The Rancliffe Arms in Rushcliffe

Asthetic pleasant,but physically cold room, staff pleasant and polite, food perfectly edible but nothing out of the ordinary, portion size small and limited main meal choice, does not justify charge, overall a disappointing experience I will not be repeating, recomend look around you can do better.

Lovely comfortable restaurant and seating for drinks. Great food and service.

We went for a drink to this bar and it was such a calm and relaxing atmosphere. We loved it!

Good value for money staff where good too

Nice place to call in for a drink.

Booked for my 50th, but had to cancel. As they wouldn't accommodate for my daughter from the week menu.

Booked a table for 8 for a Sunday carvery - had a very warm welcome, staff were really helpful and everyone really enjoyed the food. Having gluten free options for the roast were fantastic - the Yorkshire puddings especially - Will be back soon!

Tasty carvery after a nice walk in the park nearby. All the staff were very friendly. The chef carving the meat was super nice and funny. The food was perfect tasted like a homemade Sunday roast. Good value, traditional decor just want you want for a Sunday lunch with family.

Absolutely lovely!! Loved the service, the gentleman serving the meats was an absolute star, put a smile on our faces.

Great staff and such lovely food and environment, been going for years.

What a great Sunday lunch. We had a late Christmas get together with friends and hugely enjoyed our meal out with them. Georgia and India at the venue were super helpful in talking through my access queries for my powerchair. The corridor was pre-cleared of chairs for me to get to the facilities. Very helpful email chats before we arrived. It was really busy and everyone was kind in the carvery queue while I made my way round. Lovely atmosphere too.

Good straight forward pub lunch.

It has a lot competition in the area. Carvery is good.

The best Sunday roast I've had for years ! Great staff, helped us upstairs with a pram without asking. Can't rate this place highly enough. Loved it.

Fantastic customer service, food was plentiful and well cooked. I have been several times in the last 12 months and have always been happy with every aspect. Wednesday evening I was with a group of around 20 and the service and food was great. Would recommend.

Came here with work for a Christmas carvery.. probably the best carvery I’ve had. It doesn’t disappoint

Amazing, I took a group by minibus here and was made to feel very welcome, was treated to a carvery and it was one of the best I've had.

Food, staff, atmosphere was amazing thankyou.

Superb all-round family carvery, highly recommended. Booking essential!

Wouldn't go anywhere else, best carvery by far 💯

Always amazing food (and lots of it!). Very friendly, helpful and knowledgeable staff - nothing is too much trouble. Dietary requirements catered for excellently - especially great (and safe) for those with coeliac disease. Highly recommended - particularly the Sunday carvery.

A really good carvery with a large number of choices

All good except restaurant was cold maybe because it was lunchtime

Not sure what has happened to this place but absolutely horrendous service and food last night. I don’t leave reviews but it was that bad I felt the need to…this used to be a lovely place, not sure what’s changed but avoid at all cost!

Expensive food, no better than average. The salmon and sauce was nice but the "roast vegetables" were barely cooked. The red onion was raw (and it wasn't a salad). Cost 18.50 so definitely needed to be really good for that price and wasn't. I don't drink alcohol and the almost total lack of non alcoholic drinks was pathetic. I had tap water. Would not go back. This place is totally overrated.

The Rancliffe Arms is simply the best pub for miles and miles. The food is delicious and beautiful. The menu more than enough variety to choose from. My dad is a carnivore and I’m vegetarian and the staff and chef couldn’t have been more helpful ax we ordered. The wine is lovely too and dad enjoyed the beer/shandy. I don’t bother writing reviews but this pub is so gorgeous I had to write - and no!, I’m not related to anyone to do with pub. It’s just lovely.

Shame the meat servings aren’t equal couple before us had 2 beef & a lump of pork each on our turn 1 beef & 2 pork expertly cut with a laser beam excellent meal spoiled by a lack of meat obviously my face doesn’t fit with the chef!

Had a great meal here last night, service was good, food delicious and hot, portions big will definitely be returning.

Fabulous. Staff are very friendly and helpful. Food is fantastic. Recommend the carvery.

We recently moved to the area and loved the food an atmosphere here but for the last 2 weeks food has been pretty poor and the service has been bad today. We ordered lunch last week to take out and the chips were overly salted and not fresh. It looked like chips that had been refried. Not the usual quality. The food in the evening was not any better. Lasagna portion and quality was not the same standard as 6 weeks prior. Much small portion, not a lot of sauce and just very flat looking in general. We visited again tonight to give it another chance as it has become our weekly once a week eat out, but the burger bun felt like it had just been de frosted, the fish and chips was oily and both the chip portions was Small with a lot of scrappy bits. The servers are usually very good and attentive but we had to ask 3 servers for ketchup after not receiving it for 10 minutes. It just got frustrating being ignored. It didn’t feel like the servers were interested tonight either. not an issue we’ve had before. We are really hoping the standards and quality will go back to its usual!

