Admiral Rodney, Brewoodback to pub details please note - reviews on this site are purely the opinion of site visitors, so don't take them too seriously.
the new phone number for the admiral rodney in brewood is: 01902 851170
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This pub is now run by Adam and Andrew who took over earlier this year, they've brought a tired pub back to life and you will always find a heartwarming welcome, a cheery chat and a wonderful atmosphere in this pub...they keep keg and draught beers and are now serving meals which are of a high quality and very reasonably priced, also their tasty roast dinner is served all day on a sunday and consists of a selection of extremely tender meats and locally bought fresh vegetables...well worth a visit...try it, i'm sure you won't be disappointed...they are also now taking bookings for christmas parties and christmas day lunch...oh and the phone number you have on this site is incorrect...they now have a land line and as soon as i am able to obtain it i will post to the site...
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The food here was the worst pub food we have had in many years. We ordered:
fish and chips - this was fine.
Lam shank - normally shank meat falls off the bone. In this case, it was cooked so badly that I needed a steak knife to get the meat off it, and the meat was really tough. I couldn't work out whether it was undercooked or cooked too fast, but it was very poor.
Salmon with risotto - the salmon was small and very overcooked, shrivelled and dry. the risotto! Was more like dried up Indian pliau rice, it definately was not risoto.
For desert we ordered treacle tart and ice cream - and had to retuen the tarts as they were all cold! Who ever serves cold treacle tart!
I would avoid this pub for food, it was truelly dreadful.
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Most of what i want to say has been said already. The nice builing, though the interior is a bit twee - it has a fantasic fireplace and both beer and naval memorabilia - not a shock, considering the pub is named after the famous 18th century admiral. Has a nice beer garden
Beer was excellent and with excellent choices. Hardy & Hansons Old Trip (which is what i had), Everards Sunchaser, Black Shhep, Old Spekky, Deuchars IPA, Timothy Taylor Landlord and Adnams Explorer. No MILD. Good choice of lagers too for those that like stuff.
After all this, a guy still ordered John Smiths!
Will go more often i think
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The warmest of welcomes, excellent service in a relaxed atmosphere with the highest levels of professionalism from the staff is what I have found at The Admiral Rodney.
A true testament to the quality of the place is that the locals can all give you a run down of the menu whilst keeping you informed of any changes of ingredients to your favourites; one of my lads was told that his fishcakes were now salmon for a change by the young lady who lives over the road. Yes, the locals eat here as well.
I've had steaks, breakfasts, gammon, desserts, pies, fish and everything inbetween (I love eating out) and cannot fault anything I've tried. The chef(s) will happily alter the menu for your own particular preference as everything is prepared and cooked freshly.
The environment is clean and welcoming and the landlord has a killer sense of humour that keeps the drinkers entertained all night.
On the subject of drinking, there is usually a good mix of ales and an interesting quirk of this pub is that a running total of emptied casks is kept on a blackboard in the gent's.
I might have to move house to make this inn my local. Enjoy!
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It's lunchtime on a Friday in December, it's 4 degrees outside and grey. Inside, it's cool, fine for the active staff but not so much for the less active customers who are mostly sitting with their coats on. The restaurant's open fire, for which the pub won awards in the '90s, isn't lit, the room is also empty - I wonder if there is a connection? There is a small wood-fire in the bar but the warmest seats are occupied by the pub's dogs and customers are steered to other tables to avoid disturbing them.
The beer over the previous couple of years' visits ranged from from fair to excellent but you can get the occasional duff pint as the first one was this day. An alternative was proffered freely but with no word of apology or acceptance that it was the beer below standard rather than this quaffer's taste-buds. Having no cellar-craft of my own, I'm just a paying customer, I couldn't speculate as to the reason for the variability but it has been suggested by those who know about these things, that too many guest beers can result in some going stale before they're used and that the distance between the cellar and pumps can be a problem.
The small range of food I have sampled has been generally good but on this day the 'T's in a BLT baguette are canned and the mushroom in the brunch replaced with the same. No hint of changes to the menu being made when ordering. This day was not a good day.
A few weeks previously, one of the staff was commenting about how the current financial climate was affecting trade, well they've just lost another couple of customers and it's nothing to do with the credit crunch. Instead, I'll be heading off more frequently to the Holly Bush Inn in Salt (a few miles north-east of Stafford) where it's warm, inviting, the food is excellent and far from run-of-the-mill pub fare. Unfortunately, the choice of seating is usually more limited (it is, more often than not, full both at lunchtime and in the evening) and they only have one guest beer at a time.
The old adage 'look after the pennies and the pounds will look after themselves' do not apply to the hospitality trade - here it's the customers that need looking after.
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Lovely quiet large relaxing garden by Brewood church. Large car park. Good selection of ales. I've never had a poor one! Never tried food, but it seems quite popular. Small inside. real fire. Very nice end to a day after the local picturesque walks.
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Doing well with the food and atmosphere, but the quality of the real ale is invariably poor. This is inevitable, considering how far away the casks are stored.
I eat there every week or so, but have never had good real ale in the last year.
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A new landlord, chef and lady of the house took over this pub in March 2006, Terry now runs at least 6 lines of real ale, each very well kept, has Addlestones cloudy cider on tap and Chef has improved the quality of the food served immeasurably. Bar meals or restaurant menu all highly recommended. Varied and regularly changing food and ale menus, food served all day including breakfast. Friendly staff, good garden, no musak. Well worth a visit if you are in the area.
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