The Swan in South Staffordshire

A proper country pub. Great service. I had the pie, which was a little salty, the people I ate with enjoyed their meals though. Good beer choice. Cosy and relaxed.

The food is excellent, but as mentioned to the staff who, by the way, are friendly and efficient as they could be. We were in a party of 22 & all the mains came out, then any chips ,peas etc etc came after. My comment to staff was that by the time we had our chips & peas, the main was going cold. I suggested that they try to serve a couple of tables with all that was ordered to alleviate this problem. When paying £23 for a steak, you don't want your side orders when the main is going cold!

Fabulous value, atmosphere and service.

We parked our campervan in their carpark for the night and called in for food and beer. Ate in the bar as we had the dog with us - we were lucky with a table, the bar's quite small. Lovely atmosphere, full of friendly locals. The beer was nice and the food was really lovely! Have the faggots!

food was really good and well priced for the portion, we had Quinlan as our server and he was very attentive, helpful and friendly. thank you very much!

Disappointing meal to be honest. I had the broccoli bake, which was broccoli & sliced potato in a rather bland, sloppy white sauce. A few of us were a bit disappointed with our meals, won't be rushing back unfortunately. Great outdoor area for kids tho, probably lovely on a sunny afternoon.

1st visit went with my family and had a great time. Will definitely go again.

Lovely countryside drive to this pub. Very large car park available. Staff are friendly and helpful. Restaurant was laid out well, being busy it was very noisy and lacked atmosphere. Good selection of drinks to suit all. Menu has a good choice of usual pub food. However, it does have a special board, with starters and mains. Service was efficient and food arrived quickly. Cooked well and nicely presented, plus warm plates. On the whole, a good night out with friends.

Just had a meal at the Swan, absolutely outstanding. It's some years since I we last visited but will definitely call again soon. Everything about the place was marvelous, the pub, the staff and the food. Brilliant

Phoned & asked to stay in our motorhome, overnight in their car park (large & flat & very peaceful) what a delightful little place ,food & ales where superb. About 5 mins off the M6 . Definitely going to be using again for fixture trips.

Visited on Sunday afternoon. As a family we have always only visited for drinks in the lovely family friendly garden. We decided to eat on this occasion and ordered the sharing chilli nachos and bacon double cheeseburger. Food was very tasty, warm and a great portion size. Will definitely return for a roast soon! You do have to collect and deliver your own food if eating in the garden. No problem to us but one to be aware of

This is by far the best steak I've had in a long time...it's knocked socks off Millar and Carter for price and quality. I had a 6oz fillet and my husband had a whopping 14 oz Rump!! Would highly recommend the swan at Whiston for their steak night, shame it's only once a month.

What a lovely team, fantastic service, couldn’t do enough- food was great

Went on Saturday the food was excellent I had the salmon special it was lovely and very well presented mty husband had lasagne which was also well presented and very tasty 😋

Popped in for a coffee on the way back from a day out. Ordered and paid for it then waited and waited and waited some more. 15 minutes later I asked where the coffee was only to be told they were very busy serving meals and that they were only a small team. I asked to see the manager as I thought this was a very weak excuse, I was told the manager was busy cooking in the kitchen, is this person a manager or a chef? Eventually the assistant manager came through apologised and when I asked why to take an over 15 minutes to make a coffee, turn out with a lot of weak excuses, especially for the time of day. Restaurant wasn’t that busy at this time but the excuse was they were getting desserts out. So if someone orders a coffee which takes all of a minute to make they prioritise theirdiners. Poor service, weak excuses therefore will not be returning as they obviously forgot rather than we’re too busy… had a refund. Oh and one other thing the young girl who did the coffee didn’t even put sprinkles on until I asked… Clueless!

Have been a few times before and there is a reason it gets busy quickly. The bar lady was so helpful and went out of her way to accomodate us. Refreshing to see plenty of staff especially in the lounge area. Been a few times now and never had anything bad to say about it. Ps....the lovely outside tables and kids play area has had a revamp and the chickens at the bottom of the garden is a nice touch for the little ones. Advise to book .......def be back!!! (Again) EDIT: Still good food but when its busy the mistakes happen quite regular ......kitchen over run (1 year from original review)

Proper country pub serving proper beer and proper food !

Great quality well cooked pub food and a great selection of beers and cider. Can't believe it's been so long since our last visit.

Food was very disappointing and tasteless. Service extremely slow and will not be returning. The bar was full of people complaining and the manager was rude.

Great food and great service. Worth booking a table as it can get busy.

