The Captain's Table in Gwynedd

Update The food is perfect. Lamb shank was minty goodness. Wonderful meal, everything was cooked perfectly. Highly recommended to pre-book.

I'm actually gutted to be writing this review as we thought we had found a good haunt when we first tried last week. 2 adults & 2 children all had a lovely lunch time meal the previous week so we rebooked for the 2 adults for an evening meal the following weekend. The starter was lovely for both of us but we both ordered fillet steak for our main and I don't know what meat it was but it certainly wasn't a beef steak. It didn't look like one, taste like one or even cut like one. I was genuinely gutted as it has put me off going back again because I feel like it's just rude to expect somebody not to notice and left feeling like we've been totally ripped off. You don't order a fillet steak if you don't know exactly what to expect on your plate so the audacity to think you can pull that off is unbelievable. I can't complain about the service, both times it has been spot on, lovely women but unfortunately we won't be returning after been served that.

Service was pleasant, but no atmosphere here, and at best the food was very bland. Two of our group had to send meals back with steak being inedible, and a fish cake that still had ice in it!

Food was superb, staff were welcoming and attentive. We had a lovely evening thank you.

What a lovely place very comfortable and relaxed with superb lighting not too bright and stark, relaxed efficient staff and most of all lovely food all courses were excellent

Fantastic food and superb service. I would definitely recommend this place.

We were looking forward to having our lunch at the Captain's table based on the reviews from Trip advisor. I was disappointed with the overall experience. Unfriendly and not helpful. The seafood penne pasta sauce was watery. Desserts were OK.

Very disappointed in this resturant, my meal the fish, was a total disaster, came full of bones head on, hardly any taste, dessert 🍨 was great, was expecting a more up market resturant & got basic cafe/resturant 😢 was are anniversary disappointing night, wount go bk....

Absolutely fantastic from start to finish. The food was gorgeous, I had the lobster which was amazing, the service was fantastic & they took into account we needed to catch a train so did not rush us but ensured we had time. Could not fault & we will be back. Highly recommend

Just returned from our meal at the captains table. We'll cooked and presented food. Excellent staff. Extremely good value.

We've walked past lots of times, as frequent visitors to Barmouth. The night before, we'd been elsewhere (North of Barmouth) and not enjoyed our experience at all, so we decided to give this finally give the Captains Table a try. We were so pleased we did.. The service was fanstatic. We opted for Sunday lunch, but the menu choices were fabulous. We had 3 courses, drinks and coffee, and we thoroughly enjoyed every course...and the best bit, the bill was so reasonable for what we had experienced. The Captain's table is firmly a new favourite and we look forward to dining here again.

Nice setting, great service but terribly let down by overpriced and poorly cooked food. Ordered scallops which were not seared and a very small portion for the price. The two garlic prawn starters were well cooked. For mains, my partner ordered sea bass, which arrived with uncooked skin and a basic, unseasoned cream sauce. The cabbage side was also undercooked. My tuna steak had the opposite problem, being over cooked and very dry. It had no seasoning and tasted extremely bland. When I pointed this out at the end of the meal, I was told that this is because the chef had received complaints previously about it being undercooked. Three starters, three mains and one beer for £93 is an absolute joke for very basic, averagely cooked food. If you’re looking for value for dinner, look elsewhere.

We were here on Tuesday night to celebrate a friend's 60th birthday. Service was friendly and quick,, good range of veggie dishes and large steaks etc so we were all catered for! Lovely food and good atmosphere, good value for money for sure. Thank you!

After reading reviews we decided to try this restaurant Oh what a joy.The food was excellent .Very good wine Staff all very pleasant and made you feel welcome Couldn’t believe the bill when it arrived was expecting a lot more .Give it a try .Worth every penny.

Perfect place for a 60th birthday meal. Delicious food- everybody loved it. Brilliant service- so friendly and professional. We'll be back!

Booked a table on Tuesday 10th September. Had the scallops to start, seafood penne for mains and cheesecake for dessert. Food was absolutely amazing, well recommend a visit. Next time in Barmouth will definitely make a booking

Lovely little place with lots of character. Very attentive staff.

