Fagin's Ale & Chop House in Rhondda Cynon Taf

Good beer. Good atmosphere. Real fire

Great village pub with excellent food recommended good choice of craft beers

Great pub, good food, always a warm welcome, a hub in the community

Came here for Sunday lunch today. Lovely food, veg was excellent as were roast potatoes. Good size portion and plenty of gravy! Dessert were excellent. Lovely friendly pub!

Even though I live locally it's a few years since I have been here. However, it was even better than last time, with some excellent real ales and friendly welcome!

First time in this pub tnt and won't be the last, warm welcome, good beer, cosy atmosphere, be back very soon

Nice local pub, cozy, good atmosphere & excellent selection of proper beers 😁🍻

My family and I regularly head to Fagins for Sunday lunch. The food is fantastic! A proper home-cooked style lunch. Desserts are terrific too. I always stick to the sticky toffee :) Have a great selection of drinks and the staff are superb! Always such a great welcome and a great atmosphere, Here’s to our next visit.

Always a great atmosphere with friendly patrons and staff.

Popped in early Friday night. Great fish and chips. Lovely staff. Tidy chef. Definitely worth a visit.

Really nice place good food great for weddings amazing place friendly locals and clean will go again

Good atmosphere pleasant company

A great pub. Always has a good selection of real ales in tip top condition. It does a great Sunday lunch too.

Fagins is great, 3 trad / hoppy beers on cask and about 5 lovely hazy stuff on keg. Friendly and relaxed atmosphere, Monday evening.

Warm welcome and friendly atmosphere.

Nice enough place. Only had a drink so can't comment on the food.

Lovely Sunday lunch, served by the charming, natural Nia Phillips.

Really like this pub, great food, good choice of beer

Visited for the first time with friends had a great evening and really enjoyed the chicken curry, looking forward to going back again 👍

The ales we had were perfectly kept. The staff and landlord were welcoming. All the other patrons were friendly and happy. Would love to return one day soon.

A little gem of a pub. Superb local real ale

Very good real ale house. Roaring fire. Good food. Popular with regulars/locals.

Loved it in here. Lovely food, fantastic service, will definitely visit more often only being 10 minutes from it!

My first visit, it was a wake. Lovely pub, warm welcome.

Great pint, good energy there. Friendly bunch. Would highly recommend it. Feel the need to edit this and add I had a pie here last weekend. Safe to say I’m going to be having a pie there most weekends. The food is absolutely outstanding.

Great pub! Good selection of beers and ales on offer - lovely food and a friendly atmosphere.

Very nice pub good selection of lagers really enjoyed it.

Sunday lunch and big range of craft and cask beers

Great pup great beer great people

Brilliant selexion of beers and friendly staff too

A hidden gem. Worth a visit. Beer selection will surprise you.

Lovely people , great service though personally not a fan of their Pies. It's thick soup with pastry on top covering the dishbowl. Each to their own though.

Fantastic family run pub with amazing food. Great service by friendly staff. Hail St Simon.

Good to have this excellent pub open again. Lovely meal, wide choice of beers and welcoming hosts

Lovely setting, relaxing and a decent pint 👌

Had huge fish with chips in lovely atmosphere at a cracking price. Nice pint too. Staff couldn’t do enough for you. Will be back.

Brilliant as ever. Best pub in South Wales, bar none. Simon and Anne are welcoming, friendly and go out of their way to make you feel relaxed and catered-for in their pub. The beer selection is fantastic, as is the food. Really friendly staff. Loo always immaculately clean too! Atmosphere is wonderful, and on cold days, the roaring log burner tops it off. A great pub for regulars and visitors alike. If you live a distance away, it's worth making the effort to get here. Kath and Gareth.

Have. Been a frequent visitor to this establishment always found the food to be outstanding the choice of beers again excellent the atmosphere very friendly bar staff very good Simon & Ann (landlord & Landlady ) always go the extra Mille. live bands on w/ends does get busy so go early

Love this pub always feel welcome by Simon and Anne. The staff are great and their new menu is amazing. They are dealing with Covid 19 very well with the 2 metre rule and tables set apart. Always feel safe.

Just had food at Fagin's with the family. Lovely restaurant and cracking food. Totally recommend the fish and chips and the wife loved her chicken salad. Lovely feel to the place with the new refurb. Very pleased with our visit and great prices for such quality food.

I've just had the most amazing burger, amazing fries ever! This food is incredible

New taps, and new craft ales, new menus to cater for the vegetarian and vegans who wish for sustenance.

Always outstanding beer quality. Lovely friendly atmosphere.

