The Coracle Tavern in Carmarthenshire

The staff were so unhelpful and the food was cold when it came , I shall definitely not be returning again until they change management. They also support and agree with fox hunting which is absolutely barbaric shame on you and may other people avoid your business like the plaque

Never been but images suggest a real dump.And it supports hunting animals with dogs.Must be on its uppers Extraordinary just how low some people will stoop for money. Avoid.

Food was cold and terrible service, when we asked for it to be taken back because it was inedible the management were so obnoxious. Offered to swap it but wouldn’t give us a refund.

Food overpriced and nothing special. Lacking in atmosphere. Went on to visit the castle which was good.

Food not great, staff even worse, landlady worst of all. Not recommended. Might be ok with a revamp and decent management. Later found out that the pub is a supporter of hunting which, had I been aware, would have ensured I avoided the place from the start. Dreadful place, far better pubs around.

awful cold staff surly overpriced barely cooked food ..a sorry miserable place seems to promote illegal activities ..place full of dodgy blokes shouting and swearing top of their voices

Lovely pub, nice real ale on recently Butty Bach, and Pitchfork,not so keen on 49er.Friendly staff and locals.

the new landlady is very welcoming and and has a good sense of humour.im looking forward to when they start doing food at these premises.

I would avoid at all costs. They profit from illegal and abhorrent animal abuses.

Was looking forward to a visit but having discovered that they openly support illegal hunting we dont feel able to do so. Also having read that anyone who shares this opinion are referred to as re....s by the management I feel deeply uncomfortable planning a visit. Sorry about that

Poor food, expected better and the service too. won't be going back for quite some time, maybe when the ownership changes

This pub hosts the local fox hunt. Horrendous.

This pub hosts the local hunting brigade so I won't be visiting this place. Fox and stag hunting is barbaric.

Hideous hell hole of a place.. not safe to eat at and helps support animal abuse

I was thinking of visiting the area but will be unable to make this pub part of any trip. There have been some worrying reports of dead animal parts left on premises and a connection to the hunting of wildlife. I prefer my hospitality experiences to be without bloodstains and the pain of innocent creatures.

Had my first pint here recently. The landlady was incredibly polite and the beer was good.

Well keep part-time landlady diamond good place

Loved it here owners and staff were brilliant felt homely and chilled thank you x

Great locals full of characters gower power a lovely pint

Lovely friendly pub with excellent service

I enjoyed coming here with my family before going a wedding, plenty of room to spread out, tidy place 👌

Probably the best pint of ale in town,spot on great pub nice staff Hope they reopen the kitchen and do food.

Great, dog friendly pub, good atmosphere, good ale.

Good real ale, usually Jemimah's Pitchfork, Gower Gold, Gower Power or Butty Bach.

Great pub fantastic local ales on always a warm welcome

One of the few decent pubs left in Carmarthen. Great real ale and CAMRA approved 🍻👌

Visited over the weekend made very welcome by staff and locals great atmosphere clean and reasonable prices on drinks thanks all

Lovely neighbourhood pub with great atmosphere 👌

Amazing find ! Amazing atmosphere! Landlords liz and wayne are also amazing ! Compliments to the chef also !

Looking for a Sunday Dinner. We booked a table for four adults and 3 children .And would like to say how much we Enjoyed our experience. Warm friendly staff. Plenty of room between tables .The food was Excellent and good choice of Starters. Meats. and Desserts. The cooked Dinner was very tasty and plentiful. My roast pork was Excellent. Will Definetly be returning to the Coracle Tavern. Thank you all at the Coracle Tavern for a lovely lunch.

Call today for Sunday lunch . Must say a proper Sunday lunch full of flavour and excellent service .hope to return soon..

Great beer, great atmosphere, great service. Thanks 😊

Great staff, real ales are fantastic, well looked after

The landlord and staff were very professional, they were outstanding, customer service was 100%

Recently enjoyed ourselves, strict Covid safety measures in place, lovely staff and management - thanks for your hospiality

Lovely place great real ale nice staff home cooked food friendly locals real pub.You won't be disappointed

Exactly food and service will definitely be back

Call in regularly for a few drinks but luckily decided to call in for lunch today. We were a group of 3, all chose different meals, all thoroughly enjoyed. Particularly highly recommend the honey & garlic pork belly. Wayne and his team provide a friendly and attentive service, and manage the current restrictions very well. We’ll be back as soon as the restrictions allow us!