The staff were amazing! My family had arrived a bit before opening and waited outside when the staff let us in early to keep us out the rain. When the waitress took our order (which was quite a lot of food), she didn’t even require a notepad to write anything down- she could just memorise it herself. Not a single item was missing! We all really enjoyed our meals and it was all together a lovely experience.

We would thoroughly recommend eating at The Captain's Table. On arrival we were greeted by a friendly member of staff who told us about the specials. The food was delicious and the atmosphere was very pleasant. The staff went out of their way to make it a wonderful experience.

We had evening meal here on Tuesday 13th August, having pre-booked a table for 7:30pm. Overall we had a very enjoyable meal. There was enough choice on the menu, without feeling overwhelmed. We were in the front part of the restaurant, and this area was simply, but nicely furnished. The room is quite small, so there was a bit of a buzz, but without feeling too close to other diners. Staff were all pleasant and efficient. Overall the food was good, but we felt the side dish of veg was a bit unimaginative. We paid a little over £80 for two starters, two mains, a shared dessert and four bottles of beer.

We were made to feel very welcome, with a wheelchair, very helpful lady. We had the Sunday roast set meal and it was delicious, roast potatoes top drawer. Dad had the fishermans platter which as a seafood lover, he really enjoyed. The waitors were efficient and had a nice manner. Glad we discovered this place and we will be back

Tried the Sunday Lunch Menu and we were very happy with the service and the meal. The servers were friendly, knowledgable and very approachable. The meals came out hot and cooked to taste. We had two coffees with the meal and these were good quality drinks. For dessert we had the homemade apple pie and these were tasty and wholesome. We hope to be visiting again in the future.

Unfortunately there doesn't seem to be a good fish restaurant in Barmouth. The food deserves 2-3 stars. The fishcake was from the freezer with a loveless bed of lettuce. The sea bream was ok, nice garlic taste, a bit dry and overall poorly seasoned. Underneath the same loveless bed of lettuce with ready-made lettuce. There was also the typical British, unseasoned standard cooked vegetables. The seafood pasta was ok, the seafood probably from the freezer and somewhat small portions. It's a real shame, Wales offers so many natural treasures and you won't find them on the menu (almost) anywhere.

A nice restaurant central to Barmouth town. Nice family feel to the pub. Expensive in my opinion for average pub grub. We had x2 steaks and although cooked nice, were not at all worth £25 each (extra £2+ for sauce) I have certainly had nicer for that price. The children's menu is great and my daughter really enjoyed the roast dinner although the cauliflower was undercooked but that's not the end of the world as the rest of the meal was pretty bang on for her. The drinks are expensive too and we paid £4.50 for a can of Guinness!! The Snowdon craft lager is nice but at £6.50 a bottle I'd also avoid. Overall good experience but I would not visit again due to the fact its clearly overpriced. I think the steak is worth about £15-20, certainly nothing more. I spent £100 on this meal for x2 steaks, the pork medallions, side of onion rings, child's roast, 1 can of guiness, 1 bottle of craft lager and 1 can of coke. I have had al a carte meals that cost less than that unfortunately 😞

Very enjoyable meal..dessert was amazing..highly recommended 🥰

Slightly overpriced for average food It was ok but fairly expensive Steak & chips x 2 plus 1 starter & 2 cokes £75, venue & staff was nice

Called in late Saturday evening without a reservation and gratefully accepted the last available table. Fantastic fresh food, decent portions great service and reasonable price. Highly recommended. Thank you. Will be back.

Good food, good portions, friendly staff, limited tables, you will need to book.

Absolutely beautiful food for our week in Barmouth this is by far the nicest food reasonably priced and beautiful inside looks a bit dated from outside but a hidden gem inside

The lobster was clearly cooked from frozen, which is disappointing considering the name and location of the restaurant. It tasted fine but the texture was chewy. Definitely not worth the money. I then ordered a pancake, which had clearly been microwaved. I could have used it as a frisbee! What’s wrong with serving fresh food?!

