Fox and Hounds, Riseley - pub details
Address: High Street, Riseley, Bedfordshire, MK44 1DT [map] [gmap]
Tel: 0871 951 1000 (ref 14088) - calls cost 10p per minute plus network extras
Pub facilities/features:
- Food served, Real ale
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> Current user rating: 7.5/10 (rated by 12 users)
other pubs nearby:
Five Bells, Riseley (0.2 miles)
user reviews of Fox and Hounds, Riseley
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| The prices are staggeringly high and the beer range is limited, true. However the Fox and Hounds serves a fantastic pint of Bombardier - something you don't find very often even in Bedfordshire! - and the food is very good indeed. Excellent place for a special occasion I would imagine, or to have a couple of pints and relax. jjsint - 31 May 2012 18:38 |
| Brilliant place. Unconventional style of food in that you choose your own steak but all aspects of it are good. Clean welcoming and well run, lots of young staff but all seem keen and eager to please. Very busy when we went, with both drinkers and people eating. Took quite a long time to get our meals but it was worth the wait . We shall return regularly seastreamavenger - 6 Dec 2009 11:36 |
| I discovered this gem a year ago, and have been back about twice a month ever since. I have to say that the surroundings are beautiful and authentic, being around 450 years old, and I honestly can't get enough of the steaks! Yes it's expensive - but if you want cheap food, go for MacDonalds. You get what you pay for! And the jovial landlord always makes me smile; I'm often slightly disappointed when he isn't there! I TOTALLY disagree with whoever said the landlord was "rude and arrogant", as he is genuinely friendly and the reason many peope go to to this restaurant in the first place. And we love his 'tash! Whenever we eat there, the service is generally really good. The staff are mainly teenage, which is really nice as the owners seem to cater for kids in the village. They have always been very polite to us, very smiley and friendly, and the bar staff are always very on the ball. The landlord's wife, Lynn, stands at the end of the bar doing bills, and she is always incredibly chatty as well! The food is cooked on a grill in the middle of the restaurant, and it's awesome to watch your steak being cooked to perfection from your seat. They also offer sides like chips, salad, onion rings, mushrooms, roast mediterranean veg etc, and my favourite, pepper-corn sauce! All of these accompany the steak well, and the blackboard menu is pretty extensive too. As for pudding, there's always a good selection, presented well (especially the profiteroles) and are all very tasty. If you want good food, this is the place to go! Kryslekrunch - 14 Nov 2009 12:36 |
| Bigmeup is not far wide of the mark... The beer selection is very limited.. the carpet is in need of refurbishment.. There is a menu board with specials on... a special to my mind changes ...these dont.. Steak is very much the order of the day, the landlord cooks each steak to order and the grill is used for just steak which produces a damn fine steak cooked to perfection.. The steak is cut to the size you require which is nice they weigh it and tell you how much it costs.. This is where it all unravels.. The price is not just high it is shockingly high, i wondered if Dick Turpin set the price as it was daylight robbery, however they were happy to cut my steak in half so it only (!!) cost 18 pounds,the steak comes with an "accompaniment" salad,chips,fried onion rings, basically all the usual suspects prepared in a kitchen by a Babboon, or at least a babboon could prepare this standard of poor accompaniements , all fresh from the freezer, except the salad thankfully. extra "sides2 come at an equally high price. The service to table was provided by spotty oicks who have not the first idea of customer service and people skills, to have your food dumped in front of you with a grunt and no reply to my "thank you" is annoying. During the meal in the 4/5th empty restaurant the landlord chatted to the nearby table "all our food is sourced locally" quoth he.. "where is your steak from?" asked the punter... "Scotland" replied the landlord...Scotland really isn't local to Bedfordshire..but it is closer than Calcutta so he may have a point.. We were asked by the girl waiting at our table,if we wanted a desert. we asked whats home made her reply was fantastic"the Creme Brulee is homemade... all the other deserts are made in someone elses home" HILARIOUS... that will be called a factory then.. which brings me back to the fact a babboon could do the kitchen work, Whilst waiting our bil the landlord sallied forth and asked "are you not having pudding?" we replied "no" he looked diappointed and said loudly " what No roly-poly, no treacle pudding, no spotted dick??" to which we very dryly replied "no...as none of those are on the menu" Clearly this establishment has gone past its sell by date , and in the words of Cromwell to the long parliament "Just go ..In the name of God Go" Ziggles - 13 Nov 2009 15:16 |
| An Absolute Scream! I thought Ironic restaurant experiences were restricted to big cities like London...but take a trip into rural North Bedfordshire and located in a beautiful 400 year old setting is the Fox and Hounds-a true jewel in Ironic themed restaurants where you can experience old style English restaurant hospitality that is straight out of an episode of Fawlty Towers. The combination of a staggeringly rude and arrogant landlord- who really does seem to believe that YOU are doing HIM a favour by coming into his restaurant, sullen teenage staff all seemingly auditioning for a role as Catherine Tate's 'bovvered' character and ridiculously expensive sub-Beefeater food -will leave you chuckling for days The attention to detail here is stunning-from the realistic acne and piercings of the barely literate teenage staff to the hideous 70s style attempts at Olde English pub furnishings and the landlords brilliantly ironic 'tash. Get in quick though-with such a perfect combination the irony seeking bright young things will be flocking from London and New york to rub shoulders with the BWM driving, pringle jumping nouveau riche who already love this Bedfordshire treat! bigmeuprudeboy - 6 Oct 2009 13:54 |
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