Enjoyed our Sunday carvery here last Sunday. Chef is very friendly and cheerful, staff love,y and helpful. Food plenty and very good quality. I will be back

The sandwich we shared (brie and grape) was nice as were the chips but it was garnished with a piece of limp water cress which kind of spoilt the look of the spread. Apart from that we enjoyed our snack.

We had a lovely carvery on Sunday. The place was pretty busy but we were able to get a table for a birthday meal. The meat was nicely cooked and there was a good selection of pork, ham, turkey and beef. There was a better than usual selection of vegetables too. Recommended

Lovely place off road parking good selection on the menu also do small meals for those of us with smaller appetites. Friendly staff really enjoyed our visit

We used to love the Rancliffe for Sunday dinner, it has gone down in standards quite considerably.

Lovely pub with great food. There was a little wait when we arrived as our table was being set but the staff were apologetic as it was very busy. Even though busy, we were sat comfortably. Service was brilliant, carvery was everything and more, there was a choice of a few meats and so much to choose from in terms of trimmings and the server on the meat was excellent. A really kind and talkative man, made us feel very welcome. A great experience all round, with great service and excellent food. I can't recommend the carvery enough.

Beautiful pub to enjoy your meal. Lovely staff, nothing to much trouble. A brilliant place.

Excellent food and service from the staff, especially Danny at the carvery counter - first time we have been here and he made us feel very welcome.

Probably the best UK carvery/buffet meal I think I have ever had. A Wednesday night with two friends from school days and our wives. (One lives locally). At last, somewhere where the dinner plates are hot and the carvery meats were generous and beautifully cooked. The vegetables and side dish variety was fantastic - not the usual boring 'peas and carrots'. Cauliflower cheese, roast parsnips, green beans with peas, brussel sprouts, carrots, fried onions with cocktail sausages, broccoli, cabbage, Yorkshire pud, roast potatoes, a good gravy. Lovely staff and definitely a place I'd love to return to when back in the UK.

I just had a beer here but the place is really nice and pleasant

Went for lunch with friends. Food was fabulous. Will definitely go back.

We went to celebrate my husband's birthday. We both had turkey, and we were the first in the queue. The turkey was dry, tough and pink, so couldn't eat it. The vegetables were good though. The service was good. It's a shame that the food wasn't as good as it has been in the past. This place used to be our favourite, but after today's disappointment, we will find another place next time.

We got sat at a dirty table. And then when we went up for our carvery. The chef was talking about how he didn't like Guys, that dress in girls cloths , saying how he saw one. Earlier in the pub and he felt disgusted. Food was way Overseas, and when we complained about our food, it was like we were in the wrong. Wouldn't advise eating here.

Excellent food reasonably priced great service

Lovely mid week carvery. Staff were lovely but slightly overrun so a little slow. Still really enjoyed it and will definitely be going back

I'm absolutely disgusted we.booked for Christmas Dinner and paid a deposit in January we are a family of 4 and due to my mum being very poorly and passed away 2 weeks ago we contacted the rancliffe Arms to say we wouldn't come due to whats happened and they didn't even offer to give us are deposit back not even my mums

The very Best Sunday 4 years ago and still is now July 23 Best Sunday lunch , lovely staff , excellent service

Incredible carvery, so much choice you won't leave hungry. Staff are lovely and the place feels so cozy.

The biggest issue here is the flies! Asian lady is superb. Drinks are a little bland and not well kept.

Not sure what the rave reviews are about. Food was fine but nothing more. Distinct lack of parking caused chaos on arrival. More training of staff needed - wrong drinks orders, abruptly managed time issue and incorrect bill. Fine but nothing more.

Really enjoyed Sunday carvery. Lovely place, friendly service and excellent food

Have stopped here many times and always feel welcome and settled upon arrival. The team are great, and the pub itself is very warm, welcoming and perfect on a cold day or evening. The prices are a little on the high-side, but this is worth it as I've always had a consistent and fantastic experience at The Rancliffe Arms. Good location, and in the centre of the countryside so can couple this with either a walk or stop if you're heading out into Loughborough.

Have always loved this pub. The food is amazing, all of the staff are friendly, the pub is always clean and cosy

The worlds hottest gastro pub open a window now and again. Ok carvery but not worth £29 with a pudding.

Beautiful carvery on a Wednesday. Plenty of veg and choice of 4 meats.

Great lunch menu, Wraps are brilliant well stuffed with filling and very fresh. Chips could be cooked a tad longer but that's personal preference.

