Merlins Bar

Public bar within the Celtic Manor resort. Plenty of space for meetings, formal and informal. Relatively small bar menu but nice enough, just be patient when it’s busy as service for drink and food can be slow.

Basically, it's only good for a drink.

Goat's cheese bruschetta is the only item worth eating on their menu. We had niçoise salads, poor quality vegetables, quail eggs overdone probably days old, hallumi grilled last week, salmon done in the morning served cold and chicken old as a shoe. We can also agree about the pizza comment of another, no difference than bad frozen pizza.

Unplanned visit on the way home, seating area is enjoyable as always, today we decided to have food... nearly a total disappointment!

Service was adequate, lunch and drinks were lovely. The double espresso was especially good.

Went there today for my brothers 17th birthday as we had been playing mini golf so we went for a drink and a small bite to eat 2sandwiches a wrap and a pizza also 1 round of drinks came to 80 pounds and the food came one of the sandwiches was basically bread and butter next to no filling and the wrap well a mouse would have said and rest please it was tiny considering it was nearly 11 pound on its own and it didn't even come with the red onion and rocket rocket salad like the menu state's can't fault the taste taste of food it's just it was a hell of a lot of money for what we had

🚨 Don’t do it. 🚨

The staff are friendly.
The pizza is disgusting.
The bruschetta is barely adequate. Just a slab of goats cheese dumped on overly hard bread.

Simply awful. How can a resort that boasts so many facilities, serve food at the level of a wetherspoons.

I would avoid dinning here! Family, friends and I came to have some lunch, we ordered chicken sandwiches and a pizza. The order took an inexcusable long time to arrive, and they came in as three separate allotments. In other words, friends had to wait for their main course to arrive whilst I had received mine ahead of theirs. Chips were surprisingly over cooked and the service was unacceptably slow… although, the waitresses had a positive work attitude and were apologetic for the long wait.

Great atmosphere, debs n the doctor as always were brilliant,enjoy nights here,drinks a bit pricey but remember where you are.

I ordered a bacon panini. It was supposed to have blue cheese and tomato chutney in it. What I received was actually insulting. A slice of bacon with the tiniest bit of blue cheese and tomato chutney. The bread was a cheap baguette. It cost almost £10, the profit they must make on them is a killing! I complained to the waitress and whilst she did take the price of the panini off the bill I basically ended up going hungry.