Restaurants

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We stayed at Penally Abbey in Pembrokeshire earlier in the month, the wife's favourite hotel. Just put a review on TripAdvisor, I'll share it here.

Penally Abbey Hotel is a nicely located, cosy hotel with a nice relaxed atmosphere and friendly, helpful staff. The garden is lovely, especially in nice weather.

But it's in the restaurant where they badly let themselves down. The dinner menu choices aren't great. On the one night we ate there during this trip I opted for a "rarebit" dish. In practice, this turned out to be a slightly sickly cauliflower cheese, albeit augmented I think with slices of nuts. Not a particularly large helping. No potatoes, no fries, no vegetables - just a large serving spoon volume of the stuff, slopped in the middle of a plate. For this, the charge was £24 according to the menu. In actual fact, on scrutinising my bill at home afterwards, I saw that I'd been charged £34, for "lamb".

Now admittedly the food isn't everything; the setting is also important. but the Penally Abbey restaurant is something akin to the breakfast room of a large B&B, which (in truth) is pretty much what is is.

Anyway, bottom line: I was charged £34 for a scoop of cheesy glop that might have been adequate as a side dish. Even the £24 that I would have paid if I hadn't been robbed would have been an astonishing price for that.