Awful experience for Father’s Day this year. We were situated at the table right in front of the carvery, which when we arrived and sat down seemed fine as the place wasn’t too busy. We were the first in the queue to get our carvery. I was holding my son’s plate and my own and burnt my finger on the hot plate whilst setting the plates down which was a poor start. As we sat down to eat we realised how hot the restaurant was and moved a plug in air fan which were placed sporadically throughout the restaurant so we could feel the breeze. As we continued the place quickly filled up and the queue for the carvery snaked around our table the whole time we were eating. We were stared at by the inquisitive queue for the whole while we were eating. In addition, the man carving the food fancied himself as a bit of a comedian, shouting down to people he knew in the queue throughout and it was SO loud, we couldn’t hear ourselves think or make conversation between ourselves. It was ridiculously hot and our only sauce of air was being blocked by the ever-growing carvery queue. For balance, the food itself was good and I had only booked the table two days prior but was assured a table for 4 was no problem. After eating our carvery, I ushered a staff member over (believe he was the manager) I explained that whilst we had enjoyed the food it was a completely unpleasant experience. He claimed to understand and apologised that we had been given the last table as they were at full capacity. I told him I’d have rather him turned down our booking than cram us in like pilchards. We are talking £27.50 a head, £15.50 for our little one. We got our deserts to go and left, £115 lighter after a terrible 50 minutes of what was supposed to be a lovely treat for my husband and father in law. I was disgusted that not even a single drink had been removed from the bill. I understand that you may want to get as many covers as possible, but this should not be to the detriment of the dining experience. Very poor, greedy management.

It was ok, we visited late afternoon on a Saturday it was quiet but the majority of the outside tables had not been cleared or cleaned. The gents are probably the worst I have encountered. Would not want to eat there

Need to serve light bits not every one wants a meal

It's been a while since we visited and we were a little disappointed. On a positive the staff were friendly and polite. Unfortunately the place seems tired. We were served tea in a chipped cup. The sofa we sat on was ripped and worn. The curtains were coming apart and there was mold on the wallpaper. £4 for a few chips did seem a bit much.

Lovely restaurant/pub to have a meal. Excellent service and good price, good wine selection. The food is sublime, so so good.

Food in here was always nice and it used to be our lunch pub but the quality of food and waiting time gone extremely bad recently. Been there twice last week for lunch, every time we had to wait for over 80 mins for food. Moreover, the qualify of food was pretty bad - dry meat, soggy chips, etc. Also service wasn't very good neither. I think the management team needs to do something to get this sorted!

Been coming here since just 5 years old (I'm now 14) and every time it doesn't dissapoint. The service is amazing and well managed, the food is freshly prepped (especially good on a sunday carvery) and people have a large amount of respect for each other. Overall amazing experience and nothing compares.

Great carvery. Staff very friendly and accommodating. Love the man serving the carvery. So funny !

We had lunch here last Saturday and unfortunately not as good as it used to be. Although the restaurant was quite empty, it took an hour for our food to arrive, which was 2 burgers and 2 sandwiches and a bowl of soup! The quality was just “ok” overpriced for what it is. The staff were not attentive at all, and didn’t ask basic things like more drinks or if we wanted the bill etc. Having a baby with us we gave the table a wipe down in front of him for hygiene and the wipes came away filthy, the cleaning regime leaves a lot to be desired. A shame this is what we experienced as it used to be great, we won’t be back any time soon. I imagine the carvery is better.

Disappointing level of service, greasy food that took an hour to get to the table.

Food was really good but took an age to arrive...90 mins almost

We have been coming to this restaurant for at least 17 years. Our boys now men love it also. The family run restaurant has always provided fresh, quality local, food. We live 30 minutes away but travel every week. We love to eat in the restaurant but also in the lounge by the open fire. Danny that carves the meat, remembers everyones name and remembers all their favourites choices. The vegetables are amazing with all the sauces they are cooked in. The staff are so welcoming and friendly as well as Rachel and her daughters. It’s never been beaten in our opinion and that’s why we are continuing to eat here.

Went today 7/5/23 for Sunday lunch I'd heard lots of good reports..Lovely country feel restaurant..starters very nice..mains nice but lacked seasoning but 1st class roasts potatoes plus stuffing n beef..desserts now weather is getting warmer need a couple of ice cream sundaes on the menu

Visited as a family. No children’s menu and no flexibility in terms of smaller portions from the main menu. £8.50 for a child’s chicken and chips was a little steep compared to comparable pubs that offer much more at a better price. Nothing exciting in terms of draft beer. Adult dishes ok but nothing more. Overcooked pork and average service.

