The Five Arches Tavern in Pembrokeshire

Lovely welcoming pub, had a 4 night stay in Tenby and with plenty of bars and restaurants to choose from we always picked this one! Amazing staff, great food and great selection of drinks. Breakfast was incredible!! 10 out of 10 - great!

Singer was on when I visited who was v gd & also serving decent ale Hazy ipa

We had breakfast, and it was great value for money, and the owner could do enough for us. The food was very good and the service even better.

Lovely food and welcoming staff

Stopped in for lunch today and I'm so glad we did. The staff were attentive and friendly and a good laugh too. We ordered four main meals and the food arrived piping hot and the portions were really good. Everything was tasty and cooked perfectly 😋. We will definitely be returning very soon. Great job guys! Xx

Called in for lunch and we were given the warmest welcome,really friendly staff,fantastic atmosphere. The food is extremely reasonably priced,lots of choice. We had the hunters chicken and chicken burger,looked amazing on the plate,tasted really good,the hunters chicken was so big I couldn't manage it all! Only thing we didn't like was the onion rings,but that's just us being fussy! Would definitely recommend.

Lovely warm welcome. Dog friendly which is a bonus. Good food plenty on plate, lovely & hot couldn’t fault it. Would definitely recommend & return on next visit to Tenby.

Great lunch (ham baguette and chips). Fast and friendly service

Absolutely the best mixed grill I've ever had in my life!!! T'other half had the sirloin, honestly top notch food 😋😋😋 lovely welcome from the guys that work there too 👌 if your looking for somewhere welcoming with great food then I would highly recommend this place 😃

Lovely breakfast here while visiting Tenby, dog friendly. Very nice place.

Visited the five arches last evening,24/9/ ,such a lovely lil tavern. Atmosphere was warm and welcoming, food was delicious,staff were really friendly too. Definitely,well worth a visit.

I came here with my partner while visiting Tenby because we saw an advert online for two steaks and a bottle of wine for £35. It is quite a small place so was busy inside when we arrived, but we seated ourselves okay and ordered at the bar. The steaks were delicious and the wine went down a treat! The staff were friendly (as was everyone in Tenby, it's a super friendly place!) and it seemed like a really nice local pub. Would definitely recommend to anyone looking for somewhere to eat in Tenby.

Great food at reasonable prices

Went in on Friday night. Live music and good atmosphere.

The Thursday £35 special is amazing value. Humongous mixed grill for me, steak for wife. Awesome quality of food and generous portions. All with a bottle of wine. Our 6 friends thought the same ..amazing value. Classic pub. Service was nig the best.

Really cracking pub. Visited twice in 4 days whilst staying the town. Dog friendly too.

Lovely little place, food was affordable and very tasty

Lovely pub full of character with a friendly atmosphere and an excellent cask ale on. Great that they have live music and we saw the entertaining Ella Guru.

Fish was awful, sent back, came just as awful, thick rubber middle bit in both and edges, wet batter inside,

Lots of exposed brickwork which adds to the character of the pub. Also exposed beams on the ceiling with fairy lights a glow. Three individual areas to sit. Dog friendly and wheelchair friendly to a degree. Absolutely full when I arrived. Very popular place serving food. Usual tap beers and a couple of real ales available. Staff were friendly, polite and helpful. Beer was good and the food looked amazing. Well worth a visit. I enjoyed my visit.

A great pub with a fantastic atmosphere. The food was lovely and the staff give a great service. Well worth a visit.

Brilliant bar, seems a locals watering hole but great atmos and a pub with character. Spot on!

A great authentic pub, with a wide selection of food and drink. We visited a few times during our stay, where the staff were always friendly, helpful and cheery, even thoigh it was very busy. The pub is dog friendly, reasonably priced (for a main thoroughfare) and has entertainment on through the peak season. The loos aren't the best, but a great pub other than that. We'll certainly be back. I think the chap was called Dylan, who stood out in terms of going above and beyond.

My wife is friendly with the owners and everytime we are in Tenby we go for a beer. The staff are really friendly and the ambience is cosy. Olde world feel to it but feels homely. Would definitely recommend. Haven't tried the food so can't rate but but the breakfast prices are really good.

