The Horseshoe Inn in Warrington

I have frequented the Horseshoe, Croft, on a number of occasions. On entering you may be forgiven for thinking that you have fallen through a time warp and gone back in time. Textured walls, high picture rails with plates balanced precariously, sixties style chandeliers (no bulbs) and that smell of a real pub which can only be achieved after years of beer being spilled on the Axminister carpet. If you enter from the front you are met by a low ceiling with olde world beams. To the left there is a paneled room and ahead a small bar. I always enter from the rear, as is my want, and I am, usually, greeted by four or five regulars, sitting at the bar like a Grumble Weeds Reunion. All give a welcoming grunt before carrying on complaining about things like life, body parts which are causing them pain or the price of cumquats in Aldi. The food is tasty and wholesome and there is a good choice on the menu. However, if you are a regular ‘Eater’ I don’t suppose it would take you long to tick all of the dishes off. They tell me that the squirrel in aspic is a ‘Must Have’. As far as the staff are concerned, I cannot speak highly enough of them. All very enthusiastic and helpful and willing to give a candid opinion on your choice of food. Likewise, the bar staff are extremely amiable, and I would like to give a particular shout out to Hannah whose smile lights up the room and who runs a very tight ship. There is a good selection of beers and other refreshing, fizzy, beverages and a cask ale. All in all a great little place, good food, good beer, great staff and a welcoming atmosphere. Unless, of course, you bump in to Peruvian Pete, the three fingered Poker Dealer from Wigan.

Excellent. Always a pleasure.i go for the quiz on a Sunday with friends. Dom the quiz master is great . 😁👍 The food has always been very good. My wife and I as well as our friends and family have been going for decades. My wife and our three children have worked there at one time or another. It's a real family place .

Traditional country pub inn with low ceilings and wooden beams which give the place a lovely atmosphere. There are areas in rooms of the pub with cosy corners and there is also a large room, for parties. This makes the pub larger than expected. The food was delicious and the portions were ample. There is a good sized car park to the side of the inn.

Four of us went to Horseshoe/Croft and we all had different starters and different mains + 2 puddings. All the food was outstanding! Staff attentive and very pleasant, looking forward to a return visit at earliest opportunity. Thank you.

Lovely pub. Friendly and welcoming. Excellent proper home cooked food and wine with great choices. Reasonably priced. Well worth a visit. Will be back on a regular basis.

Excellent food and service .Really enjoyed the day. Well worth a visit

Visited for a beef Sunday roast and I have to say it was the worst roast I have ever had in my life. It arrived tepid warm so asked for it to be reheated which they did. It consisted of 1 small table spoon of mash which tasted like shop bought, sloppy and unseasoned, 2 small roast potatoes with a thick rubbery exterior that was difficult to cut as though they had been reheated in some way several times. Flavourless carrot battens and spring cabbage and very little of it. Two slices of beef cut so thin it resembled beef you would buy from a deli counter for sandwiches. The crowning glory was the charred overcooked Yorkshire pudding. On the upside I enjoyed the gravy. I did complain saying the food was under par but I ended up paying £18 for it so as not to cause a fuss in public. I ate less than half and left hungry. Small portion, massively overpriced for what you receive therefore bad value for money. Will not be returning.

There were 15 members in our party and the evening was a success. The Staff were very good and the food was excellent and the chef should be commended for his standards. We will be returning very soon.

Nice friendly place, will go here more often

We visited passing and the food was amazing, would highly recommend. Real old school pub with proper home cooked food . We were mad to feel very welcome. Will definitely be back

Excellent staff and really good food and menu.They even have mild beer to drink, gorgeous. Thanks again.

Found it slow and Ltd menu and a little bit more expensive

Just had a wonderful Sunday lunch. The herb crusted lamb loin was cooked to perfection. The staff were friendly and attentive. A really lovely afternoon.

Good food. Great service. Nice outside area,

Traditional fayre,always excellent with good size portions.A jewel in the area.

I arrived at the Horseshoe Inn after struggling to find a nearby lunchtime venue with an attractive variety of food on the menu. Here I found the true Lord of the Pies and am now a devotee! This first time I dined on his award winning Braised Beef masterpiece with Truffle and Parmesan mash and will definitely return to taste more and more. There’s also plentiful choice for vegetarian diners.

Booked a table a week in advance arrived 5 minutes early and our table had been given to someone else by mistake. Ordered food items missing items wrong and wrong bill given not a good experience at all.

Nice old school pub with decent beer. Spotlessly clean also

Great food and service. Well worth a visit.

Traditional pub , friendly atmosphere with excellent restaurant, staff are very helpful. Good place to eat meet and talk.