This was our first visit on a recommendation. We wanted to try the carvery, as some are not too good with everything tasting the same. This carvery is delicious. Everything was cooked very well. The meats were quality and not cheap cuts. Plenty of variety of vegetables, etc. Friendly, helpful staff. Very enjoyable and we will definitely be visiting again soon. Thank you. xx

Nice pub with classic interiors. Food was okay, desserts were quite nice. It was quite cold inside if you weren’t by the fire, we all kept our coats on!

Really let down this Sunday. We only come here on special occasions for the carvery as it’s so expensive now at £18.50 per head. It was all so tasteless! Nothing was seasoned & was bland. We all thought so. Even the gravy was naff and couldn’t liven up the food. Frozen catering Yorkshires too, bad move at that price. Won’t be back anytime soon.

Upmarket gastro pub with excellent food. Had the carvery for Easter Subday lunch

Had another lovely meal here on Sunday for a family birthday. There was 7 adults and 3 children & we all had the carvery. Food was lovely and service was friendly & efficient. Would definitely recommend booking. We went at 18.00 and was steady, by the time we were leaving it was very busy. Will definitely be back again

First visit to the Rancliffe Arms. Lovely place perfect for a family reunion l. Will definitely be back.

We had a brilliant time went for Mother’s Day the Carvery and the puddings excellent recommended lovely atmosphere will book again 😀

Fabulous experience. As a coeliac I’m normally excluded from half the menu but at the Rancliffe Arms everything was available in gluten free version which was amazing. Thank you! The meat was perfect and a good array of vegetables. They even had my favourite pud in GF. The service was quietly efficient and I’ll definitely be back.

Beautiful food and service thank you will be back soon

Terrific atmosphere with wonderful staff Highly recommended

Although a very busy Sunday, our large birthday party were treated well, and my dietary requirements well catered for. A place we return to again and again

Decent carvery, but getting very expensive for what you get

The best Sunday lunch carvery I have ever had. This is my fifth visit over several years. Consistently good but need to book well in advance

Very good food and excellent service

Popped in fo a drink love this place .Didnt eat this time but have in past sunday dinner the best and very tasty .highly recommend

Great place for lunch. Had a great beef and Stilton baguette.

Pretty good. £10 menu food was really nice.

Fanatic cavery on Sunday, good selection of vegetables.

Lovely well cooked food, plenty of variety for everyone, staff are very nice and welcoming.

Fantastic pub/restaurant. We went for the Sunday carvery although it was very busy (booking ahead is essential) it was not cramped at all. I've never had such a polite and cheerful waitress serving us too. Place had music which although we were directly under the speaker was not at all loud to impede conversation. There was a choice of four different meats (turkey, pork loin, gammon ham and beef) and they had been roasted to perfection. There was an amazing choice of veg to along with the meal. Also the best bit was that they allowed us to go up for a second serving! Truly excellent experience.

Lovely comfortable surroundings with great service from efficient, friendly staff. Lots of choice and was tempted to go with my usual favourite - the hoisin duck. But fancied a change and went with the steak pie, delicious! Piping hot and well presented. Always a tasty meal served here, only gripe - had to ask twice for the bill. 100% recommend

The food is amazing. We were a bit worried when we first walked, it is very casual but the food was absolutely delicious.

Sunday 15th January, daughters birthday 🎂 table for 6 plus child, lovey old building, the cask Bombarier very well kept, good selection of meats & vegetables, roasties, Yorkshire puddings etc, carvery excellent, staff very welcoming, total food 6 x £17.50 = £105 highly recommended.

Sunday 15th January, daughters birthday 🎂 table for 6 plus child, lovey old building, the cask Bombarier very well kept, good selection of meats & vegetables, roasties, Yorkshire puddings etc, carvery excellent, staff very welcoming, total food 6 x £17.50 = £105 highly recommended.

Tasty food, good service and sensible pricing of drinks and food. REALLY nice and hot soup

Lovely staff, setup and location but not dog friendly

Again, another excellent time at the Rancliffe Arms, it never disappoints. Comfortable and cosy surroundings. Delicious food, varied and plentiful. Looking forward to my next visit.

Lovely Sunday carvery Best in Nottingham

Lovely old pub, but being old was probably hard to heat as not very warm in there. After meal we sat near the open fire which hadn't been tended to, wanted to stay longer but wanted to go home to get warm. Staff were great but a bit understaffed as they did their best but could have done with some help. Menu said Festive menu but nothing on for the Xmas season . The food we did have was excellent. We had the duck for starter and i had salmon and my friend had meat pie for mains.

Went today at 17.50 for a carvery, and you get two slices of meat. Regulars in front of us got at least double meat and small plates so you have to pile it high. Wouldn't be in a rush to go back - the waiters were friendly.