Plume of Feathers in Stafford

Always have a lovely meal here, both me and my wife or with family. Quality food, and good real ales always on cask. Staff always friendly. A lovely clean and tidy place. Really recommend going there. Best to book at peak times to save disappointment.

Fantastic food and service. The beef pie is incredible with the bubble and squeak and the slightly different crispy kale. (Would be better not crispy) Also on previous visits the gammon and fish is also very good. All big portions and the one price for all is a brilliant idea. Special mention to the staff. (Leanne especially) they are on ball and very accommodating. Very well run by the deputy manager. It’s quite clear who owns the pub but don’t let that put you off going here it’s fantastic.

Lovely place to stop off for a cuppa during our canalside walk

Lovely Sunday lunch. Shame the Yorkshire pudding was very cold and soggy.

Lovely food, great service, and nice room layout

Excellent lunch . Lovely gravy veg perfect Staff very friendly . Thank you Will be back thank you

Food was really good and plenty of choice

Agreat selection of drinks with a good atmosphere and a nice clean environment

Lovely atmosphere and great service. Staff are always very friendly and welcoming

Had a lovely catch up with friends,excellent food and service,menu was different with good options, 😋

Great food ,great portions love this place

We only had hot drinks, so can't comment on food. A good location beside the canal and is dog friendly.

Great place. Warm and welcoming. Friendly staff. Well worth a visit.

Outstanding, the food and service was brilliant.

Great pub with a nice atmosphere.

Food was very good but portions too big for us. Made good take-home parcels though! 6 of us seated in a nice cosy intimate space. We had to ask to be served as we had waited a good while and no one had come to us. The one big complaint was the attitude of the staff who served us, one at the bar and 2 at the table. They were quite sullen and not one of them was smiling or welcoming. One came and just pushed between us saying "I'll just remove your starters cutlery" as we weren't using it. She could have said an 'excuse me' or 'do you mind' . The young lad who brought food out from the kitchen was fine but then the plates were just whisked away without a smile or any "chat" such as "I hope you all enjoyed your meal". I would have mentioned these points to the manager but it was the manager who served us!!!!!

Honestly one of the worst meals out I have ever had. Should’ve left immediately when the restaurant manager (green dress and blonde hair) completely ignored and refused to address us when another member of staff asked her if there was a table available. We ended up sitting in the bar area, which was still very nice. All the staff were so miserable and it genuinely made me feel uncomfortable eating there. The menu sounds amazing, but we found the meals to be extremely overpriced. My boyfriend had the duck leg burrito and you couldn’t taste any duck in there, I had seafood linguine and all it came with was prawns. The triple cooked chips most definitely are not triple cooked 🤣. At no point did any member of staff come and check on us and even when our plates were collected with some meals barely touched- no effort was made to check what was wrong. I recommended this place for a family meal because of all the great reviews. We spent a lot of money on average food and absolutely awful customer service.

Food is always delicious here and good portions. The food is cooked fresh and to order, so there is sometimes a wait for the food, but better this way than bought-in, precooked meals. Good menu choice and the option for smaller plates, although these are always generous.

I had heard so much about this pub but found it a bit disappointing. One of the steaks we ordered was so over cooked, we had to ask for another one, which fortunately came back as ordered. My own meal was nothing special

Call in on a regular basis while walking the dog. food, always consistently good and fantastic price stock proper beer as well

Cannot fault the food, been many times and never failed to impress

Ordered the roast beef Sunday lunch. More than I'd normally pay at £17 each but was worth it. Plenty of beef and tasted delicious.

Excellent beef pie. Ok selection of beers

Great place for a good meal. Milly was lovely and friendly. Only thing that marred it was Lemon merangue was not home cooked pie but shop bought.

Only had coffee but it was lovely

Went for lunch, ordered a Sunday dinner and two gluten free meals. Excellent service by Alexa. Will definitely return.

We like canal holidays and always look for a friendly pub that does good food. That's the Plume of Feathers. The food was excellent, especially the Scotch Egg starter. We found the service to be fine. We went back again - you don't do that if you've been disappointed first time round. The only slight negative was the look of the place from outside. It's a bit '1970's estate pub'. Also, I really don't care who owns the business. Perhaps fewer mentions of Mr Morissey's name in the menu descriptions....??

One of the most enjoyable lunches we have had in a long time.  Laila who looked after us was charm personified.  Thank you. Bitter experience and a feeling of being 'had' has led us to be inclined to reject any restaurant that is endorsed by a celebrity, particularly a celebrity chef.  We have a similar reaction any establishment with the tyre.  A Michelin award in our experience been an overpriced, average experience. The You Tube channel 'Gary Eats' is increasingly our culinary Oracle.  Gary rated The Plume of Feathers and he was spot on.  Generous portions.  The small plates looked like big plates to us.  A small eater I just had a starter, Puducherry Scotch egg (following Gary's choices) and triple cooked chips with salad.  Husband's choices were the starter of Gunpowder Sweet Chill Spiced Fish and small plate Lamb Kofta. Fantastic food, nice atmosphere, (apart from a chap who insisted on incessantly talking VERY LOUDLY, reading out every menu item  - were we glad when his food arrived to keep him quiet!), calming decor and attentive service. Thankfully my Mother in Law lives locally.  I feel we may increase the number of visits. Sent from Outlook for Android

Really good pub. Excellent service very friendly. Food really good. Steak pie to die for.