Lovely food thoroughly enjoyed it.

OK price wise. Rare steak nicely cooked but lots of sinew for a sirloin. Could have gone with a bit more pepper in the sauce. Seafood penne liked.

It's not cheap. A bottle of beer £6.25 the food was ok I will not be returning there.

Service excellent, lovely restaurant.

Ever time I come here ,there all allways lovery staff, food is allway very good. The owners Debbie and mito are very welcoming and lovely to be around.

Stayed in Barmouth for a week and by far the best place we have found for food. We had the duck in orange sauce and lamb shank and couldn't fault it. Wish we were staying longer as we would definitely visit again.....amazing.

Great little restaurant great service and fantastic food

Turned up yesterday for a table of 6 and hadn't booked, I think more by luck we were able to get a table. The restaurant was spotless, the staff were great and the food was amazing, infact the food was faultless. This is a little family run gem of a business which isn't normally open of a Sunday evening after 5pm but accommodated helping out the town for a busy bank holiday weekend! It's a shame more venues didn't do the same. We look forward to a return visit in the near future and also a visit to your Cafe directly opposite as l'm sure this is going to be the same quality! have seen comments regarding overpriced, This isn't true at all! It is very much priced average for the area but yet I believe for the quality and service, you are definitely getting your moneys worth here! see you soon Scott & Family

Lovely Sunday Roast dinner both of us enjoyed the food. Service was second to none 😀 we would definitely call back in if where over in Barmouth again thank you for a fantastic meal

Food is amazing! Highly recommend

Good sunday roast (make sure you book as it can get busy). Can recommend the cheese cake!

Lovely little restaurant in the middle of Barmouth. This is the second time we’ve eaten here and both times the food and service has been superb. We had the venison and pork and both dishes were cooked to perfection and so tasty as were the puddings. Good value for money and the staff were friendly and attentive. We will certainly be coming back when we next visit Barmouth.

We recently spent a weekend in Barmouth and booked this restaurant for our evening meal based on the number of great reviews it had. We absolutely loved it, the food was delicious and the staff efficient and courteous. The restaurant is pretty basic to look at but don't let this put you off as this place is all about the food. The menu is varied to suit all tastes and the prices were very reasonable. If you are looking for delicious food at great prices then this is the restaurant for you.

A very rude waitress or maybe the owner who clearly showed her dislike for foreigners... well... we were sorry. I do not recommend!

It doesn't look much but the food was good quality and good value.

Every time we stay in Barmouth we head here for food and it's never failed. Freshly cooked to perfection, beef nice and tender, selection of fresh seasonal vegetables and the salmon in orange and cranberry jus was outstanding.

Second time to visit and it did not disappoint. Gluten free and coeliac friendly. Food was out of this world. Wish I had space for dessert as they all sounded incredible but the meal filled us up. Great setting and location and staff really friendly. Will defo be back again.

Supper out for two. Delicious - good atmosphere and friendly staff. Good value for money.

This place was incredible! We ate at several places this week and this was the absolute best! You can't really tell as it's not super posh/modern looking, but the food is incredible! The staff are lovely! Complete reccomend this place and would kove to eat there again and again! The fish is incredible and the dessert menu huge! And yummy!

An incredible eatery with amazing seafood dishes. This was a perfect meal and we're so happy to have stumbled upon this wonderful restaurant this evening. Our daughter shared and had a starter as a main and the desserts were wonderful too. Highly recommended.

Evening meal was great. Didn't book in advance as we were visiting. It was busy, the food was great, reasonable price and the wine was good too.

Debbie the owner was very welcoming and food was of a high standard and well presented. Younger staff very pleasant too.

