The Angel Hotel

We chose this hotel to celebrate our 40th wedding anniversary after reading the reviews. We had high expectations which were exceeded by a long way! It is a special venue. They have managed to achieve a great balance between retaining the style and elegance of of its historical past and making it feel fresh and modern. The staff team were very friendly, helpful and welcoming. Dining is first class. The bar and restaurant are lovely environments in which to dine and dinner was excellent, enough choice for this healthy eating, non meat eater. We didn’t eat in the outside patio area but it looked fabulous, beautifully decorated with tubs of flowers. The location was surprisingly quiet given that it is in the town centre. I’d like to think we might return again one day.

We have stayed at The Angel at least twice a year for the last 7 years & it has become our second home. We went back the first week after Covid restrictions were lifted! The staff are always so welcoming & nothing is too much trouble to make our stay comfortable. The food is local, fresh & delicious, (one of the few places I know that makes a great porridge for breakfast). We will certainly be back in the Autumn for our Wedding Anniversary.

I have been fortunate to have taken afternoon tea in many lovely places, including swanky London and Cheltenham hotels. But nowhere compares to The Angel Hotel in Abergavenny. The welcome we received was wonderful. The dining area exquisite, with beautiful crockery and tableware.|The food was superb and just kept on coming! I have never seen such a large choice of teas. And we were encouraged to try as many varieties as we wished. I personally recommend the Rose Pouchong. It tasted like Turkish Delight! Delicious!|The sandwiches, delicacies and cakes were divine and just when we thought we had room for no more, we were served warm, fresh scones! We were never rushed and therefore the whole experience felt relaxed, decadent and leisurely. Champagne was on hand should you wish, too.|One of our party of four is Vegetarian and one is Vegan and both were catered for outstandingly. Their selection of food was just as good as the rest and they weren’t made to feel like they were being difficult ( as can often happen). |I will definitely be returning. Thank you so much The Angel!

We booked a table for Sunday lunch.|Neither of us had been to the hotel before. So we're unfamiliar with the bars & restaurants.|A little time lapsed before a waiter came to our table.|We ordered our meal at the same time as our drinks.|Our starters came quite quickly, oysters & prawn cocktail.|Both were very nice.|Our water & wine had still not been served when we had our starters.|It appeared that there weren't enough staff serving.|Even though the area we were sat in wasn't full.|We waited for over an hour before our roasts were served.|At no time did any member of staff acknowledge us or apologise.|Eventually we asked a member of staff and they said they would check.|A little while after our food arrived. We were asked on ordering if we wanted our meat pink. We both ordered pink.|Neither mine or my partners lamb were served pink.|The meal was pleasant but not exceptional. There was caramelised onions on both under our meat. Which didn't seem to fit with either of our meals.|Our malbec wine was nice.|Overall we enjoyed our visit. After our meal we sat in the courtyard which was pleasant.

our two night stay at the Angel was an absolute delight. We were upgraded to a lovely large room with sofa, desk and ice bucket with apple juice and water waiting for us. Plus nibbles and a really full tea/coffee assortment. The breakfasts were just delicious and the other meals we had were excellent. But the main thing I have noticed on previous visits for lunch at the Angel, and this time again, is the amazingly helpful, friendly staff who really seem like they care for your comfort.

Stopped for a quick bite to eat and ended up having a great lunchtime meal. The service was great and the extensive menu impressive. We chose the fixed price lunch and were delighted and surprised by both meals. We would certainly recommend the restaurant and note they clearly have a very talented chef!

Wonderful couple of days and this hotel. Spotlessly clean....good size rooms and food (breakfast and dinner) excellent. We (somewhat aged gentlemen) have been going away for about 40 years , much to the delight of our wives. This hotel ranks in the best 5 hotels we have stopped in....this comment as a group of somewhat discerning individuals!

A lovely hotel with excellent service. The food is great to the point of being too generous. The wine on offer is good but a bit pricey. They offer guaranteed parking at £20 per night. It is cheaper to park in the council carpark across the road at £5 for 5 nights.