Why plastering somebody's name all over the building, all the signs, the menu - even most of the dishes and various places on the walls adds anything for the rest of us I can't imagine Of the four meals of our party had one was very good one mediocre and two had poor elements. The advertised beer on the board on the wall and the bar that's excited wasn't available - one that had somebody's name in it may or may not have been. I guess lots of people must like it because we arrived at lunch time and there were no available tables until we had waited around for another 4 to depart. Not the equal in price or delivery of some other pubs we visited on the canal

Starter very nice Steak was very good , chips average 2 lots of salad ? Deserts again very nice Overall my meal was ok , My wife had the belly pork , very good 👍

Excellent food, good service, nice feeling. We didn't expect a lot as its. 'Just a pub' but it was much better than our expectations. The menu choice was really good for a pub, quite diverse. Would thoroughly recommend it. Will definitely go again. Neil Morrisey should be very proud of his pub and his staff.

After having just the most amazing meal, we decided to have some late drinks in the bar…We personally got let down by our taxi firm…🤦🏼 NOT TO FEAR 😊. As our night was saved by Leanne who managed to get us home last thing… Thank you so much Leanne for saving us that night.. never forgotten what a superstar 🤩 🙏🏼. Leanne made our whole experience all that better.. A fantastic above & beyond service..

Only had a simple sandwich and chips but it well well presented and cooked correctly. Very nice

Nice pub, clean and tidy. Good selection of beer, larger and cider. Not a huge amount of atmosphere, but still nice enough, and very close to the canal

Discovered this great pub today, excellent food, very cozy pub area with lots of locals. Very good cappuccino and the canal right next to the pub is perfect for hiking.

This is a fantastic pub, food not too posh, but filling and good value.

Positive aspects first:- Staff very polite and friendly. Quality of the food A1 Poor aspects:- Food overpriced and this reflects on the number people eating in the bar area. Atmosphere! Dead, there's a fire place and it should be utilized. For a Saturday evening it should be very popular but the high price of the food is making people think twice.

Lovely atmosphere at this pub and the chicken poke bowl with sweet potato fries was lovely! I do find the ‘Neil Morrisey’ proclamation in their branding a bit naff though…. Also they have a gin menu which describes how each gin should be served and with a specific garnish and when my husband ordered one of the gins for me, he had to ask for a garnish - and a slice of lemon was provided which wasn’t the recommended garnish for the gin. Service was patchy but friendly enough although tables were left uncleared and unwiped and the young man that wiped ours on request seemed never to have wiped a table before!

I loved this pub by the canal found about it thanks to country house gent went there with my cousin sadly he died now nice memories of my cousin there beer was nice never met Neil Morrissey i can't really rate the food because i never tried it but I'm sure it's delicious check this place out

After a nice walk along the canal they serve lovely coffees

Food ordered wrong sandwich. Ordered lager Shandy's. Wrong lager dash very disappointed

Nice pub, not really a drinking pub, though. The pub quiz on a Sunday is good fun and finishes early enough to go to work the next day.

We had a delicious Sunday lunch and the service was great. We'd had an issue at our last visit and Paul the General Manager handled it excellently and professionally. 1st class customer service. We will come back with friends. Thank you. 😊

Wow what a great pub. The food is amazing and the service was excellent. We will definitely be calling again as we pass in a few weeks time on our boat.

Amazing service. Friendly. Lovely food and very reasonable prices for a upmarket menu

Great food, great food service. Bar was rather slow.

Amazing food!!!! You won't be disappointed.

Great family pub nice hot food. Great service

Had a lovely lunch here midweek.

Food very mediocre. Very slow service. Not as good as last time we visited

I had fish on a French stick with chips, fish was good chips like doorstoppers. Beer(morisseys blond wasn't on unfortunately but pedigree was superb, the barman asked me if I wanted my pint topped up(of course) which was nice as I am fed up of asking in other pubs

Really enjoyed the small fish and chips

Had a lovely lunch here today. I had the ploughman's (called something else on the menu), for £11 it was excellent and plenty of it.

Me and a couple of family members decided to go for lunch here after being told to try it out, turned out to be good advice as the food was lovely, staff are very welcoming and we only had to go the bar once when we first arrived, after that we have 1 of the waitresses(long dark hair, didn’t catch her name) continuously asking if we would like anything else when drink were were getting low, we will definitely be returning Food:9/10 Service:9/10 Price:8/10

I’ve been to the plume of feathers a fair few times now as it’s one of mine & my friends and family’s favourites! The food is amazing, the staff are more than welcoming! Any time we needed another drink it was never too much trouble and the waitress especially with the long dark hair was such a bubbly character and continually spoke to us making sure everything was okay every time. The views are amazing & the food follows suit so props to the kitchen staff too!