Very welcoming and friendly staff. Awesome food and very reasonable prices 🤤🤤

Nice friendly staff. Busy pub. Food disappointing 😞

Saw a Band in the Evening. Atmosphere was good and everyone was friendly

Used this establishment on 4th August and after visiting quite a few we found this to be very clean very pleasant staff and fantastic food and very good prices!

Stopped for breakfast this morning and was not disappointed. Lovely thick bacon and generous portions.

Went in for breakfast and it was delicious. First time for breakfast but have been in many times before when we are on holiday.

Lovely pub lunch today, on holiday with our teenagers, this place was perfect. Friendly staff, found us a table even though super busy. Lovely pub food - scampi and chips, pie and mash, racks of ribs, all delicious and very reasonably priced. Thumbs up from us!

We stopped by for a bite to eat this evening and were greated by a warm inviting atmosphere with great staff and great food & drink. I would definitely recommend it 👌.

Luvl y pub. Didn't have food but meals going past looked great. Some good food deals especially brekkie. Nice pint of pale ale. Recommended. 👍🍺

Great pub, friendly staff and awesome food thats not a rip off.

Perfect mixed grill great price under £19 ..

Nice pub, nice people, nice coffee

Lovely pint and great atmosphere

Great food lovely pub friendly staff

Great pub, great food nice staff.

My favourite pub in Tenby great service from the bar. Food is fantastic as well.

Nice pub with friendly staff, that serves generously-portioned, lovely food. We enjoyed our meal so much, we went back the next morning for breakfast.

Superb food great value staff very friendly, wouldn't go anywhere else now in Tenby to eat, recommend to anyone

Amazing food ,very friendly staff well recommend to anyone eating out in Tenby

Ridiculously slow service, 25 mins for one beef & ale pie, when it did arrive, very small, accompanied by a spoonful of peas and one small potatoes. Staff were friendly but shirts could do with a wash.

Fantastic homemade Sunday Dinner yesterday, customer service was outstanding Would highly recommend a visit

One of my fave pubs. Decent pub grub at reasonable price too

Their breakfast is amazing and fantastic value for money!! £7.95 for the regular and it’s massive!! Very very tasty 👅

Great traditional pub food. Very friendly staff. 11 of us for dinner, all of the food came together, all was piping hot and all really enjoyed. What more could we ask. Had a really lovely evening, thank you

Sunday dinner was delicious plenty of it and the cauliflower cheese was amazing. Will be back next week.

Didn't eat here but it did looked very good. Lovely fire when it's cold and damp outside. Friendly staff and customers

Lovely breakfast everything fresh

Busy pub in a lovely building (biggest fireplace in Tenby?!) two hand pumps on, one was unfortunately Doombar, and the other was Solar Wave (so much Cornish beer in Pembrokeshire?). Good atmosphere, we watched some love music which was lots of fun

Had Sunday lunch here yesterday and it was absolutely gorgeous. Food cooked to perfection. We had the nut roast option which was one of the loveliest I've ever tasted! Fabulous staff and service and will be recommending to others

Good atmosphere. Friendly staff

Great dog friendly pub. Staff so good. Great Valentines special offer We loved it.

Think Wetherspoons food but more expensive. It done the job. Edit: If you want your customers to not have views like this, maybe start by telling your chef that corn on the cob doesn't need to be microwaved for 20 mins, thing looked like a yellow hedgehog.

A good selection of beers. Food is very good. Nice mix of locals and tourist customers.

Staff were lovely, nice atmosphere, dogs welcome. But the food…. I ordered sausage and mash, the mash potato was smash packet mix with uncooked bits in, the peas were still frozen and some still were and the sausages were the cheapest you can buy.

Lovely open log fire always warm and welcoming.

A great pub great atmosphere the luve band are fab! A great night out!

A nice, quiet, friendly pub with good food, perfect for relaxing between the bustle of tourist Tenby.

