Cannock, Staffs, on the edge of the Chase:
Food-biased traditional pub with views over Staffordshire- you can easily see The Wrekin in neighbouring Shropshire.
There’s extensive menus- bar food and restaurant, real ale, and outside space. Plenty of parking, lots of different spaces, inside and out. Food was decent, staff were pleasant, service was great.
Real ale on offer, but didn’t try it.
Cannock:
This is a bit craft bar more than pub, but it reminded me of The Black Isle Bar on a smaller scale, so it gets in.
Craft beer, no cask. Interesting food menu with a bias to pizza. Pleasant staff, OK prices. Liked this far more than I expected to.
Cannock:
We had to wait until 4pm for this to open, but we’re glad we did, as we’d been meaning to visit since it opened in 2016.
The first surprise was the landlord: Tony, late of The Wheatsheaf and briefly The Drunken Duck, and a man that knows how to run a pub well.
He’s doing that here. It’s big for a micro, the inside is clean, tidy, and pleasant, the beer is ace, and there’s snacks (sausage rolls from “the centre of sausage roll production” in Chuckery). Worth the wait.
Cannock:
Second Stonegate pub of the day. This is a typical town-centre spoons-a-like, but it managed, despite lovely staff, to be less inviting than the actual ‘spoons. it felt a bit grotty and soulless to us, but it was by no means awful, and my pint of Landlord wasn’t at all bad.
Cannock:
A traditional pub in the town centre, close to the bus station. it’s a fairly typical Stonegate example. Pleasant staff, beer was fine, inside unexceptional but pleasant.
Cannock:
Been meaning to come here for a while: it’s a big, 1937 pub in a minor road close to Cannock town centre, and the interior is on CAMRA’s inventory with good reason: it was carefully restored in 2012 by Black Country Inns, and the inside is now tidy, smart, but still authentic to the age. Really friendly landlord, great beer, lovely beer garden, and a Arriva 2 Sapphire stops outside the door…
Cannock:
Called in here before a walk back home. It’s a by-the-numbers carvery- but very cheap at £3.59 Mon-Sat. We only had a soft drink.
It’s innoffensive, but unexceptional.