BITE user comments - saintontour
Comments by saintontour
Really nice gastropub famous for serving Pieminister pies. We travel 15 miles to come here, but only when we want a meal, although they always have a couple of real ales on. Saying that I imagine it's lovely in summer with it's canal-side location and extensive garden.
10 Jan 2011 18:24
I'm afraid this is a review of the food rather than the beer as I was designated driver. Having said that the food was AMAZING. There is a restaurant, although we sat near the fire in the bar. Obviously popular with locals but at no time did we feel like we were not welcome. Staff were very friendly.
10 Jan 2011 18:13
This used to be a great pub with wonderful food, but I totally agree with the reviewer below. The last time I visited (in 2008) I vowed I wouldn't ever go back. Happy memories of sitting by the river drinking the local ales have been spoilt.
3 Oct 2010 08:34
The Navigation Inn, Stoke Prior
The nearby Country Girl is temporarily closed so we stumbled into the Navigation instead, not expecting much truth be told. Don't be put off by the car wash in the car park; this is a lovely little pub with great food and very friendly staff. It's so nice to find a proper country pub with saloon and lounge bars intact (& a restaurant at the back), rather than another clone gastropub.
Ales included Spitfire & Black Sheep. My parents didn't fancy the tarragon sauce with the monkfish, so the chef offered to cook them a lovely prawn & white wine sauce instead. I had the Tunisian chicken which was superb; we are going back next month for the Tunisian evening. Nice little beer garden with chickens pecking around, rabbits & guinea pigs to distract the kids. I got the impression the proprietors really care about their pub, their food and their customers.
3 Oct 2010 08:26
The Wellington, Birmingham
Old man's pub with a fantastic selection of real ales...yet I don't feel out of place in here as a thirty year old female. Pretty much anyone welcome, as long as you can squeeze in.
10 Jan 2011 18:50