Cefn Mably Hotel Pub in The Vale of Glamorgan

Seems a nice pub. Staff always friendly.

Went a fortnight ago, and it was awful, got there for 2pm asked for beef and sold out so opted for chicken, went to the bar sold out of beer and cider, sat down ready for meal, well it came I wish I didn't bother two frozen roast potatoes, aunt Bessie yorkshire pudding, frozen all ready cut carrots straight from the bag. Had to send the veg back as was cold, the chicken was the scraps left on the cutting board it was all little pieces thrown over the top

Fab home cooked Sunday lunch. The cauliflower cheese is amazing. Pleasant surroundings and friendly staff who were happy to help.

4 of us for Sunday lunch today - and it was absolutely delicious. The staff were amazing. Really helpful and accommodating. Prices were great. Would totally recommend the Cefn Mably. One of us had the apple crumble, but was a bit disappointed with the lack of crumble but…. We were all really pleased.😊 And a lovely afternoon in the beer garden too!

Had an amazing Sunday Dinner here a few weeks back, everything tasted lovely, had the 2 course January Deal but couldn’t eat dessert so they put in a tub to take home, it was delicious x

There are not many pubs in this area but the Cef does a great job of providing a friendly watering hole to any and everyone. Lovely people and worth a detour if you want somewhere with a bit more soul than the average gaff

Went on a Friday. Great atmosphere, bingo+quiz+ karaoke. Great place, highly recommended

Great pub good atmosphere, friendly staff and locals, excellent beer and a pool table what more do you need?

Really Good publuc house bar staff great and landlords are lovely

No food in the week and you can’t buy any hot drinks so it’s basically a sports pub for men who like beer.

Sunday lunch with family absolutly amazing

Sunday roasts are lush Lovely atmosphere, everyone is nice ,

Set on the outskirts of lower penarth this pub has been very quiet each time I've visited although they are trying with daily events such as free pool night and open mic night, staff have been very friendly on each of my visits and although I've not eaten there the food has a very good local name

Had a family Sunday Lunch, its was absolutely amazing, would 100% recommend. Service was excellent and food was stunning very fresh and generous portions

No were to park, little experience for me ,

Booked a table based upon the menu displayed on TripAdvisor, however, actual.menu was very basic and nothing like that displayed. We decided to eat there because it was quiet and we were all hungry. Food was ok but the Male server had no charisma.

Drunken young men were allowed to stay after throwing glass around and fighting. The landlord did nothing about it. People were terrified.

We paid £100 per room to stay here. Upon arrival no staff Anywhere. Rang the number but call rejected 3 times. Nobody appeared even after texting. Left and returned hours later to be shown to a V basic room. Bath had yellow all around taps, plug hole and shower screen. Rank!!!. Pillows like boulders giving every1 a headache upon waking. Really noisy from inside and outside hotel. Food was overpriced fish n chips £13 was greasy and gave me a bad stomach. WE WOULD NOT STAY HERE AGAIN IF IT WERE FREE!!

My partner and I went out for a meal for the first time since before lockdown I can honestly say this was the worst meal we’ve ever had out together! We where seated next to the toilet and door to smoking area so we constantly had wind leaves ad the toilet smells the food was burnt the waitress was hovering after 5 mins to clear the table, when we’d finished mains we went for a cigarette when we got back to order desert someone else was seated in our seats so we went to sit at the bar only to be moved to 2 bar stools in the corner so 2 women could sit there, the head barmaid shortchanged me by £4 on 2 drinks so we left

We had a big family gathering here at Cefn for my sister’s birthday. We were impressed by the quality of food and presentation. I had lamb and it was very tender and juicy. We are planning on coming here again soon.

Nice Sunday lunch. Very friendly, efficient staff. Pleasant atmosphere, plenty of choice. Would recommend.

Went there with my wife and kids last week for our Sunday lunch. Really enjoyed our meals; service was also very good, friendly and helpful. Will definitely be back soon.

Excellent food, cooked with great care and pride. Food locally sourced and freshly cooked - not like too many pub restaurants. Sunday lunch is excellent but if you are able, the friday and saturday lunch menu is similar to the main menu, but slightly smaller portions, for €9.99 for 2 courses. Highly recommended.

This was our 3rd visit in recent months. Staff very friendly and helpful, happy to adjust dishes to allow for dietary requirements (gluten free). Excellent value, tasty fresh food & good size portions. Other half is particularly taken with the belly pork

Thoroughly enjoyed our recent trip to the Cefn Mably Hotel for Sunday lunch. They have a good two or three course Sunday menu (I had the beef followed by cheesecake and both were delicious). Great quality food and very friendly staff, looking forward to our next visit.

