The Barley Mow — Restaurant in Wales

We visited The Barley Mow this evening for a meal and was absolutely shocked by the quality of the food and the indifferent service.

We walked through an extremely noisy bar area into a completely deserted and empty restaurant. I stated I'd reserved a table online via their website, but the woman and man behind the bar didn't seem to know about the reservation or even really care.

We were told to just sit where we wanted, which was quite easy as we were the only two diners in the restaurant.

We ordered a Margarita Pizza, a Rich Homemade Lasagne, a bowl of Thrice Cooked Chips and 2 soft drinks.

When the food arrived, the pizza, which the menu stated,'All pizzas are hand rolled to order' was perfectly symmetrically round and looked and tasted exactly like a cheap supermarket frozen pizza. To be fair, the lasagne looked fine and tasted good. The Thrice Cooked Chips were thick, chunky, piping hot and tasty, but didn't lool as if they were triple cooked.

When I went to the bar at the end of the meal to pay, there were no pleasantries like 'did you enjoy the meal?', 'was everything OK?', 'hope to see you again' etc, it was just 'are you paying by cash or card?'

The whole place looked like it was in desperate need of some TLC and the staff just seemed to be completely indifferent to us being there.

My partner regularly visited The Barley Mow some 10-15 years ago and said it used to be a very warm and welcoming country pub that was always heaving; it served fantastic food and you'd have to book weeks in advance just to get a table in the restaurant.

Having had a meal there this evening, I can completely understand how...on a Saturday evening... there were just 2 of us eating in the restaurant!

We definitely won't...

I don't know what has happened to The Barley Mow but this pub used to be a great place to go for drinks and food!

If I could give a 0 score I would.

My partner and I went for a meal on a Saturday evening. We booked online to make sure we had a table. We walked in and the bar and a handful of noisy locals shouting and screaming. But the restaurant area was cold and empty. Completely empty. Not a good sign for a Saturday evening.

The bar staff were as welcoming as a wet fish! We said we had booked online and instead of saying welcome and take a seat, they looked at each other and said they hadn't seen any booking. Oh well we were the only ones there so it wasn't as if it mattered. We should have walked out there and then.

We ordered a hand stretched pizza and lasagna.

Hand stretched! Oh my goodness, the pizza was so perfectly round and flat that there's no way on this earth that it had seen any hands on it at all. Machine rolled I would have said.

It was like a 99p frozen pizza from Lidl!

The staff were totally disinterested in their customers, one customer in the bar area even had to ring the pub to get them to take an order for drinks!

Little to say that we will never go back and we'll tell everyone we know not to go there. Which is a shame because 10+years ago it was a lovely country pub. Not now. It's been run into the ground.

At this rate there won't be a pub lift soon anyway.

Cool, unwelcoming,...

Stayed over for the evening. Not great. We got given the room they were doing up so the room was not in the best condition. Toilet does not have a separate light switch so if you need a pee in the middle of the night expect to either use a head torch or wake up your partner. The toilet made some interesting noises also. A shame considering the price for the room was on the high side! Morning breakfast was uncomfortable. We were placed in the back room surrounded by junk and chairs and stuff. Evening meal was Ok. Nothing special, again considering the price. Its the little things that needed work, like having tomato sauce and vinegar in proper condiment servers instead of plastic packets. Don't expect to pay over £50 for 2 people and be given tomato sauce packets. All in all, not a great over night. Wouldn't go...