The Cross Keys in Newark and Sherwood - Phone Number, Reservations, Reviews

Appalling food I would avoid eating here It’s not difficult to serve poor fish and chips but they absolutely managed it We last visited this pub about 4 years ago so after reading the reviews we decided to try it again (it was very poor last time and nothing has changed) The reviews on here do not reflect the food served to us We will never return whilst under the current ownership

18oz Sirloin stake lovely, very tasty, stake filled half the plate, cook to perfection, medium

Good Sunday lunch at a reasonable price.

Great bar and very friendly staff and locals and always willing to help. Great menu and great selection of drinks available and great prices and well worth a visit.

Food very good especially steak. Had bbq Spare ribs tonight very tasty

Went at a lunchtime with a walking group to this good old fashioned unspoilt pub. The staff were really nice and friendly answering all queries in the lead up to the walk promptly. Opened the gates and toilets for us before our walk. Great food, large portions. Good real ales too. We will definitely go back.

Popped in at lunch lovely friendly greeting excellent menu choice really enjoyed scampi and chips. Great value for money

Great value Sunday lunch that is well cooked with loads of trimmings. The real ales make it a good choice for a nice afternoon with cheerful table service.

The food was excellent and lots of it. Nice homely atmosphere with open log fire. I will be going back again and recommend it

Wholesome hearty (traditional) food and drink at a fair price.

Just had a lovely lunch at the Cross keys , very friendly staff, can recommend the Chicken Stew in a large Yorkshire pudding with dumplings, very hearty!!

The Staff are wonderful nothing was to much trouble. The food was delicious and very well priced with good size portions. Excellent lunch with lovely roaring fire. Many thanks

Lovely pub grub (only been once for food a while ago) Lovely owners.

Friendly atmosphere, Great food. Large beer selection. Portions very generous. Worth a visit

Didnt eat as it was really busy but the food looked amazing and will be back one day for the food. Staff were polite and friendly

Well what a find...coming back from newark thought we would have a trip to southwell for a bite to eat stopped here on the way and we are not disappointed. Lovey landlord and landlady great atmosphere log fires burning. Great food..you really get your moneys worth here a right plate full and it wasn't exspensive..will definitely be coming more often .

A warm welcome, good ale and lovely food thank you. Well be going back.

Food was beautiful good value for money and the staff you could not ask for more so nice and friendly definitely coming back

Good place to have a meal and drink. Everyone very friendly.

Lovely atmosphere, friendly staff, gorgeous food and a good selection of beer. What more can you want

Stopped in at this place while returning from an antiques fair. We had a very warm welcome and the food was excellent. So much so, we booked for the next day! Highly recommended.

Lovely country pub very cosy friendly hosts and great food portions!

Great place to visit great staff

Wow! What an amazing meal that was! Best pub food I’ve had in years and the portions are massive! Will definitely return

Lovely friendly owners and not forgetting their gorgeous dog Charlie who is always happy to greet you. Beautiful food and very large portions. Highly recommended

Beautiful country pub with great hosts and a very friendly Labrador 🍻

Landlady couldn't do enough for us, the food was fresh and delicious and Charlie the dog is the best footballer ever

Lovely Fish and Chips at the Cross Keys today. The wife ordered chicken goujons. When they came she asked if they were fish! What a silly sausage! I reassured her that they were chicken and that was that. I did order fish goujons by mistake, but after 28 years of marriage I think it’s important to hold the line.

Pre-Meatloaf tribute gig at Southwell. Travelling, so thought a place just outside the town would be a good idea. Booked table for three at 18.00 and the pub was quiet (booking is advisable as the pub isn’t huge and is popular). Friendly staff, real fire in one of the seated non-food areas. Fireplace where we sat with lovely smoky-smell evidence of a recent fire. Ordered fish and chips x2 and a steak. Fish - lovely flavour, batter light and crispy, not claggy underneath. Choice of mushy of garden peas. Chips - not chips, they were rustic fries (skin on) would have preferred chunky chips with this traditional ‘chippy tea’. Apparently the steak was ‘perfect’. Definitely recommend if you’re out this way.

