Llywelyn’s Pub

The beer was great. The food took about an hour to come out. When it did come out it was lukewarm. I don’t think the chef had made the curry before. In fact I don’t think he has actually eaten a curry based on last night’s dinner. The waitress did her best but the kitchen must have been overwhelmed. I have had burgers and fries there in the past and thought they were delicious. I would go back for them but not for the curry and not when the place is busy.

Wow, just stopped in for a beer or two while catching up on email and met with major bartender attitude. She has no business being in the hospitality business, as I sit noticing, she’s not the only one. If you’re in that bad of mood should probably stay home.

Our first trip and most likely the last. While service was good and ambiance too — the food lacked luster. The vegetable pot pie had a lot of various veggies in it but the taste was bland. The Shepherd’s pie had tasty mashed potatos but also lacked flavor. A disappointing meal after being recommended highly.

A decent pub and as good as any of the other locations. Great patio. Solid beer selection. The quality of food really varies. Sandwiches, burgers and classic Irish dishes are usually done well. Other choices, salads, etc are a roll of the dice. For example we ate here recently and the burger was really good, country chicken solid was average and the kids meals all over the place. Grilled cheese great but pasta with marinara was revolting. Our daughter thought it was awful. I tried it and it was very different than normal. We mentioned it to the waitress who spoke with the chef. Response was «we opened a new can of sauce so maybe they aren’t use to fresh sauce». Yes, seriously this was the response. Overall decent not great.

Crazy busy on a Saturday night. Many TV’s with all of the sport games. We had a great server who check in at jus the right times, she offered great suggestions for drinks and food. It was starting to get loud in the place around 830 so we decided to leave. I always have a good time at an Irish pub.

Excellent service. They don’t deliver normally, so I begged & pleaded with the manager to deliver me food on a rainy day. They complied, & said the food would arrive in 30 to 45 mins. However, the food actually arrived in 25 mins, & this was a huge inconvenience for me as I was balls deep in my wife at the time. I love Llewlyns!

Ate here today and the service was impeccable. Lots of great craft and imported and domestic beers available. The waiter was very knowledgeable in all of them and also had recommendations for our lunch.
My daughter had the Buffalo chicken flatbread and I had the Llywelyn’s chicken and they kindly left the bun off of it and added a nice lettuce leaf to roll it into. It was amazing! coleslaw is housemade. Just a very light vinaigrette and not overpowering. We had a blast and it was the best food I’ve had in a long time. Wonderful for a leisurely Sunday late lunch.

I am in the St. Charles area fairly often on business. This was my 3^rd visit after being introduced to the place by a local friend of Irish descent. I was with my boss this trip and we wanted something a little more traditional Irish. I had the Bangers & Mashed and my boss had the Shepherd’s Pie. Both were large servings and very tasty. Perhaps a few too many green beans with my Bangers & Mashed, but no big deal. The service was excellent. I’ll definitely be back on my next trip.

First time here. Ordered the welsh rarebit, shepherd’s pie and the steak and cheese. All were awesome! Definitely will be back. Hubby who doesn’t usually like dark beer had the schafly dragon and really like it as well. Service was great too.

I highly recommend sitting on the patio, it’s a great atmosphere! Drinks are great and have specials. Food is delicious! The reason I’m giving it 3 stars instead of 5 is because every other time my boyfriend and I go there the service is either really good or really bad.

Not impressed with the St. Charles location. Had a reservation for a reception. After waiting an hour my favorite dish was as bad as the service.
My rosemary chicken Flatbread had no rosemary.
Not quite the same.