Loverly little pub with excellent food friendly staff and a great friendly atmosphere well worth a visit on a nice sunny day lots of outside seating and space and a large play area for the kids

Had a wonderful meal 😋 Service was great 👍🏻 stunning location 👌🏻 Will be calling again Highly Recommend

Just had Sunday lunch with our friends. The meal was fantastic,drinks were great,the staff are also fantastic. Have not been for a while due to illness but will definitely be back . Many thanks ...

Went today to the swan at Whiston the food was brilliant could not fault it. We had steak and ale pie chips and peas, scampi chips and peas and the gammon steak, chips, pineapple, onion rings and tomatoes. The chips were home cooked the scampi tasted fresh and the pie was delicious. We also had dessert x 2 berry crumbles and bakewell cheesecake all with ice cream. All I can say is keep the greene king, macdonalds, KFC and the like I'd rather dine here. The staff go above and beyond to help the customers and they are friendly. Good old fashioned banter that you would expect from a British pub. There is also a pool table and a child's outdoor play area

Catered for our table of 5 adults and 2 boisterous boys. Even after a coke spillage everywhere, one of us being indecisive and taking forever to choose, a bit noisy and messy, staff were still friendly and happy to help. Food was delicious as always. Cannot fault the place.

My family and I love this pub. What is not to love?! A beautiful garden for the children to play, outside food, an inside restaurant with filling traditional food and great choices of drinks. They host an excellent bonfire night too. We love it here!

We popped in briefly to get a drink and enjoy the outdoor play area. The kids were very happy. Drinks were reasonably priced, and I will go back if it stops raining!

A pleasant place located in a village which consists of about one house and one farm. You’ll have competition from all the locals to get service. Do as I did if you’re driving past: stop for a pint!

Excellent pub conveniently located off the M6, halfway between the Lake District and London so a great way to break up that particular journey. The pub is warm and welcoming and the service is absolutely first class. Food is very good - nothing fancy but clearly all home cooked using fresh good quality ingredients and they have a terrific lunchtime deal in the week - just £8 for a hearty meal.

Good value food with efficient friendly service.

Stayed in our Motorhome on large car park. Food and drink was great. Our greyhound Winnie was made to feel welcome as were we. Recommended.

Great meal. Good atmosphere and service. Well cooked food and friendly staff.

Food was really lovely They were kind enough to let us park our van and trailer and stay overnight too which meant we could have a cheeky glass or two. Helpful staff too

1st visit after being recommended and it won't be the last. Great food and good service. Too stuffed to manage a dessert, so will definitely be back.

Lovely pub. Good beer. Good ham bap.

Excellent food & service. Good range of drinks. Would recommend.

Beautiful pub lovely views will be back in the sunshine ☀ and to have food

Great pub. Well worth driving out. Steak night, 2nd Tuesday of each month is exceptional.

Great food and drink be pushed to beat it

Lovely pub, great food and friendly welcoming atmosphere.

Visited on a Friday evening, was seated without any fuss & was made to feel more than welcome. The service & food were of the highest quality, as was the ale selection. Will definitely be returning!!

Me and 5 of my family attended today and we had a wonderful meal. The food was delicious and such good quality, large drinks selection too. Lovely and warm and welcoming and staff were so helpful. Just one issue was there is no disabled toilet which did inconvenience us slightly. Apart from that it was great good at a great price in a lovely setting

Great food. Excellent atmosphere. Service could be better, slow delivery of food. Overall, we still enjoyed our visit.

Myself and my family have been visiting the Swan for a number of years as we absolutely love everything about it🥰 Not only is the selection of ales and ciders fantastic, the food is even better!! We have never had a bad experience in all of the years we have been coming and also the staff are lovely💕 17 of us ordered 3 courses from the festive fayre menu tonight for my sisters 40th birthday and the food was divine☺️ Thank you Hannah for creating such a fantastic pub!! Xx

Lovely welcome, friendly staff, great food, superb beer, highly recommended!

Good food, great beer and friendly staff.

Visited during the bonfire night with my family and I’ve never seen it so busy before, completely rammed but the staff did so well!! Service was still fast considering, and the staff were so welcoming and helpful even though they were clearly stretched to their limits. They put up with some nasty impatient customers very professionally and one lady behind the bar (heard her referred to as molly? Milly maybe? Sorry - it was loud) was so helpful when I couldn’t decide on what drink to have. Overall lovely event and I will be visiting again soon - huge well done to the staff.

Always a pleasure and never had a bad meal. All very fresh, homemade, and tasty.