Lovely little place for meet up with friends. Fantastic food. Welsh black fillet 25oz chateaubriand was delicious. Definitely will be back

Best gastropub in the area. Excellent food, great range of beers, good value well balanced wine list and the best G and Ts for miles. Worth a visit for the carpaccio alone!!

I didn’t book a table just did it off the cuff, myself son and daughter ate in the bar, we had a very nice table near the windows, we had table service which was very good, to start we had a sharing platter for three,followed by steak for two and fish and chips, the portions were large and the steaks cooked to our preferences, the added bonus was being able to use my gourmet card,all in all it was a very pleasant evening.

Enjoyed local special, game pie and mash along with good bottle of chianti. Nice atmosphere with a couple of local legends discussing all matters from brexit to megan’s manners.

Visited on the off chance early on a Friday evening. Were not disappointed. Two fillet steaks cooked to perfection tk our (very different ) requirements. Superb side dishes of garlic mushrooms and dauphinoise potatoes. Effort had also gone into the side salad. Really impressive food, one of my favourite ever meals ! Good dessert options. Also well presented ... da iawn, well done. Compliments to the chef. Highly recommend a visit. We will return.

If you’re looking for a proper home cooked (no frozen or boil in the bag stuff here!), Sunday lunch or steak dinner , look no further. Offers a friendly and relaxed atmosphere for couples or plenty of space for larger parties. Owners are very accommodating

First, the good bit: we had two very good and reasonably priced meals while staying here. Clearly, the Cefn Mably is very fortunate in its choice of chef. I don't eat a lot of meat, but I made an exception while I was here, and really enjoyed excellent Welsh lamb and beef dishes. I must also mention the two female members of staff we met - one of them a Russian lady - they were friendly and helpful.

We stayed in the rooms but also ate in the bar/restaurant for two nights. There was an excellent range of real ale and ciders. Our dog was allowed in the bar and there was plenty of space around tables so that she could sit comfortably.

We had a lovely Sunday lunch at the Cefn Mably today. Plenty of choice on the menu, well cooked, generous portions, delicious and piping hot. Lovely staff too 100% recommend. We will be back with family and friends soon.

The Cefn Mably is a 5 min walk from our house and although we call in for a drink now and again we have never tried the food. Last night we gave it a go and we are glad we did. The service was great and everything was very nice. The steak was probably the best I have had locally. We will be going back with friends to try out the Sunday lunch asap.

Will definitely staff and very good food. Must visit again. Awesome. All fresh food very clean place and a definitely will visit the place again and bring more people. You guys are doing well and we will be visiting very soon.👍👍

Amazing sunday roast experience. Everything on the menu you wish. Welsh black Rare sirloin, Welsh lamb, pork belly, chicken and seabass. Plus specials. £15 for two course amazing value for a quality and presentation.

A really great meal, steak cooked to perfection, with a really good atmosphere and excellent service. I thoroughly recommend the Cefn Mably.

Enjoyed a fantastic dining experience at the Cefn Mably this evening. With a great selection of delicious meals on offer we were spoilt for choice. I went for the 16 oz Welsh Black Sirloin Steak and can honestly say it was cooked to perfection and probably the best I've had in a long while. We were made to feel very welcome and the relaxed, cosy atmosphere ensured we enjoyed a memorable evening. I will certainly be recommending the Cefn Mably to friends and family.

Really enjoyed my first visit to Cefn Mably. I had a Cefn Mably smoked cheese streaky bacon beef burger and my girlfriend - beetroot vegan burger. Both burgers where amazing. Friendly staff, a really varied menu.

Visited mid week after been told good feedbacks about this place. Been here years ago. What a transformation from dingy dark pub to this now. Wow. Amazing interior. I have even asked to have a look at rooms for future. Nice facilities. Food wise - Scallops and baby squid for starter were excellent. Steaks were cooked exactly as ordered and they were top quality.

Best Sunday roast in Cardiff! Two courses only £15 3=£18 and if like your sirloin rare and fresh scallops for starter , this is a place to go.

Really enjoyed our visit to the Cefn Mably for a relaxed Sunday lunch.

Had a great meal - lovely melt in the mouth steaks, good seafood, nice vegetarian food. First time we have been in the Cefn Mably since the refit and it is really nice inside, and the food is really tasty. Will come back.

Sunday lunch with my elderly mum. Both had scallops and the beef. One of the best lunches we’ve had for a while and we are difficult to please! Well done Cefn Mably. Heartily recommend. 👍

On the 2 occasions I've visited the pub the food has been good without being great .it is certainly trying to be a cut above other pubs in the area by offering a more gastro menu .

