The Conway

A great pub this, good beer, great food and good atmosphere. Always accommodating to sports teams and players. The beer garden is ok, but it is right on the road, however still an ok place to sit and have a pint post softball game!

Lovely staff. Squashy sofas, nice food. Can’t fault it

This is quite a nice little pub tucked away in Pontcanna. It is somewhere between a pub/​bar/​gastropub and in my mind does actually seem to work. Although I do sometimes feel a bit scruffy in there!
Firstly, although since the refurb it is all smooth and modern clean lines etc. it still looks like a pub. With a pub bar. And some wood. There is a pub garden/​patio at the front with pub tables. And it does beer. Real ales. Properly.
However, it kind of becomes a bar when you see the range of drinks, the stylish interior and complete lack of massively clashing upholstery and carpet (where do pubs by this stuff?) and realise that you’re not sticking to the floor. They also do good food and, although I haven’t actually eaten any, the menu looks good and what I’ve seen come out on plates has tempted me.
Most of all, it always seems quite quiet. Not dead. Not like no one goes there, but more out of the way and cosy.

A friend who is a regular took me here one sunday. I was impressed — my first taste of welshcakes, in wales and I was hooked. Proper gastropub, so simple food got a little dressing up, but I’m not complaining.
Beer is well-​kept, with a decent range of gins.
Well worth a visit, if you like the Nice Middle Class vibe they’ve got going. Not if you like a character pub.

Once one of your classic local pub kind of pubs, the Conway recently had a much needed makeover. Make way for the New Conway! Can you hear the trumpets tooting? No, neither can I.
I was excited about this new makeover, but it’s sadly lost its charm, for me at least. No longer is it a cosy front room full of locals and relaxed atmosphere, but instead it has become a posh… something.
For anyone familiar with Pontcanna, this pub seems to fit right in with that middle class ability to eat out at expensive restaurants and drink fine wines. In short, this pub is now very expensive for a pub, and just not as good as other restaurants in the area.
So I’m left out in the cold a little bit confused.

The new Conway as its now being called is not the locals only, old man pub that it once was.
Now owned by Woods Brasserie it has been totally renovated and modernized and a top chef is now in the kitchen turning out delicious food. My mother said it reminded her of Ikea, but I like the minimalist look and how its kept some of its original features.
So getting down to the food, which is really what this place is all about now and I really was impressed. Granted its not the cheapest place to eat, but the food is really good and the portions are nice and big. I had a pork dish with possible the best crackling I’ve ever had.
I’d never been to the old Conway, but will defiantly be going back to the new Conway.

I’m sure that this is a brilliant pub to frequent if you are a local. That sounds so disparaging but what I mean is that the locals seem to be completely at home here. And that can make people — outsiders — feel a little awkward. It’s like when you go to your friend’s house but they have to visit their grandparents… Oh, you can’t get picked up for a while so you have to go too. So, you sit in your friend’s grandparents’ house politely refusing cups of tea…
Do you know what I mean?
Having said that, I love that this pub gets involved in all the ways I feel pubs should. They have quiz nights, live music, real ales, TV screens. They also sell food, which I regrettably didn’t partake of because I’d already eaten — smelling it when it came through, though, made me wish I had…

Ich wohnte in der Nähe — und war früher sehr gerne im Conwy Pub. Man trifft Leute, die ihr ganzes Leben in Canton /​Cardiff gelebt haben, also so richtig Einheimische. Ich war mit Jonathan hier, auch schon mit Anke.
Gute Pints. Manchmal gibt es Pub Quizes.

This is the sort of pub you come to and take about 4 hours to finish your 1^st pint, take it easy, relax, and why even bother looking at the time? Looking over Llandaff fields this pub really is a treat for a few easy drinks on a summers day. I wouldn’t think of going here on or before I night out, this pub is for lazy Sundays only!