Stag and Hounds, Churchillback to pub details please note - reviews on this site are purely the opinion of site visitors, so don't take them too seriously.
Not very impressed at all in all aspects
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This also is great, fabulous food, too much to eat, well prepared, may have to wait but warm convenient nice location takes many guests if you have a party and the drink supplies are good if a little overrun by the demand and the place can become crowded which probably speaks for itself. Only ever had to wait for a table for a long while once and you get good conversations by traditional elders who have connections who gather there for celebrations. Plenty of choice. Going again soon family birthday. My parents rarely ate out except the great egg chips bread and butter and tea at Stokes Croft Bristol in the 1950s at Christmas shopping and the odd Truck Drivers' cafe, so they missed a lot we enjoy. They make great meeting places, The Yacht at Torquay was one, but that has sadly demised. So if you like the A38 and want a break from eating the M5 dust with a scenic trip get off at Weston, Brent or Clevedon and take a trip through Yatton the winding lane to Churchill and Shipham Hill, see Cheddar, wander the Mendips and then eat at this restaurant, your stomach will love you for it. As my wife's brother said, it is becoming not so much the fishing and boats as a matter of the restaurants and food on holiday these later days, the best until last. Mike
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Called in here for sandwiches and a drink after leaving Bristol Airport and on the way home to Devon.
The staff were pleasant but my wife's cheddar cheese sandwich was, she said, rubbish, and she left most of it.
I asked for a ham sandwich with no salad. It came with lettuce which was wet and half the sandwich had been put on top of the lettuce, which made it soggy.
The bread in both sandwiches was not fresh.
I will never call in there again.
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It was better when it was The Load o' Mischief, but that was so long ago. . . . . . . . . . .
I don't think they did food at all then, but not many pubs did.
Bitter at 1/11 and crisps 3d a bag.
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The first thing that I noticed when I walked in to this pub was a lectern with a sign attached saying �Please wait here to be seated�. I think that gives you some idea about the sort of establishment that this is, and it�s not likely to be somewhere that any of the regulars on this site are going to pop into for a decent ale, not least because every table in there seemed to be laid up for food. Not exactly welcoming if you're just popping in for a pint.
I�m struggling a bit as to how to describe this pub. It�s just got that bland, corporate feel to it that must be replicated in dozens of other similar chain pubs up and down the country. There�s nothing at all offensive about it, there�s plenty of wood around, it�s all nicely carpeted and it was clean and tidy. It�s just got no character whatsoever. Unsurprisingly, it seemed very quiet on a recent Saturday evening visit.
The food is on a permanent �2 for 1� offer, all day every day. This immediately alienates me as clearly you know that the food is only going to be worth, at best, half the marked price. I didn�t study the menu, but did notice a large selection on a board just by the entrance, that you could peruse while you were �waiting to be seated�.
Beers on offer were Brakspear�s Oxford Gold and Pedigree. The solitary cider was Strongbow, unfortunately.
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Very nice building, obviously with a lot of history and a very wide selection of meals but unfortunately the service and quality of the food didn't live up to this first impression.
Firsty we went to the bar to order some drinks and were brusquely informed that food could only be purchased at the servery. Fair enough, but it does say this as you come in and so we already knew that and a "hello" or "how can I help" would have been nicer. Perhaps if they get a lot of people trying to order food at the bar they should make the servery more obvious (it's hidden away in a back corner) or put a note to this effect on the menus and on the bar as well as where you come in?
Two of our party of three had pints of Pedigree which were inexpertly poured and tasted a little flat. The white wine spritzer was reportedly very nice.
Then we went to the servery, where again the service was brusque = "table number?" was the greeting here.
The food arrived quickly, and in contrast to the review of the 4th of Jan it was hot (although not exceptionally so).
The main gripe I have was with the portion sizes - my grandfather received a moderately large fish and chips, my grandmother got a very large lasagne but my butternut squash curry was only about half the size of the other two meals. Also, the curry was disappointingly bland - the mango chutney had a much stronger flavour. The fish and chips was apparently "good, but nothing special" and the lasagne rated only a bit better.
The pudding I had, a toffee sponge with butterscotch sauce, was very nice - but I think you'd have to be going some to cock that up.
Overall 5/10.
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Nice pub with a wide selection of well priced dishes all 2-4-1.
Pity that no-one has yet informed the chefs that the food coming out of their kitchen should actually be served hot if it's not a salad or icecream.
The first time we were served stone cold food we were informed it was a 'one off.' That was until we returned and the meat and gravy meal served was icily cold. You would think that even meals heated up in the microwave would be hot, but obviously their microwave can only defrost not heat up.
Just avoid unless you like cold meals.
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2 for 1 always useful unless u were like me on my lonesome, too many tables were reserved to and nowhere left to sit and just have a pint, ok pint of Banks's, ok but could do better 6.5/10
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Typical 2 for 1 pub grub,very dissapointing.The food is abysmal.how you can cockup a preprepared frozen meal,is beyond belief,I shall not be eating or reccomending this establishment,as the previous writer say,s good for parking anda drink.but only now and then.
anonymous - 28 Mar 2007 09:33 |
A few Years ago 17 of us went to this pub for my birthday. After so many cock ups with the food I decided to give the place a miss in future. We decided to give it another go the other weekend & the food was good. As we thought they had redeemed themselves we went again tonight. Unfortunatly out of 3 of us only 1 meal was ok. Which is a shame because it is a nice pub in a nice location with good parking.
So I think it's ok for a drink but not the ideal place to go for a meal..........
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