Aldridge:
Evidently once a coaching inn and on the A452 Chester Road, I’ve been in this pub many, many times, but evidently not since 2009 when PubBlog started. It was one of the pubs that my parents went to for a meal in the 80s/90s.
Anyway, we decided to go and give it a try for that; it had passed through an unfortunate stage as an Italian-esque restaurant, and now it’s a gastropub, and as such feels a bit too much like a restaurant, but it is still just a pub, but it seems to have ideas above that.
The beer is pricey, the food isn’t cheap. The food is pretty good, but for the price we paid, it was only OK. By no means awful ,but it suffers from the Sutton Coldfield effect.