The Stag's Head in Sheffield

I am a fan of Thornbridge Brewery's award-winning beers, especially Lukas and Green Mountain, which for me, are some of the best on the market. So, when we arranged a family meal at a Thornbridge pub I was full of anticipation. I chose fish and chips, but without drawing this review out, it was the most disappointing excuse for what should be a British pub classic. The over-cooked, verging on burnt, fish, which in itself was a miserably small portion, was served with soggy potato wedges. Potato wedges with fish? Really? Come on, people, it should be chips as in 'fish and CHIPS'. There is a hint in the name. The mushy peas were adequate, but what on earth was rocket doing on the plate? You don't serve salad leaves with fish and chips. Ever. My wife and boys enjoyed their burgers, but the overall experience, for me, was very disappointing. I am all for chefs experimenting with new ideas, but you don't need to re-invent the wheel when it comes to something as basic as fish and chips. I shall not be eating here again.

A nice quiet pub,which myself and Daughter visited for Lunch,nice food and reasonable prices.

It's an old pub but it's expanded and has an outdoor bar and a much seating to appeal to a younger demographic with traditional brews and newer, fruitier draught pints.

Kurt, James, Joe and the team are all very welcoming and knowledgeable about the beer and wine selection!

Food was delicious, in a chill location with a beer garden.

Great place to have some drinks

Apparently they change their menu every three months; I have always been happy with the food here but this last time I thought the lunch choices were pretty rubbish actually, very boring.

I arranged a gathering for my Zumba Gold ladies and the staff were super helpful and very accommodating. Thank you for a lovely evening

Great pub. Just want to thank the bar staff for helping me out by giving me a battery for my insulin pump on Friday night. Much appreciated!

Food was excellent good atmosphere and great service

A lovely old pub with great food.

6 months ago this was my favourite pub in Sheffield, now the customers that go have started to queue for the bar. We just queued for 45 minutes for 3 drinks, this would take 5 minutes if you ran as a proper pub there’s 4 people on the bar and you have a single file queue going all the way onto the street..absolutely mental, please stop this!!! Until they sort this out don’t bother, go to the Lescar!

6 months ago this was my favourite pub in Sheffield, now the customers that go have started to queue for the bar. We just queued for 45 minutes for 3 drinks, this would take 5 minutes if you ran as a proper pub there’s 4 people on the bar and you have a single file queue going all the way onto the street..absolutely mental, please stop this!!! Until they sort this out don’t bother, go to the Lescar!

Afternoon drinks on a Monday. Had the burger and cheesy chips, both excellent. Service outstanding, quick and friendly. Been coming here for a few years and always have a great time.

Flipping lovely roast dinner, nice staff very happy we dropped in.

Good beer (Thornbridge ales), pleasant vibe, no muzak, good children's playground outside, decent outdoor seating. Haven't tried food so can't comment, but it looked OK and was reasonably priced.

Go regularly on dog walk but seems to be running into ground. Weeds everywhere, empties left on tables outside, smell of cooking appalling and off putting when you go to bar - so bad you feel like you’re wearing it when you go outside … Sat at an outside table near toilets and smell was so bad we had to move. Such a shame, used to be great - good location but feels neglected.

Food ok ( burnt pudding), we sat in the conservatory, looks tired and run down. Staff very good.

Lovely pub. The play area and sitting outside are a treat here, good bear selection and above average pub food, more reasons to visit

Great beer, Great food, outside garden split in two.. One end with kids play area other just benches. Service is good and the guys and girls are always friendly even when it's 3 deep at the bar on a bank holiday. Sunday roast is really good and I don't normally say that as I make a cracking one myself apparently but I love the ones here. Since Covid, the car park is now outdoor seating. Even with the restrictions ended that's still there so should be awesome come summer with some nice pizza and beer Update 4/22: Covid clearly now released for UK and the pub has kept the outside area which is absolutely the right plan. Pizza oven is fired up and provides a lovely pizza (£8 upwards) Update 12/22 Pizza oven now off. Change in staff.. Still good. Update 5/24 The pub is back at it's best. Regular x beer events, curry nights and more. The pizza oven and outside bar are in full effect for summer and the cark park is now just picnic tables galore so loads of space. They are showing the Euros here too this summer. Whether it's the 1 screen in a tent again I don't know but it's on. 👍

I like this pub a lot and it's kid friendly with lovely staff.

