Chequers in Central Bedfordshire

Brilliant service by Ange on the bar today always lovely to see someone with a big smile and happy to help!

bad smell of drains in pub could not eat , jerk chicken is a joke, many other closeby places are way better.

Lovely pub.. Lovely grub.. Always friendly service.

Went in the for a drink and the staff was friendly Adam was really helpful had a great time

Great place for food and drinks

Unfortunately does not sell stella artois any more bad move as madri is a poor quality

Come here often. Always get great pints from Adam, Cody and others. Fast service, hospitality is definitely on point here. Bar staff are brilliant, atmosphere is great and always clean. Quick service.

Nice pub....Quite busy on weekends and football days. The food is decent and the prices are also good... There is a large garden open in summer...

Always a decent place for a decent meal

They don't cater for vegetarian i ask for cheese and onion baguette they said they don't do that but other pubs do

Came down for food and was impressed with the £6 meals. Received great service from Adam who went above and beyond.

The food was really nice with a good variety of dishes. Most of the staff are very friendly.

We (2 adults & 2 kids) ate here on a late Sunday afternoon. Prices are really good value, food was decent and the staff are really good I ordered their large mix grill and it was a large meal which I struggled to finish Their burgers are really good too

Great food and value for money, lots of staff walking around yet doing nothing, place needs to be refurbished urgently

Kids meals one was good the other was very poor jacket potato very small to say the least it was more like a baby portion I had a snack which again was very poor .

AMAZING EXPERIENCE and CODY was friendly and great

I attended as a roadie for a band performing a charity show for a local person who'd had a diagnosis. The staff seemed very engaged in making sure everyone involved (customers, band) were treated well and were made to feel welcome. I didn't get a chance to try the food but I do look forward to making the opportunity to fix that!

Loads of deals to be had can often eat here 2 adults under £30

I come here most days for a drink. The staff are always welcoming especially Alex and Kelly who like to have a laugh with the regulars

The Chequers isn’t the same and last week I went to celebrate Fathers day and everything was awful 😞, the drink have to sent back because was weaker and the food was really bad, look the picture: this was a chicken Parmegiana, burnt 🥵

Poped in for a coffee, and to use my laptop. Very friendly and professional service from Tamar. Coffee was good, and represented good value for money. WiFi was great, good signal. Car park is a bonus, no need to keep entering my registration, so I could relax. All staff very nice, helping to create a good environment.

Average food place needs decorating toilets disgrace Fish in batter was tasteless and batter not crisp but soft Bar staff ok waiting ok no issues Average venue serving average food good value for the money charged

Waiters were extremely nice. We accidently put to much salt on some chips and they replaced them for free straight away

Very friendly staff and food arrived quickly. We were very happy all round.

Have been a couple of times. Good is good pub grub, decent sized portions. Staff have always been great, friendly and helpful. Pub itself is tidy and kept to a generally good standard. Would recommend.

Monday 3rd june 24 had a lovely meal, nice friendly lady on bar serving, all staff are nice & helpful, nice music playing & football ⚽️ on tv so nice evening 😀

Had a very nice quiet dinner. The kids menu was as good as the adults menu and the adults desserts looked exquisite. Plus some vending machines to get the kids occupied but if you are not willing to pay any money just ask for a activity sheet. I would highly recommend the strawberry dream chocolate frappe for it is one of the best drinks I have ever had complete with it's marshmallows, meringue and a chocolate wafer. Makes lots of summer vibes. The food was VERY delicious and I would highly recommend this pub. Many thanks to the team and many thanks to Cody who took my order. 😊

We had taymar as a waiter and he was excellent and very friendly.

Taymar is top notch, a very positive experience. 5 adults, fabulous food. The The childrens new brownie was amazing and Ruby-Grace whose 2 loved it ! 😍

Great lunch here today - shoutout to Taymar! Brilliant customer service and made us giggle

Nice environment. Delicious food. Especially wings with beer😋Good service.

