The Three Stags Heads, Wardlow Mires

Visited on Saturday with walking pal who had had a prior visit and had enjoyed both the beer and the food but found the landlords attitude an acquired taste. it is certainly a unique place and we had a warmish welcome from the young chap behind the bar but the landlord seriously needs to realise that he is in the hospitality business. The beer we had was excellent but the food I have to say was the worst I have experienced in any pub in 21 years of walking in the Peak District on a monthly basis. We both had the fish cakes which in themselves were fine but we were somewhat surpised to find them accompanied by mashed potato, cabbage, sprouts and carrots. What made it worse was the mash was stone cold and the rest of the vegetables had all the warmth of the landlords welcome. At �8.50 this was far from good value and overall a very disappointing experience. We conveyed our disappointment to the young man who apologised but no recompense was offered for the poor food. The landlord made no comment whatsoever!! The young man commented that he hoped that our experience hadn't put us off visiting again!! I'll leave you dear reader to construct your own response -all I'll say is that I'm repeating the walk next Saturday with the wife and we'll be eating at the Bulls Head in Foolow.

12 Apr 2010 16:49