The Volunteer in Herefordshire, County of

Cracking pint steak night is a bargain!

Went for Saturday lunch. Good deal 2 meals for £15. Food was excellent. Presentation amazing. Taste excellent. Menu choices really good not just pub grub. Service excellent.

Made welcome. Good selection of drinks. We enjoyed the food. Great “local” feel. Dog friendly - extra welcoming to our trainee guide dogs. We have reserved for tomorrow.

Went here for Sunday Lunch on our holiday in Hereford. Very tasty food, great service.

Went for a Sunday lunch and honestly the best one I've had in Hereford over the 8year.

I reviewed this place a few years ago when it was under different ownership, and I raved about how good it was back then. Then it went really downhill for a long time, and then it shut down. About a year ago, new owners came in and took over, and I remade it my local around Feb of this year. I love this pub. It's got such a nice, friendly, warm vibe to it. The staff are just on point. I can go in on my own and be confident that I can have a conversation with the staff or one of the other locals. My dad lives about 30 miles away, but anytime he's in Hereford on a Sunday, he's angling for a Volly Roast. The food today was just so nice, I had beef, my kid had chicken, and everyone else had pork. It was all delicious. Really, really tasty. I then weirdly have Brie parcels off the starter menu for pudding, and they were lovely as well. There aren't enough "local" pubs around these days, it's all chain boozers charging £6 for a pint of middle shelf lager, but not The Volly. £109 for 5 Roasts, 3 puddings, one starter, 3 glasses of wine and about 8/9 pints. Cracking Value. The Volly is like a little bolthole, a home away from home, so to say and I really, really recommend it if you've never tried it.

Visiting Hereford for the day & wanted somewhere for Sunday lunch. Pub doesn't look much from the outside, but it is lovely inside & has a very nice outdoor area too. We had Sunday lunch. Beef was tender & very tasty, crisp roasties, good selection of veg & plenty of gravy. They are dog friendly & the staff were very welcoming. Good selection of drinks & craft beers. Highly recommended!

Amazing establishment. Staff are very friendly and welcoming. Atmosphere is always top notch if it be open mic night or quiz night. Food is amazing and all round general fun pub. Very glad to call it my local. Keep the good work up guys 😁

Popped in for a quick Sunday dinner on our way through the area whilst traveling. Really nice quirky little place with a friendly welcome and a fantastic Sunday roast which was served really quickly. Also the BEST cauliflower cheese ever!! Super quick friendly service from barman Rhys!

Hidden gem! Great atmosphere, friendly staff and good vibes.

I just popped in for a friend's event but ended up chatting to a couple there for an hour or so. A lovely place for sure 🧡

Brilliant Sunday roast and very efficient and welcoming staff (Rhys? Great mullet). Seems hard to find good roast potatoes these days but The Volunteer Inn has restored my faith. Keep up the good work.

Staying locally, booked a table for dinner. Food was excellent, had the special Beef rengdan and friend had the chilli beef, absolutely excellent food and service from Reece and Carl. A really friendly atmosphere, made to feel welcome by all.

Opened with friendlier staff and much better food. Sunday roast was great. Full of flavour.

Great beer, very friendly staff, good food, different spaces. "The village pub in the city".

I have always loved this little gem. In the good weather there is a lovely outside area, inside the candles/fire make it very homely here. Always a lovely atmosphere.

Friendly staff and lovely food .Clean pub lovely open fire .

Lovely, cosy back street local pub. Was great to catch up with friends here.

Beautiful part of Hereford.. Out of the city centre. Nice atmosphere, warm welcome and decent beer 🍻 on tap..Neck Oil 😊

Great food, we will be back! The veggie lasagna was delicious

Astonishingly good roast! great service. Recommend booking as word will get around fast about this hidden treasure.

Great local pub back to what it does best , nice friendly atmosphere, good selection of beers , ciders and lagers . We had a fabulous Sunday lunch which was really nice . Great service from all staff . Will be back again soon

Great to see this gem of a pub open again. Lovely new owners and a great pint.

it was super quiet when I arrived and slowly filled as the afternoon wore on. the beef roast I had was lovely. It didn't look a lot but certainly filled me up! Staff were friendly, offering customers another drink at their table. it's a lot brighter than it used to be, which is nice. definitely go again.

Thank you Volly, we had a lovely meal last night. It was so nice to be back 🙂

Fantastic Sunday lunch. Great to see The Volly open again and with lovely new staff. Looking forward to trying their other menu (Weds to Saturday) as their Sunday lunch is delicious!

We had the best Sunday lunch here last week as a family. I could not fault the food - tasty and refined (this is NOT a carvery!) and the meat was cooked perfectly. They currently offer pork or beef and both are tender and cooked to perfection. The vegetables are very well thought-out. No boiled veg here! It is delicious - sticky red cabbage, garlic and rosemary roasties, mashed carrot and swede, honey-glazed carrots, cauliflower cheese...and the gravy! There is also a veggie option and a dessert menu. The service is quick and friendly. So good, that we're going back today! Noticed they do a food menu Weds to Sat too.