Food came out quickly, staff were friendly. Accommodated for a group of almost 20. Mar treated the children just as well as the adults, even providing a new dessert, free of charge

The family was served by a young man called “Taymar” , our youngest, Logan, built a great friendship with taymar who gave us amazing service & atmosphere & insisted we leave a review for him however he would like to see one more scoop added to the children’s ice cream :-D

First time I've been back for some time. Love food, Sunday lunch was lovely. Very tasty. Prices are extremely reasonable. A lovely place to take special need young adults as it has a lovely outside area to walk about in

Had a lovely evening watching the football with a few drinks and a cheeky but of food. Really good value and a great atmosphere.

Food came out quickly and was piping hot which was great, you do have to get your own cutlery and sauces, so we had to ask to find out where they were. Otherwise, service was quick and the staff were pleasant!

No atmosphere service slow didn't seem that busy found a hair they said it came from tea cloth was not a hair!!

Popped in for a breakfast with my son passing through. 2 x Full English, 2 drinks and 1 toast. Buy one get 1 free!! Expectation was average with the deal, but the food was hot, cooked well, decent quality and so worth the money. Definitely recommend.

Apparently under new management? Food was nice, all came out at the same time despite being ordered by 3 different groups of people. Just a shame my birthday steak was so tough! Still, at least the dog enjoyed it 😁

Adam behind bar was very helpful, and management ran the place extremely well. Came in for a few pints if carlsberg as it's my local and I always get greeted and I feel welcome in the pub.

Very fast and efficient, food was good too.

Great food at a great price. Staff seem friendly.

Lovely green king bistro pub / restaurant. Food is great and also great value. Staff are polite and helpful and approachable. The garden is basic but nice, no play area. Car park is ample.

Always treated with courtesy and respect with great tasting food together with fantastic meal deals and value for money and served with a smile.

Good food, decent value, friendly staff.

Extremely disappointed with our meal tonight. Its came out on hot plate but was cold ... was meant to have salad with it and all you got was rocket leaves, when asked about the rest I was told that was salad. Total joke as this was new to the menu. Didn't bother to complain as didnt have time to wait for new food to come out so, just left it. Ordered Tandoori chicken and wasn't even breast. This is such a shame that the food has gone so down hill as it was always excellent. I must say on a positive that the staff were very polite.

I didn't eat here. I have in the past but wouldn't want to now as the smell from the loos is so overpowering and possibly a health hazard! You can smell it through the whole place! Staff half bothered. Bar and tables are so sticky! Punters were fighting in the bar (not staff fault but not a nice atmosphere!).

Great for venue and drinks chat

Went to a curry Wednesday which included a drink to find that when the food was delivered they didn't have any rice. Surely if you are going to do a deal, would it not be logical to have all the items? We were not advised at time of ordering that they did not have rice. To be fair to them we did order another meal and it came quite quickly and was nice and hot.

I don’t live in houghton Regis but I used to a long time ago and I Popped in here when visiting a friend to have a look at the menu to have lunch with them but very soon walked out I didn’t even stay for a drink the smell in this establishment was unbearable I can honestly say it smelt like a dirty toilet, not too sure why but was extremely off putting

Good food, service but smell from toilets is off putting and disgusting. Needs resolving Asap. Horrible

Chequers hungry horse is a good pub and restaurant. It's out of town and large enough for Sunday roasts and has a lot of greens king specials. The staff are friendly and helpful and the portions are prefect. No waste no hunger. They are a great alternative to the other pub lunches and feel more traditional made food rather than microwaved basics. Lots of good vegan and veg options.

Been in here before. Never disappointed with the food and service. This time I got to say the service was outstanding. John I found out was the managers name was fantastic. He couldn't do enough for us. Checking we were happy in every way. Top Job credit to this pub. 5 stars 🌟 🌟 🌟 🌟 🌟

Brilliant value for money lovely staff

Waited 20 plus minutes for 2 breakfasts. Food came out eventually but cold. Restaurant was empty and can see why. Wouldn't recommend.

