served us was very pleasant. We ordered a drink and decided to sit outside on an upstairs area located to the side of the pub. We sat at an empty table one from the front (was quite busy up there) where we sat with our drinks and looked at the menu. Sadly we had an awful experience where a chubby slightly odd looking man with a female sat close to us seemed uncomfortable with us being there, my two boys are very well behaved so can’t think they would have caused offence but this man continued to look agitated by our presence and kept looking at my children, the female pulled his head away from our direction at one point and with him being that close to my boys didn’t make for a comfortable visit so we drank up and dropped the menus back downstairs and had to make an excuse to our boys as to why they couldn’t have the food they had decided to order. I don’t want to leave a bad review for the venue itself however this was very disturbing. My wife said afterwards the table next to us seemed a little upset to see us leave but I don’t think they could see what was going on.

We went round the corner and purchased some food and found a bench on the platform where the steam trains were and ate...