{"id":672112,"date":"2026-07-03T18:39:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-03T18:39:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/672112\/"},"modified":"2026-07-03T18:39:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-03T18:39:11","slug":"penarth-dine-and-dash-pair-enjoy-two-course-dinner-at-the-custom-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/672112\/","title":{"rendered":"Penarth dine-and-dash pair enjoy two-course dinner at The Custom House"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A restaurant owner has slammed a &#8220;disrespectful&#8221; pair who he claims fled without paying for dinner and drinks, including a \u00a352 Dover sole.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">They dined at The Custom House in Penarth, Vale of Glamorgan, on Monday evening, and racked up a \u00a3115 bill, which also featured eight Cokes, calamari and a two-course set menu.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">When the attention of staff was diverted elsewhere, they allegedly made a run for it &#8211; with their vehicle gone from the car park before the manager could catch up with them.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The customers were caught leaving on CCTV, leading the restaurant to issue a social media appeal, asking them to return to the venue and arrange payment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">South Wales Police said it was investigating the incident.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We&#8217;d much rather resolve this directly and appreciate you getting in touch with us as soon as possible,&#8221; the restaurant wrote.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A restaurant owner has slammed a &#8220;disrespectful&#8221; pair who he claims fled without paying for dinner and drinks,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":672113,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-672112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=672112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672112\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/672113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=672112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=672112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=672112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}