First time here for dinner with a friend. I immediately liked the vibe of the front area in the pub. With a roaring fire and dim lighting it feel cosy. Good selection of drinks. Less keen on the back eating area as I felt it lacked the cosy feeling. Ordered mac n cheese for £8.95, which unfortunately arrived stone cold. I wondered if they’d forgotten to heat it. Asked for it to be re heated and it came out scalding. Ok taste. Two options for vegans and for gluten free so that’s good to see. Will visit again but maybe just get snacks to eat.

Outstanding choice of beer, excellent service! 👍

Good atmosphere, friendly staff, and a good selection of Real Ales also do good food. I love the place.

Friendly staff, good food, good atmosphere. Had a great laugh. Will return.

The best place in the village.....

Excellent good food & good beer.

I'm giving it 1/5 as of of a group of 5, 1 found the food ok. The 2 burgers we had had still frozen buns, and the burgers themselves I'm pretty sure we're the same quality as the 4 for a pound ones in Asda (thin and tasteless). The veggie bake was literally vegetables covered in cheese, nothing else. Additionally, the plates were all cold and we had to wait 45 minutes for food. We were only refunded one burger.

Great little place with a good choice of local craft ales.

Simon and Anne are consummate hosts, servers and chefs. Fagin's offers great food, teal and craft ale and is a true community hub. A fabulous pub.

Ok first of all I do like this pub but normally I only visit it to eat as it is local rather than visit just for a drink. The menu is not large but the food is great. They also have some interesting ales The staff are friendly and seems like everyone knows each other as its serving a rather small community. You do get passing trade from cyclists who may have come off the Taff trail. The only problem I find is there have been times I have gone there for food to be told they are not serving any today. There is no parking but that is not a problem for me as it is a walk away from my house. Except for the inconsistency of serving food I think the place is great and food is good too.

Good ales ribeye very good thanks but only one my colleague let me have the last ribeye (18:45) he settled for the double 🍔 he enjoyed

Excellent, we'll run pub with great honest food. Excellent selection of beers. Friendly and helpful staff

The food is good here but they have unusual days and hours for eating there.

Nice atmosphere. Very friendly staff. Food is pretty good. Some beers a bit expensive for a village pub. Had some good evenings with bands.

Great pub, food, and people, anytime of the year. 🤘💜

Good food, great entertainment, friendly staff

Child and dog friendly! Lovely atmosphere and fab food!

Lovely atmosphere and good prices

A great dog-friendly pub for real ale fans.

decent pint, nice place, log burner when it's cold, I really like it

Disappointed they weren't serving food tonight.

Great Ales and great atmosphere.

A great selection of beer always available here, cosy, and a good fire in the winter. I like this place. Consistent through the years and well worth a visit.

Wonderful pub that serves nice food

Friendly, Free House pub. Good range of real ales, changing regularly. Food served in the evenings. Comfortable, parking is a problem, but good bus service and railway station is about 10-15 minutes walk away.

Good old-fashioned proper locals pub. Good selection of beers. Good cheap food.

Brilliant will share to all l meet.

Nice comfy interior of the pub, friendly service and good prices, no food served on Monday nights so don't go for food Mondays.

Friendly pub with good food at reasonable prices

Waiters we're quite rude, didnt have a great deal of knowledge on the menu and over all wasnt impressed with the lunch we had

Always a warm welcome & good ale

Locals recommended that we had a meal at Fagin's. It's a very pleasant pub with tables outsid0e in the front. (The beer garden at the rear was not in use). A couple had scampi and chips with a side salad and the other couple had chicken curry half and half (rice and chips). Food was freshly cooked and portions were generous. Service was very good and friendly.

Good food good atmosphere and able to take dog in.

Friendly little pub with a very good choice of cask & craft beers.

Visited on a Tuesday evening. Friendly staff. Good choice of beers. No nonsense food. Big portions cooked nicely. I had gammon egg chips which was £10 which was tasty and good value. Some friends had steaks which looked very good but were £16 which I thought was a bit pricey when considering the fairly basic presentation and surroundings.

Amazing place, lovely warm staff and excellent food. Definatley 5*

A good place to enjoy a craft ale and a book.

Lovely place to while away a few hours.

Place for real ales at least 6 barrels behind the bar but usually only 1 on at a time very disappointed

Brilliant atmosphere and food. Sat by the warm log fire drinking a selection of the fine ales.

Good drinks, decent food and lovely staff. A really lovely village pub that feels like it's at the centre of a wonderful community. I always love it here.

We visit here regularly, the staff are friendly, the beer is good, and food is good. If you like real ales this is the place to visit, they have 6 barrels on the back bar and the beer is pulled straight from the Barrels. Always has some local breweries on as well. I would recommend visiting.

Got to say one of the best food around brilliant landlady Anne makes you feel very welcome &friendly staff .

