The Torbay Inn - Carmarthenshire

Read the reviews and checked the online menu and everything looked Bless! Was in the area so thought why not! Dated but traditional quirky gastro pub kinda vibe from outside and inside. Can 't really knock it, and we just wanted to eat tbh and tbf so I ain 't gonna digress! 1st off, the menu online is NOT the menu when you land (Something about new owners blah blah blah) so having already picked what we wanted beforehand at home, we had to now go through another menu, again..Minor, I know, but it 's a review! Behave!... Anyway we managed to order some dishes we thought would be winners, but nahhhh to be honest they were Not!! No Mash available with a Pie! A Pie! No mash! Like seriously!?

Food was delicious staff were friendly and welcoming glad to see food being served here again

Had many a meal at the Torbay and always been lovely..today we had Sunday lunch under new management,at 15 pounds per person we thought it would be something really special,how wrong we were!! 3 small roasties,small bowl of veg,between four of us,barely enough for one..had to ask for another, meat was ok but gravy wasn’t home made and the Yorkshire pudding tasted burnt,no mashed potato or cauliflower cheese, charge top end but food was nothing like a restaurant should be!!!

Very disappointing. The place was crowded when we arrived and we were asked to get our own drinks order before we were taken to our table. We specifically went on a steak night and had booked in advance only to be told that most of the steak options were unavailable. We ordered from.what we were told was available. Some of that turned our not to be available. We ordered again. We were told that the food we had chosen came with chips and salad. We then didn 't see anyone for around an hour and a half, we had to fetch ourselves our own second round of drinks from the bar. The food finally arrived, two steaks were apparently quite nice, one that was ordered medium rare was so well done it was dry tough and inedible and was returned to the kitchen uneaten. The salad was 6 rocket leaves and half a cherry tomato... really. The chips were skin on, some.were undercooked, all were cold. By this time we were starving so we ate what we could. The chicken parmigiani was tasteless and barely came with enough tomato and mozzarella sauce to cover a cracker. The ribs also tasteless, I couldn 't be bothered to eat half of my chicken and that went into a chap who had had to share a steak with his wife. The pudding menu was likewise mostly unavailable. We felt we had to 'book ' our desert when the food arrived so we would actually get some. The puddings that did turn up were small but adequate. We were not told at the start of the evening that the place is two separate businesses so you are presented with two bills at the end of the evening which came as a surprise. I got a bag stomach from the chicken parmigiani that I did eat, the chap who had the other half didn 't, so I 'm putting this down to my own sensitivity. On the whole.... not great which is so disappointing as I really wanted to love this place. It would be so lovely to have a good steak house in the area and at the moment this isn 't it. They have just opened up so I 'm prepared to believe that these are maybe teething problems but I will not go back willingly for quite some.time. Sorry to the waitress who was really trying her best but .. no. Sorry. A very very disappointing birthday 'treat ' (the inedible steak) for our lovely friend.

This was our second time visiting this restaurant, as our first experience was not great. However, tonight's visit was really enjoyable and we would highly recommend it. We will definitely be returning. We recently tried the food from the three chefs' menu, although it was not as advertised, which was disappointing.