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The Red Lion Inn

➤ 6 Llandeilo Road, Carmarthenshire, United Kingdom

Pub • Cafés • Steak • British

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"the most beautiful lunch to celebrate our wedding party. the food was delicious and the staff very friendly. beautiful informal atmosphere. the portion size was perfect, which meant that I had a place for one dessert and it was as worth as the lemon meringue roulade was to die! this was our first visit, but we will definitely return. so convenient to just 10 minutes from home. highly recommended try it for themselves they will not be disappointed."

The Cottage

➤ 28-32 Wind Street, Carmarthenshire, United Kingdom

Steak • Buffet • Coffee • Vegetarian

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"The person who served us for the first two courses was excellent. Was very professional and caring. We ordered four starters consisting of three dishes, two of which were prawn cocktail, the prawns were chewy not soft and tender. I assume they were overcooked. I ordered medium to well steak for my main course, you could have soled a shoes with it. Our earlier course server came over and apologised but was finishing for the evening but another server would be taking over. OK, we ordered or desserts which included Belgium waffles. When they arrived they were so hard to be almost inedible. And finally, the Facebook infamous toilets didn’t fail to disappoint. Only one cubicle in the Ladies had a lock, the one with the lock, inevitably, was not very clean. In the gents, the single cubicle a) didn’t have a lock and b) had no toilet paper. Other than we had a good night, until the children arrived around 8..30pm then the noise was such that we couldn’t hold a conversation."

Ameanah's Dining And Functions

➤ Ameanah's House 3 Carregamman Lane, Carmarthenshire, United Kingdom, SA18 3EL

Asian • Vegan • Indian • Fusion

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"Having finally found out that this place delivers and has a dedicated app, I decided to treat myself with a takeaway. I ordered a shaami kebab starter, Lamb Saag, keema naan and keema rice. The kebab was delicious, with just the right amount of spices and flavour, and the Lamb Saag was really good, with plenty if Lamb, which was cooked perfectly, and the saag sauce was again just right. The keema rice was sensational, cooked to perfection and not dry at all. The naan was tasty and hit on delivery. Also had a little salad, some onion garnish and rasty mint yoghurt. Most definitely the best indian Takeaway in Ammanford, and will order again soon."

Etto's Coffee Gelato

➤ 25 High Street, Carmarthenshire, United Kingdom

Cafe • Cafés • Cakes • British

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"FOOD INSTAGRAM: @northtx.gemz •••• WHAT THEY’RE KNOWN FOR: connected to the Adolphus Hotel in the heart of downtown Dallas, Otto’s has tons of visitors from Dallas and out of town coming in and out as hotel guests. THE VIBE: business casual, black, modern, basically a luxury coffee shop. PRICE: $7 WOULD I COME BACK? Yes. •••• Overall Rating: 10/10 I loved my experience at Otto’s coffee. The coffee was perfectly balanced and not too sweet. It was robust but the amaretto flavor was not overpowering. I actually started walking around during my study session and omg it’s so beautiful! I probably wouldn’t go back to study mostly because there was no one working around me and it was more of a sit and chat coffee place. There are SO many places to sit inside of the coffee shop and in the Adolphus hotel itself. Only heads up is you’ll most likely not find street parking and your best bet is to pull into the Adolphus hotel garage and get valet done for $10. Tell them you’re going to Otto’s."

The Red Kite Inn

➤ 89 Pontamman Road, SA18 2HQ, Carmarthenshire, United Kingdom

Pubs • Full • Steak • Buffet

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"Celebrated my niece’s Birthday and came back to celebrate mine with family and friends. It was live music night, which they informed us of when booking. I was fine with that as the restaurant is the other side of the pub, well away from the band, so it wouldn’t really bother us. We arrived and a member of staff showed us to our table, but instead of being take to the restaurant we were taken around the corner to a table right next to the music. We were the only people who were sat on this side of the pub that evening. As we headed towards the table the member of staff said” You’d better be quick in case people take your table” ??? Never had to worry about losing a reservation from other people in a pub before? How to describe where we were sat. We sat in the main thoroughfare to the toilets. I myself was sat at the end of the table so close to the ladies toilet that I could, if I so wished, open the ladies toilet door from my seat. Women negotiated around my chair to go to the loo. Drinkers congregated in the walkway basically standing directly over us dining, my sister had drunk men placing pints down on her part of the table while she was eating and bumping into her, in her own words “ If one more person leans into me I’m going to lose it” The music was so loud where we were we gave up trying to chat to each other at times. When we booked they never once mentioned where they’d be seating us and I would have said no immediately if they’d told me that when I booked and would have gone elsewhere as I know the pub very well and never in a million years would I want to have sat there during a Friday night of live music. I had considered just leaving, but people were hungry and not long finished work and they needed to eat and trying to book for so many of us last minute would have been impossible. The food. I’m not sure it’s the same chef as we had a month ago, I could be wrong, but the difference was surprising. My steak pie again was great, but one of our group had a burger and said it was “disgusting” Two members of the group had coleslaw with their meals and I was shown both, untouched by them, it was grated cabbage and carrot in a small dish, dry, with no mayonnaise and the veg was curled and dry to the touch as if the “coleslaw” had been standing out for hours. Every person who had chips said the same thing, it was like a child’s portion, the amount of chips on each plate was a joke. Others weren’t overly impressed with elements of their food. It was all so good a month earlier. I do also have to say that later in the evening I had the misfortune of talking to the chef, I’m sure it’s not the same guy as I spoke to before, I mistook him as a member of the bar staff, in my defence he was behind the bar quite a few times while I was there. I asked this man a non food related question and just got attitude from him, you would have sworn he owned the place, he was rude and condescending to such an extent that mid conversation I turned my back on him as I refuse to be spoken to by anyone that way. Maybe I’d suggest keep him away from customers, and coleslaw obviously. I have to end by saying the staff were excellent as always, with a special mention to Emily behind the bar, friendly, helpful and a real asset to The Red Kite. So, our meal was ruined by The Red Kite squeezing people in to maximise profit, a very short term gain that will cost in the long term. We have already started to organise our next get together but it won’t be at The Red Kite. I said in my last review that I’d be back, I came back, but I won’t again."