We had a fabulous lunch here. Such high quality food, the lunch deal is amazing. At lunch they do slightly smaller portions so we had the 3 courses for £12, we were full. Lovely waiting staff too.

We had a two night stay at the Ceri Mably.

We booked our traditional family Christmas Eve lunch at the Cefn Mably last year as my husband and I had previously enjoyed their Sunday lunches.

We had a really lovely Sunday lunch, with exceptionally well-cooked vegetables, great service, a better than average children's menu, well-kept beer, and a very pleasant atmosphere all round. We plan to go again soon.

Great 3 course meal for £18, beef sirloin was stunning. Great food, beautifully presented and service was fantastic. Can’t wait to eat here again soon.

I booked the family in for a Mother's Day lunch and expected to sit in the restaurant section of the pub, so was slightly surprised when the rather harassed-looking waitress guided us to a table in the bar area - they had obviously taken a lot of bookings for the day!

Five of us went for a birthday. We ordered two sirloin steaks, two roast cods and a burger. My roast cod (with chorizo, blue potatoes, samphire, clams and mussels) was impeccably fresh and cooked to perfection. The remaining ingredients complemented the cod in a very satisfying way. The steaks were large and as ordered, melt-in-the-mouth meatiness with divine chips. The burger was consumed with relish - literally and metaphorically.

Went to my local today. Anton the barman had a nasty cut on his thumb . Landlady Marina couldn't give a hoot about his well being . He felt faint after the botched up first aid the landlord gave him. I had to call his parents to pick him up. When they eventually picked him up I was cross examined by both landlords asking what u had said to the parents . Not my local anymore, more worried about a lawsuit than antons well being . Shameful people

Went for a birthday meal with my son. We were a large party of approx 16. The staff did well with the large number. Food was excellent. Also excellent children's menu. Staff were attentive and friendly. Prices are good. I would thoroughly recommend this place.

I visited the restaurant today for the first time - had a great meal and found the staff really hospitable.

First of all this pub has been an icon of the neighbourhood when I was growing up however my recent visit was awful. We went for Sunday lunch, 9 adults and 2 children aged 6months to 1 1/2. We ordered the set menu for around...

This place has gone under a Cinderella transformation, great beers, lovely décor and great food. Throughout January the mains are two for one. The food is locally sourced and the chef Dean shows some great culinary skills. We had the surf and turf, welsh black...

Last minute booking , excellent lunch , will definitely be back and recommend. Great atmosphere too.

Impromptu Sunday lunch with the parents. Best decision. Wonderful food, excellent service and an altogether fabulous end to the weekend.

Excellent interior Decor Great food and choices reasonably priced Helpful and courteous Staff Wide choice of Drinks

So here i am again ....12 months on and spending Christmas with my brother and family who live two minutes...

Returned after my bad experience in August. Not much better - average pub food and an over friendly waitress. Not cheap either. Will not return.

Best looking bar /pub in penarth . Food is great and flavoursome. Andy and staff really attentive. Plus there's a quiz night on Tuesday's great fun , cool , relaxed atmosphere and try one of the cocktails

This pub has been revamped from a previously dowdy place to a bright new venue.It now sells 2 new real ales and has a totally new food menu.Food here is very good as is the real ale

So impressed by the transformation of the Cefn Mably pub! Went for lunch with the family and had such a nice time. The menu is gorgeous and the food did not disappoint. The refurbished interior is really nice and the staff are so lovely. A great addition to Penarth's food scene! Can't wait to go back.

Lovely room very clean, make sure you got enough time to enjoy the bar and restaurant in hotel as both are lovely too. Quiet enough and close enough to restaurants and bars. Staff well mannered and polite. Really enjoyed our stay

We recently dined here for our Grandfathers Birthday. Walked into this beautifully refurbished pub. Not what we expected at all. Seating 13 is always tricky but the staff were amazing. The blonde haired waitress was a star and made the evening a pleasure. The food catered for all and considering it has only been open for a week they dealt with our large crowd very well. We will definitely back as would like to see this place succeed.

We recently dined in the newly refurbished Cefn Mably, we were generally shocked by how nice the place was and even more shocked by how nice the food is, the pigeon starter was excellent and my curry was probably better than any curry i have had in Penarth (not your average pub curry). We will definitely be back again but will probably have the curry again

The decoration is fantastic. The service is very good. Food is delicious especially the chips. A little bit more variety on the menu would be good.

This place has been totally refurbished and advertised locally as a new gastro pub. Arrived about 18:45 tonight and met by an empty place apart from one person drinking at the bar. We were ignored by a waitress, the barman and some guy walking about the place. The menu looked like the usual expensive but boring pub food. Never got a chance to try the food or have a drink. No wonder they were empty.

