The Vale of Glamorgan
The Humble Onion

The Humble Onion

United Kingdom, The Vale of Glamorgan

Steak • Vegan • British • European


"Went for a family meal to celebrate a birthday. Prior to the meal we booked a few weeks before for 7 people and the staff member explained that due to COVID restrictions that we would have to play it by ear as they could only...sit 6 inside. The day before the meal we emailed to confirm and the owner called me and explained it still remained 6 people so they could sit us outside. However, if the weather turned and it rained that we could sit inside on table of 4 and 3 which we were happy with. On arriving to the restaurant we were greeted by the manager and we explained there was only 6 of us now so could we sit inside as the what was previously stated by one of the staff. The manager then said no as they were fully booked, so we sat outside under the umbrella which was not waterproof. The manager gave us menus and said he would return with water for the table but that was the last time we saw him. After sitting down and looking through the menu. After 20 minutes the waitress came over and took the drinks order. Then we waited a following 40 minutes for our food order to be taken. The food came out and it was good, although the vegan options they had. Although they had a few options which was impressive. However, the asparagus dish consisted of 6 stalks and was £8 and the gnocchi dish was emerged in pool of oil. All in all the service and whole experience was poor, they were over booked and what felt like they were under staffed. The waitress who served us was lovely and tried her hardest and made the experience bearable."

White Hart

White Hart

Wine Street, CF61 1RZ, The Vale of Glamorgan, United Kingdom

Cafés • Steak • Seafood • Vegetarian


"My Mum, Sister and I just stayed in the one room they have above the pub this weekend (Friday and Saturday night. Well, I say above the pub, it’s a very old building so the whole apartment upstairs slants meaning that one of the two bedrooms is separated from the bar by two thin doors. It’s best to describe this place as pros and cons. Pros: it’s massive. Very large ‘L’ shaped sofa in a large lounge. Two reasonably sized bedrooms, all of which were clean and a large dining table with 6 chairs. a good, clean bathroom and the shower (including a rain shower was great with good pressure large kitchen no parking at the pub but you might be lucky enough to park on the road just outside (in front of the houses and free parking less than a five minute walk away which was safe and used by many in the community lovely shop (for presents and café selling good coffee on the square nearby Cons: not a great welcome. We arrived at around 8:30pm on Friday (we said that we’d be there before 10pm. Walked into the pub and had to wait a while while the supervisor was called to help us. She offered to carry some luggage up, which was kind but other than that she was perfunctory and there was certainly no offer of whether we wanted a table for dinner etc (luckily we had booked another place nearby the kitchen was dirty. For example, we used the oven and both the grill and baking tray were greasy and the oven well used. The cutlery drawer had salt and general mess in. The fridge looked like it could do with a better wipe and the cloths for the washing up were not brand new. the lounge only had one lamp in not enough for the size of the room to do nice lighting wifi was sketchy/intermittent toilet seat broken in the bathroom beds were smalls doubles. no welcome pack or toiletries…expected for the price we paid. I sound fussy but the biggest reason why we scored this as poor as a rating was the noise factor. We were not naive that staying above a pub we should expect a level of noise. However, the pub is a stone’s throw from two other pubs with a bus stop in front of the Tavern pub. We expected noise until midnight but clearly the pubs in the area make no effort to police noise. How residents cope I have no idea. Saturday night was particularly problematic as one of the pubs clearly had a lock in so people were congregating in the square being drunk and loud (and throwing up until gone 1:30am. The staff in the pub we were staying at were also loud, moving furniture at gone midnight and started hoovering at 8:30am on Sunday morning. Those two doors make no difference to filter the noise. In short there is no consideration shown for guests staying and it really impacted our sleep. We loved the area but won’t be staying here again. We have stayed above pubs before and like the atmosphere but the cons outweigh the pros here and I prefer somewhere where more respect is shown to those staying and the surrounding neighborhood."

Il Vesuvio

Il Vesuvio

13-14 Pound Field, The Vale of Glamorgan, United Kingdom

Cafés • Pizza • Pasta • Steak


"Firstly i would like to say after our visit last night there was only an issue with one member of staff, the young lady that was responsible for serving us was very very good and its such a pity that the older lady who dealt...with the issue does not know the meaning of hospitality. We were a party of seven and obviously started with a round of starters which were very nice, on arrival of the main courses everything looked good and to be fair, apart from the one issue, tasted very nice. The issue we had was that the chicken dish that was ordered smelt off and indeed was off, Again at this point it was not really an issue as these things do happen. When we asked the, i presume supervisor, over to report the issue she picked up the chicken on the fork and said it smells fine to me and the chicken was bought yesterday, she left the plate there and did not even take it back to the chef to check the dish, all other main courses were very nice might i add. After the bill was presented the chicken dish had been taken off the bill which is not what we wanted, the young lady who dealt with the bill was very charming and polite and apologized for the chicken dish. After leaving our table and indeed a tip as we walked out of the restaurant the supervisor was stood at the bar with the chef and i can only describe her as staring us down and basically giving us filthy looks......again it seems that the hospitality training had fallen short with this older lady and maybe she would do well by learning from the youngsters that you employ on how to treat their customers. A bad experience that could have been handled a lot better from just one member of staff who should probably know better."