Lovely feel to the pub, the new owners are lovely and seem to be thriving. We all had a beef dinner the beef was beautifully cooked, the veg was fresh and roast potatos were out of this world, lovely welcoming pub would highly recommend for food or drinks! We will be returning!

Great Sunday roast. Lovely staff x

We were delighted that The Volunteer has reopened now with new tenants. We had an excellent Sunday lunch there today with all the trimmings. Meat was very tender, presentation and service were excellent and it was extremely good value. Their menu during the week looks good so we look forward to eating there often

New staff, freindly and glad to see open. Brewery needs to look after tenants .

The staff had no idea wouldn't go back in they gave no interest in there business or there customers

Well kept beer and a good atmosphere. Its great to have the local back.

Update. The old owners have finally gone and good riddance they were the worst thing to happen to this pub. If you want a business to fail they're your people. I look forward to the volley getting back to what it used to be.

this once great pub has to decide what its going to be. we turned up this afternoon to watch the rugby and the place was cramed with diners. we was disapointed that no area had been set aside for those of us that want to have a pint. a real shame but i guess it reflects the industry.

What has happened to this wonderful pub? Now open weekends only from mid afternoon (except on Sundays). Availability of beers, food, and warm atmosphere all now unpredictable. Please do something to restore this exceptionally warm and friendly pub to it's treasured place in the community.

Small portions I recommend avoiding this place on Sundays beacuse there is only roast dinners! Edit: Not sure what i was thinking when i wrote this i think i was having a bad day

Good Sunday lunch, good mixture of veg, staff very pleasant and helpful. Guinness was great, well poured. Wine good too

Food and drink is nice but a very basic menu

The volunteer Inn is one of my favourite pubs in Hereford. Came in here after the remembrance Sunday parade. Had a wonderful lunch washed down with a couple of pints of Guinness. Staff were fantastic as usual within a small pub atmosphere. Do yourself a favour and get a Sunday lunch here

Stopped on off chance plenty of food Just could have been hotter

Nice independent pub, great atmosphere. Really really good roast dinners on a Sunday! Great place to meet up with friends.

Great pub! Great food, a Hereford legend ✅

Lovely community pub with beer garden

Really nice Sunday lunch, there were 7 of us and one who could not make it, they put up a lovely take away for him. Excellent service.

Arrived for lunch as it was the only pub that still had "Sunday dinners". When seated we noticed 2 women heading in then out the same toilet placed outside with a terriable "sniffy" nose, possibly hayfever?? Quite unusual behaviour. Then we're served semi frozen dinners that were promptly taken back. Back street boozer with a back street mentality.

Lovely pub, great good and friendly staff.

Very friendly staff nice atmosphere an great for kids

Had a lovely sunday lunch here. Friendly. The food was hot.

Great offering big portions. Decent beer and nice service

This is an amazing back street local. It was packed to the rafters when we visited and looking at other reviews, this seems to be the norm. We managed to squeeze on the end of a table and then soaked up the atmosphere. It was clearly the centre of this part of Hereford, everybody seemed to know each other and, I would imagine that they look out for each other too, just what a great local is about. We received friendly service but I bet that would be elevated if we visited regularly, we would then be part of the local banter. So, a locals pub that is happy to welcome strangers, not a difficult concept, but not many get it right. The Volunteer certainly does

Never had a bad meal. Always warm and friendly and they sell stowfords

Very cosy pub, nice open fire thought and the becks bluebeer a bit pricey at the moment four pounds a small bottle

Friendly locals pub. Stopped off on a walk around Hereford. Had Sunday lunch which had good reviews from others - but we were a little disappointed: roasties were overdone and dry, and the fresh veg was rather lacking and a bit tasteless. We both had the lamb which was delicious but cost a few ££'s more.

Lovely welcome, great food and dog friendly

The Volunteer is how a pub should be, staff friendly good atmosphere, nothing better than having drinks in front of good fire when it's cold and wet outside. We will be back.

We had three courses for Sunday lunch. Very nice. Good value. Friendly and helpful staff. Good atmosphere. Parking not good

We had a booking at the Victory, but their cooker was broken (but they hadn’t bothered to ring us!). But their bar maid kindly booked us a table at the Volunteer pub. What a superb lunch. I cannot remember having a better Sunday lunch. Highly recommended - we’ll go back to the Volunteer for sure. Thank you to their team!

Very friendly staff and ever so polite :)

Nice little local do a good Sunday lunch

Great Sunday roast definitely recommend 👌

Great food, great beer value formoney, in a real pub. Consistent performer . You can even watch helicopters across the road.

Great pub, great food, always busy and very popular, even during the week.

The food here is amazing. I'm a fan of the pizzas and sunday roasts

Great sunday Lunch good friendly service

Oh. My. GOD. A backstreet pub has got no business being this good! It was literally on another level. Im gonna properly melt down over this place, so get ready. We went in, me and my wife knowing we wanted a roast, my 2 year old demanding sausages. Got in, sat down, got drinks, I asked if there was a children's menu, they said no, but what did I want? I said sausages they went to go and check if they had them...Turns out they didn't, but then they said we could have basically anything else "What would you like him to have?" Turns out he's about as refined as me and ended up with nuggets, chips and carrots. What can ya do? Me and my wife had Brie wedges to share as a start...bit gutted we didn't order one each, absolutely lush. Then the main? Without doubt the best Sunday dinner I've had in a pub in at least a decade. Enough meat to kill a man, serve yourself veg, great roasties, Yorkie a bit over, but I can live with that. Not the cheapest dinner in Hereford, but by GOD, do you get your moneys worth. See ya next Sunday.