Friendly atmosphere in this pub in tenby craft ales reasonably priced drinks we didn't have food this time but looked really good

TERRIBLE SERVICE. IGNORANT. OBNOXIOUS. TOTALLY MADE TO FEEL UNWELCOME.

8 of us (6 children) as a walk-in and the staff couldn’t have been more accommodating, so so friendly, made us feel like regulars (we were actually on holiday from the north west). Food was amazing too!! HIGHLY RECOMMEND!!!

Nice place nice pint,sure will pop in again before we leave on Sunday!

Standard pub and average prices compared to the rest around the area, bit dark and dinghy. The food was OK although we had to wait for quite a while for it, chips were lovely. The onion rings looked amazing but unfortunately were cold compared to the rest of the food. Burger was a bit gristly. Bacon was very thick, but it had a lot of hard fat on it. It was OK.

One of my favourite pubs in Tenby! It’s Proper pub! Staff have always been helpful! Drink prices aren’t to bad. Great place for a few drinks .

Lovely food great staff we came in May first so we had to come back again

A traditional pub right by the five arches. Friendly welcoming from the staff and a great choice of food. The meals were delicious and fresh and plenty on the plate. Would highly recommend you pop in.

Staff where lovely but the food was expensive for what it was and over cooked, beer was really watery

Dropped by Five Arches Tavern recently. The food was nice, drinks were good, and the staff was friendly. A good spot for a casual outing.

Good hearty flavoursome food, large portions and a friendly team. I suffer from social anxiety and even I felt comfortable and relaxed here

Visited with the wife we had the roast beef dinner as it was a Sunday, had tried a few others had to wait to long or full up so we saw the Arches and went in enquired at the bar the land lord said pick a table come back and order which I did. The food was there very swiftly and it was served by a very attentive waitress, the meal was excellent more than enough, friendly staff great experience worth double the stars.

Nice traditional style pub, we enjoyed our visit, great that they allow dogs in.

Live music, busy bar, with a nice and friendly atmosphere, on a Wednesday evening... bonus!

Lovely food wondrous staff recommended. Absolutely full

Food was great, beer was even better. Loud music at lunchtime is a little annoying but I’m just being picky. Highly recommend

Food was pretty good but extremely disappointed that nut allergy is simply not catered for as staff explained that they only had a small kitchen. Although we’re very glad that they didn’t take any risks, one of our party sat there watching the rest of us eat which kinda spoilt the meal. Can I suggest keeping a frozen meal (a pizza maybe or microwave chips) to offer - it would have transformed our visit and not made one of us feel like a total diva / burden.

Sunday lunch was unmissable! One of the nicest roast dinners I’ve ever had! Kept me full nearly all day and evening. Staff were really friendly and helpful and the owners are lovely! Ended up wearing half the gravy on my top I enjoyed it that much 😂 will be back!

Called in for a drink live music from woolfey great musician great service friendly staff clean toilets xxx

This place is ok only had one drink no food

Very reasonable priced, nice food, nice staff

Absolutely love this pub!!! Every visit to Tenby this is our first go to pub. Authentic, genuine tavern. Great atmosphere, fantastic staff, caters for everyone. I've not eaten here but the food does look amazing.

We really enjoyed our meals here last week.. Staff were friendly and helpful and the food was tasty! The prices were also very reasonable.. we will definitely recommend to others and visit again the future ! 😀

Good value food in a fantastic historical building.this place does live music 3 days a week. Plus the bonus of the immersive interior with low beamed ceilings and stone walls some parts attached to the church next door dating back centuries as a mortuary. Good food at a great location close to the beaches of Tenby.

Lovely food at a reasonable price 👌

This pub sucks in all ways. Bad news of you go for food. Poor quality. Bland and tastes. Staff should be stacked especially a little over weight man. Would not visit again.

Staff was miserable and lacking customer care. Food experience was poorly delivered. Quality of the time spent in the pub was none conclusive. Local rowdy place WILL Not VISIT AGAIN.

Great night of live music watching Footbridge band. Good beer and price.

