Willenhall:
We were meeting a friend for Sunday lunch and our usual choice has stopped doing Sunday lunch.
We’d passed this place many, many times. It was, until 2014, The Red Lion, and it most certainly was that last time I went in- which was probably in the nineties.
I kept my urge to ask if the Gatekeeper was around suppressed.
The post-2014 incarnation is branded as Hungry Horse, the lowest-rent brand of Greene King.
As such, you’re obviously not getting haute cuisine, and as we eat our meal we grew more disappointed: nothing was inedible (though the stuffing came close) but nothing was terribly good either.
The place seemed popular with families, as you’d expect.