Nice pub and reasonably priced drinks :)

Paid over £15 for a chicken roast. Really disappointed. No mash, no stuffing, hardly any gravy, measly portion of peas and half a carrot. The roast potato's were yesterdays re heated it felt. The waitress was surly...used to be lovely. Won't be back.

Decent bit of scram, worth a look this gaff

Very good snack type food. Great location for gathering with friends and lovely drinks highly recommend

Great beers, food, and nice kid friendly beer garden

Visiting the area called in was very busy and nosiey food was OK small portions for the price

Only went in for a quick drink but service was good, smiley & friendly bar staff and good old school pub atmosphere

Decent pub menu, well cooked pie and chips. Very good Beer selection from thornbridge.

Lovely pub. Food is lovely, just not much choice. It gets busy.

Dirty pub, particularly the toilets. Seriously in need of a deep clean, put me completely off my pint. Pint was ok but had a line cleaner aftertaste. Shame is there is no choice of anything other than Thornbridge on tap. Disappointing really, won’t be back again.

Dog friendly, good ales, and friendly, helpful staff.

Didn't have food, were meeting with friends, had a good time whilst there.

Have a couple of pints, I think improvement can be done inside especially regarding the smell. The staff were too kind and supportive.

Staff rude and very unfriendly.

Nice pub with great food and brilliant selection of beers

Great pub , always an excellent atmosphere and staff are fab, love it around Christmas time with the heated area outside , great for a decent pint , can’t comment on the food but will visit sometime in the future

Really traditional looking pub. The menu looked great. Had a great duck salad, highly recommend. Service was great.

Good pub in nice part of Sheffield - was visiting a friend and popped in for a pint, lots of choice of good beers

Amazing little gem Went there for our early family Christmas dinner. They are dog friendly and they also provided Christmas crackers. Staff were amazing! Food was very delicious and good amount. 6 of us with dring paid under £120. We will be back!

We've been going to the stag for years and it's always been one of our favourite pubs in sheffield but our recent visit was disappointing. The pub just felt very grimey. For example we tried two different tables and both were very sticky and clearly hadn't been cleaned properly. One of the toilets was out of order which maybe couldn't be helped but the toilet that was working was in a bit of mess with toilet roll everywhere. Not a big deal but it's just a drop from its normally high standards. We also had quite a bad experience with staff where we asked what time they stopped serving food and was told 9 and then when we tried to order dessert at 8:50 were told quite rudely, by someone who seemed to be the senior staff member, that the kitchen was shut. Again not a huge issue but it just left a bit of a cloud over a place we normally love. I don't know if there has been some changes lately or if it's just an off day but its put us off and probably wouldnt recommend to other people going forward.

We've been going to the stag for years and it's always been one of our favourite pubs in sheffield but our recent visit was disappointing. The pub just felt very grimey. For example we tried two different tables and both were very sticky and clearly hadn't been cleaned properly. One of the toilets was out of order which maybe couldn't be helped but the toilet that was working was in a bit of mess with toilet roll everywhere. Not a big deal but it's just a drop from its normally high standards. We also had quite a bad experience with staff where we asked what time they stopped serving food and was told 9 and then when we tried to order dessert at 8:50 were told quite rudely, by someone who seemed to be the senior staff member, that the kitchen was shut. Again not a huge issue but it just left a bit of a cloud over a place we normally love. I don't know if there has been some changes lately or if it's just an off day but its put us off and probably wouldn't recommend to other people going forward.

Nice place. The staff are friendly. The pub is dog friendly. They even offer water for the pets, too. Nice atmosphere.

Friendly, helpful service, great food and, although there was a selection of beers with chocolate, raspberry and other young person flavours, there were a few very well kept ales that tasted of beer. Result!

First time eating here this week. The food was delicious.

