Three Crowns

Visited here on a Saturday afternoon for lunch with a group of cyclist friends. The pub has a well kept interior and the staff made sure we had a friendly welcome. There is a good choice of food on offer including half a dozen daily specials. I opted for the steak and ale pie with chips and veg. The food was obviously home made, well presented and tasted nice. They also have good puddings. I would definitely return. There is also a nice beer garden at the rear, well kept real ales and they accept card payments.

What a dull and uninteresting place this is. For a local village pub/​eatery one would have expected a lot more of a friendly atmosphere. We visited one evening for a meal with friends and had to barge our way past a group of smokers by the main entrance who seemed hell bent in not moving. Their looks were also very surly and intimidating. Once inside we felt the place to be very cold in both it’s atmosphere and staff attitude. However we did settle down and ordered our choice of meal having got thus far. We felt the food and presentation to be very basic and lacked flair. It also turned out to be far from the usual standard for this type of village pub. We also observed what we thought to be the landlord and his wife playing pool when it would have been better had they have bothered to say good evening and made you feel welcome in the hope you may return !! The place lacks character and is far too large to feel comfortable. It would also appear that live music is held some weekends, but as diners we do not cherish the thought of this when trying to enjoy a pleaant evenng out with friends. As a first impression it was not good and will remain far from the top of our list of places to spend our money.

Oh dear, what should have been a nice village pub was the usual loud disco, widescreen TV, type pub that you can find in any town. Had to walk through a load of smokers just to get in the place. We nearly didn’t go in because of all the advertising outside. Wish we hadn’t. Food was mediocre and service almost non existant. Still it must have been nice when it was a coaching house.