Lovely pub , lovely friendly bar staff , didn't have food but it looked delicious 😋

Been calling here recently for a pint and the real ale is superb well kept Camra discount for members lovely staff clean and tidy pub.Glamorgan brewery Jemima's pitchfork is at its best here.

Had a lovely Sunday dinner to day, had to ask if I had been charged the correct price, as had a bottle of wine and It was just under £10 for house white. He food was lovely and the staff were great. Thank you

Nice place that is free of the chain vibe of most other similar places close by.

Went into have a quick look after seeing the A Board outside and honestly, this pub is nothing special at first. We were quickly directed to a table and thought we would just have a drink. A lovely young woman served us and I ended up ordering the Pan Fried fried chicken and vegetables. It did take quite a while for the food to arrive so I was hoping that this meant it was being cooked fresh. I was very pleasantly surprised when the food arrived. It was a big portion and perfectly cooked. It had swede which I don't normally like but it was so well cooked I ate the lot!! The cream sauce was heavenly. If I could have licked the plate I would have. Well done Coracle Tavern... Your food and service are excellent. I'll definitely visit again.

Had a short break this weekend in carmarthen and decided to try lunch in the coracle. What a fantastic little pub, very friendly staff, well kept beers and the food was absolutely amazing. I had the braised beef and can honestly say it was restaurant standard, highly recommend a visit and will definitely be popping in again, thank you coracle.

My partner and I had the most amazing lunch there today. We thought that it was going to be the usual pub grub place but the meal I had, chicken in a creamy leak sauce, was absolutely delicious. My partner's fish, with homemade chips and tartar sauce was lovely too. Also they were reasonably priced. We will always eat there when we visit Carmarthen.

I had Sunday lunch here. Easy parking to the side of the pub. Nice fire downstairs, friendly bar maid. I had the roast belly pork. The portions were very good and in fact too much veg. For me the gravy could have been a little thicker, but the flavour was good. At just under £9 the price is excellent value for money. This places should have been busier based on value.

Im so glad I discovered this lovely pub for Sunday lunch, when one of the food chains was fully booked, and I’ve been back many times since. The food outstanding.

Nice place and people if you're vegi dont bother

A lovely quaint pub After visiting all the usual haunts was great to be in a traditional pub. Had eaten in the Toby and Wetherspoons which was awful food Great to be in a decent establishment

Nice friendly staff, clean and a good looking pub

It's ok. Not the best roast I have had very dry meat no green veg could do with more flavour and seasoning on the up side it was home cooked and very good presentation, but a little over done Still very clean polite could do with being more chatty was gonna put 2 stars but thought it a bit mean after discussing with my wife and family decided 3 stars.

Looked for a place that would let our dog in and good food. Coracle Tavern did not dissapoint. We had the steak and it was absolutely wonderful. The staff were amazing and couldn't do enough for us. Thank you for making our visit such a pleasure.

Great atmosphere Friday night x

The coracle is friendly and serves excellent meals and the staff are lovely and helpful the deco is brill thank you Coracle Tavern .

Stopped here for lunch when visiting the town. The food was delicious and plenty of it. The staff were very friendly, polite and helpful. There was a child with his mother having lunch while we were there so am saying that it is child-friendly. If you have any food allergies I'd suggest calling ahead of visiting to check that they can accommodate.

Went to the Coracle Tavern for Sunday lunch, wasn't disappointed! Fantastic food and service from start to finish. Would highly recommend.

Nice quiet pub on the daytime serving good beer at a reasonable price.

Went for a pint and lunch fantastic service the waiter couldn't do enough for us good food will go again.

Very impressed with our first time at The Coracle. The service was first class and food was extremely well presented, hot and tasty. Nothing was too much trouble.

Nice selection of beers and dukebox and a dartboard

We came across the Coracle by accident whilst visiting Carmarthen today ...the 5 star food hygiene rating displayed in the front window caught our eye so it was time to put the food and customer service to the test ...we were both warmly welcomed by the staff we chose our table in the bar area near the window ..I ordered cod in Batter chips and mushy peas . .my wife orderder lasange with chips ..it was our first visit to the eatery and Wow the plates when delivered were mouth watering eye popping man sized portions brought a smile to our faces . Absolutely delicious and beautifully presented food ..the home made Tarte sauce was by far the best I have ever tasted by far ...my wife said that the lasange was wonderful and she didn't waste none ..not like her lol..we both highly recommend this eatery so if you are passing through or visiting Carmarthen stop by and try it for yourselves you won't be disappointed ..we will certainly be back again ..