Outre une entrée (haddock) très bonne nous avons choisi chacun un homard frais. Pour 29£ nous avons eu un TRES BEAU homard ENTIER, parfaitement cuit avec un beurre d'ail ... un régal bien plus copieux et bien moins cher que ce qui nous est proposé en France. Un grand merci pour ce moment de régal. Le dessert était dans la lignée de ce qui précédait ... n'hésitez surtout pas, (il faut réserver au moins la veille)

Amazing food and service. We ate here 3 nights in a row on our 4 night holiday as the food was so good! Also catered very well for a dairy allergy, a really good vegan menu meaning I didn’t have to miss out on a pudding. Staff were lovely and friendly, would definitely recommend visiting if you’re in the area :)

Amazing food and service. We ate here 3 nights in a row on our 4 night holiday as the food was so good! Also catered very well for a dairy allergy, a really good vegan menu meaning I didn’t have to miss out on a pudding. Staff were lovely and friendly, would definitely recommend visiting if you’re in the area :)

Visited Barmouth, we were looking for somewhere to have evening meal, came across the captains table, it opens at 17.30 we were first in. Food beautiful service great would definitely go back again

We hadn't advance booked, looked at a few establishments but the menu outside this one looked good and there was spare tables inside. We sat down, nice welcome a drinks order first then our food order. My wife had an excellent coffee and I had lager shandy. For food, we had roast beef and roast pork. Both meats were called very well indeed and the veg was obviously very fresh and cooked just right. We had sorbet and waffle with ice cream for dessert. Can't praise the service and food enough. Would be happy to return anytime.

Fantastic food & Fantastic staff

Lovely meal, great service. We didn’t book but were very lucky and just had an hour before giving up table. Would come here again when in Barmouth

We booked well in advance and really looked forward to trying this restaurant whilst on holiday and celebrating my nans special birthday. The service wasn’t great, the lady taking the orders forgot a drink & we were then waiting a while for it. Didn’t ask us if our meals were ok (they weren’t) & generally didn’t look like they wanted to be there. We overheard the server saying that particular night was quiet, therefore no excuse for poor service. The young girls didn’t know what they were doing & looked blank each time we asked them a question. The lamb shank was tough so wouldn’t recommend. The salmon special was nice. I wouldn’t revisit, service is 60% of the experience in my opinion.

A lovely down to earth restaurant, with a good variety of dishes. All of our choices were excellent. The portions served were also incredibly generous, and the prices were surprisingly modest for meals of such quality. What more could you want? Highly recommended.

Great restaurant, flavorful food cooked with love and attention to detail when plating.

Lovely little restaraunt with pleasant staff and great food and drinks..deffo recommend

A lovely place for dinner. The menu is varied and has lots of choice. We had meals varying from Sunday dinner to Gammon to BBQ Chicken - everyone loved their food and the desserts were delicious too. The service was great, really friendly and welcoming. Definitely recommended.

If you’re looking for a bog-standard £12.99 carvery, go elsewhere! The Captain’s Table’s Sunday lunch is elevated above your run-of-the-mill fayre. The meat was fantastic (we had the pork and chicken), and the vegetables incredibly fresh, clearly all high quality produce. Thoroughly recommended for those that appreciate good service and quality over quantity.

Great food. Great service. Reasonable prices. Would definitely visit again.

For a mainly seafood restaurant, they certainly know how to cook venison. Absolutely delicious!

Oh my goodness that was good food! Everything cooked to perfection and superb quality! Very highly recommenced and definitely the best eatery in Barmouth!

5/5 This restaurant was recommended to us by our hotel Afon Rhaiadr and OMG best thing ever Food 10/10 Staff 10/10 Chef 100/100 Atmosphere 10/10

Wonderful food, great dinner after a play at the beautiful beach, very nice town, definitely will visit again.

What a find! Went to the restaurant 3 times during our 5 night stay in Barmouth! Food is excellent and had a very wide range of dishes to choose from. Advise booking if you can as very popular (no surprise!)

We had a fabulous meal the pan fried chicken in creamy white wine sauce I would recommend to anyone. Also the haddock mussels in a creamy sauce also amazing. The staff were helpful and happy

The food was amazing and the staff very nice. I recommend this place.

Could not fault this dining experience from start to finish. The service was impeccable, and the food was amazing. My only dilemma was what to order, as everything on the menu appealed to both me and my partner, so much so, that we booked to come back the next evening.

