Address: Village Rd, Christleton, Chester CH3 7AS, United Kingdom
Phone: +441244335422
Rating: 4.5
based on 139 reviews.
Food Quality
Pros:
"The food was great."
"Amazing food! We had the fish and chips, gammon, ice cream and orange cheesecake from the specials."
"Brilliant staff and nicely cooked posh pub food."
"The food was really tasty and well presented, we all had something different and little Ro had the curry from the child's menu which he really enjoyed."
"The food was delicious, and we all had a great time."
"Brilliant food."
"The food we had was very tasty and good value for money."
Cons:
"Seen better days. Very expensive for what we received."
"Visited yesterday, my partner wanted a salad - we asked first would it be a nice fresh salad, considering a salad there is £14.50 you might expect a decent level of quality, what they brought was limp and lifeless - not fresh."
"Appetisers (olives) were so acidic that we left almost half of them."
"Steak in sandwich was poor quality, not pink but bloody. Fish full of bones."
"Here's a lot of good press and rightly so. Nice ambiance and decor etc. Food wasn't amazing tho. Wife had a very fatty steak and my son had some rather chewy gammon."
"Salad was nice but the soy and sweet chilli sauce was pretty much just soy - far too salty."
"The burger was very dry and cheap... the only time I've had disappointing food here."
Service
Pros:
"Really pleasant staff, especially a guy called George."
"Service was excellent, very pleasant, pleased to see you."
"Service was friendly and efficient."
"Excellent all round service."
"Nice friendly atmosphere greets you as do the attentive staff."
"We received wonderful, courteous service."
"The service was quick and friendly."
Cons:
"Nice place, good food but staff do not pay attention to the customers, the waitress throw the bill on the table because she was just finishing her shift."
"Service was very slow, although they were very busy."
"Just nearly died in The Ring of Bells today, I swallowed a lump of beef which stuck my throat, I went to bar and banged on the bar to get attention to get a Heimlich Manoeuvre but got ignored."
"The food was good but the service was average. It took a long time to be offered a drink and to have our order taken, we didn't get offered a dessert menu or for more drinks."
"Service could have been better as it wasn't busy and there was no shortage of staff."
"Service in the bar side can be really slow, even on quiet days."
"Also the service was shocking an was left trying to pay the bill for a long time."
Ambiance & Decor
Pros:
"Not only is the whole decor of the place extremely 'gentleman'-like, it is also classy, comfortable and homely."
"Quality cask beers. Quaint village setting."
"It's situated in a lovely little village in Chester. Well kept and pleasant atmosphere. Dogs welcome too."
"One of my favourite places to eat in a country village atmosphere."
"Great food, friendly and professional staff, spacious interior and excellent outdoors eating / drinking facilities."
"Wonderful establishment both inside and out, cobbled court yard parking that seems slightly small to begin with yet it's not a problem in the end at all."
"Nice and spacious, airy feel to the place."
Cons:
"Tepee is lovely yet extremely dirty - children's play area covered in bird excrement."
"Visited recently and hugely disappointed. The pub looked unkempt and instead of rustic looked a bit grubby."
"Definitely needs a team to clean / hedge cut grounds."
"The shouting, screaming and banging from the kitchen was completely unacceptable and very unprofessional."
"But what made things worse was that the prices had increased sharply too."
"The decor is nice too with a nice easy going environment. There's also a park outside to keep the kids entertained after."
"It's such a nice setting, with some really nice touches that this visit left us with some bad tastes in our mouths literally and figuratively."
Value for Money
Pros:
"BOGOF pizzas on a Wednesday so we ordered 4 and none of us were disappointed. All cooked to perfection, thin pizza base, served with sweet potato chips, all delicious."
"Best of all there was 50%off the food on a Tuesday 😁 what more could you ask for would highly recommend this place 10out of ten⭐⭐"
"The food we had was very tasty and good value for money."
"Great food and amazing service."
"A random Google search suggested this place and I'm so glad it did. Fully booked when we arrived but the staff went out of their way to accommodate us."
"Good local ales on tap."
"Thank you for accommodating our party of 11 here yesterday, table ready for our arrival and non stop great service from all the staff."
Cons:
"Two wines, a larger shandy and bottle of beer on top of those olives, a shared starter and two mains really didn't seem to justify the almost £65 bill."
"£7.50 for a small Prosecco - really?"
"Seen better days. Very expensive for what we received. Used to like coming here but far better options around Chester these days in the same price bracket."
"15 of us came last night 7 of us had chips which were over cooked ( nearly black) which has never happened before."
"Was also disappointed with the way the pub processes the gourmet card transactions - customers beware if there are more than two people eating and you have more than one card; you would be better to order separately to get avoid being overcharged."
"Ordered through deliveroo, I don't think I've ever had a worse pizza in my life, somehow the chef managed to burn them and undercook them at the same time, our garlic bread crumbled into a million pieces when slicing it."
"Sadly the food was a disappointment, swimming in grease which wasn't very pleasant."