The Stags Head is a great little pub but unfortunately the food fell a little short of the mark. We ordered the GF beef brisket and the Turkey Christmas Dinner on a midweek evening. Sadly both meals were luke warm and kept under the food lamps which spoiled the meal. That meant the roast potatoes were a bit tough, but the meat was nicely cooked. I also thought it was a shame that they didn’t have any of the Thornbridge GF beers on tap.

Excellent range of Thornbridge beers

Sticky Toffee Pudding fans rejoice! The Stag serves THE best STP I have ever had. And I've had a lot.

The Stag burger was delicious!!

Very friendly knowledgeable staff which and a great atmosphere. Food was excellent, great value for money and good selection on the bar. Would highly recommend for lunch or evening meals with friends or family.

Excellent community local. Outside area has been improved. Wonderful, varied beer selection. Always knowledgeable folk behind the bar.

Great food, great service, and lovely atmosphere.

Service was okay, but you have to pay by card. COVID is over now a five pond note will not kill you. Not the cheapest beer and the range of ales at my time of visit were mostly high in the ABV dept.

A (very) brief stopover on a longish walk in and around Sheffield proper. This was a lovely stop.

Monday night quiz is great, free food too

Ok if you like Burgers for the price.. not much variation

Excellent beer and food. Staff really friendly. Good outside space. Dog friendly. Pay by card only - no cash.

So disappointing when you go out for a Sunday dinner with friends and, when you’ve eaten the poor quality meal, you know you could have cooked a far superior roast at home. The lamb was very fatty and lacking in flavour, the carrots, potatoes and kale were ok but it was swimming in weak, skinny gravy. It feels uncomfortable to be so mean but it should have been so much better. The drinks order was also mangled, a pint instead of a half, red wine instead of white…

Can't beat it for beer and food

Great Beer, great food, lovely staff.

Dinner was quite nice, but some of the staff (not all !) we’re a bit miserable and despite it saying on the menu that last food available at 9pm, when I went to ask for a desert at 8:45pm, he said “it’s too late, it’s shut”. Sure he could have checked with the kitchen if they could have rustled up an ice cream and I would have got another round of drinks. (Especially when they brought us our starter and main at the start (which the friendly kitchen staff corrected straight away and apologised for). Maybe manager needs to encourage nicer client service from one of the staff.

Great pub quiz with free food that was tasty.

Great location and good food massively let down by the playground. It's very tired and increasingly dismal. Nothing has been replaced when it has broken and the equipment is now quite limited. You end up crammed in amongst bits of shredded rubber tyres next to a shabby marquee tent with barrel tables of occasional floating fag ash. It's a real shame as they have enough space to make a beautiful beer garden and play area amongst mature trees. If only they would invest.

Great pub for kids, has a playground in the beer garden!

Great beer pub. All welcome. Inc dogs. Food at the right price, good quality and quick. Cheers. (Could do with having Zero Fifty on draft at all times)

Sausages, Mash, Bacon & Black Pudding. Can’t say much more than Perfect- Piping hot, totally delicious and Staff were as always friendly helpful polite. Would highly recommend to anybody wishing to visit

Lovely, dog friendly pub with a great selection of beers and food. Veggie and vegan options were really nice. Great spot to sit out on a sunny evening

One of my locals, it's alright. Foods average. Service is always great thought.

Great food and a wide selection of thornbridge beers available both on tap or in cans

Nice. Attentive staff and good food.

Great place. Kids can play outside in the garden and play area. Lots of tables. Lovely on a summers day. Very good choice of beers on offer. Pizzas are a must. Lots of other families enjoying the weather and beers!!

Came for the Friday night pizza, as advertised. Left very disappointed.

Far exceeded my expectations! Portion quality and appearance was a good notch above most pub grub and the service was perfect, Super friendly, super helpful. Also; if staying at the Mercure, avoid their restaurant at all cost and come here (it’s a complete scam, terrible food, nasty overpriced wine, rude service and stupidly expensive). After that experience we were really relieved to find The Stag’s Head! We’ll be back!

