The Middlegate - Pembrokeshire

First time we've been to this cafe greated by a friendly owner with a good sense of humour. Very clean and hand sanitiser supplied on arrival. Served very quickly considering how busy they were at lunch. Food was presented very well and was delicious. Reasonable priced. Would recommend.

Today we went on an planned visit to Pembroke and ended up at the Millgate cafe. We went inside and stood waiting at the counter waiting for a member of staff to appear. Eventually Basil Fawlty appeared from the kitchen ranting how his daughter hadn 't bothered to turn up today and how she wants him to buy a car and how he will play her at her own game. Who cares? We certainly didn 't, all we wanted was lunch! Eventually we got to order 3 cooked breakfast and 3 cokes £30 expensive considering the bad decoration and deterioration of tables and chairs. One we paid, we were give 3 black serviettes (which he had bought from a job lot!! And 2 small sachets of cheap tomato sauce between the 3 of us. While sitting waiting for the food, we observed the man clean a table which was a quick squirt with flash bleach and a quick wipe (he didn 't move the slate table mats and it really was a token clean considering cleaning should be done under a Covid cleaning schedule and there is no way this was . Eventually toast arrived at our table, cold, butter thinly spread over but not into the corners of the bread. So we have the toast which was part of our cooked breakfast but as yet no sign of the rest of our food!! Still no sign of the rest of the cooked breakfast, I dared to ask for some butter and tomato sauce to which Basil loudly shouted 'well how much do you want, I 'm going to have to charge ' Really? We had 2 sachets of cheap tomato sauce, how dare we ask for 1 each. I then told him that if we hadn 't already paid, we would have walked out!! Disgraceful way to run a business. We eventually got the breakfast which was chucked on the plate. Sausages were pre cooked and not fresh. Not a good experience and certainly would not go again, really not interested in how unreliable your daughter bus (he told everyone who dared to step into the cafe . So Badil, next time your daughter doesn 't show up, don 't bother opening because you came across as a manic idiot

After a walk around the fantastic castle, we struggled to find a place to eat as most were fully booked. About to give up and head home, we stumbled across the Middlegate Hotel cafe. We were beckoned inside by the owner but we were asked to fold down our baby buggy for some reason even though there was loads of room (Sure whatever). First impressions were not great, I think we would honestly have left if we’re not all starving. The decor: old and tired and the place didn’t look the cleanest. First of all, the service was terrible. We needed to change our daughters nappy and discovered that there was no baby change. We noticed that the adjacent hotel area was completely deserted and private so asked the owner if we could I use this space.NO was the answer, unbelievably. Apparently this hallowed ground was out of bounds to all customers of the cafe. My wife and mother proceeded to change our daughters nappy on the floor of the single cubicle toilet. We had to ask for a menu after 10 minutes of waiting. Then, while halfway through ordering at the till, the owner suddenly left to serve food to another customer which was baffling. Then went into the kitchen to ferret around in a fridge and knocked over a bottle which spilled liquid all over the place. After he had cleaned that up, chuntering under his breath, we managed to complete our order for which the till subtotal was displayed to us as £9,964.85. “We can’t afford that” said mum (probably dying not to laugh). So we then had to wait until he realised the mistake and put the order through again. The food. Absolutely abysmal. By this point we were in hysterics as it was so comically bad. A safe option of burger and chips (I thought). The chips were poor and rubbery, no salt of vinegar or even sauces on offer. The burger, made up of two 5mm rubber discs with a flappy bit of undercooked bacon with cheese. The whole thing looked and tasted like it had been assembled a week earlier and then frozen to be deep fried at the desired time, dripping with grease. I couldn’t finish it. My mum had chicken soup which looked like a steaming bowl of sick. She had half of it but I think she was glad that COVID had decimated her sense of taste earlier in the year and quite frankly I was jealous of that fact. My wife and Dad both had a scone and their only complaint was that it came with whipped cream. I’m hindsight, I think we would all have chosen to starve a little longer than eat here again. Having said that, it made us cry with laughter at how bad it all was, so perhaps memorable for all the wrong reasons.

My Wife and I called in for lunch today.We both chose Ham,Egg and Chips,she a tea and me a latte.Although busy Peter was friendly and very obliging.The meal was freshly cooked and excellent value for money.If visiting Pembroke again would definitely visit.

After a nice day walking around the castle we decided to go for lunch and opted for for this little place and enjoyed our experience . The owner was very friendly and did his best despite being on his own for the day . He had a great sense of humour . The food was quite tasty . We went for Scampi and chips with a BLT and a strawberry milkshake . Overall we really enjoyed it although the milkshake was a little watery but really liked the scampi . If you are looking for good food and chat then this is definitely the place for you.