The Old Forge Inn, Whitminster in Stroud - Phone Number, Reservations, Reviews

Friendly pub but no food on a Friday unfortunately 😕

Just popped in on a bike ride. Friendly pub with good ales. I’ll be back

Great pub with a strong range of drinks. Full of people and a good atmosphere too.

Called in for a few drinks before going on for and indian and went back in after. Made to feel really welcome by the lady working, great service to the point she arranged a lift home for the 4 of us. Will definitely be going back. Thanks from all 4 of us.🙂

A nice neighbourhood pub, with nice beer and spirits!

Fabulous local pub . Everyone there is so nice. Great food

Excellent service, the chef advised us about the specials of which we had the chicken skewers, chips and salad and it was brilliant could not recommend it enough.

What an amazing pub! So incredibly welcoming. Beautifully run by the most lovely family. We were staying locally for a couple of nights and were looked after so, so well by George and his wonderful family. This is how pubs should be run!! Thank you guys - Neil and Kate.

I didn't have food but the staff were very welcoming and it's a nice cosy pub for a leisurely drink

Fabulous Vegetarian Sunday Lunch. The best one for many a Moon. Crisp Vegetables. Beautiful Yorkshire Pudding. Glorious Cauliflower Cheese and Vegetarian gravy. George & Grace run a great establishment. PS My wife says don't forget the Guinness. A really good Pint she says.

We had Sunday lunch here yesterday and it was excellent, home cooked food, brilliant service and good value. Definitely recommend a visit.

Small local pub, quirky and friendly. Staff welcoming, helpful and attentive. Basic Sunday lunch menu but well cooked with plenty of everything. Sweets also limited but enjoyed a sticky toffee pudding with ice cream. Will return.

Very friendly place, and tasty food

My friend and me we only went for a drink after having a lovely walk and the pub was friendly service was good we be back

Nothing wrong, nothing special.

Just cracking place to have a beer all two

Fab friendly lovely staff very welcoming.

Booked a table for 13 ladies. We ordered basket Meals and I pizza.The pizza was very large, and the basket meals were ample. Food was hot and freshly cooked. The ladies thoroughly enjoyed their lunch.

Highly recommend the Old Forge for a Sunday roast! Visited last week and it was so delicious, everything was cooked perfectly and beautifully seasoned, and cooked from fresh. You can tell a lot of love had been put into the food here! Cozy environment and a great place to relax! The owners and team were so friendly, we loved it and will be back!

Decided to go for a drive with a friend unsure where to go we saw the pub and it looked cosy. Meet the landlord and his partner both very friendly and helpful. Would recommend a visit..

Just called in for lunch for my Dad's birthday. Friendly staff,great food & a pleasant atmosphere. Excellent moussaka

Four of us (of mature years) called in for dinner on a Friday evening to receive a warm welcome from the landlord, chef and local patrons. The facilities were basic, clean and typical of an older style local pub without the plastic frills so common everywhere today. The ambiance was very friendly and the resident wire haired dachshund made us all very welcome before returning to its bed beside the bar in order to resume its slumbers. The food was excellent, home made and carefully prepared having never been anywhere near a microwave. Tasty and good value. The chef also took the trouble to visit our table in order to make sure his cooking was to our liking and that there was nothing else we needed before he signed off for the evening - we had taken that long over dinner! Very relaxing and thank you all for a great evening. We only wished we could have stayed longer to enjoy a drink with local customers who seemed to be in no hurry to go home. A hidden gem and one we will gladly return to next time we pass through Gloucester.

Friendly welcoming staff. Fabulous freshly cooked food prepared by an attentive chef. Definitely would visit again.

Popped in for lunch while travelling through. Friendly welcome and a good pint of Mad Goose. The dog friendly pub was clean and well laid out. The food was fantastic. Chicken goujons and chips and Moussaka and chips with Greek salad. Worth a visit for the Greek food alone all hand prepared by their chef who we met. 10/10

Amazing new owners fantastic atmosphere definitely worth going

Could not fault the place a small country pub with welcoming staff

Didn't stop for food, but the drinks were great and the staff really friendly and helpful, will pop back to try meals. Its dog friendly too. We returned a few days later for a meal and it was fab, service was good and the food was yummy!!

Fab food,lovely staff,great chef,beautiful flowers in garden,well worth visiting won’t be disappointed 👌👍❤️

Very warm welcome from the barman and the locals on our stopover on the way to St Ives from Scotland. Thank you for your hospitality.

Beautiful meal here today,steak for me, sausage for my husband salad garlic bread onions all cooked beautifully.chef came and asked dressing preference,then came to table later on to ask everything ok with meal. Great staff, spotlessly clean pub on the busy A38 at whitminster call in u won't be disappointed

Just visited this afternoon. Decided to stop on a whim for food; no roasts offered but may have run out or just not been on offer today. Had a homemade moussaka and a scampi fish , both came with Greek salad/feta and chips (proper chips with good oil). Lovely fresh food and great that delightful Greek chef popped out to serve etc and had a quick chat where he came from originally etc. Beer garden much improved with flowers since a previous visit, will return !

