Harrington Arms Gawsworth in Cheshire East

It’s a shame the old staff have gone, they were the heart of the village pub. I took my first drink back as the wine was off. A new bottle opened but if the manager wants to mutter under her breath she can’t be bothered with this customer - she needs to do it so the customer doesn’t hear her! Not professional at all. It a shame as the pub use to be such a jolly place. The local Shoot spends a lot of money after their day together - but not anymore 🥲

Would not recommend this pub anymore! The people serving behind the bar are the most boring, dullest people i’ve ever met, grumpy with most, if not all the customers. Took away our glasses before they were even finished with. Toilets were dirty and had place mats over the toilet floor. Ridiculous prices on drinks. Overall an unpleasant experience in a pub i once loved. If i could give 0 stars for service i would but i cant.

Amazing bar and restaurant. Pie was delicious as was the steak sandwich, cannot recommend this highly enough of you're passing. Super friendly staff too. Well worth a visit.

What a fantastic place! Managed to squeeze 9 of us in for Sunday lunch without a booking. Food was great as were the staff, nothing was too much trouble. Will definitely be back

Outstanding service from Tim, fabulous food highly recommend this pub

Pretty much a perfect country pub with cosy little rooms owing to its previous incarnation as a house.

Brilliant place. Fire burning to keep us warm. Fabulous food, and excellent service by the staff. I wished I lived closer. Would definitely visit more if I could, I live too far away to commute. (my food pics were so fuzzy I thought it best not to post them, but it was definitely very tasty). Thanks

Lovely pub! Good beer, friendly staff and a great butter chicken curry. I'd thoroughly recommend coming here for lunch.

Very nice to return here since before the pandemic started. some pleasant changes. 😀

Another grest weekend, great weekend and staff xxx lovely clean facilities

Tried submitting private via the website email address but the email bounced (no such address) !!!! So... great location, lovely friendly welcome greeting, great tasty sunday roast... then.... we were ghosts... left for 30 minutes before table cleared and dessert menu offered... then nothing.... other tables cleared, other folk served, no one came to take our dessert order despite us being visibly ready to order .... we paid and left!

Great Country lnn to visit if going for a drive or visiting Gawsworth Hall great Atmosphere and nice service by staff recommend this highly.

Very nice old style pub very good atmosphere dog friendly good beer, I didn't eat but am told the food is very good.

Fantastic place with fantastic staff. Love going for a drive out and stopping hear to relax and have a bite to eat. Really nice people x

Great fish and chips, I'm told the bean chili was very good as well. Friendly staff good service.

Really good beer garden, though you get noise from the main road. Quirky and small but nice inside rooms. Very efficient and pleasant serving team. Decent beers on tap and good quality pub food.

The views are nice, though it can be hard to find a seat. The place is friendly to animals and really green which is a plus. Acceptable space between tables helping with privacy. It was hard to get our order in and the some of the food was no good. A couple of us got fish and chips and soup which were not good, but I'm told the pizza was acceptable. In my view the prices are on the higher end, maybe undeservedly so, given the service and food standard.

We loved this pub after a long country walk. Beer garden is massive and has plenty of seating and the food was great too.

A lovely place to stop for a quick half on the way home from a day climbing or walking. Other activities are available.

Had a very disappointing meal at this pub last night but thankfully everyone in the party enjoyed the get together. I follow a Plant-Based diet so wanted a bottle of red wine to have with my meal. Unfortunately no Vegan red wine available. There was no starter labelled as Vegan but was told the Soup of the Day which was spiced butternut squash was vegan and it was nice but then served with dairy butter for my bread. The main courses were a real let down. I chose the only vegan option on the menu which was the Potato and Dhal curry. For me a Dhal should be packed with lentils but this was a very watery curry with prob 2x small potatoes cut in half and a handful of lentils. The Naan and poppadoms weren't served with the curry. We had to wait for them. I recognised the small Naan bread they were very similar to the ones at Aldi (Garlic and coriander) and tasted the same. My sons pepperoni pizza was obviously bought from a supermarket prob Aldi again as it had the pin holes in the base. He agreed it tasted like an Aldi pizza which was priced at £14 I believe!! I asked a couple of others about the their meals and they also said it was 'ok' WE weren't expecting fine dining but we did expect proper home cooked food. For dessert there was no Vegan option on the menu so I had to settle for fruit salad which was just a few slices of apple strawberry and orange segments. Don't know what more you can do with a fruit salad but I've had far better choices at other pubs. The waitress service was great though shame about the food. I also emailed the pub a few days before visiting to ask them what vegan options were available and they didn't reply!!