Lovely independent pub not part of the monopoly of eateries which quite honestly are okay but are all the same with no personality highly recommend this place

I am local to Tenby and used to visit this pub regularly, particularly when it was under previous management, however sadly it has now become very cliquey and unwelcoming of 'outsiders' to the clique.. I had a few friends from away visiting for a long weekend over Bank Holiday. On the Saturday evening we paid a visit to the Tavern and were refused at the bar as we were told they had stopped serving, only for the barmaid to turn around and continue serving other favoured/local customers. On the Sunday we decided to visit again, accompanying some other people I know, and the manageress (Kelly) followed a small group of us into the toilets, stating that she was suspicious of 'lesbian activity' (following her observation of two females amongst us kissing), then caught one member of our party removing a fake flower from a display there. Due to this (although it was not made clear to us at the time), it has since been proclaimed by her and the owners that we are all barred until further notice due to 'causing damage'. No-one I have told about this can actually believe it, as at 39 years old I have never been banned from anywhere else, and am certainly not the type of person to go around causing damage to anything! The managers have also introduced a strangely limited 'loyalty card' scheme, with discounts formally given to a select 100 only (and no replacements considered when current members move away/die/etc.), whereas other pubs in Tenby with a similar offering open it to all regular pub-going locals. On a separate note, whilst I have attended The Five Arches Tavern for drinks on many occasions, I have only eaten here once, for their Wednesday curry deal. I was part of a fairly large group and every one of us sent our food back in the first instance as it came out cold (for which we were compensated with a free round of drinks), then on the second attempt I was served the blandest chicken tikka masala I have ever had; it literally tasted of nothing at all! My companions were equally unimpressed and I don't believe that any of us have returned for food since. With an abundance of pubs to choose from in Tenby, you can very easily find a better option for customer service, atmosphere and food quality. It's a shame as the building is nice enough and they provide a good live music offering, but unfortunately the management direction here has taken a turn for the bizarre. AVOID!

Fabulous atmosphere and brilliant staff can't do better 5 stars! Food outstanding for the price and the redhead waitress was fabulous!

Traditional pub serving food and drinks

Didn't have the food, but it looked good. Friendly crowd and staff.

Sadly has become very cliquey under current management. Take care not to get on the wrong side of the manageress or you will be barred for no reason! Food is a letdown also. EDIT In reply to the response received: It comes as no surprise that the "reasons" won't be published, seeing as no legitimate reason exists! I am in no way seeking to change things, thank you, as I have absolutely no desire to support this business so long as it employs a manager who abuses her power and sides with perpetrators of domestic violence against the will/advice of the police. I am actually grateful, circumstances being as they are, to have a perfect excuse to decline should friends propose to visit here and instead take our custom to any one of the many other fantastic pubs in Tenby where it will be appreciated. I only wish to warn others with regards the unpleasant and unfair treatment I have been subjected to, and suggest they do the same so as to avoid experiencing similar. All the best!

Fermato per una pinta è qualcosa di veloce da mangiare … servizio efficiente e staff cordiale è disponibile. Cibo, birra e prezzo compatibile..

Never again. Owner waiting to tell us it was full due to walk ins. Only 1 table taken,ok 2xspecial needs grandkids,fobbed off,or basically told we not welcome,told to go to rugby club as had kids playroom. Been going here for years ,not any more.

Worst experience ever didn’t even get in the door owner stood outside no room full Sorry !! There was nobody in there 😂😂 family’s well-come don’t think so .. got two kids with special needs he could see that all we wanted was a nice quiet lunch. The kids are well behaved and just wanted something to eat. If you’re thinking about going here as a family I would think again this man needs teaching people do have additional needs. Where is thing is we’ve been here every year because we enjoy it not anymore!!

Went in tonight. Very rude manageress told us us to move cos the music was coming on. I said where will we go and she said don't know. The musicians was quite good but I will never go back there Again. I wouldn't recommend it for anyone. Very rude staff

Fabulous food, with friendly and very helpful staff. Very good old fashioned pub, which would benefit if the furniture was spruced up/built in seating recovered, still keeping the traditional feel. Staff very pleasant and helpful.