Aldridge:<\/p>\n
<\/iframe><br \/><small><a href=\"https:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?client=ubuntu&channel=fs&q=ws9+8pj&oe=utf-8&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=Walsall,+West+Midlands+WS9+8PJ,+United+Kingdom&ei=5zv9TPTZNYewhAfYurSyCw&oi=geocode_result&ved=0CA8Q8gEwAA&ll=52.603777,-1.919088&spn=0.013032,0.021372&z=14&iwloc=A&source=embed\" style=\"color:#0000FF;text-align:left\">View Larger Map<\/a><\/small><\/p>\n<p>This is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pubblog\/?p=11\">The Elms<\/a> renamed, refurbished, and a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crowncarveries.co.uk\/\">Crown Carvery<\/a>. It’s still a pub: the bar area is fairly seperate (and still has the annoying people standing at it so you can’t get a drink), but three quarters of the pub is a carvery restaurant. You get what you’d expect: a large, slightly canteen like bit at the back, but a few quiet corners. Plenty of families and pensioners.<\/p>\n<p>For what it is, it’s not too bad. The food’s OK, the beer drinkable but not fantastic, and the prices are amazingly low. Stunningly low. Just don’t go expecting haute cuisine, fantastic beer, or loads of atmosphere. The staff were pleasant enough, and overall not a bad experience. Basically, it’s a damn sight better than the last time I visited, though being worse would be hard.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aldridge: View Larger Map This is The Elms renamed, refurbished, and a Crown Carvery. It’s still a pub: the bar area is fairly seperate (and still has the annoying people standing at it so you can’t get a drink), but three quarters of the pub is a carvery restaurant. You get what you’d expect: a … <a href=\"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pubblog\/?p=447\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\"><strike>The Elms<\/strike> Crown Carvery, Aldridge<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">→<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,3],"tags":[197,5,198,4,6],"class_list":["post-447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aldridge","category-walsall","tag-aldridge","tag-ale","tag-chain","tag-food","tag-local"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pubblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pubblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pubblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pubblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pubblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=447"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pubblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pubblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pubblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pubblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}