I went here for a family dinner, and with it being an old pub, I had the thought in my head that the food would be fantastic. However this was not the case. The first thing was that on a Saturday night, there was no grill options on the menu, so no burgers, steaks or other typical pub foods, but they did have some nice sounding pizzas, so I opted for one. I had the calamari for starters which was very nice, small serving but nice. Then the pizza came, and I nearly laughed out loud because even without tasting it, you could visually see that it was a frozen store pizza that had just been heated up. I’ve never been to a pub that has sold pizza THIS bad before, and to charge £14 for it is ridiculous. The dough was dry and was the easiest indication of it being store bought frozen pizza. The pepperoni was burnt on top so had little to no flavour, and the cheese was obviously just ok but again was obviously just a frozen pizza. I then tried my dad’s curry with some of the naan bread, and the naan bread is the EXACT one you get from Aldi. It was dry, the coriander was way too pungent and they were cold inside. The other food I had tried was the butternut squash soup, which was very nice, and the dhal curry was also nice. But overall just very poor for what they were charging

Beautiful location, stunning outside area. A good old school pub. A little tired in places. But to sit in the garden is dreamy.

Great atmosphere. Good food and service, can very a little from time to time, but always good to very good, well worth a visit. Great beer garden for when/if we ever get another dry day

Best food and beer around warm welcome friendly staff

Lovely food, friendly service. Dogs wondering about and pestering at table

Lovely old pub with an excellent garden. Great for dogs and children. Good beer.

Got to be one of my favourite pubs. The food is great as is the ambiance and service!!!

Superb historic building with cask beers.

Proper English country pub, with small rooms each with a fireplace. Landlord was a jolly fella and very helpful. The food was great, the homemade steak pie was top notch. We also had between us, fish and chips, goujons, and steak sandwich. Very generous portions. We asked for a small portion for the fish and chips and it was more than enough.

Lovely place , nice food and really good service.

Lovely quirky pub with loads of small cosy rooms. Unique place so drop in if passing

Great Staff, Great Food, all round really good pub!

Had a lovely lunch. Great bar staff. Lovely proper pub, very interesting and full of history.

Great food, lovely staff. Definitely coming again.

Can't fault them, bumped into a local farmer on our walk who said he was jealous he wasn't going there for his tea. Proper pub, great food, log fire burning, staff were very nice and helpful.

Really lovely food, very reasonable price, definitely go again

Classic English country pub. Great food

Was there for the gathering of family and friends after a funeral. Very welcoming of my little furry friend which made me go in the first place. Chips were good, couldn't have much else as buffet was sandwiches etc and I am Coeliac....

Lovely place, very cozy. Very nice staff.

Great place absolutely loved it +++++

Didn't try the food this time but it looked and smelt good the atmosphere in the pub is typically English coal fires in every room. We found the pub by chance after visiting Gawsworth and seeing it wasn't opening until 5pm decided to wait 15mins at 10 to 5 the barman I think is called Steve opened the door and beckoned us in very courteous and friendly telling us about the pubs history. Highly recommend a visit here

Previous comment Edited with hindsight: something of huge note, the upgrade on the beer garden is top notch, and a quick google search will show you how great it has become for any size group… One of the best in Cheshire, winter or summer! And the beer is great too, Ine of the few places I have ever found Veltins on tap.

The Harrington Arms very kindly hosted us for a few hours after our wedding ceremony. They organised a buffet, presecco and space for us to toast and cut our cake. We were really lucky to have wonderful weather so were able to make use of the lovely garden! The staff were all so lovely, supportive and accommodating. We didn't really want to leave for our evening reception! The team were really helpful when we were organising the event and made the whole process super easy. Thank you so much! Our friends and family loved the time we spent there and it was such a perfect part of the day being able to walk to the pub and enjoy a few drinks and yummy food after the wedding ceromony!

Nice old place with a fine patina but a bit parochial. Garden out back is excellent with shelters and nice views.

easy parking, friendly staff, great food

Had a little weekend break camping off a motorcycle, food was fantastic and the staff were very helpful and friendly 😊

Great old pub the last Queen Anne building built in 1710 ad Got all original furniture and ovens really olde worlde Food good lovely gardens at the back of the pub parking ok all good beers worth a visit Found out from the owner pub was built in 1664 still a nice place was there tonight lovely gardens

Arrived and ordered at the bar with drinks, opted for 2 hot beef sandwiches with gravy which came with chips, also a couple of drinks. Drinks were fine but the food was something else. So disappointing, we had to ask for the table uk be cleaned and it was sprayed then wiped with a beer towel, it was wiped but not cleaned. Chips had a home made look about them but seemed to have been frozen at some point, they looked pale and just not appetising at all - needed a few extra minutes in the fryer, they were awful. The sandwiches were on bread that had been on a hot plate as it wasn’t toasted but the top piece had a toasted feel about it. The gravy was like something out of a packet with a bit of cauliflower and broccoli mixed in. Truly revolting, sadly nobody came back to our table to ask if everything was ok and as there was a 60th birthday in full swing we didn’t feel it was appropriate to complain at the bar.

A proper rural pub (quaint some people would say) that offers a good variety of food which are at a reasonable price. Staff were courteous and friendly. Food was delicious , tasty and hot. Service throughout our visit was excellent. If you are in the area, thoroughly recommended 👌 👍.

