{"id":892,"date":"2014-05-03T14:33:51","date_gmt":"2014-05-03T13:33:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pubblog\/?p=892"},"modified":"2026-08-17T11:51:07","modified_gmt":"2026-08-17T10:51:07","slug":"revisits-the-royal-exchange","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pubblog\/?p=892","title":{"rendered":"CLOSED: Revisits: The Royal Exchange"},"content":{"rendered":"

Original post here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

A while ago, the pub had a half-hearted makeover that made it worse: it felt even more like a clubhouse. I’m glad to say that’s been fixed: the pub looks smart and feels modern and welcoming, and there’s new outside furniture too. It’s also gained real ale, which is very welcome, and food.<\/p>\n

…which is where I was disappointed. <\/p>\n

At time of writing, the website<\/a> says food is served 12:00-20:00, and I’m told if you view on an iPad, it says light bites available up to 14:30. The sign outside says “food every day”.<\/p>\n

Either way, having settled down with an (to be fair, excellent) pint, it was dissapointing to be told the kitchen had closed when I tried to order food at 14:01, so we drank up and went back down to the bustling centre of Walsall Wood and the Boatman’s Rest. Shame really, we’d have been set up for the afternoon…<\/p>\n

[edit Dec 2016]<\/p>\n

To be fair, now things have settled, it’s a great pub with decent food and excellent beer, and you can usually hear over the music or TV.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Original post here. A while ago, the pub had a half-hearted makeover that made it worse: it felt even more like a clubhouse. I’m glad to say that’s been fixed: the pub looks smart and feels modern and welcoming, and there’s new outside furniture too. It’s also gained real ale, which is very welcome, and … Continue reading CLOSED: Revisits: The Royal Exchange<\/span> →<\/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":[268,82,3,8],"tags":[5,4,6,269,196],"class_list":["post-892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-permanently-closed","category-revisits","category-walsall","category-walsall-wood","tag-ale","tag-food","tag-local","tag-permannently-closed","tag-walsall"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pubblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/892","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=892"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pubblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/892\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3035,"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pubblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/892\/revisions\/3035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pubblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pubblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pubblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}