On this bank holiday weekend, we went to South Wales for hiking.
The hotel we chose was Celtic Manor Resort Hotel and we had dinner at the award winning restaurant “the Crown” below.
The Savory Petit-Four gave us a perfect expectations to the main dishes. We actually had fryed bream with assortment as starter and fried salmon dish as main.
As I have heard before that at a manor house in South Wales served fish from breakfast and therefore I wondered we could eat fresh fish as well as other fresh food in Wales.
It seems it is right, except for the hotel breakfast and the breakfast we had in a service restaurant on motorway. The only choise we could made was English traditional breakfast we fancy to eat, the grilled fresh tomatoes had so awful taste as if I only imagine that half rotten light colour tomatoes are cooked.
I only finished the half raw fried egg at the motorway restaurant and somehow I was able to finish a little better bread, sausage, half raw fried egg, grilled tomato and orange juice which was not freshly squeezed one with some flesh in there.
Anyway, I wish the Welsh-born Executive Chef James Sommerin, apparently the principal chef of the restaurant prosperous to popularize Welsh dishes more, ideally to London for the start.
The only service I was disappointed was the traditional English breakfast. Even though the hotel was in the 50% off offer period, I do not think the breakfast menu will be different from high season with standard charges.
We could have expected such English breakfast served in the motorway restaurant, but at least in the 5-star hotel, they should review the quality of the breakfast, eg. adding continental breakfast if they can not improve the English breakfast, in order to balance with the one of the top rated restaurant located next to the breakfast lounge in the Celtic Manor Resort Hotel.
All other services in the hotel were good for the price. It may be due to the quiet season or period. I will see the improvement of the service at the hotel as I would like to come back to stay in the near future for beautiful forest trips to Wales.
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