Always gorgeous good and lovely friendly people Thankyou x

Nice cosy traditional pub. Friendly atmosphere. Food very good generous portions. Glad we precooked table as it is very popular.

Beautiful country pub with great food at a great price

Food not good ,slow service never a smile

Amazing homecooked food at great value. Definitely go back.

After trying to find a pub for a drink and meal with our dog and being refused we visited the Harrington Arms. From the offset the staff were very welcoming to us and our dog. The staff were very helpful and friendly, the food was superb probably the best onion rings I've ever had. Would recommend this little gem of a pub.

Excellent food and friendly staff

Great local pub with history, changed a lot over the years and now has loads of outside space and beer is no longer served from a jug!

Nice cosy country pub with friendly staff and good selection of beers and food although drinks are pricey

Just called in driving by food excellent

We enjoyed the popular outside space on a sunny day. The pub grub was good. Be prepared to wait a while for food on busy days.

Good food it was a lovely afternoon sat outside

Great Sunday lunch atmosphere and staff highly recommend

Beer garden lovely, staff friendly and welcoming. Food was very disappointing- plenty of it, but lacked taste. Just adding a few more herbs/spices/ seasonings could have made a big difference.

Very nice pub in a lovely location. Food is excellent and very affordable.

Lovely chap behind the bar.. food and ales are spot on aswell 👌

Proper pub, proper beer, proper grub. A little old fashioned oasis in a world of 'spoons and themed vintage pubs

Beautiful location and really nice people. Well worth a visit. Check out the duck pond

Stopped here beautiful location and very friendly

Lovely, friendly place... I think dogs should be kept on their leads in the beer garden tho, not left to roam round.

Fabulous food Cod goujonf.&side salad. cappuccino coffee with chocolate on top .Will be back soon

Had sandwich and a pint Always good beer and pub food. Pleasant old style pub building.

Really excellent food and atmosphere in this historic pub. We had a great day out, walking here from Macclesfield via the canal and Danes Moss. The staff were very friendly and we loved looking at all the pictures telling you about Gawsworth, which is steeped in history, especially the 'dark lady' who is linked with Shakespeare and Queen Elizabeth I's maid of honour. My Mum remember's coming here and the beer was served through a hatchet in a jug! A real gem, please support this special pub, thank you !

Had a lovely Lamb Sunday Roast 😋

Really welcoming pub with great beer and a good choice of food

Another fabulous tasty Sunday roast at the Harrington Arms. Best Sunday roast in the area in our opinion.

We felt like we were part of the community. The food was excellent and the beer was better! 😃

Great Sunday Lunch delicious food great atmosphere and friendly staff

Fantastic proper pub. Great beer. Great food. Brilliant atmosphere. Dog friendly. Amazing place. Cracking Pub!

Proper pub this, small rooms, good atmosphere and an open fire, just like pubs used to be and dog friendly too, worth a visit if you are in the area, lovely area to walk.

Good food. Very friendly Gentleman in charge, by himself, on a busy Monday lunchtime. Thank you.

Great service and friendly atmosphere. Definitely going again

Quaint nice very old pub. All nicely presented food drink etc

A really pleasant pub. Friendly service, good food, beer and coffee

Sunday lunch with family. Roast dinners were good, and my pudding (Biscoff cheesecake) was the best pudding I've had in ages.

A genuine unspoilt country pub with good food and draught beer.

A grand old public house that continually tries to reinvent itself. But stays a grand old pub.

Great always enjoy doing The Mummers play there

Great friendly pub with excellent food. Staff were engaging and amazing value for money.

Food is always delicious, probably time for another visit

Great pub! I love a pub with a fire 😊. We had our Christmas lunch there. Food and the service was brilliant! Very helpful and friendly staff. And properly clean toilets!! Will definitely be back for food and drinks!

First visit and we were very impressed. The team are welcoming and friendly. Great food at resonable prices. We will be back.

We enjoyed an absolutely gorgeous lunch of sandwiches and chips. The sandwiches were fresh and tasty with plentiful filling but the chips were outstanding, made with real potatoes (not frozen) they were super hot, crispy, golden and delicious. All the staff were very friendly and helpful.

Quirky and amazing food. Great for dogs too

Great food and friendly service.

Lovely old style pub lovely staff and food high standards we will be going back again 😀 thank you

Proper country pub in a great location. Lovely small room and bar area. Great outdoor garden space. Staff and locals really friendly.

Lovely pub grub, very reasonably priced. Lots of character.

Fantastic pub,family friendly, with great garden bar. Good choice of beer.

This is an excellent traditional pub. Multiple great beers on draught, cozy little corners and rooms, nice garden and outdoor seating under a canopy and great, home cooked food at very reasonable prices. An absolute gem of a pub.

Friendly and efficient staff. Excellent food and really good value. Will definitely go again.