Friendly staff, good food, and jaipur 🍻.

Attractive setting. However: Surly tattooed waitress and dismissive blonde restaurant manager. Not the experience we were hoping for.

Brilliant meal and excellent service

Had a lovely meal with friends. Good food and drink and excellent service by Alfie and Niamh. Good choice of beers and gins.

Food was excellent but service was very slow. It took 90 minutes for our main course to arrive, but it tasted very good when it did. Desserts were also good & arrived faster.

Went here with my friends for lunch. The service was quick, and the food was pretty decent. The guy behind the bar was charasmatic and great to talk to. I will definitely come back soon. xx

Great food and grey portions too. Excellent service too. Highly recommend. Great ales too.

It is a great location for for a drink. dog walking and that’s it. I’ve tried the food here a few times on various dishes. I’m not a fussy eater but this was awful £19 for a steak and chips. A small amount of of salad leaves and a blue cheese sauce. the steak was cold and had a lot of sinue in it. I’m not impressed with the food.

Would highly recommend here for a meal or a drink, lovely place

It looked like good food but was full when we visited. Location is great.

Recommended by a friend but not impressed quite expensive really l would say same as weather spoons but twice the price food was ok but nothing special

Great place to dine out, great food and the staff are very polite.

This is a lovely little diamond of a country pub with food ranking up there with the best of the best, the bar man was very friendly chatty person, and everyone one was very welcoming even the locals. There wasn't enough room in the restaurant when we went, but we called in on the off chance, but we didn't feel out if place eating in the bar. I would 100% recommend this place and look forward to returning. Well done to the whole team they are a real credit to you

Came across the pub on our way home from World of Wedgwood. Excellent food, good sized portions and fairly priced. Have already recommended it to a few people. Will certainly travel here from Telford for another visit.

Great pub enjoyed the lunch menu. I know he owns the joint but they really went all in on the Neil Morrissey memorabilia

Excellent menu and very attentive staff.

Fantastic food in a fantastic setting

Fantastic pub! Highly recommended, with a great menu that's incredible value

Lovely place had a lovely meal and I can't fault the staff ..

Friendly caring staff, relaxed atmosphere and tasty food at a reasonable price.

Went with my auntie and mum. All of us thoroughly enjoyed our food. If i wasn't driving i would of made a night of it . Well it was my birthday treat 😋

Really nice well kept pub with great real ales and very friendly and helpful staff

Lovely staff, great service, beautiful setting.

Superb meal, great service. Generous portions too. Couldn't fault it.

Never been. I just love Neil Morissey 😂

Three stars for atmosphere due to not many people in

Food was excellent with outstanding service and very reasonably priced. Would recommend highly and will be returning

Very nice canalside boozer with good food. Downside is pictures of Neil Morrisey everywhere, including weird silhouette of his head on the menu.

A smart pub. The quality and quantity of the food fully justifies the price. Smaller portions are listed on the back of the menu. Beer very good too.

Sadly really greasy food. Otherwise lovely environment.

Absolutely Superb Food. Big portions. Could not of asked for better service. Staff are lovely and friendly, the place runs like clockwork. No having to wait for anything. The Staff attend to you straight away.. we will definitely be returning as soon as possible.

Great place to visit. Very lively, mixed age range, friendly staff and customers. Dog friendly

Stop here on a bike ride, lovely place next to the canal friendly staff relaxed atmosphere well with a visit

Absolutely great lunch, excellent food, really good service by confident, pleasant staff. Can't fault it, been several times & back 2moro as well for another session. Love that you can take ya dog & many do. Neil's got it off to a T

A great find as we arrived on our narrowboat. Were really impressed by the quality (and price!) of the ales. Decided to eat and both the fish and chips and the 10oz gammon were delicious. Truly can't fault the place on any level other than a yapping dog that was allowed to remain. Totally agree with "well behaved" dogs in the bar area, however, if they bark/yap, they should be removed...immediately!!

Once again had a great meal here last night, so lucky to have this excellent pub in Stoke on Trent. Happy birthday to Neil for today, hope he will be having another party soon

Lovely pub and surroundings. We did wait nearly an hour for the food but that wasn't a problem for us.... Food was good ~ apart from the very overcooked steak. Will probably go again but will definitely avoid the steak!

New menu is excellent, the value is good for the quality and lovely staff.

Beautiful pub with a very friendly atmosphere. Not tried the food yet but looks nice from what I have seen. Nice outdoor seating and lots of outdoor activities in summer. Give it a try

Excellent village pub, fantastic food and very friendly staff...

Food was excellent, had the Boatman's lunch and a pint of Morriseys blond. Highly recommend. Shall definitely go again.

Food was excellent and very good value. Friendly staff very welcoming 😃

Staff lovely and friendly sat in a booth over looking bowling green very pleasant. Was 4 of us today we had pate and haddock scotch egg starters then all had boatman's lunches and triple cooked chips which was perfect except chips quite dark and bit off putting tasted good tho will definitely go back.

First visit to the Plume of Feathers and it won’t be our last, food was delicious, well presented. Can’t wait to try other items on menu.