Absolutely beautiful restaurant...food was divine and staff lovely!! Highly recommend!!!

Another little Barmouth gem, we had booked ahead, and the owner confirmed via a lovely text message. We had eaten there several times before, when we used to live locally, and weren't disappointed after an absence of about 4 years, the food was wonderful, all freshly and prepared and cooked by one of the owners. If you keep walking by and think we should try that place, you won't be disappointed, by the quality or the price.

Great place to eat I had the vegetarian stroganoff, best I have ever had..

Enjoyed our meal here very much - good choice on the menu (seafood and meats too). The service was good and the atmosphere pleasantly relaxed.

Extremely RUDE! Won't recommend. Not sure who is posting the reviews for this place, but four of us rated it RUDE!

Really enjoyed our meal here, staff were friendly great service credit to the chef and kitchen staff . Food was cooked beautifully and delicious would definitely go back again

A lovely family run restaurant, friendly service, great food and good menu.

I had a lamb sunday dinner,which was delicious and beautifully served and daughter had garlic bread and chip,again served lovely,finished off our day out to Barmouth just right...highly recommend and really friendly owners/staff

Nice friendly restaurant with good quality food. Chips not that good. I had the bream which was excellent. The bakewell slice was amazing.

Really good. It's taken over 13 years of going to Barmouth to get here, but worth it. Good service. Good food. Scallops and duck both cooked well.

Friendly service, decent food, reasonable pricing. Stands out in an area without too much competition.

Starter of cod and prawn fishcake was nice, and my partners chrispy chicken pasty parcels was also nice, service from the waitress was very good... However when it came to the Sunday Roast we were very disappointed. Beef was overcooked, tasted like reheated frozen sliced beef and definitely didn't resemble freshly cooked and carved roast beef, Roast potatoes black on one side, vegetables rubbery, Yorkshire straight from Iceland frozen section. Would definitely NOT recommend for a Sunday Roast.

Excellent meal. Good service. Recommend it.

The food was first class best I've had for ages.

A lovely small family run restaurant offering a lovely menu which was adapted to gluten free for me. Recommended x

We ordered Mussels which had been boiled to death, almost impossible to get out of shell and was like rubber to eat. The so called creamy sauce was salt water and could only be consumed by soaking in the bread provided. The sea food in the penne has suffered a similar fate as it had been over cooked to the point of being rubbery. An extremely disappointing eating experience

Thought we would try this place while on holiday and the review seemed good . The children's meals were really good but mine and the wife chicken in mushroom and wine sauce was terrible which resulted in me only eating one bite. The chicken was the texture of steak just hard to cut and chew, the sauce was just confusing and tasted very powdery, and you literally got three half new potatoes and a handful of vegetables with meal (it's just potatoes guys should be more ) The place itself felt like you were just in some ones lounge just strange . To be fair to the service they were great and money for the meal came off the bill. Definitely would return to Bournemouth but wouldn't return here

Visited with my father and two children. Not a massive restaurant so I would recommend booking as several people turned away. I had the venison steak in Madeira sauce, which was delicious.

Great cooking and a nice relaxed ambiance in this superb restaurant centrally placed on the high street. The service from the friendly staff made the experience enjoyable. Well recommended.

Always a warm welcome!! I introduced a gang of the pilates class from Criccieth to the lovely food here. Everyone enjoyed their food. Plenty of choice- reasonably priced - hot- and enjoyable!

Great food and service. Thanks.

Visited this place for a spontaneous meal in Barmouth. The staff were very friendly and attentive. Service was quick and drinks excellent. We had starters and I had the scallops, sadly these were chewy so I couldn't finish them. I had the chicken mushroom stroganoff...

Great food and great service. Food was gorgeous and hot and also staff were really friendly

Had a lovely evening meal at the captain s tablet last week with friends . Service was great the young lad was friendly.and helpful. Food amazing and cooked well . Price good for the quality 👌

Lovely meal lovely people served by a lovely young girl

200 mile round trip for Sunday lunch 😋 & worth every inch of the trip