Wife and I went to Llywelyn’s for our casual anniversary dinner. We LOVE pubs and cardinals games — so we though to give this a try. While the service and food was all ok, it was not anything spectacular. Let’s start with the plusses:
Atmosphere: The ambiance is pretty cool. It’s an old bank, so it has wooden floors, walls, ceilings and HIGH ceilings. Really cool look inside and a great atmosphere. It looks fun and inviting. Great bar. Enough TVs to watch the game, but not too many so they distract from the actual place itself. There’s a patio outside that looks nice, and a downstairs I didn’t get to see, but sounded big. Overall: solid 5 stars on ambiance.
Service: The greeters and waiter were great. Polite. Fast. Efficient. Friendly and talkative. No complaints there.
Food: The beer was cold and fast. Great selection too of more common brews as well as many micros I’d never heard of. That was nice. The menu looked pretty good — not a huge selection but lots of intriguing things. One plus was a lot of traditional British and Irish food that you don’t normally see. I don’t know if it was any good, didn’t try. The food we did get was average. I tried the house speciality sandwich — the steak something or other. It had a special melted cheese sauce on it and all. It was ok — but honestly was pretty lukewarm by the time it got to my table. It didn’t take that long, so I wonder if it was already made. Before I could finish eating, it had gone cold. That just makes for a bad experience with red meat and pub fries. That being said, it really tanked the sandwich for me since it wasn’t necessarily that spectacular to begin with. My wife got a rueben and said it was also pretty good, but also that it wasn’t piping hot from the kitchen or anything. And since it was «just a rueben» like we’ve had many other places, the heat was probably one of the only things that would have made it worth while. We did get an appetizer — the Irish Potato Boxty. That was pretty good, but basically just potato skins. We probably should have done the pub pretzels. Those came to a table next to us and looked amazing.
So in conclusion — I’m not saying I won’t go back. I just probably won’t go there unless someone else picks it. And if I do, I’ll be trying different foods to see what else is around. It was ok, but not my favorite. I’m hoping I just hit an off night and it can be redeemed!

Was in town for a convention and asked the bartender at our hotel where she would eat if she was us. She mentioned a couple places all on the same area as this one. The first one she mentioned was closed so we settled in for a cold beer on the patio. It was really inviting. Outdoor furniture was comfortable, music wasn’t unreasonably loud, and waitress was attentive to our needs. I had BBQ honey wings and they were really good. Friend had a Reuben sandwich and she gave it a three out of 5 stars. Beer was cold, patio was clean. Was a pleasure to have some local food with local folks and not a chain dining experience.

As long as you stick to the hot pretzels you’ll be fine — my family and friends were super disappointed in everything else we ordered. How do you screw up a burger? A steak sandwich? We all ended up stealing chicken strips off our kids plates to make up for food we ordered but could not eat.
Want fries with that? You’ll be lucky if you get four. And the prices… wayyyyy too expensive for what they are dishing out.
Service was great. And the drinks were good. But the kitchen needs new management stat. They are making the coffee shop directly across the street look like a four star restaurant.

There was something off about the food this time. My kids wouldn’t eat their food. My food had a burnt taste, my cheese was melted half on my plate and half on the hamburger and the bottom bun was soggy.
I would have complained but our server was super crabby. She was tending bar, waiting on the full bar, and the full four tables behind the bar. She rolled her eyes when we asked what type of drinks were available for the kids and mumbled pepsi products. When my son took too long to order, she tapped her foot and looked ready to explode.
I don’t think we’ll be back to this location.

I wasn’t sure if I’d really like Llywelyn’s but I really did and actually can’t wait to go back! I didn’t really get the whole pub experience because I was there for a graduation dinner with 30 people in the basement. But next time I’d love to sit upstairs and grab a few drinks. They really were so accommodating for our large group. In the basement there is a pool table and a shuffle board table which is great for entertaining guests while waiting for food.
We had some pretzels, fried pickles, and house chips while waiting for our meals. The pretzels were super good! And of course I love house chips and fried pickles. Although I wish the pickles would have been served with ranch and not tartar sauce. So I ordered the cod sandwich with a side of sweet potato fries. I would have totally gotten the house chips to make it a regular olé Fish and Chips but I already had them as an appetizer. The sandwich was great! The fish was very white and flakey and yet super moist. Everyone had different dishes and the one I want to come back for most is the Shepherd’s Pie. For one, it looked amazing, and two, I’ve never had one! It seems like the ultimate comfort food. Not one person complained about their food. Everyone was very happy with their choice!
The best part of the experience was definitely our server. He was all by himself with our large group and another table but he did AMAZING. The service was incredible. He had drinks constantly refilled and brought out all of our meals at the same time. I was so impressed! All in all, I’m excited to come back for some drinks upstairs and try more of the dishes.