Had a fantastic meal at the swan, the service was amazing, and the gammon was amazing will definitely visit again very soon,

We came here for my sons 14th birthday with his friends and family so a large group of us, they seemed quite under staffed and it was busy, we all ordered mains and my chicken seemed pink, when I mentioned it to staff they said it was from the bacon even though I'd cut into several pieces of chicken and stopped eating it, we spent quite a lot of money and my comment was brushed off even though most of my meal was left as was the chicken and bacon in cream sauce, we were also told to vacate the table at 8pm even though we were all still drinking and didn't plan on leaving straight after the meal and the waitress was quite rude and abrupt about it even though the other part of the restaurant was empty, we said we would go again but would book the table for the night and would definitely not have the chicken again,

Nice food ,friendly atmosphere and staff , just a little out of the way

Superb Sunday lunch in a lovely traditional pub. Lots of other diners, excellent portions and very tasty. Fantastic price. Will visit again.

We had a surprise 40th birthday meal for my son today 15th October brilliant food excellent service top marks definitely be going again there was 16 of us many thanks

Enjoyable evening meal with friends. Good menu selection, food was good quality and well presented. Staff and service were very good. Busy for a Wednesday night, very popular with locals, suggest booking a table.

Amazing pub with great food and a big out door play area for the kids

We had to book a last minute meal for 10 for the next day. Victoria made sure she got us in. The staff and food were great. We were so pleased as we had never been there before. Thanks all for a good night. I really recommend this place.

Amazing 100% beautiful food Amazing friendly family feeling pleace

Table for five on Thursday 22nd June at 7.30, table prebooked. The restaurant was very quiet for the number of vehicles on the car park. Food very good but service was terrible. All was ok until our plates for our mains were taken away. We were asked if we would like to see a dessert menu and we said we would. We waited and waited. In the end, after well over half an hour one of our group went into the bar to ask if we could be served. A lady then appeared and said she would fetch our server who came to us with a menu on a chalk board and no apology for our wait. We ordered our desserts and the server asked if we would like coffees and she turned the board around for us to see the choice of coffees. We ordered coffees too. A few moments later a more senior lady appeared to advise us that they had run out of milk. She made a joke that she couldn’t serve milk even though they had cows. None of our group were impressed that a restaurant had run out of milk. We were offered black coffees or coffees with cream. We declined. Our desserts arrived and were good. By the time our desserts arrived we were the only occupied table. When the desserts dishes were taken away we were told we could stay but without our coffees to drink and being the only table occupied we asked for the bill and left well before 10.30. Our group go to a restaurant every six weeks or so and have been going out for well over 25 years. This is the earlier we have ever left a restaurant but there was no atmosphere for the whole of our visit, we didn’t feel welcome so we went home. Despite the food being very good we all agreed we wouldn’t be going back there in a hurry. Due to the number of vehicles on arrival, the car park was extremely full, and from subsequently looking on the website I suspect they were drinking in the bar which is renowned for the choice of beers. I noted on the website that Sunday lunch is very positively reviewed and I can only surmise that there are plenty of waiting on staff on Sundays.

Lovely staff great food new favourite place

Excellent food. Lovely welcoming pub

Best homemade food I have ever eaten in a pub 6 people for meals every meal was outstanding 👌

Really lovely place for a family meal with children. My son chose to come for his birthday meal - all of our food was great and we all had a lovely evening for a very reasonable price with really friendly staff. Thank you we will be back again soon! 🙂

Best pub for both food and beer for miles…. They serve a wonderful Shiraz too! 🍷😉😘

Lovely meal. Mushroom starter was a little over cooked and we're hard and too crispy. It was a shame the vegetables took a while to come out of the kitchen after plated meat had been delivered. Puddings were good. Our little groans didn't spoil the meal

Great food and atmosphere. Has a large children’s play area in the beer garden which is safe and secure. Very relaxed atmosphere. My son loves to visit the chickens when we go .

Service and food was excellent.

I oderder gammon egg and chip it came with no chips and I algo orderder hunnters chicken it was very hard you will need a chain saw to cut into it.

Great pub and lovely food with a great choice of drinks and they also have a big play area for children

First time visit and very pleased with this pretty pub. Sat in the smaller of the beer gardens as we had our dogs with us, and it was a lovely little sheltered spot with the bonus of a cage of pretty parakeets to watch! Bar staff were friendly and helpful, everywhere was clean and tidy, and the outdoor food was simple but delicious - the 6oz plain beefburger came with piping hot chips and a good dollop of fresh salad, while the scampi was crispy and tasty. Portions were perfect for a lunch, not too hefty but enough to fill you up, and prices were very reasonable for a country pub - two meals, two pints and a half cost us a little over £26. The pub also has another larger beer garden down at the side of the car park, where you can watch the farm animals in the surrounding fields, as well as large play area for children. All in all, a very pleasant find and will definitely be back to try the more extensive indoor menu at some point this summer.