Booked this on line without seeing it.Room Only.When we arrived I was told the Pub was shut due to refurbishment.So it was B&B without one of the B"s.Most apologetic ,she gave us a bottle of wine.The room was very good.Had breakfast up went up the road in another Pub.I should think that whwn the refurbishments are finished it should b a very good place to visit.The landlady had quite an accent, so I asked her where she came from [Thinking Poland],she said St Petersburg. St.Petersberg to Penarth .Should be a good book there.

A choice of small regular or large. The difference being how much meat you get. It's a buffet style service. Which has plenty of choice. As well as a soup option which is included in the price. Food was luke warm and tasteless. Staff were hovering over tables waiting to take empty glasses which made us feel uneasy. Won't be visiting here again.

Lovely home made food very reasonably priced , friendly helpful and polite staff , great live bands on a Friday night , one of a few traditional pubs left , recommended

Excellent choice, prepared fresh and great value for money. Staff very helpful and efficient, slightly dated decor, but would re recommend.

Real tasty home cooked roast dinner amazing variety to choose from soup to start all for £6.99 small available for £4.99 definitely be revisiting

Big pub, not enough staff to serve you when it's busy. As they serve food I always leave there stinking of fried food. Not enough ventilation or extraction to take away the smell or fumes.

For any semantic differential scale, 7 points are best - please take note Trip Advisor personnel if you want a truer reflection of what customers think. All I needed was a cheap bed for the night as I was eating out and drinking over the limit. It's about 15 mins from Penarth Centre, and perhaps 25 mins to the Barrage to walk to Cardiff Bay or catch a waterbus. I just had B+B, and the breakfast was OK - but I only paid £45 for an en-suite with twin beds. Large room (4), and quiet. The pub was quiet when I got in at about 10 on a Bank Holiday Saturday.

We were visiting from the Midlands as our sister was in hospital in Wales. As it was not exactly a leisure visit but a necessary expense, it was really nice to find a good place for this sort of money. We had a twin en suite room and only paid £50+ for it. The rooms are over a pub so we were able to get a decent meal (lots of choice) in the evening without having to drive. The beds were comfortable and there were tea making facilities in the room. They don't generally do breakfast but that didn't matter to us as there are plenty of cafes in Penarth. The staff were also very pleasant. Highly recommended.

Lovely meal for a great price as students! Seen as the waitresses were rushed off there feet, the service was excellent. Definitely will be returning soon.

Good food and Good music. It doesn't get any better. I look forward to making a return visit in the very near future - John (Wilce)

Went with a friend last week - nobody behind the bar and about 4 customers in the room. Eventually someone came to serve us although it all seemed like too much trouble. We left after one drink and before we lost the will to live.

Friends recommend trying this place for a Sunday lunch. Told it was good food and a great price.Good points: The meat was plentiful and the price was ok, although drinks are a bit on the dear side for a pub. Average points: Service wasn't bad and the place was as clean as you would expect for a pub, but not up to restaurant standards. Bad points: The atmosphere was unpleasant with foul language from other customers which was not addressed and all the vegetables were like mush, dreadful, there was no taste to any of them and they just slopped off the server. All tasted the same - it was like trying to eat slops. Yuck. First and last time we will visit.

All the food was frozen veg overlooked. Everything tastes of plastic, including the meat. Told the staff who did not care. Never again.

Clean and well equipped. Room cleaned and stocked daily. Lovely owner and staff . very helpful, I arrived at 10am was supposed to arrive at 3, asked to leave my bags, offered to get my room ready immediately . would definitely stay again

The Cef has possibly the largest menu in content I've ever seen in a pub, including all types of burgers (Russian burger, kangaroo burger) and pizzas, apart from all the usual pub fare such as gammon and pasta, bangers and mash, etc. The lady on duty (owner/landlady) when I visited at midday today was very pleasant and welcoming and said everything on the menu was available but I settled for for brunch which I have eaten here previously. And again I was very happy with my choice. I had previously told colleagues who had been here for brunch with me the 'icing on the cake' so to speak, was the two fried eggs, the whitest whites and with golden yolks and absolutely fresh. I haven't tried anything else on the menu here because the breakfasts are so good. I would not criticise in any way the effort put in by the establishment in quality or quantity of meal or the price. I was approached after 10 minutes and asked if everything was OK or if I'd like anything else. Good manners and welcome from start to end. Judging on today and past visits I look forward to eating here again.

went for Sunday lunch cavery with friends - worse lunch I have ever had. Lots of choice but all tastless. Not sure how they managed this. Gravy like water. Meat even worse. Never again. Don't waste you time or money.