Good menu selection and usual large portions. Had to wait nearly 10mins on arrival for someone to check our booking and show us to our table. Luckily were allocated a table which had no view of any of the numerous tv sports screen - a BIG distraction when we just wanted a family meal! No atmosphere other than sports tv

Food is absolutely superb service could be better atmosphere pretty quite pub

Mens toilets were so dirty sticky floors and the smell of urine was. Awful broken toilet seat and blocked up loo Food was ok but will not return The whole pub needs a deep clean Could be a nice place but not in its current state

Very good been lots of times always good

There was a horrible smell of urine in the bar coming from the toilets and permeating the whole bar. Made me feel queezy and put me off my food. The ladies toilets had no locks on the doors and te whole place is run down and grubby. And yes the bar is still sticky

Had a table booked for 10am turned up and the whole places was locked up and no-one around, very disappointing

Quiet as there were not many people their. But nice atmosphere, and we all enjoyed our meals.

We've not longed moved to Houghton Regis and just had lunch at Checkers. The food was delicious, the pudding was out of this world, sticky toffee with a hint bourbon and custard, the best we've tasted, kudos to the chef. We will be revisiting to try out the the remaining desserts. Go visit Checkers and see for yourself oops taste for yourself.

Strange staff. Ordered on the app staff did not say a word. Yummy food tho.

Had festive meal tonight awful dry festive burger, fries cold hard second serving after complaining same. Awful

Well situated positioned pub with a large carpark. Looks good from outside. Food is OK as it is a hungry horse. Staff are OK. Bar was sticky and the service was OK. Table we had booked was damaged as the top was wobbly when lent on. Men's toilets were very smelly and could be smelt before going in. However they seem to have their regulars and all were polite.

Was made to wait outside in the freezing cold wet weather for an alcohol delivery when all we wanted was a full english breakfast. When we asked staff how long we would have to wait we were greeted with blunt replies that left us wandering around outside for 40 minutes before eventually giving up and going elsewhere for yummy brekky.

Works breakfast meeting great venue amazing staff lovely food will deffo be booking again

Awful not even going to waste time explaining look at the photos

Popped in on Sunday was served by Ange on the bar who was so lovely and made the trip extra special! Would recommend xx

First visit here and was pleasantly surprised! Service was good with friendly staff, tasty food and a very relaxed atmosphere. Definitely will be returning 🙌

The curries were watery. Very disappointing.

The staff were excellent, we had the Sunday roast,which was very nice and a good price. The pub is dog 🐕 friendly. It would be very nice if you could do a doggy dinner, we did have a sausage for the dogs.

Great food and very friendly and helpful staff

Why have an app for a discount that does not work . As soon as it was put up from 10% to 20% then it stopped working. And the toilets need health and safety to have a look at them .

We had an good family and great service

Good and affordable food, quick service and great drinks. The place could do with a bit of renovating but otherwise very good. Food stops being served at 21:45 and this includes desserts which was a bit disappointing but we will know next time. Will be visiting again!

Great local family pub, plenty of car parking spaces. Nice beer garden. Dog friendly.

Good service, cheap drinks and food. Good place to meet up with friends

Very nice meal served by a lady called ang who was very helpful and friendly

Had such a lovely time with great food and service. We were made to feel so welcome that we stayed a lot longer than intended. Will be back soon.

Lovely meal and not expensive. Drinks are not over expensive either. Could do with being updated inside.

Party of 17 and my partner ordered first then the others followed. 1 hour and 10 mins later NO FOOD still waiting .the manager they had that day didn't have clue. We approached him and refused to give my partner her money back accused my partner of lying. In the end he said he refunded still waiting .had head office call my partner which they said they will look into it .this manager that day don't know if he was a relief or someone green king found last minute. Com

My self & my wife plus two more people went to the chequers on Friday the 31/9/2023 for an evening meal placed order at bar one lady did not want peas so told the manager my wife wanted 50/50 with her curry they did not know want that was so told them meals turned up one with peas on that was not required as stated my wife's curry came no chips so the young man had to go back to kitchen to get them the bar counter was covered in beer so could not put money on it or even rest your arm as you would get covered in beer the staff where very young and did not take pride in there appearance also they were putting their fingers throw there hair & than going into the kitchen to bring food out dinning room was not very tidy plates & glasses left on tables would definitely not go back