Terrific beers and friendly patrons.I highly recommend Fagans.

Amazing food amazing atmosphear love this place

Lovely atmosphere. Quick and excellent service. Food lovely. Good value.

Good beers, good atmosphere but I won't be ordering food there any time soon. Last time we stopped for a meal midweek, evening it took 45mins + we had to ask how long as we were about to leave. There was only 1 other couple who had ordered a meal and they asked for their money back.

Fab atmosphere.. Friendly staff

Crackingly good pub, great real ales and good food, cosy fire in the bar, wi-fi and seated area outside, occasional live music. Well worth a visit.

Great beer. Good food. Cosy pub in a village setting with good public transport links. Need I say more?

Came here for a family gathering. We all had the Christmas menu, starters came and the soup was cold but the waitress was apologetic and was happy to change them. Seating wasn’t great, was a bit of a squeeze against a pillar. The main was lovely and extra pigs in blankets were brought out which was a winner. Desert I had the honeycomb cheesecake and it was delicious. Lovely service shame about the soup and the table arrangement. Aireyfairy

We had been for food here several times before and had had good experiences, although my wife (a vegetarian) was reluctant as she had been underwhelmed by the vegetarian options before (unsurprising in a Chop house). Unfortunately this trip will be our last. Seven of us were eating and we called to book before we went, and were helpfully advised the kitchen closed at 2pm (we called at 1pm and got there at 1.20pm). We ordered, only just noticing the pizza menu on the wall (not on the paper menus) which prevented protestations from our 8 year old, who had hoped with we attend a pizzeria. After ordering, we were informed they were out of burgers and our 11 year old switched to pizza too. The food arrived and we were underwhelmed by the presentation. The steak arrived on a cold plate which meant it was tepid when started. The sausage and mash was mostly gravy. The steak and ale pie was served in a china pie dish and was garnished with a small amount of puff pastry. The vegetarian option was the best of the meal. Then the pizzas. Oh, the pizzas! The ham and tomato came with chorizo. The prawn and chorizo did not have any. We drew the landlady's attention to this and she offered to change it but, as this would mean one hungry pre-teen watching us eat for an indeterminate time, we attempted to transfer the chorizo from one to the other. We needn't have bothered. The pizzas consisted of a fresh dough base (good), cheddar cheese (poor) and a large quantity of sauce that I would bet money on being tomato ketchup (abysmal). If it wasn't, I have never tasted a more insipid, sugary, vinegary pizza sauce in my life. Our 8 year old (who was desperate for pizza and cannot stand ketchup) refused to eat it and I sacrificed my chips and made do with the tepid steak. Our 11 year old (who likes ketchup and told us the sauce tastes like the sauce we had with our chips at Five Guys (which was Heinz tomato ketchup) barely ate half. This is unheard of for even mediocre pizzas: he will usually eat a large pizza with little effort and still be wanting more. We complained and the pub refunded the price of the rejected pizza. No one had come to ask how our food was after it was served and it appeared clear they were not particularly interested in knowing. Having paid when ordering (sensible on the part of the restaurant, as we would have begrudged paying afterward) we we pleased to leave as soon as we had finished in order to get home and feed our children properly. It is a real shame. The venue is characterful and has always been a popular stop on our cycle rides for a real ale. The menu promises a lot and I can only imagine the chef has either changed or burned him or herself out. I certainly wont return to eat and would be reluctant to return for a drink.

Great little village pub, 12 of us visited prior to a great curry down the road. cold night and we were welcomed with a roaring fire. Just like pubs used to be, great welcome from the landlord and his team. If you like beer make the visit, great choice with different tastes. great village pub

Awesome beer. Food and real fire. Dog friendly

Met with a friend for lunch. We both opted for baguettes. They were good. I had the steak - it was prepared well and the onions were great. However the place was cold. No fires lit or heating on.

Great food, amazing staff and fantastic live bands. Also great range of local and national ale

Called in just before 6 pm on a Friday evening . Plenty of people in the bar but got a table for 4 easily , Ordered drinks from the bar two of which were real beer from a barrel , opened a tab without an problem and then ordered food . Steak and Ale pie , Scampi , Gammon and egg , and a smokey chicken and bacon salad . Came up quickly and everyone enjoyed their meal . I admit to having been in there on a wed evening on and off for informal meetings and eaten there ,usually sausage and mash but this was the first time as two couples and every one was pleased with my suggestion of eating there . Will we go again yes . By the way , wood fire in the corner , past experience says don't sit to close you'll roast , Value for money , very good . I think the staff could get rushed off their feet if it got really busy but they all knew what they were doing ,cleared the tables quickly etc . A happy customer !