We have eaten here most weeks for a decade and the set lunch is still £24. The menu changes every Wednesday so it never gets boring, the lamb is from the farm we walk past, and Tom has never once sold us a bottle we did not need.
Reviews
What Cowbridge says.
Six reviews, one for each thing we do, including the four-star one from the table that wanted the tasting menu for two of them and the à la carte for the other two. The full set is on the review platforms we are listed on.
Collected by a third-party review platform. Names shortened at the reviewers' request.
Tasting menu on a Saturday for our anniversary. Six courses built on what the boats brought in on Friday, Tom's pairing with every glass explained in a sentence and swapped when I pulled a face at the Riesling. The chocolate tart to finish, obviously.
Sunday roast for eleven in the back room for Dad's eightieth. Our own door, our own waiter, a nut roast for the vegetarian that was a dish not a punishment, gravy without asking, and nobody hurried us out. Booked a month ahead as the website said.
Coeliac, and used to being an afterthought. Here the allergen matrix was at the door, the waiter knew every dish without checking, the bread was gluten-free sourdough and the crumble was made for me. I cried a bit.
Excellent food and a lovely room. Four stars because we wanted the tasting menu for two of us and the other two at the table wanted à la carte, and it is whole-table only. They did explain why, kindly, and the à la carte was superb. Still a star.
Wedding supper for thirty-eight on a Monday, the whole restaurant. Sioned wrote the menu with us over a lunch, Tom did the wine, Lowri made the cake. The producers were named on the menu card and three of them came. We could not have asked for more.
About the four stars
The tasting menu is for the whole table. It cost a star, and here is why.
James is right that two of his four could not have it. Six courses arrive on the kitchen's timing, not the table's; two people eating six small plates while two eat three large ones means somebody is waiting at every course, and the kitchen is plating two menus for one table on its busiest night. We would rather say so plainly, serve a superb à la carte to all four, and lose the star.
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