Venture And Tapas

I understand that the football game was on, but I was quite disappointed with the experience at this restaurant. The bar seemed to be understaffed, and we were often ignored. However, we did eventually get some food, which was decent, but I found it to be overpriced and the portions were very small. Overall, it's an average place, just don't expect anything exceptional.

I’m unsure which star rating to give our evening at the Venture. I’d booked a table for five on a Friday night and we were greeted warmly. We were pleasantly surprised when a lovely bubbly waitress came over to ask what we’d like to drink (we’d assumed it would be bar service) and consequently enjoyed some delicious gin and tonics from their decent selection (they had run out of some on the gin menu). In a bit ordered a range of tapas and a paella, and more gins. Half of the dishes were lovely and the other half not. The paella in particular was nearly inedible and the tortilla dry and chewy. It was really disappointing as some of the flavours were great! The patatas bravas were crispy and fresh, gambas nice and garlicy and chorizo in cider tasty. Our waitress however continued to be 5* and ensured that we had a great time and would return (just avoid certain menu items).

We loved this place so much we visited it twice in one day. The staff were absolutely brilliant here, they were friendly and efficient. We loved everything from the decor to the food. The tapas really are delicious. I look forward to returning, I just wish I’d discovered it sooner

There isn’t anything fundamentally wrong with this bar it just has no mojo. Husband and I were sitting on the sofas trying to work out why last night it just doesn’t seem to provide a great experience. All we could come up with was the decor being a bit on the cheap side, the shape of the bar area (long and thin bit more welcoming that the main room area where widens out), and also the lack of windows in the main room. One thing that I particularly didn’t like was a Stella and Dot jewellery sale going on. Why????? This is a pub not a pop up shopping arcade. Have never seen this before so am hoping a one off. We keep going in to the Venture due to its location on the way home from town. Not somewhere I would ever suggest being a destination though due to the above.

Excellent pub was busy, comfy sofa and only had chips but tapas looked awesome and nice choices too.