Out for a blast and stumbled across this pub, WOW. Very friendly staff and customers, will definitely be returning.

Hi very nice staff and very friendly

Good to see the pub back to what it used to be

Delightful little traditional pub. Spotlessly clean. Owner was polite and friendly. The food was delicious. Only a small menu, but the food was cooked fresh. The best home cooked chips I have eaten out EVER. Burger was fresh, homemade and juicy. Draught Thatchers was tasty and needed on a hot day. Kids meals available. Could not fault the prices. Very affordable. Will definitely be in there next time we are in Gloucester. Well worth the visit.

Great Sunday lunch. Beef was cooked to perfection, good roasties and tasty gravy in nice surroundings. It didn’t break the bank and George & Grace were very welcoming. Will definitely be going again!

Had Sunday lunch there staff was very helpful and there Sunday lunch was beautiful. Thank you will return soon

Sorry, but they didn't have the drink I ordered!

We popped in for lunch, and I was pleasantly surprised at the huge portion sizes and the quality of food. We had a wonderful afternoon with some drinks and lunch. We have been back quite a few times as it is a quaint little pub with very friendly staff and a lovely atmosphere. Highly recommend popping in.

New owners making a fab job of it! Cosy, welcoming, friendly and very reasonably priced beer! Food excellent too.

Brilliant visit, lovely new owners, well worth a visit

The Mac n Cheese was a 10/10😍 Highly recommend to anyone who loves mac n cheese!

Absolutely amazing food great atmosphere friendly staff cosy pub definitely worth a visit

Visiting the area, heading out of Gloucester at 1pm on a Sunday, desperate for food. Came across the old Forge - best Sunday lunch I have had put for a long time. Beautifully cooked meat, and big portion of fresh veg. Staff were really friendly. Really pleased we went here rather than the Whitminster Inn next door who couldn’t fit us in till 3 and in any event didn’t look a patch on what we had. Totally recommend.

Popped in yesterday for lunch with my parents , it has just been taken over by a new team , very friendly & accommodating, lovely homely pub with lovely food , their macaroni cheese was homemade & excellent no microwave cooking here 👏🏻

Nice place for food and drink chris Gloucester

Just had a Sunday lunch here it was lovely no long wait either

My husband and I thoroughly enjoyed our meal here. Friendly staff who looked after us and the food was delicious. Would definitely recommend coming here and we will come back again for sure. Thank you

The food was well cooked & presented , with generous size. Although we was a table of 4, we tried 3 different items off the menu , and all was excellent. Great table service . Excellent staff

Visited this quaint pub for Sunday roast and was a bit disappointed to be truthful. Everyone knows that gravy on our dinner is a personal choice - some like lots, others only a little but to be charged £2.75 for a small jug of gravy on an already pricey roast dinner (£14.50) is rather over the top! Chicken was dry, the 2 slices of lamb were very fatty. No yorkie puds and bland watery vegetables…. It was an OK roast dinner and the 2 roast potatoes were lovely but in our opinion overpriced and as for the extra charge for gravy??… Hmmmm - think they need to review this price point.

Had a wonderful meal there sat while away highly recommended

Food not good went sat night ,when asked for a table the bar man said ok for how many and my daughter said 10 the man rolled his eyes agave a sigh and said ok . My daughter who worked for a large company said to him if there is a problem we will go next door th the whitminster Inn? I wished we had now

Great local by the looks of it. Best beef lasagna I've had. Pigged out and had both garlic bread and cheesy chips. Perfect and dog friendly pub as well. Please keep them alive people. "Your country needs them."

Excellent hospitality, food and service.

Nice pint. Homely atmosphere. Would recommend.

OK average food... Bit expensive for what we had .

the beer had a kind of yellow head on it

Was lovely sat out in the sun having a drink and a bite to eat. Can't wait to go back and explore inside when we are able

Great food, and service. very friendly

Nice pub no swearing makes a change

Very friendly and nice food/price.

We booked a table for three and stopped off for a Sunday Lunch. We ordered "home made" tomato soup as starters and three mains. After waiting 40 minutes for the soup to arrive (only one other table eating) we were disapointed to be served a shallow dish of tasteless water, as if one sachet of cuppa soup was split between us all. At £4.75 per bowl, I just couldn't justify paying it so decided to leave it. I pointed this out to the waitress who took the bowls to the kitchen but did not say anything. The mains arrived and it was the same story. The cod was Icelands finest, greasy and grey. The Stilton chicken was lovely, so credit where its due. The mixed grill was dry so asked for it to be wrapped for the dog. I put it down to a bad experience and went to the bar to pay. The owner then asked for over £60 so I asked if the soup had been removed from the bill. She rudely said "it says home made, not thick soup". I said I was well aware of that but did not expect it to be home made by stirring a cuppa soup with water from the kettle and they have the cheek to class this as home made. I told her the soup was vile and inedible so she agreed to remove the cost of one. No apology, no customer care at all. There are signs written on A4 paper all over the pub and on the entrance door saying "swearing will not be tolerated, repeated offenders will be banned". If this is how customers are treated, it's no wonder they might have a tendency to say a few choice words.

