The best restaurants in Usk Monmouthshire South Wales

We stayed at the ARW for a short weekend break our anniversary. Our room was excellent, the price was very reasonable for the quality. The staff were extremely helpful and friendly during our stay and were happy to provide a bottle of bubbles for the room. Breakfast was first rate, the ambiance and decor was tasteful and the food was magnificent- we had chateaubriand steak for dinner on one night and went to a well-known upmarket restaurant the following might, and the ARW food we both thought was of much better quality. I'm sure we'll be back.

What a lovely little cafe and deli. I ordered the meat and cheese platter and it was OK, mainly bread which was a bit disappointing, but the atmosphere was fab

Brilliant meal at Fantastico last night(30/04/24) The Gamberi prawn starter was lovely with really fresh prawns. Primavera risotto was delicious and Tagliatelle Carnacina was Excellent. Great dessert’s accompanied by a great dessert wine.

Just had the Sunday roast; lamb and chicken. It was fantastic, the portions were generous. So, I thought I’d be taking leftovers home for the dogs. To my surprise, I ate everything and felt like I needed to be wheeled out.

I’m happy to say this was one of the finest pub lunch experiences I’ve had. The welcome was just exceptional. Kind, warm, engaged. The food was the finest. The salad with croutons, brilliant. We newly live an hour from the pub and didn’t know what to expect but there’s no doubt we’ll return again and again by ourselves, with friends and with family. This is the place I’ve been waiting for. Just a great time was had. Family business at its best. Blown away by the customer service. Well done!

Had my baby shower here in their private function room - highly recommend. A gorgeous space perfect for up to 20 people to enjoy an afternoon together. Stunning decor, beautiful food and delightful afternoon tea with a great service. Could not recommend enough! The food and drinks were delicious and reasonably priced.

Sprokwobbles has closed. What a tragedy. Lovely food and friendly staff. Miss it so much. Let's hope it can return soon. Nothing to match it in Usk.

This place is stuck in an antiquated time warp. I could look past the fact that it has not been updated in the past 25 years, but to serve such poor food and expect a premium for it - just no excuse. Sunday lunch for two cost £130. The starter was overwhelming big - ordered brie - they literally served an entire wedge of brie. Way, way too big for a starter. My husband had pork for main. They served him what appeared to be the end of the joint which looked completely unpalatable - very dry and unappetising. They provide silver service for the veg, so if you think you may get some on your plate to start with and then go in for a bit more later – forget it. The veg was OK, but at £22 for a main course, boiled sprouts and carrots were unimaginative to say the least. Not even a hint of glaze or seasoning other than salt! We had a pavlova for pudding and the fruit was slushy and looked ready for the recycling bin. Won’t be going again in a hurry!

Visited after a lovely post-Christmas walk along the canal. I ordered a bowl of soup and my husband only wanted a coffee. This cafe is in a beautiful setting and the menu looked good. However, I waited ages for the soup to arrive and in fact thought they had forgotten about me so I went to ask. I was told there were two other orders in front of me. My husband had long finished his coffee when it did eventually arrive. Great potential here but the service needs to be sorted. Hopefully this was just a blip on the day we visited.

Tennis ladies Christmas outing. Ten of us had great food. Generous portions and lovely fresh veg. Lovely staff and allergy well catered for.

Kai and Craig been great tonight... Well done

Excellent food and service. So good we returned the next day for dinner! Good menu and friendly atmosphere. Will definitely return soon.

Friendly. Quirky. Lots of room. Good selection and quality. Excellent provision and care for allergens. Family run business and this shows with the personal touch you receive.

Visited here as I do regularly, not sure why I thought it would be any different to any other visit. Last visit before this I went in for a coffee only to be told it wasn't possible as they had cleaned down the coffee machine, 20 minutes prior to closing - to me a closing time is a closing time to the public and up until that point you serve them, then cleaning down commences after, but I could be wrong. This time I asked for a plain cheese sandwich after checking the shelves to which there was only tuna mayo & egg salad (something similar) left. The lady behind the counter refused to do this for me, blaming Natasha's Law, now I take this very seriously and understand the reasoning behind, however this law regards pre packaged food & labelling. As this isn't the first time I have been refused by the same lady something other than what's on the shelf (which most of the time may I add is hardly anything because they only make a certain amount & have a "it is what it is attitude". ) I am putting it down to pure laziness. It is a shame as Usk doesn't have a decent bakery. It is hardly ever open due to staff shortages, they aren't willing to branch out on customer requests and the attitude is far from hospitable.

Had a Christmas dinner here, the soup to start was lovely very tasty piping hot with a lovely roll next wast beef dinner exquisite parsnips and carrots beautiful Yorkshire pudding flavour and gravy and a good selection of vegetables although they were a tad hard only complaints were that the beef wasn’t rare enough and the potatoes were cut too big other than that was flawless. But the Christmas pudding was very underwhelming and not what I expected. Overall I would give my experience a 7 out of 10 based on all elements of price location, food quality drink selection and others.