The Angel Hotel is coining it! It must be if it can afford to have seven persons waiting on just eight people in the restaurant. More about that later. The Angel Hotel is a former Georgian coaching-inn, now rated three AA stars. It has 32 en-suite guest rooms, plus a Lodge at nearby Abergavenny Castle. The restaurant has an AA rosette, with an award-winning wine list. The Foxhunter Bar has an open fire, original wood panelling from the early 1900's, and interesting old paintings of Abergavenny.There's a good range of beers like The Reverend James and London Pride, plus guest beers, and a half-dozen wines by the glass. Special mention must be made of their superb Afternoon Teas, with scones, cakes and pastries, served from 3.00 - 5.30pm, with is proper bone china and linen. For £6.00 you may have tea or coffee with a small selection of cakes, or freshly-baked scones with jam and cream. For £9.80 you get the pastries plus a selection of sandwiches:Black Mountain smoked salmon, Marinated cucumber and cream cheese, Home-cooked ham, and Egg mayonnaise with cress. Weighing in at £14.80 is the Champagne Tea: copious amounts of all the above plus champagne. The Angel has been awarded membership of the prestigious UK Tea Guild and for 2008 an 'Award of Excellence'. The Angel is one of only six hotels outside of London to have achieved this accolade. The Tea Menu runs to about 6 pages and is a really good read, describing with great affection the wide choice of leaf teas available. The hotel claims currently to be refurbishing their bedrooms. If you intend to stay there, make absolutely certain you ask for, and get, a refurbished room, because the older ones are shabby and unkempt. And the restaurant? Some seriously good food, much of it sourced locally. For Lunch expect £20 per head, Dinner double it; plus wine, from an excellent list containing several by the glass and half-a-dozen half-bottles. The room is L-shaped and the staff, whenever I wanted them, always seemed to be 'round the corner' out of view; and I counted SEVEN of them. Perhaps they were expecting a big lunchtime, but it didn't materialise. They reminded me of the proverbial London Buses - you wait for ages and then 2 or 3 came round the corner simultaneously. But no real complaints - better to have than not to have!

My friend and her family go here for afternoon tea and champagne if someone's done well. Very Jilly Cooper i always think. Anyway i'm not a fan, i went with once and thought it was filled with pretentious idiots who talk to loudly, eat too fast and behave like well, idiots. Now, to me, it's as if the Angel is desperately trying to be something it's not, much like Abergavenny itself. I'm told the rooms are lovely but expensive. I'm told the food is lovely, but expensive, I'm told the place is lovely, but...you guessed it, expensive! So, you can imagine my surprise when i found out everything was not lovely but still expensive. Right on the corner of the High Street The Angel isn't even that pretty. I'm aware many people take their vows down here and i had a sneaky peak at the wedding prices and be Jesus! it's probably cheaper and more fun to fly your whole wedding party (vicar and all) to Vegas than it is to get married here. All in all for people who like to think their posh. Not moi!

A very nice old coaching inn dead in the centre of Abergavenny. Comfortable but classy inside, we stayed here when a friend got married nearby and reserved a bunch of rooms for guests. Rooms are pleasant and cosy, but are on the used side. I think that's good: it's in keeping with the building and the locale and they haven't tried to make the rooms modern and shiny. The dining area (which had very good service for the breakfast I had there) is similarly old but stylish. Sure, the floors will creak a bit when you walk up the stairs, so what? There's a lounge/bar area that's very relaxed and not at all stuffy.

My husband and I took a trip and stayed at this hotel. Best hotel of the whole trip. Their accommodations are lovely, very comfortable beds. We had breakfast there in the morning as well. My husband had the English breakfast and I had the French toast and both were awesome. We also had lunch at their restaurant and that meal was to die for. It was a duck and cabbage and plate and I'm still dreaming about it!! It's all I could think about for the rest of the trip!! There was also a lot of things to do around the area. Just a minute walk from the whispering castle, and cute little areas to walk around and shop. I would definitely recommend this hotel!

A beautiful elegant hotel. Exceptionally clean and helpful friendly staff.

Could do with reviewing the clientele at these prices. I've stayed at the Angel once and eaten there quite a few times - one of the highlights of this very nice hotel is the theatre menu which allows you to book a meal at a discounted rate following any show at the theatre opposite, however few use this after late shows and you can be left feeling a little lonely in the large dining hall. The food is excellent with a range of local produce used and for the most part the staff are impeccable however the tendency to use staff who have little or no english at busy times can add to the frustration of a crowded room. The only other concern I have is the tendency for the hotel to set apparently high standards and then completely overlook them for classless nouveau riche clients who can treat the hotel like a private playground; I recall one lady in particular making a spectacle of herself last new years' day!

I can recommend the steak sandwich, it's a bit pricey, but it was a good sized portion, very tasty and done to perfection. Service was reasonable and the wait from ordering to dinning was a very acceptable 20 mins. My major gripe is the crowded and cramped nature of the Foxhunter bar which made the eating experience a bit uncomfortable. I would come again for the food, despite the atmosphere which is laughably pretentious and grating .... "Knightsbridge on Usk meets the Welsh nouveau riche".

The Angel was given an award last week for being the best place for afternoon tea outside London, this was thoroughly deserved as the presentation and content of their teas can't be faulted,from the delightful homemade cakes to the beautifully laid tables and excellent service.

Just to update you all. I stayed here a couple of weeks ago and was a bit worried as I had read reviews which stated that the decor was past it's best and the rooms were pokey and floors creaky. This is no longer the case! The hotel has been thoroughly refurbished to a very high standard. No creaky floors, decor is very tasteful. Great situation in the centre of Abergavenny. One thing I would say though is avoid rooms at the front if possible as they can be a little noisy.