Evening went to old forge today 8/2/20 for an early anniversary meal and would like to say how fantastic the place is and how relaxed the environment it was and how polite the staff is and welcomes u with a smile. Lovely location would recommend this place to friends and family and will come again.

A nice place for a beer after work.

Absolutely great, wonderful food lovely staff and fellow customers

Good food and beer and nice staff

Our meals were okay, no complaints, it was average pub fayre. However, when settling up I was told the two for £15 meal deal does not apply on w/ends, despite the menus advertising it across the page. Curious pub, small but with a large TV screening football; looking around it certainly seemed to dent the art of conversation.

Stopped off for a bite on way home, Staff pleasamt and food good.

Went into the Old Forge for our evening meal. Lovely food as always. Good service. It was clean and tidy.

Good service pleasant atmosphere. Good not outstanding food.

Had a lovely meal back in August, so thought try again , well they must of had off night meals terrible .do they try there food , had steak and ale pie ,filling ok pastry soggy . Would not recommend

Not great. Will not be back in a hurry

Had a meal today,my meal was alright but my family didn't like there meal.Food wasn't hot enough,the pie was covered in gravy.Would not recommend to go there.Staff was rude.

Great traditional pub, nice friendly atmosphere. 3 of us had lunch and it was brilliant, home cooked food,well presented and very reasonable prices. Will definitely return.

Lovely welcome. Great food and atmosphere.

Nice place for a drink if you are looking for a traditional local pub. The staff are friendly, however we did not find the food serve anything to shout about. we would probably pop in for a drink but go else where for food.

Lovely meal and very friendly staff .

First visit at the old forge inn the meal was 1st class will be visiting again before we go home 👍👍

Nice to sit outside and watch the fish .

Won’t be coming here again. Food took an absolute age to come out, and was cold. Asked to swap my side and the waitress sarcastically answered me in a completely unnecessary way. The manager was lingering around, too busy sat down to actually bother making sure the pub was running smoothly and had no issues screaming at staff in from of the customers. Mortified. Horrific experience and will not be going back!!

Nice beer garden food is lovely staff ,try their hardest to please

The surrounds are good for the period. Not large, but comfortable, with friendly staff and locals. I had the steak and ale pie which was very good, sadly I can't say the same for the accompanying vegetables. The roast pork meat was very good. See above re veggies. The roast chicken, ditto. We all felt the veggies were mainly over cooked. However, the sweet potato chips were great. The wines were good.

Un lugar maravilloso para el almuerzo familiar, pero ten cuidado, tienes que reservar una mesa el domingo con un depósito de 10. El Carvery es muy bueno, pero el tallador puede ser un poco miserable, ¿o fui yo? Si pide comida, puede pasar un tiempo antes de que llegue.

Love the Old Forge Inn, food is always good - and plentiful - and we enjoy the atmosphere, which is always welcoming. We regularly travel the 15 miles, or so, just to come here.

Lovely food, great staff. Very enjoyable night.

Lovely meal and staff very friendly also spotless. Well kept pub would recommend to people.xx

Just like a old in by the road. Beer cold, food hot . That's it.

Lovely place. Lovely fresh cooked food and good value for money.

Amazing lunch at the old forge this afternoon, in their lovely garden what a sun trap! My favourite place to eat out.. always welcoming and always good food

Working away ate here all week the food is excellent and the locals are really friendly and the Sunday roast best I've had eating out 👍👍👍

Good food & ale at reasonable prices.

Brilliant food, friendly service

Clean Tidy, good food, good menue selection Cosy resteraunt area

I am so angry!!!! Left here 5 minutes ago i know its a bank holiday Monday but we came here on good recommendations from good people. We were greeted with a barmaid yawning...i just want to finish she said to her mate who was hanging over the bar....my partner and i thought we would share the stilton stuffed mushroom for starters...it qas like a small mushroom u get in a pack from tesco!...another 45 minutes passed by our mains came out...chicken wirh stilton i had...the chicken was dry as a bone no stilton just like a tasteless cheese dollop sauce on top!...i complained ate none and got mu money back for my meal..the old lady came out the kitchen and said sorry my apprentice just cooked that!.????!!!!!!!!!!!.....ummmmmm can he not wash dishes rather than cook mytea!!!!!!!!!......inbetween that u got the tops off pissed off stella drinking locals to contend with........avoid this hole of a place!!!!!!.

Lovely old worldly pub staff were great.

We have eaten here many times. The food is wholesome, plentiful and tasty. Real home cooking and very good value for money, all washed down with well kept beer. Love it!

We Order a mixed grill and a jacket potato with mushrooms and cheese The meat was all dry and tasteless. No seasoning and the mushrooms were like rubber. The potato was dry and hard. Like it had been reheated from several days previous. We only ate less than a quarter of the meal that cost £40 Would not go here again for food . Very disappointed.

Great food, massive drop down screen for matches, parking and easy access. We had tuna and salmon both perfectly cooked

Just had a super meal at The Old Forge. Everything was super. The food was amazing; proper pub food and, oh my god, the potions were LARGE! Great prices as well. Will definitely eat here more often!

Staff were friendly nice atmosphere with a policy of no swearing