Far exceeded my expectations! Portion quality and appearance was a good notch above most pub grub and the service was perfect, Super friendly, super helpful. Also; if staying at the Mercure, avoid their restaurant at all cost and come here (it’s a complete scam, terrible food, nasty overpriced wine, rude service and stupidly expensive). After that experience we were really relieved to find The Stag’s Head! We’ll be back!

Great beer garden with play area for the little ones.

In the area, visiting family, and found this pub with a play area for our three girls. The setup is great and the food was fantastic. I normally think the kids meals are a bit rubbish, but these were great - just as good quality as the main menu (which was also brilliant). Will be trying to convince the family to go here when we're next visiting.

Big beer garden, really lovely friendly and helpful staff. Knowledge about which draughts were vegan and helped us choose. Pub quiz on Mondays is great fun.

Lovely lunch at the stags head today on my first visit, wish it was my local, real quality food and service, excellent pint too.

Great food and drink at a decent price we took our dog in to meet with family and we were very happy. Good service and friendly staff. Well will be returning.

Decent pint and good pie, chips and mushy peas with Henderson’s gravy.

Good atmosphere and dogs are allowed. If snall children annoy you stay out of the conversatory.

It's a good pub with gluten free menu items and beer options. But this place gets really busy on match days, it's a convenient place to meet a walk down so you won't get a table to eat

Hardly changed in 40 years, I love this place.

Full range of Thornhill beers and walking distance from footie.

Good food and plenty of beers to choose from...

Great service from very friendly staff. Great Sunday Lunch! I am already looking forward to my next visit!

3 of us went for dinner and all of us loved it. I ordered a fish finger butty which came on fresh crusty bread, with plenty of fresh cut chips and the fish fingers were more like small cod fillets in a light batter which was a nice surprise. Lovely staff and amazing food! Absolutely delicious.

Great atmosphere, great beer, great food! I'm yet to go when the fires lit, bet it's so cosy!

The meal was excellent but the music was awful really bad. We have a diverse range of music but this was so bad it stopped conversation

This is my local pub so it’s really disappointing to have to write this review but I’m hoping that whoever owns/ runs The Stags Head might take note. I went with some family members for a meal on a Friday evening and sadly it was not an enjoyable experience. Each dish we ordered was over cooked and dry and the main course salad consisted of mainly lettuce with a sprinkling of chicken and bacon. The food isn’t cheap but it used to be much better so we didn’t mind paying as it was of a standard above usual pub grub, but sadly this isn’t the case anymore.

I can't blame the Stag's Head for being quiet, lateish on a Tuesday evening after New Year, but the smell of cooking fat in the pub did put me off a bit. This pub could do with a bit of a facelift, as its not had a redecoration for a long time and looks dated. The lighting in the conservatory needs sorting out too as to me it doesn't look cosy. However, the price of drinks, a pint of cider and a large premium gin and tonic was very reasonable at around £12. I wish I could say the same about the meals - the offering is varied and sounds good, but gone are the pie and mash options which used to be an economical choice. Food is now firmly bistro style and prices have risen a lot since I was last here. However, the staff were friendly and helpful and the place was clean and warm. I notice the outside space, which used to be such a draw in Summer, has been replaced with plastic gazebos and car parking is much reduced.

Visited with my mum one Sunday lunch time for a roast dinner , the food was really nice and well presented, fantastic Yorkshire pudding and good selection of veg, the bar staff were nice and welcoming and helped me pick a nice gin Will defo go again!

Unfriendly service, uninspiring food for a Christmas dinner. Friend asked for spoon, and it was literally thrown at her! Bit dismal. Would not recommend it sadly. Disappointed.

Superb Bangers and Mash washed down with a Brother Rabbit ale. Great friendly staff and a lovely atmosphere. Will be going back.

Sunday roast is excellent, plentiful and the staff 5 star

Really well organised firework night with great family friendly food, including good vegetarian options.

Went for an 18th party. Very good atmosphere and the pizzas they prepared for us were excellent. Very strange ti go to a pub and only be able to pay by card.

Inattentive staff, disappointing food

Lovely pub, good beer range..but all from Thornbridge. A guest or two would be nice

Nice bar, great location, excellent food.