Friendly helpful staff good homemade food

lovely sunday lunch and value for money nice staff worth a visit nothing more to say only got to have 100 characters to post review

The service and quality of food is one you should definitely try. Afternoon lunch with friends was great and will most definitely be going again! All of our meals were so tasty and fairly priced. We shall all see you soon. Thank you 😀

Great pub and restaurant a must when in Carmarthen, great food staff very helpful, a great pub to have a pint and relax, the pub has a wealth of history, as I'm ariganly from st, clears, but now live in Scotland.

Great sunday lunch resonable price will be back

Fantastic place,. Good food and great staff, good pub to have a pint and relax.

We went for Sunday lunch and enjoyed. The food was tasty and plentiful. The nut roast was very good. The home made snickers ice-cream was superb! Excellent, local beer on draft as well. We will be returning.

Stumbled across this pub by accident when looking for a dog-friendly place to eat in town. We had to eat in the pub section as we had the dog but we were fine with that as this is quite usual. We were very well looked after and a bowl of water was brought for the dog. The prices were very good and we were only expecting your usual pub food. We couldn't have been more wrong! We ordered braised beef in a red wine jus with mashed potato and roasted vegetables for £9. It was absolutely stunning! Beautifully presented and very generous portions seasoned to perfection. We will definitely be visiting again next time we're in Carmarthen.

Absolutely amazing food here. We eat here today. All fresh food. Home made chips. The curry I had today was so tasty. Every part of our food was fab. Presentation was great. All of it was realy good. The staff were friendly and so helpful. We will defeinately be eating there again. Would highly recommend it.

Great breakfast and a great price .

Fabolous service and food. We always stop here when in camarthern and have never had a bad meal. Lovely place. Would recommend.

Great pub friendly atmosphere and good choice of drinks friendly staff

Visited today for Sunday lunch with family. Food was out of this world, lots of mouth watering meat, variety of veg and lovely crispy roasties. Fantastic puddings everything homemade. Also recieved great service will definitely be returning 👍

Visitor to the town and discovered this place totally by accident for a Friday lunch. Unassuming but excellent. Traditional boozer downstairs where we were welcomed on arrival with the offer to dine upstairs in the restaurant. Transpired to be a largish tastefully decorated space with contemporary distressed furniture and fittings. Unlike many boozers above their station with bar queuing / table numbers / upfront payment- this place offered full to-the-table service, including drinks, and payment upon completion. It was, indeed, a 'restaurant'... Praise Be! Wonderful attentive service and, trust me here, in a region where 'veggie' fodder can be decidedly iffy - their 'Veggie Delight' was probably the best non-meat thing I've tasted on a bun - ever!. Food was excellently cooked, prepared, presented, and served in ample portions. Brace yer' self - it was under eight quid! Double whammy with a lovely pint of real ale 'Moho' for a bargain £3 in these parts. The carnivore element of the party was also delighted with their ham with a brace of eggs - clock this - seven quid! Stunning lunch with a main, couple of drinks, for under £20 for two in a fine restaurant setting. Nothing to fault here - we'll be back.

I hadn’t been into the Coracle for many years (it actually used to be a dive) but had arranged to meet up with friends for lunch and one of them had been there recently. I was pleasantly surprised.

Food was ok nothing special but nice staff

Stumbled across the pub by accident. We arrived for lunch and we were seated upstairs which is beautifully decorated and the lovely lady upstairs was so polite and couldn’t be more helpful, the food was amazing and cheap, the steak was perfect! Couldn’t recommend the lovely pub enough!

Good vibe. Needs to be busier this is why I am commenting to get people noticing. Saturday 30th I don't know the guy sing but he was really good 😁👍🍷

Restaurant staff were very polite and couldn't do enough for us, food was delicious. We'll presented Definite recommend.

Went there today for lunch ( on a recommendation) wow it was fabulous could not fault anything the service was good , food was amazing I had a home made burger my friend had the lamb and my desert was excellent panna cotta with home made honeycomb omg fab all the food was very well presented and hot

I arranged a surprise 50th Birthday party at the coracle, it was faultless- communication in arranging was brilliant, very helpful. They arranged a singer (at a charge) she was also a massive hit, the buffet was excellent and plentiful and I would definitely use it as a venue again. Staff were wonderful, helpful and just lovely! Highly recommend this as a venue, the upstairs area was supplied for our group of 40people and it was ideal. Thank you again we had a brilliant night.

