The best restaurants serving British food in Felindre Bridgend South Wales

Second time here visiting family in the lovely town of Pencoed. Had the small breakfast, which filled me & coffee. Well cooked and great service from very nice young staff. All for 7 pounds, worth a visit, would recommend.

- Tense atmosphere. Staff appeared unhappy, tired and frustrated and it was only 5pm. Really felt for them, seemed like they were all stressed. Wasn’t the best atmosphere for a little boys birthday. - Chicken skewer came out with the wrong sauce (fair enough, it happens). The lady serving was polite and apologetic, took it back to change. We were sat right by the kitchen and heard one of the chefs say “just wipe it off!” which wasn’t nice to hear. I didn’t see what they did to the food but can only hope it wasn’t just ‘wiped’ with something. The chicken came back suspiciously quickly and it was cold in the middle so I’m not sure what happened here but I guess I’ll never know. - One of the children had an undercooked chicken breast which was very clearly pink through the middle, he’d eaten half of it before we noticed so we quietly mentioned at the end of the meal and explained we didn’t want any replacement and we weren’t complaining, we just wanted to let them know as feedback (again, it happens). Rather than just accept the heads up, the waiter (before even looking at the chicken) said defensively “It’s just a vein, with these chicken breasts that happens a lot.” It was clear to all 7 people at our table that it was not a vein and the whole width of the breast was pink. This sounded like a stock response he’d been told he had to say so we just left it. No apology or ‘thanks for letting us know.’ He even said “Do you want a takeaway box for the chicken”. We declined. - I’ve left a 5* review in the past (couple of years ago) for this particular harvester so it’s such a shame to see it has fallen so far.

Popped in for lunch and enjoyed beautifully cooked hake and chips with all the trimmings and a really tasty build your own pizza. Thanks to all the team and especially Sian for going the extra mile to make sure that our dining experience was perfect.