Unspoiled pub,good choice of drinks and food was great value for money.

Really tasty soup, fantastic food. Great service. This place is a gem.

Good honest Sunday lunch. Plentiful portions. Warm and inviting . Friendly staff. Well done!

Good food options. Very generous portions. Joy is a delightful server. Lovely local pub with real fires and a cosy vibe.

Warm welcome, delicious home cooked food, lovely village pub with a cosy fire. Thank you.

Good friendly pub/restaurant family run .Good quality and freshly cooked Sunday lunch. Will be back

Very friendly pub .Four of us had an excellent meal .Very good price ,good food and good service. Can thoroughly recommend.

Proper Sunday dinner,at very reasonable prices, roast potatoes to die for, lovely staff,thanks

Friendly staff Great Real ale Good food Value for money

I love the social vibe of this place. The landlord and landlady are very welcoming as are the staff. I come here often to socialise with the locals and freinds. Great little village pub.

Always beautiful, tasty food, a friendly atmosphere and a gorgeous log fire. Love it x

Superb beers, well looked after and top food, well recommended

Good old fashion food and dog friendly

Lovely quaint little pub with excellent (if not a little pricey) pub grub. Friendly staff and a charming little beer garden.

Very nice food, great service and friendly staff, all in a lovely village pub with a relaxing atmosphere.

Our first time here, friendly and an excellent Sunday lunch. Would definitely go again.

Lovely local pub, friendly staff, good food and homely surroundings with two fires burning away... Nice n simple good pub

Had Christmas dinner here and would heartily recommend. Food was exceptionally well cooked and they really catered for our 3yo daughter providing her a bespoke menu she'd eat. Lovely staff. Will be coming back

Lovely friendly atmosphere with a great choice a seating

Excellent food and friendly service. Highly recommended.

Very well priced baskemeals with plenty to eat.

What a gem of a village pub, amazing food ,drinks and service. Love this place.

Table service outside. Very nice friendly prompt service

Friendly barmaid, but the menu is now comprised of pub food from yesteryear - which is a shame given the interesting choices which they used to have. Funnily enough, it was empty when we were there on Saturday lunchtime.

Very nice food and friendly service. Basket meals for £5 are excellent. Well worth calling in. Outdoor seating and traditional indoor area. Will always go back here.

We were just passing by and saw a sign for food. We stopped and were served with lovely beer, a burger and scampi bites by helpful friendly people. Like everyone they are just finding their feet opening up again and we look forward to returning next time we are on this road.

Great staff set up so be going back great little pub

Good food nice place to eat for a small country pub. Landlord and landlady friendly and helpful, always plenty of food on your plate. Have eaten there quite a few times and always enjoyed the food and drinks no complaints about it at all 5 out of 5 for me.

Thanks to the landlord & Landlady , lovely food , nice pub . Thanks for Your hospitality ..

Lovely place. Really enjoyed the food. Family and dog friendly, what more could you want. Thank you.

Nice pub with a good range of ale.

A great pub with excellent food and very reasonable prices. The Blue Monkey beer was delicious and the chef really listens to when you order a rare steak. Absolutely perfect. Very highly recommend!!

Amazing food had Lebanese lamb curry so much flavour. Clean. Friendly staff and staff aware of covid 19 guidelines. Thank you for a wonderful meal

Nice friendly pub with large car park and nice beer garden..

First visit for us since the new owners. Nice meal, pub grub plus. Warm, friendly, quite lively.

