The Staff Of Life, Country Pub Eatery

Venue is lovely and feels extremely welcoming when you enter. The waiting team were fab, extremely attentive and friendly. However what let the trip down was the food. We paid £6 for prawn cocktails. Put it this way, somoene in the part ate the two pieces of bread and the sauce and left the lettuce, we joked that she was leaving £4.50 worth of lettuce. Honestly, they shouldnt have come out of the kitchen, there were literally 5 shrimps (not prawns) and about a table spoon of dressing, if that. The carvery....... The meat was fab, could not fault the meat in the slightest. Frozen yorkshire puddings, Carrots so overcooked they were black and like mush. Parsnips again, black. Green beans that seemed tinned. Roast potatoes like rocks. Also everything seemed SWIMMING in oil, to the point on the plate you could see seperate pools of gravy and oil.

Recently re-opened after a prolonged period of closure and having undergone refurbishment this pub/restaurant is worth a try. The staff are extremely welcoming and the bar has a pleasant ambience. The current menu is a little restricted but a revised version with more popular pub favourites is promised soon. The food was good and well presented but lack of customers must be a challenge. Sunday carveries are proving to be very popular and good value. The pub needs more supporters to ensure it continues as a business so we shall return.

Great Gourmet burger and scampi. Jan is a lovely host. Recommended calling in for a Timothy Taylor and a meal.

Lovely ambience and great food. Really enjoyed our visit to this pub. I have high standards, and this place exceeded them! Would visit again.

On behalf of Hinckley Ramblers, I just wanted to say thank you for the warm welcome we received when we stopped by for a drink last Sunday lunchtime. I hope to return for a meal with my wife sometime