It was my nephew's 18th and it was a party of 17. We ordered our food on 3 separate orders of which I placed mine 1st. I hour and 10 min later we we're still waiting for our food, however, the two orders placed after mine had been received and one of which had finished. After going to the bar for the 2nd time I was confronted by one very rude manager effectively calling me a liar by disputing the time we had waited and saying he doesn't know I placed my order 1st, even though the system would confirm that. He became argumentative when I requested a refund by saying it's not that straight forward to refund me and made me feel as though I was being unreasonable. I raised my voice stating I'm not interested in excuses and I wanted a refund. He literally said he would not refund if I continued to shout at him. This individual was so full of his own self-importance and clearly needs training on his man management skills. I have never been so annoyed at the disrespect shown towards me and my partner was also extremely angry at the way this person spoke to me. I will never step foot back in this pub as it ruined the evening and 6 out of the 17 in my party did not eat. This pub and its management have gone down hill dramatically.

We frequent the pub at least once a month for a meal, staff are always helpful and friendly and happily travel from hitchin to visit as its the nicest one about for us. Food always hot and plentiful Thank you

I don’t do many reviews on this site or on the others. However on this occasion I think it warrants mentioning. We went to one of our locals on Friday for a little bit of evening dinner with a couple of friends, the young lad who served food was very polite and also very apologetic on the long wait for it. However I cannot say this about the members of staff behind the bar, there was also a young lad who seemed to be rushed off his feet and just said I am extremely sorry I’ll get to you quick as I can but it’s just me on at the moment. One side of the bar was completely covered in dirty glasses, plates of food and general bar rubbish, the other side had numerous glasses and it was only nearly 8:30. We was going to come and sit in from the restaurant in the sports bar area, however this was also covered in peoples dirty glasses & plates etc so we decided to remain in the restaurant for a little while longer. My wife went to the bar with a number of other people to get get drinks but she waited some 20/25 minutes, she didn’t go to make a complaint just to ask politely if they could clear a table in the sports bar for us all to sit at, she got an extremely rude and quite abrupt response by a different gentleman at this point. I then went up to the bar as I found this unacceptable and asked if it was possible to speak to the manager, he cut me off in mid sentence and stated he was the duty manager and without a further word walked off down a corridor. We decided to stand at the bar and finish our drinks, I was expecting him to come back and apologise, however we didn’t see the gentleman anymore for a couple of hours of which time we got ready to leave, just before we left I did ask the young lad who had served us at the beginning where this particular gentleman was and he said as far as I’m aware he’s in the office. I’m extremely shocked on how rude someone in authority could be. This is not what you would expect.

Party of four. Two x scampi. Not very tasty. Probably not the pubs fault. Peas were hard. Two x Jerk Chicken and wings. The brown chocolate sauce that was smothered over the wings was the most disgusting stuff ever. Please put in a separate pot so your customers can at least eat the wings.

Lovely bar staff especially Cameron very friendly.

Just giving credit where credit's dueCameron is one of those bar staff

Great food at really good value

What you'd expect from a busy understaffed pub, where the staff care and try their best despite the owners indifference.

Lovely staff! Brilliant food! Amazing for family’s

Always great service,good atmosphere and tasty fresh food

We had a lovely breakfast today it was nice and fresh and Alex serviced us very friendly and polite.

I must have been in on a bad day the last time I went because had a free meal today due to a previous sitting was sub par but today was excellent food was cooked perfect and my two children said they really enjoyed their meal as well just want to say a thank you to the manager who was very accommodating

Nice outside seating area, not as friendly as the last time.

Got served by Alex and Cameron great servics very friendly

All staff Alex and Cameron and everyone else that was on shift does a brilliant job when Nath comes to the chequers very polite and approachable thank you

Really happy that they was able to have us all there for a friend that sadly passed and was a large party.