The Hand Restaurant Bar - Wrexham

Something between pub and snack, gloomy and cosy in the main building, in the back of the covered courtyard. Many local audiences, but you are also set up for tourists. Food is average for British conditions. Nix dolles, but also not for moaning. It's okay to recover the tired treters and refuel energy, but a destination isn't eating.

I had an amazing experience at this restaurant with one of the best vegetarian meals. The vegetarian wellington was outstanding with its flaky crust and savory mushroom filling. The fresh carrots were also delicious. As for dessert, both my berry apple crumble with custard and my husband's butterscotch pudding with honeycomb ice cream were fantastic. We wanted to try more options, but we decided to just have one dessert each to show restraint.

We brought our friends from Staffordshire to Hand Hotel on Tuesday 24th October. We had recommended the hotel to them, but unfortunately, while the food was decent, the service was lacking. Our waitress was quite miserable and unfriendly. The atmosphere was lacking positivity, with chandelier lights being turned off near our table. Our table was also too close to a decorative shelf unit, causing a vase to nearly fall off. The decor seemed tired and overall, it was not a great experience. We would rate it 3 stars.

I booked to celebrate my husband's birthday with all the family for Sunday lunch. The staff were very friendly and our meals and drinks were served efficiently. The food was very nice and generous portions. It was a relaxed atmosphere and we all enjoyed it.

We have stayed at the Hand a few times but usually eaten elsewhere as the grill type menu doesn't really suit us but they have a new chef and the new menu looked interesting. To start I had the wild mushrooms on toast which was good but I thought missed a bit of excitement, my partner had the prawn starter which was good. For main course I had the goan chicken curry served with rice and naan which was tasty but a little too salty for me. My parner had the steak and ale pie which was very good with excellent chips. I was quite full but decided I could manage the white chocolate creme brulee which was one of the best creme brulees I had ever had. My parter had the lemon tart which came with a raspberry sorbet which he said was the best bit. A big disappointment was no wine list which I think is not good for a restaurant of this quality. The choice on the menu is quite varied and interesting and I would probably give it another go (hopefully the new chef will change the choice from time to time) but I would expect a serious choice of wines next time