Coach & Horses

Very accommodating, we were a large party group so took over a whole room, great service and food was superb!
Apr 25th, 2023

Didn't eat but a medium wine & a pint of madri over 13!! That's just a rip off
Apr 22nd, 2023

Food : 5/5 | Service : 4/5 | Atmosphere : 5/5 Recommended dishes Roast Beef More
Apr 1st, 2023

Recommended dishes Chicken Burger, Sausage & Mash More
Mar 31st, 2023

This review is for the Coach & Horses in Newport. First impressions: A nice clean establishment, adequate parking and spacing between tables. Proprietor: Jon is very accommodating and welcoming. Service: Appears to be a bit slow and a bit haphazard sometimes. A lack of cohesion with the young staff is more apparent the busier it gets. The staff are mostly charming and helpful but might make mistakes, forget, or weirdly leave you with a fork and knife where a spoon is required! One waitress has a bit of condescending back chat personality. Could be perceived as a little passive aggressive, the sort of character one would expect to encounter at a building site canteen. Dress code: Some of the young female staff dress like they're working at an outdoors Summer event or about to go clubbing after their shift. For example, excessively ripped blue jeans with half of their bare legs showing, crop tops with large mid drift on display revealing jewel encrusted pieced navel. For the venue and the prices this place charges, dress code to us is inappropriate. White on black would be better. It would cover up the flesh and would also distinguish those that are quests and those that are staff, especially when they're huddled in a corner chatting in the bar area and youre looking around trying to figure out who to ask for assistance. Food: The pretentious description of the food v's what is served can lead to below expectations. Compared to some other pubs, C&H does not leave one with a feeling of good value for money. Price per meal is average but portion size is below average. OK if youre a lady careful with her wieght, or a hamster, but not for a working man that could easily eat the serving twice/3x. Starters: ~9-10 and the portions are miserly small. For example the King prawn starter is six battered pieces, three battered prawns, with three slivers of battered avocado. The prawns were way too hot and spicy to the point it left lips burning so wont be to everyones taste. Youre better off sucking on a boiled sweet and waiting for your main dish to arrive because you wont feel any different. Main dish: Overall, in comparison to other establishments, like the starters, overpriced for what was actually served. Sunday Roast: When the Yorkshire pudding dominates the dish, you know at this point youre going to leave feeling like youre going to need to eat when you get home. Meat was wafer thin and not much of it, three small chunks of dried out potato, with a shared mediocre unseasoned overcooked veg platter. Yorkshire pudding was perfect but let down by a mean smear of gravy under the food. A gravy boat should have come with the dish to hydrate the food. It's not your Mum's Sunday roast by any means! Desserts: Sometimes deviated too far from familiarity. They bear the name but bear little resemblance to the traditional dish. For example the Bread&butter pudding, one of the cheapest easiest most filling deserts to make, was an overcomplicated overpriced bland peculiar tasting squared of dry stodge desperately in need of custard or cream to moisten the dish. The 8 Eton mess was a bloody mess. A peculiar mix of barely unidentifiable mush. Desserts may be left half eaten. If you're going to serve something very different, use a different name for the dessert. Bar: Lacks traditional pub atmosphere. Lack of soft furnishings in the bar side can make it noisy in that area so dont dine on that side if theyre short on seating in the main restaurant or you could find yourself shouting across the table. Rating: High scores are easy to obtain if just drinks or take out vs sit in food and drink so the current high rating is a bit misleading from our experience. A few small changes could make a big difference but as it is, no more than average.
Mar 28th, 2023