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The Mason's Arms in St Mellons, Cardiff
Advantages: Great food, top quality service. Disadvantages: You have to book two weeks in advance
Mason's Arms.
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The Address.
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Mason's Arms
10 Old St. Mellon's Road
Marshfield
South Glamorgan
CF3 2TX
Tel:- 0870 2134744
Fax:- 01633 681348
About The Mason's Arms
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The Mason's Arms is a small cottage style Pub/Restaurant located on the Old St. Mellon's Road in Marshfield on the borders of Cardiff and Newport. Off the main roads, which link ... ...business when the Main Roads host many other Pub and Restaurants like The Coach and Horses, The Toby Carvery and The Heron Marsh, but this is not the case. To have a Sunday Lunch at The Mason's Arms you need to book at least two weeks in advance and there is never any spare tables should you call in on the off chance.
These changes have only taken place over the last eight months when the pub was taken over by new management and given a completely ...
welshwickedone 08.11.2006 ˇ Read full review
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Don't Go There
Advantages: None Disadvantages: Loads
...we intended going to the Monkstone for my wife's birthday - as we have done many times in the past. We were greeted by two bouncers on the front door who asked for ID (why do they now need bouncers? Does it kick off regularly?) After explaining that we were out for a celebratory, midweek family meal we were allowed to enter what has obviously become the local Star Wars bar.
Most of the clientele looked like they were from the semi-secure mental ... ...left as you go down the drive.
The heavyweight, lemon sucking barmaid greeted us with a suspicious grunt and seemed to have a problem understanding the words "Hello, could I have a pint of smooth bitter please". Eventually, she decided that I could be trusted with a pint glass, but to be honest, we'd realised that we had made an almighty mistake and decided that a tactical retreat was the only way to survive this hovel.
If you're looking for a ...
GFH1 27.11.2009 ˇ Read full review
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Review of Monkstone Inn
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RUB YOUR MEAT AND SAVOUR THE FLAVOUR
Advantages: Good food, nice atmosphere Disadvantages: Service not so good
Situated in St Mary Street Cardiff, is an old-fashioned, rather innocuous little restaurant called Porto’s. As the name might suggest, Porto’s is a Portuguese owned and managed restaurant, and serves up a menu of authentic Portuguese dishes. The menu comprises a wide range of meat and fish-based dishes, and is a favourite haunt for my colleagues and myself whenever a visit to Cardiff is required.
THE RESTAURANT
The restaurant is decorated ... ...two floors, the restaurant is quite intimate, with clusters of wooden tables situated amidst cosy lighting, but providing an advanced booking is made, relatively large groups can also be accommodated. The tavern is decorated throughout with plastic vines, wine bottles and other ornaments – it’s not the most sophisticated establishment but it has a traditional and welcoming feel to it. A tireless soundtrack of Mediterranean music babbles ...
LostWitness 21.06.2002 ˇ Read full review
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Sea food, I eat it
Advantages: See opinion Disadvantages: If you're not a fan of seafood the menu is perhaps limited (but you wouldn't pick a seafood restaurant would you)!
...to the actual opinion:
Gilby's is a European Seafood restaurant, chosen due to my love of all things fishy! There are 50 parking spaces and the restaurant seats 100 so they're buggered if they have 100 single driving diners, but that's particularly unlikely and on this busy evening the car park looked half empty/full! The table had been booked for 8pm and we arrived with time for a drink and another look at the menu. You're greeted as you enter ... ...(Yes, after all that!)
Me
Gilby's Eton Mess
In case you don't know, Eton Mess is chunks of meringue, strawberries and cream all mixed into a mess. Gilby's Eton Mess also had ice cream and a strawberry coulis. It was really nice, but I found myself just digging around for the strawberries! It got a bit sickly, I would have preferred the cheese and biscuits but he said 'you can have that at home', so I didn't!! He finished this off!
Him
Summer ...
AliB 21.08.2001 ˇ Read full review
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Evolution is shutting down!
Advantages: Evolution is a really good club and it should stay open.i can't believe that it is shutting down! it's too good to be shut down. Disadvantages: i can't think of any disadvantages for eolution because it is such a good club!
Well i've been to evolution so many times and every time i go i know for a fact that its the best club i've been to so far. They can't close it down because so many people will miss it.there has always been a high number of attendantcies and a lot of money has been brought in to that club. My friends dad is the current owner who is closing it down and my friend and her sister are really annoyed and at the moment are not talking to their dad due to ...
Devil-girl 30.10.2006 ˇ Read full review
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Review of Evolution
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