On a trip back home stopped here for lunch and sadly it wasn’t as good as I remembered. Must’ve been an off day or something… at least I hope that’s what it was. The pint of cider was a true pint — YAY — but the rest of the meal was a bit lacking.
We ordered the Irish fried pies which are supposed to be filled with tater, onions and corned beef. Our first order of them had a fried outside but felt like it was still in the fridge inside. Sent it back got another order which was hot through and through but mostly filled with mashed potato. You had to hunt for the specks of corned beef.
Hubs’ Reuben while tasty was very short on the Russian dressing (ie. dry) so we asked for a cup of dressing to fix it up and my salmon salad was tasty but the salmon was just barely warm like it had been sitting for awhile.
Bummed that our trip down memory meal lane was full of bumps.

We were there today at around 2 pm – well past the lunch rush. The restaurant was not busy. The service was extremely slow and non-​attentive. We watched as the three tables seated after ours were served their food. We watched and waited some more. When our food finally did arrive, the fish and chips was lukewarm.
Also, the pub chips at both Llywelyn’s we’ve been to always seem to be overdone to the point of being brown. I guess that is just the way they’re done at this place.
I’d give this restaurant 3 stars for food, as the other dishes were OK, but one star for service, hence the 2-​star average.
The building is nice — it’s obviously an old bank and the vaults are still there. It was also well-​decorated for Halloween.

Visiting family in St. Louis and heading out to dinner with a party of 8 with a child, a newborn, and our dog Kya. We needed a place that allows dogs so we called ahead to R. T. Weilers. We arrived and they had given the outdoor tables away. We were left to walk the streets of downtown St. Charles not knowing where to go. We stumbled upon Lywelyn’s Pub and they had a large patio, you can see the river, and we saw a few dogs relaxing with owners so we jumped as we saw a large party departing and leaving their 10 top table open.
Lywelyn’s has a nice selection of draft beverages to include not just beer but also ciders. The food is Irish inspired pub food so not fine dining but good. Staff was friendly, drinks were cold and the food was good. Service took a little while but all tables we full so they were busy as it was a Saturday night. I would highly recommend it for a relaxing evening. If the weather is nice sit on the patio and enjoy the ambiance and view with a nice draft.

Having left a $ 10 Foodie STL giftcard behind on my recent visit to the Soulard location, my wife and I decided to start our day in Old Town at Llywelyn’s Pub. Along with my mom and father in law, and their giftcard, we walked in and were seated right away on a Sunday around 1pm.
First impressions were to sit in the patio area, which was more than large enough for the area, and on a nice breezy day we almost forgot the main draw was that the pub was built inside an old bank. This historical aspect gives the Old Town location a hands down advantage over the Soulard spot, if for no other reason that the opportunity to dine in the old vaults!
As with the other locations, the beer menu was quite large, offering everything from local craft options, to national beers, and a few things I have never even heard of. My day was made when I was told the guest tap was filled with Sam Adams Porch Rocker, a beer I discovered too late in the summer apparently, because I cannot find it in stores anywhere! None of our group are huge beer drinkers, so it was awesome to have Carie as our server, because she was able to ask just a few questions about the beers we would normally drink and offered up some great ideas to try. I stuck with my Porch Rocker, but the wife and stepdad both tried new options and neither seemed disappointed.
For food, mom had the fish and chips, and raved about the dish. Step dad had a pub burger and fries, and for some reason I cannot remember what my wife ate that day. Probably because she skipped the Monarch Burger, which was my dish of choice. The Kobe Beef was cooked to perfection, and the fries and pickle on the side were pretty damned good too!
Overall, Llywelyn’s Pub was a treat to visit. Service was A+ and the food was quite good. We loved the atmosphere and the patrons and staff were extremely friendly. The pricing was a bit on the high side for what we generally would go for, but having the coupon brought us right back into our traditional budget for a meal out. For two of us, minus the coupon, we got out of there with a bill of just under $ 30 before the tip.