Beautiful, quaint country pub. Lovely friendly welcome, great food & a feeling of going back in time. Traditional old proper pub! Will definitely be going again & again. Highly recommend 🌟

Went on Saturday night. Browsed the menu, which was on a wipe clean laminated page of A4 paper (not very classy if you ask me, but maybe that's just me!) and started to order. The waitress didn't have a clue about the menu or drinks on offer though. Ordered surf & turf but the steak was the toughest I've ever been served! I realise it's a rump, so I wasn't expecting smooth fillet, but it was practically inedible. We had to send my father in law's steak back - it was ordered "very well done" but it was far from it. The waitress started debating with my father in law about whether his steak was medium rare, or just medium. Seriously? Medium rare or medium is irrelevant, it wasn't very well done, was it, and that's the point. Perhaps a "I'm so sorry sir, let me fix that for you" would go down a lot better. Anyway, all in all, disappointing.

Brilliant place with nice and chatty owners really down to earth and great food

The service was brilliant, food delicious and situated in a lovely village. Would highly recommend.

Really nice country pub . Great food and drink.

Lovely country pub. Lovely food and pleasant and friendly landlady

Good food, good service, excellent staff, fair pricing

Lovely quaint pub, so quiet in the pub garden in the glorious sun

Nice pub, nice people. Great food, great beer.

Great food, beer and fantastically friendly!

went there on sunday lunch time for a meal it was really lovely with friendly staff

The food here is really good, the staff are friendly and the atmosphere is exactly what you want from an old village pub.

Nice comfortable seats and atmosphere. People chatty and friendly

Lovely atmosphere, lovely friendly staff, delicious vegitarian meal. I would highly recommend 👍

This was the worst food ever had in a pub we had fried haddock and so called chips and mushy peas and the chips were black they told us that they are double fried these looked and tasted like they were double incinerated they did ask if we wanted another bowl of chips which were very greasy and didn’t enjoy them on leaving he asked us about the chips in the bowl and said they weren’t much better said I would leave this review and wouldn’t be going back would not recommend to anyone

Very friendly and food is excellent

Saw a sign just outside the workhouse, popped in on the way home. great menu, great prices. Loved the two for a tenner, best meals we've had in ages, service was excellent, will return again soon.

I have had a lot of Sunday roasts out in my time, I can say with some experience that The Cross Keys does the best roast that I'm aware of. I highly recommend paying the £2 surcharge for Rib of Beef. I also tried their Salmon and Hollandaise sauce that was on their Specials board, again absolutely top notch. The vegetables are really flavour some with Broccoli and Cauliflower in a Cheese sauce being my favourite.

Friendly pub with good food and great service.

Nice place and friendly staff. However it's not child friendly. We went for a Sunday meal. Most of the meal was fine but the roast potatoes were burnt and greasy and my wifes chicken was not that nice. Expensive for what it was. However my 11 year old says the lasagna was delicious!

Lovely cosy traditional pub - had fab meal - real log fire and candles made it really homely. Good atmosphere and prompt service.

Had a superb Sunday dinner at the cross keys today. Thank you to Steve & alison for making us and our family feel very welcome on this special day. Food and service were top class and I would have no hesitation in recommending anyone to this wonderful place. We will be coming back soon for Wednesday steak night.

High quality Sunday Roast with really nice friendly wait staff. My favourite Sunday lunch.

A quick drink after our weekly shop in Newark. My brothers local! Very friendly and excellent homebrewed real ales in excellent condition. Didn't eat but menu looked varied but a bit pricey in my opinion!

Good food..great atmosphere..a proper pub!

Great beer, great atmosphere! Made my time away at a course bareable! Thanks.

Great traditional English pub serving great real ales and excellant food. Steve and Alison are great hosts and the Sunday lunches are just the best.

Had perry for a change. It was good but its ABV of 7.5% meant that I could accomodate only a pint and a half.

Excellent food and drinks a very warm and friendly atmosphere will definitely be going back highly recommend you give it visit

Nice country pub. Good food. Good (own brewed) beer.

Old style English pub with dark wood fixtures.

Typical village pub, friendly and welcoming.

Had a quick couple of pints, great ambiance and friendly staff, I'll defiantly call back when in the area again.

Great food and beer with a nice service

Good service. Excellent food. Great evening altogether.

Food was great service matched by the nicest waitress going great place !