The Railway Tavern, Tredegar — Restaurant in Wales

Took my husband for his first fathers day, and I would never come back here. Queued up for ages to get a drink, the gentleman before me had forgotten a drink when he ordered so the miserable bar maid let him jump back in ahead of us all. Didn't even acknowledge me, greet, smile, say hello, nothing. Ordered 2 Pepsis, weren't offered glasses, ice or anything. Awful welcome. We did get there early and they did have a table for us, and the young girl with the ponty tail was very helpful in sorting a replacement high chair for my baby (the first one didn't have a tray attached and baby could easily have fallen over and out of it). There were no menus anywhere to be seen. So as it was Sunday we just ordered 2 beef dinners. Again, had to go to the bar to order and pay. The bar staff are so uninterested in serving. Waited 50 minutes for food. It seemed like only 1 waitress was bringing the food out. So if you haven't got the staff, don't allow so many tables to be booked! There was a large party next to us who were waited on by what looked like a manager (blonde hair, white blouse). They were able to order at their table, but we didn't get any service whatsoever at our table. After the long wait, the food came. The beef and gravy were good, but overall the meal was average. The one plus was as we paid when we ordered we could just get up and leave as I had no desire to stay any longer. I never leave poor reviews unless the service is really bad, but I would never return to this pub. The service is awful and inconsistent. The young girls were nicer than the older barmaid. No menus offered or on display. The dinner was ok, but a long wait with no warning. I don't think it was worth with £15 each. The only positives were we could get our table sooner. I...

Went with my partner for a late afternoon lunch, was met at the bar by what I could only explain as a miserable bar main, order two drinks and explained we would like some food.

We sat at a table expecting someone to bring over a menu as the bar maid didn’t give us one and there wasn’t any on the tables. After a few minutes I went the bar to ask for a menu and the missy bar maid told me they where at to end of the building by the back door on a shelf.

I ordered a pepperoni pizza & my partner ordered the gammon & pineapple meal.

The pizza was burnt and crunchy, but my partner was missing the pineapple on her meal, we asked the 12 year old that served us and she said the pineapple is on order but we haven’t received it yet. (that incomplete meal should not have been served)

Looking around the bar, I noticed a rather large lady with two boys, that was picking her nose, I’d commented to my partner.

My partner had asked for salt & Vinegar with her meal for her chips, after she had eaten the meal she noticed that the vinegar had something floating in it, we asked the 12 year old server what it was and she pulled a face as to say that looks disgusting, she took the bottle over to the large lady with the boys then came back and said it was acid build up! There was no apology concerning the missing pineapple and no apology for the disgusting vinegar.

We would never go to this pub ever again and advise you to give it a miss too.

(Food hygiene of this place is set at 2) that means improvement necessary. I just hope the large lady with the boys picking her nose in the bar wasn’t the chef that...

We thought we'd treat ourselves to a pub lunch. Place is quite nice lovely outside too. Ok here's where the good part ends. We approached the bar for a drink and met by a sour faced obviously didn't want to be there bar maid, who just said yes no hint of a smile. We asked if they were doing food again just yes. We took our drinks to the table expecting the girl to bring the menu's....nothing. We went back to the bar to ask where the menu's were she said down there pointing to the far end of the building. On picking one up she shouted from the bar not that one! The black one. We walked all the way back to the table, chose our food pizza and gammon and pineapple. With garlic bread side. After waiting an age pizza turns up extremely over cooked dark brown around the edges on closer examination it was obviously just a cheap frozen pizza, not good. Gammon turns up cooked one side pink on the other....no pineapple? Asked the girl where's the pineapple...reply was, "you sure it's not there"? Comes back and says no pineapple they're out, cos it's not been delivered yet. Fried egg was just mushed up. Had what looked like a whole bag of frozen peas on my plate though, to make up for it. Asked for vinegar and salt put these on my chips. After I'd eaten my food I noticed something in the vinegar bottle it had a sheet of fungus floating in the bottle!!! Told the waitress who took it to a woman (obviously in charge)sat down at a table she turned looked at us then the very young girl came back and said it's just acid??? NO! WON'T BE BACK. They obviously don't care. I...