Excellent Sunday lunch no need to book

Went here Jan 24 . We were a bit late and missed the lunchtime service on a Saturday. I think food finishes at 2 pm but not 100% sure.so can't comment on the food. Staff friendly, overall a nice old school village pub

Lovely friendly staff and always excellent food, Always a good dining experience and looked after well at every visit.

Very nice traditional character full pub. The staff are very pleasant, and took our orders in good time. Our food arrived soon after, the cod was really nice, as were the carrots and cabage. The only criticism I have is that the boiled potatoes were just about warm, verging on cold, and I am confident in saying that they had come out of a tin. The food is slightly over priced, and at those prices, I would expect fresh vegetables, well cooked and hot, and not out of a tin.

Excellent food quality and service.

Heading for another pub when my sister suggested going to the Horseshoe inn as she had been before and the food was good. The kitchen was about to close, the lady behind the bar said if we decided quickly we good still have a meal We both had lamb burger and chips. The food was really good Staff really friendly too. We weren't rush with our meal. Glad we decided to go here. I live down south but would definitely go there again when visiting family

Just been tonight for evening food and saw the tapas menu we ordered it all and finished it all 👍.The service was great,we were greeted with friendly smiling staff will definitely be coming back,thank you for a lovely evening.

Fabulous food at inexpensive prices - bordering on fine dining for about £20 a head. Highly recommended.

Reliably good food at reasonable prices (but creeping up!). Friendly service.

lovely pub, friendly and with yummy comfort food

Charming countryside pub. Good menu and home cooked food. Lovely staff, well worth a visit

Good choice of food, which was very nice. Quick to serve with polite and friendly staff. Definitely worth another visit.

Visited today (Father’s Day 2023). Expected it to be busy. Plenty of reserved tables, but we found a table for two. Purchased two drinks but we couldn’t purchase a meal. No menu was offered to us and when my wife tried to ask for a menu she was ignored by the girl working the bar. So we walked out and took our custom elsewhere.

Exceptionally good food and a lovely rustic country pub. Highly recommended!

Good coffee... quiet when we went...

Great old style pub with good food and great hospitality 👍👍👍

Lovely cosy little pub food is exceptional and lovely friendly staff definitely recommend lovely beer garden too x

Lovely pub excellent food good prices, need to book at busy times, staff are lovely.

We had Sunday lunch really enjoyed. It was very good. Just need a few more Yorkshire puddings available

We turned up at 13:45, parking on the pubs good parking facility, lots of kitchen staff outside in their kitchen whites sat down smoking, we tried to book for lunch only to be told that they stop taking food orders at 2pm, the waitress was rude and there was plenty of empty tables?? Maybe the place doesn't need my trade?

Really nice, local pub, made to feel really welcome, couple of locals even offered to move tables as we were eating and they were not, food was simple and delicious and a great price, highly recommend for a nice meal and a drink.

This pub has a brilliant, friendly atmosphere & the food is excellent too. All the staff are very friendly & make you feel welcome. I highly recommend the Horseshoe.

Friendly staff and amazing food

Cozy locals pub with nice food x

Lovely place, staff very attentive and food was great. Definitely going again!!

Always forget about the horseshoe, called in for Sunday roast 10 out of 10 really enjoyed the meal all home cook Thank you

A hidden gem, fantastic food and atmosphere, a proper pub where you can just sit back and enjoy the moment. To top it all the staff are so wonderfully welcoming. Been coming here for well over forty years. It's now a 40 mile round trip for us but distance is of no consequence when the end result is so uplifting.

Fantastic new years eve, with plenty of happy and helpful staff, very impressed

Not a great experience here I'm afraid. I usually love calling for an impromptu drink at a country pub in passing, but I certainly won't be in a hurry to visit this one again. It was a Bank Holiday afternoon, there was 1 table of people eating, 1 table of customers with a drink and 3 young people at the end of bar so hardly busy. However, as the barmaid returned to the bar with a drink in hand, she proceeded to have a conversation with the 3 young people at the end of said bar about cats before even acknowledging we we're stood waiting to be served. The place looks like it could do with a good old scrub with some soap, water and elbow grease and the decor has gone way past the olde worlde, traditional theme, and just looks like it hasn't seen lick of paint since the turn of the century. Needless to say we didn't stay for another. The final nail in the coffin was when I went out of my way to return the empty glasses to the bar and say thank you and again the staff member didn't even raise her head from her conversation, If she hadn't eventually poured us a drink and accepted our money I would completely doubt that she would have been aware of our custom at all. Hardly the warm welcome one would expect from a smaller, out of the way country pub.

I have been going here for years on an off, the food is always top notch and so are the friendly staff 😀

Lovely food but very drafty table - cold.

Always a pleasure and food is excellent in a cosy environment,, well worth the visit !!

Family evening meal and all 5 of us enjoyed the food. Staff are attentive & polite. When we are planning our next meal out the 'Horseshoe' will be hard to beat, thank you!

