Cardiff
Pettigrew Tea Rooms

Pettigrew Tea Rooms

West Lodge Castle Street, CF10 1BJ, Cardiff, United Kingdom

Welsh • Coffee • British • European


"This was our first visit to the Pettigrew Tea Rooms. We had a gift of a voucher for Afternoon Tea for Two. What a brilliant gift that was! We couldn't fault anything! Service was prompt and friendly, The menu was explained, on how to choose which sandwiches we would like, although the printed menu was quite clear, choose any four sandwich fillings and which bread you would like, choose fruit, or plain scones and which drink we would like. Later, we were asked to choose which cake we would like. We were also asked if we had any allergies that they should be aware of. The sandwiches were well filled and delicious, The scones were still warm and went down well with the clotted cream and jam and berries. There were also Petit Fours and shortbread biscuits to round that course off. We chose Darjeeling tea as our drink, as it is a favourite of ours and it came freshly brewed in two pots, which held enough for 3 cups each. We prefer our tea without milk, so those that have milk, would likely get 4 cups each. We both chose the option of a glass of Cava £7.50 PP). A nice start to the occasion. All this was followed by Cake. We were full, but it had to be done Lemon Drizzle for me and Coffee Mocha Cake for my wife. Ohhh, they were really, really nice. With each serving we were asked if our food was OK Yes it was! Having read the poor reviews, I find it difficult to equate their experience with ours. It's like others had visited a different tea room! Loads of tea leaves in the pot too! Well done Pettigrew Tea Rooms, will will return!"

The Head Of Steam Cardiff

The Head Of Steam Cardiff

18-19 Church Street, CF10 1BG, Cardiff, United Kingdom

Pub • Steak • British • Burgers


"I frequently do pub quizzes in Cardiff, and had wanted to try the Head of Steam 's quiz for a while. Me and my friends found the quiz reasonably challenging, and did not think we stood a chance of winning given how much we 'd struggled. To our shock, it turned out that our 18/35 was the winning score. Even more to our shock, we were immediately disqualified for supposedly having cheated with our phones. Even though we all offered to show the quizmaster our phone histories to prove that we hadn 't cheated, he refused to even look at them. He then explained that he had clear that phones weren 't allowed. I responded that whilst it is very common for quizmasters to say 'no phones allowed ', this is virtually always understood as meaning 'don 't use google ', not that looking at your phone for any purpose is banned, as if we were GCSE students at high school. As I say, I have been at many pub quizzes, and occasionally do check my phone for football scores and to respond to texts etc. This has never been picked up on because it something incredibly common that I always see people do at quizzes. It is worth adding that there is no way the quizmaster could ever hope to enforce this rule, as his seat in the corner of the pub (right next to our party) would not have allowed him to see whether almost any of the other teams were looking at their phones. At the end of the day, it was hard not to be extremely unimpressed with the quizmaster. Not only for the fact that he never made clear that holding your phone (for whatever reason) would lead to automatic disqualification, or for the fact that he allowed us to waste our time completing the quiz despite having clearly decided that we should be disqualified. What was most unimpressive was his refusal to be proven wrong, as he would not look at our phone history as offered. If you are going to have such a ludicrously strict rule, which you could only hope to enforce with regards to less than a quarter of participants, at the very least you should let those you suspect of cheating know that they will be disqualified if they are seen on their phones once again. I have been doing pub quizzes for years, and have never cheated; being accused of having done so leaves an incredibly bitter taste. Simply put, this is defamation of character."

La Nouba

La Nouba

6 Waungron Road, CF5 2JJ, Cardiff, United Kingdom

Soup • Cakes • Coffee • Breakfast


"I raved about this place in my last review but since then it appears to have changed. Firstly, I cant remember the chairs being so uncomfortable that they had 'scatter ' cushions for you to use if you needed to. Having had back surgery, they made it even worse for me, so did without them in the most uncomfortable chair ever. Now, to the main part of the review. The lovely cakes that I had raved about had disappeared to be replaced by a sorry looking load of bog standard cake. The poor girl who served us was nervous as it was her first day, we ordered pecan pie which came with cream, we asked if its pouring or thick, she had to ask, it was pouring so we asked if we could have ice cream instead, she had to ask. Anyway, we finally ordered our cake and coffee. When she brought the coffee, she spilled half of mine in the saucer and then asked if I wanted a different saucer....duh! she took the offending saucer and the spoon brought a saucer back, no extra serviette to wipe the bottom of the cup and NO SPOON! We were then served the cake and ice cream, which to be fair, was nice, until, halfway through I saw a hair on my friends plate, (she was not wearing her glasses). We knew instantly that it was not either of ours, I have shoulder length hair and her hair was in a bun! We called the poor young lady over and pointed it out, she asked if my friend wanted to change it...duh! Of course she did, she brought another and thankfully my friend shared it with me! The coffee was (flat white) was nice but after that catalogue of events I wont be going back. They do offer a range of snacks/lunches and people did seem to be enjoying them."