Amazing service from friendly staff, and an exceptional Sunday roast...already looking forward to going back!

Hadn't been here for ages. Just as I remember it. Lovely!

Lovely chilled out place and great Sunday roasts

The Volunteer is a proper back street local - a very rare thing these days. Staff are friendly and welcoming. The food is fairly traditional pub grub but all homemade and exceptionally good value. The beer choice is rather unimaginative, being Wye Valley HPA and Butty Bach, Greene King Abbot and Otter Bitter - in the past they had interesting guest ales - but is well kept and on the one occasion I had an off pint they were quick to change the barrel and replace it. There is also a skittle alley out the back - again an increasingly rare facility these days.

We booked a table and arrived promptly for our reservation time. Staff were friendly and welcoming. We were shown to our table, and our beverages delivered by staff wearing masks and adhering to the social distancing rules. Unfortunately because our lunch date was just before the pub had to lock down for a month, a few of the choices on the menu&beer taps were unavailable or selling out very quickly. We all chose something which appealed to us and it was served fairly quickly. A very enjoyable family lunch was had in this traditional pub, and the service was excellent. The staff told us as we were departing that they were continuing to cook Sunday roasts for people to order and collect and they would even deliver with a courier service to the vulnerable who were not able to get out. I think this is a great service showing support for the folk of the community.

The greatest Sunday dinner in Herefordshire

Enjoyed my Sunday roast with Paul who's a regular. Great service and friendly staff.

Really great home cooked food. Staff are very friendly and accommodating and all the health and safety rules made us feel at ease. Great place.

On arrival at the pub me and my few friends were enjoying a few drinks in there when we noticed the COVID rules no one in this pub is sticking to the rules even the staff it seems to be like they couldn’t care less about it so I will stay away from there

Well controlled, safe atmosphere with excellent cask ales.

Lovely roast and the bar lady is,fabulous

Great food and great atmosphere

Superb home cooked Sunday lunch. Excellent quality and portions.

Gorgeous food. Friendly staff. Fantastic atmosphere. Never had a bad visit.

Comfortable, friendly and welcoming.

Great atmosphere for the rugby!

Excellent atmosphere, very dog friendly and lovely burgers!

Excellent Sunday lunch lots beef lots of veg all for under a tenner 10 out 10

Food lovely. Dog friendly. Friendly staff

Really nice family pub, very welcoming with plenty of room inside and an outside seating area at the back. Good beer and food and child friendly. A great place to spend a Sunday afternoon.

I have loved this place for years...always welcoming and friendly... Lisa and Dwayne are amazing landlords!

Three of us visited for lunch and we all had wonderful meals. The atmosphere was friendly and the food was delicious. It was very dog friendly which meant we could eat inside while it was raining. I would give the "Volly" as it is known locally 10 stars if I could. Well done all.

Nice pub, great atmosphere and run by a lovely family. Good food which is a bonus!

Fabulous pub. A back street undiscovered oasis.

A large group of us held a function here on a Thursday afternoon. Cosy, welcoming, great ambience with an old feel to it, good food/drink. The lady behind the bar was great. Very professional, quick and friendly. The food appeared quickly, considering that we were a party of 10 people. Excellent value throughout. Toilets clean/tidy. Seats/benches are out the back, with a children's play area. Darts/Tv too. We were there for 7 hours. It's one of our favourite venues before heading into the centre of this city.

Lovely food , reasonable prices and a lovely homely atmosphere 😊

Family Friendly and nice beer on draught. There is a little bowling alley shed and park at the back of the beer garden for kids and it keeps them amused. Food is very good value and we will return.

Sunday lunches amazing, you never leave feeling hungry.

Another great little boozer,tucked away in the middle of a load of houses,really good choice of Ales,Wines,Spirits Beers & Ciders..

Proper pub. Didn't have food but good local beer

After a last minute decision for wanting a roast dinne we called up, but as a table of 5 we thought we maybe struggling, thankfully we got a table straight away!! Thank god!1st time coming here, we will defo be back... Food was lovely, atmosphere and staff are so welcoming and friendly...As a vegetarian it was lovely to see a actual vegetarian option on the menu, instead of just been offered a plate of vegetables.. The nut roast was lovely!!! Also got offered veggie gravy wgich was lovely to hear.. Great value for proper home cooked food :)Thank you :)

Been there for Sunday roast with my wife. Delicious food, cosy place, nice staffs...best homemade Yorkshire pudding and roast beef melt in mouth. strongly recommended.

Small but welcoming. Regular Live music. Food is ok & reasonably priced. Parking max of one hour through day, after 6pm free on street if lucky. Play area at end of beer garden needs attention/face-lift.

Traditional British pub, nice atmosphere and very friendly