Commercial Inn

Another 5* what can I say? A genuine very warm welcome. Popular (even at 1.30 in the afternoon), place is geared to progress (owner Graham Wall - who introduced himself & is switched on) realises you have to cater for a diverse clientele - tv's everywhere (no sound thank god) live sport etc. Four ales (3 tried) all very good. Food lovely, this is not fast food but it's worth waiting for - will return (even though I live 37 miles away).

Friendly local pub with good selection of well priced drinks - real ales and still ciders are a feature and change regularly. Pub is in CAMRA good beer guide.
Food is good quality pub food at reasonable prices.
Pool table, plenty of TVs to watch the sport and a fully covered outside seating area at the front to watch the world go by

food was very overpriced and overrated. pub staff are friendly and beer is what you pay for a nice local pint, however i don’t appreciate paying city prices for something i could make better at home 🥺

Disgraceful staff member. Went with my family last week, the girl with the dark hair was absolutely lovely but the blonde girl with the fake eyelashes was awful. The blonde girl put down one of our orders wrong so one of us had to sit and wait 10 minutes while we ate before they could eat. We then ordered 3 desserts but only 2 came out to us, so when we said that there was a third dessert but it turns out the blonde girl hadn't put down we ordered 3 deserts despite taking payment for the 3 desserts. We were polite, never rude or anything just wanted what we paid for. Then the 3 of us went to the toilet and the blonde girl was talking to her friend (who was visiting the pub as a customer) blatantly about us as we walked past and her friend followed us into the toilet to listen and see if we were going to say anything about the girl who served us (she literally just stood there and stared at us and left when we did) but why?? She got our orders wrong, we politely corrected it and that was that. Its not that deep. Shouldn't be working in the industry if she is going to take getting an order wrong that personally. The dark haired girl again was so lovely and apologetic, didn't need to be, mistakes happen and we all make them. But after the blonde girl sent her friend in the toilets after us all I can say is my experience was absolutely disgusting and will not be going back as that girls behaviour was atrocious and intimidating.

First time very nice also the food excellent and bar maid made me welcome got to use it again thank you

Had a lovely meal. Food was amazing. Friendly service. Clean toilets.
Definitely recommend a pop in with the family for lunch and a place to relax.

I really like this pub everything tastes so fresh and local.
(This is my 2nd time coming here).

This time I had a burger fries and side order of onion rings absolutely beautiful.

And for dessert I had the Biscoff Cheese cake the taste buds were alive eating this it was so heavenly I could have easily ordered a 2nd!! except I was quite full.

Staff wonderful and pleasant very polite. I'm going to try a make a habit coming into risca when I can. 10/10

This lunchtime we visited the Commercial Inn at Risca for our usual Xmas lunch outing. The pub was as usual decorated very well without going over the top. The new chef, Tom is now in situ and my wife and I started with a prawn & salmon salad which was excellent. This was followed by a modern day twist on the traditional Xmas turkey which went down well. The dessert was a white chocolate & hazelnut cheesecake which proved to be the star of the show. Quite simply it's right up there with the best. My wife & I would like to thank the commercial team for looking after us this afternoon. Hope you all have a great Christmas & a Happy New Year.👏👏👏👍