They usually have a nice real ale on here,but then spoil it by putting fourtyniner on that no one likes.so I don’t have a pint here then.

wonderful amazing friendly service .the menu is incredible.had a chicken shawrawmy wrap(prob spelt wrong) gorgeous flavours, my friend had one half to take home as big. im coming back to try everything on the menu.my husband had the salmon with lavar bread sauce. we finished with HOME MADE Ferro rocher ice cream and Guinness ice cream wow wow. just brillant xxx

Had a wonderful lunch in the upstairs restaurant, a surpringly varied menu my wife and friend had a chicken showaddywaddy wrap each I had salmon with a lavabread and cream sauce absolutely fabulous. For desserts they make their own ice cream try the Ferreira Roche or the Guinness top marks to the kitchen and waiting staff

We came in for lunch on 14/3/2019. Friendly staff and fantastic food. Your chef did a cracking job. My chicken shwarma had so many different flavours and my girlfriend loved the lasagne. Keep up the good work

Went here for a lunch and had fish and chips. Absolutely beautiful, tasty batter plenty of flesh on the fish and the chips were very tasty and fresh. Nothing to fault .

Have eaten a few times here and never been disappointed Just had the Wild Boar Sausages off the specials board Highly recommended.

Lovely venue cosy atmosphere and nice setting and great location and really polite friendly staff. Best cawl ive had anywhere on my travels. Definitely will be going back especially as they had a large booking and apologised before hand if there was a delay but my food was there pretty quick and tasted delicious

Went for a Xmas lunch with friends for the first time since it changed hands and it was ok. Good food and service but not much atmosphere.

Beautiful Sunday dinner thanks very much

Fantastic Sunday lunch, recommend it, good price as well

We don’t live in Carmarthen and weren’t sure where to go! It was getting cold and we were getting hungry, we’d past all the ‘food chains’ knowing that was not what we wanted. Thankfully we found The Coral and decided to take our chances and we are so glad we did. The service was outstanding, nothing was too much trouble. The menu extensive and the food did not disappoint. We will definitely make a point of returning.

Brilliant atmosphere and food, lovely staff, highly recommend

Stopped here for lunch after seeing it had good overall rating on here. The good looked a lot more impressive than it tasted. Burger was bland and bread was too chewy. My partners gammon steak was mostly thick fat. The downstairs smelt of urinal cakes. And I had to leave a lot of my food and wait outside for my partner because I was feeling so sick from he smell and the grease of the food. I love pub grub and I am in no way a snob, and if it wasn't the strong nauseating smell I probably would have enjoyed the food more or at least not been so put off.

A lovely warm and inviting pub with a fire and welcoming staff. They also offer a welcome to dogs. The food was superb

This is a great pub serving great food, This has to be the best breakfast around, the vegetarian breakfast is gluten free without the toast. The breakfast tastes so nice and I would say they use good quality welsh ingredients the black pudding is the best I have had, the staff are great and very helpful if your in Carmarthen you need to call in for breakfast or lunch we will be back

Visited Coracle Carmarthen last weekend taking our grandchildren, we normally visit The Rose and Crown but decided to venture to new places. We visit our grandchildren every 4 weeks so taking them out for lunch is something we look forward to. We went upstairs to eat and the restaurant was very nice indeed, extremely clean. Ordering was very prompt. When our food arrived, fish and chips we were dissappointed in the size of the portion and my fish was grey in colour, foolishly I did not complain. However my grandaughters Lasagne, was extremely hard and just tasted of cheese, whilst cutting into it my granddaughter found a hair. I called the waitress over who stood at the opposite end of the table and when I informed her of our find said "It cannot be from my sister she wears a hat" well it most certainly was not from my grandaughter, the hair in question was black and short. The waitress just walked off and my granddaughter left the piece with the hair and ate around it. Hey ho yet another hair was in the lasagne, on the top hardened into the very hard crust. Once again it was short and black. The Waitress decided then to commence taking the plates off the table, even though people were still eating - REALLY. My granddaughter decided to leave the rest of her food. We left the restaurant and went to pay the bill. I told them of the problem we had encountered and they took the meal off the bill. Overall it was a very unpleasant experience and will most certainly will not return and cannot recommend the Coracle Tavern.

Beautiful food, great service and dog friendly. Really enjoyed.

Find the place a bit lacklustre . It's ok as a stop off pint .