Very good food tasted really good served quickly

Lovely location, food wasn't anything special. We ate in the garden, scampi was miniscule. Horrible plastic baskets as plates.

Food is excellent and the service too! Great variety of ciders including my favourite Lilley's Rhubarb 😋

Great rural pub with a large emphasis on serving food. There is however a decent sized, dedicated bar for drinkers. Good selection of 4 cask ales.

Excellent meal as always, the Staff are very friendly, food is always top class, good selection of beers and other drinks, great atmosphere, proper Country Pub. Well done to all involved, keep up the good work. Tim & Josie x

Lovely setting… warm welcome…. Good selection of food and ales. Highly recommended.

Had a meal here which was very nice and very reasonably priced. Good selection of beers and the staff were also very nice.

Great meal at reasonable price.

Booked a birthday meal 2 months in advance for my wife.Rang day before to ask if staff could decorate table ..balloon bit of glitter ect I said when I arrive I would pay gor any decorations. Meal was booked fir 7.30 we arrived at 7 NO ONE new we had booked ???????after 30 minutes we finally got down to our table .Starters tasteless chicken apparently I had ..chicken???? Could have been anything. Some of my family had steak waiter came up to our table and dropped knife and forks at the top of the table help your self ???? Strange.Main meals arrived chicken in blue cheese sauce I had ...I did want fish no fish on a busy Saturday night no fish ???? Anyway chicken in Stilton sauce really not impressed at all tasteless. I've eaten at the Swan about 5 years ago meal was good that's why I came back this evening..I will 100%never go back and I will tell my friends ect ect that I wouldn't recommend the Swan inn wife's birthday very very disappointed..... RUBBISH

Great place lovely friendly helpful staff great beer and fantastic food

Lovely location, lovely food, good service & friendly staff. My only negative opinion (hence the 4 stars, not 5) is that it lacks a bit of ambience in the restaurant area. Twice I've been now for a meal & felt it both times. Maybe some tea-lights on the tables & some background music - it all just feels a bit quiet & makes me a bit self-conscious when chatting & having a laugh. But don't let that put you off; the food & beer is worth it 👌 & I'll definitely be back.

Good food, good beer. Good service. Nice location

Freindly staff great food excellent choice of drinks

Lovely Sunday roast, all of it very tasty. Book though if you want a table! Busy pub

Good selection of beer and cider food excellent good home cooked food staff very friendly nice village pub

Very popular, some of the meals were a bit overcooked but others were fine, drivers penalised as the non alcoholic drinks a bit pricey eg bottle of full fat coke £2.60 but overall a very pleasant evening with friendly staff.

Wow wow wow food is out of this world ,staff very friendly and helpful

Proper Country Pub with good beer and Proper home cooked food 5 ⭐️

We had an excellent steak meal, very generous portion sizes. Very friendly staff...I would highly recommend a visit to everyone.

This is my favourite Pub. Food is always hot, very good portions, reasonable price, always very yummy and all the staff are lovely. If I lived nearer I would visit every week.

Had better food on previous visits

Lovely home cooked foods, good beer selection and friendly staff

Long winding lanes to get there. But the food was worth the drive.

Lovely country pub. Great food and nice staff.

Amazingly lovely food Hot and fresh Family friendly , caters for big groups and small Good choice of food and puddings , great choice of drinks , Feels very homely ,

Visited for Sunday lunch recently & it was superb value for money. Incredibly fresh, tasty & good value! The service was excellent- thank you to our server “Cyra” who really went above & beyond to provide a great visit! Thanks Cyra. Looking forward to returning soon.

Found this little gem yesterday and we were not disappointed. The food and desserts were fab and all freshly made. Will be coming here again very soon.

Very very nice place service was good and meal, I had stacked burger missus had chicken from the special board, Well presented and tasty, a little too much American cheese for me but it was simple enough to remove it, a cider drinkers paradise + lots of choice in ales. Well done ladies we shall return soon

Pleasant country pub. Visited for lunch. Not packed but enough customers to make a friendly atmosphere. Good choice of food. Lunchtime menu, main menu and specials board. All food freshly cooked, and a good selection of home cooked delights. A good selection of beers, ciders and soft drinks. Well worth a visit and good value for money. It's getting much busier now, so I think booking a table may be a good idea. Another visit. November 2022, and busier than we've ever seen it at lunchtime. Food still excellent quality and prices appear to have been held, very helpful given the economic situation. Still an excellent variety of draft beers and ciders, again at reasonable prices.

Excellent night , great fireworks , well organised

Great pub excellent pint every time and friendly staff