Very poor menu choices - pretty much all meat; a couple of cheese. Not my style of decor - very 70s-80s. But really lovely friendly staff!

The cod mornay was really nice and is one of our favourite meals out. The service was also very good. I would comment that the cod portions were quite a bit smaller than on previous occasions and the vegetables are now charged extra ! suppose they have to get the COVID money back somehow.

Great staff, good selection of beers and superb food. Will call again 😁😁👍

lovely local pub with great food

Great to see the Horseshoe open again garden has been updated👍👍

Great local pub. Has had the same management for years who are obviously doing things right! Great menu, good beers, tasty food. What more could you ask for?

Traditional pub with good food and a friendly atmosphere.

Good honest traditional pub food. Good size portions and delicious selection of fish dishes too. Friendly hosts and happy staff. Lovely night out. Can't wait to call again.

Sunday lunch was spot on. Good service and super food well cooked and presented. Will be returning for more.

Lovely village pub. One cask ale on but well kept. Also has a mild on. Friendly service and nice atmosphere. Very popular for food. Recommended 🍻

We always stop by the Horseshoe on the way to and from Glasgow - Oxford as our late aunt used to take us here when she lived in Croft. A lovely place for the good memories, but outside of that the staff are amazing and the food is delicious.

Good menu nice food. Good staff

Nice food but surprised you have to pay separately for vegetables with your main meals

Our lovely local pub is just perfect, don't ever change. Friendly staff & locals, excellent food, what more could one want?

It was very busy, people seem to like it here. A popular local pub with a pleasant Landlord.

We need more pubs like this. Quaint, yet very tentative staff and management. Food excellent. Food really was excellent. Very good presentation. We came across this place looking for a traditional pub, and it ticked every box. Can't say much more really. Just really, really lovely with excellent scran 👍👍💙

Great food. Majority of staff delightful.

Love this pub, food is excellent and the steak is amazing.

Beautiful home cooked food, great portions at a reasonable price. Chips are AMAZING

Nice old pub. Food excellent . Friendly.

Lovely food, very friendly service, thanks

Beautifully cooked food, genuine atmosphere and great service. Thank you for a great experience. Will definitely recommend.

Food excellent, service great and friendly staff.

Nice local feeling friendly pub.

Just had turkey roast dinner, lovely food with excellent service and staff. Well worth a visit to this very homely village pub

Always happy to to dine at the horseshoe.

Cosy space with delicious food and at a good price too, especially the lunchtime meals.

Little expensive for a pint of beer 🍺

Warm welcome, cosy, clean toilets with boxes of tissues (nice touch) polite bar girl good Stella too.

Main course was superb. Dessert was disappointing. Beer is excellent.

Excellent service, top quality food.

Checked on Facebook and their website as to when they finished serving food, both stated 9.00pm so I contacted them to book a table and was told that they would not be busy on the night (Monday) we wished to eat there the member of staff I spoke to never mentioned anything about what time the kitchen closed and I never asked as I'd checked online, we arrived at the Horseshoe at 7.50pm only to be told that the kitchen was closed for the night. We decided to have a drink before we returned to our holiday let, while we were seated a member of staff adviced a group of people on the next table to us that their starters were on the table in the other part of the pub. Discussed with the team and would never visit again and would not recommend to anyone I know.

a little gem of a pub . lovely old charm . great food . recomended

First came here at age 6 or 7, when children weren't allowed in the pub. Played on the park and fell off the swing ending up at the hospital. We came today because we lost dad in Jan of this year and today is his birthday, 93! We brought him to lunch a couple of years ago and he didn't remember the place at all. Dementia you see, and cancer, but we had a lovely meal, service second to none, a lovely experience, thank you xx

Reasonable value for money. Excellent service 👏

Lovely food, excellent service.

First time here amazing Sunday lamb dinner nice friendly staff.Deffo go back again soon

Went for first time & had a really lovely meal, would highly recommend & would definitely be going again, nice little beer garden, dog friendly. Nice friendly staff.

The food is over priced since the last time we visited the Horseshoe Inn...plus having to pay extra (£3.50) for the basic vegetables

Excellent service food to die for what more could you ask for........Go see for yourself🍺🍺🍺🍺👍👍👍👍👍👍

Seems as good as it always was.Only had lager did not eat.Menu looks enticing.

Great place. An excellent pint of Black Sheep.

Brilliant meal as always, thanks to Dave & staff made us feel very welcome & safe.👍🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟

Lovely food and friendly as always. Needs decorating though.

Called for lunch and ate in beer garden. Nice village pub with decent and varied menu at reasonable prices. Very attentive and helpful staff and we will definitely be returning

Always a great meal and a good pint

Great to see the Horse Shoe team getting back open again, just 5 Star all over again... ;-) well done to all the Horse Shoe Inn team...