The White Lion in Cheshire West and Chester

Came for my lunch, had a wonderful meal. service was fantastic, the staff were all very polite and welcoming. Food was quick to arrive and was top quality. We will be back again very soon!!

Was a bit sceptical about coming here after reading the reviews. However it is safe to say they take the negative reviews seriously and have definitely actioned what people were complaining about. Myself and 3 friends had a very good experience, roaring coal fires made it warm and cosy, excellent service from all the staff, and the food arrived in good time, was hot and cooked to perfection. We will definitely return

Been visiting the White Lion for a long time and at one stage was our favourite pub, it was our go to mid week or weekend cosy pub with good home cooked food. Now understandably, things happen and things can’t be perfect all the time however I can say that since around 2019 we have had consistently bad experiences with general service, barely any food available on the menu, wait times for food and food quality. We’ve possibly been once a year now since 2019 and question why we’ve bothered to try it again every time. Tried again this weekend for a Sunday dinner, waste of time, waste of money and felt like nothing but an inconvenience to the staff, unfortunately we felt it was now time for a review. Very sad as it’s a beautiful pub to visit in both winter and summer

Came on a relatively quiet Sunday lunch time. It wasn't that busy. Food took at least 40min to arrive. There was another customer going around asking how long people have been waiting so clearly an issue. When the food did arrive it was pretty cold which was a shame as Sunday lunch (for someones birthday) should be a bit special. Asked if we would like another drink, 25min later still not arrived. Went to cancel them in the end as we had finished eating, not great interaction with the staff as we done so. On payment again a question around why we cancelled the drinks. We asked if short staffed they just said no just very busy. If that was busy I'd hate to see them when more than 50% the tables occupied. Guy taking payment wasn't very polite, slamming the till and looking generally peed off. Shame as been here for drinks plenty of times. Won't eat here again and probably avoid for a bit due to poor customer service/experience.

A group of 20+ meet here today as our usual venue was un available. Went to order food and a drink and was informed that they don’t do pints of soft drinks and a half pint of lemonade cost £3.25 which is £1 more than I pay at any other pub for a pint! I asked for a straw and was told they don’t do straws to ‘save the turtles’ have they not heard of paper ones like the rest of the world? I had leek and potato soup which was nice but there was far too much pepper in it (also commented on by 2 others on my table who also had the soup), it wasn’t very warm when it arrived but the bread was, however the butter was fresh from the fridge and unspreadable. They had 2 party’s of 20 in along with the normal walk in people and they had one person on the bar so you had to queue and wait for 10 mins or more to be served. I went to the ladies and was stood waiting for the hot water to come through when a regular told me I’d be lucky to get any!!!! No hot water to wash your hands with is unacceptable esp if like I do have problems with your hands and can’t wash in cold water if I want my hands to work afterwards. I’ve given a 2 simply because the staff were friendly and it had a good atmosphere I won’t be going back

Came in today first time. Only for a couple of drinks after a lovely walk. First impression lovely homely cozy pub good selection of draught beverages. The young lad dark hair on duty was a credit to you very professional approachable and welcoming. Unfortunately however I was stood in the queue my turn to be served and another gentleman big fella checkered shirt noticed I was in the line but proceeded to serve two other customers ahead of myself despite clearly seeing I was next to be served. I found his attitude quite abrupt passive and obnoxious which is a shame as you have a lovely pub.

Great country pub with great service and food to match

Always a great meal here, Christmas Eve this year very busy after church service, but staff as always made sure we were served promptly with drinks, food ordered and out in good time and very tasty. Staff always very friendly, and welcoming and take time to have a chat making the experience more personal and inviting. 7 of us dined and all gave 5* for food, quality, environment & service. Well worth a visit. Recent visit Absolutely impecible food and service from Rob and his team on Monday for a double celebration of a 40th birthday and an adoption day celebration, 40 of us were there for dinner…. And every single meal, and delivery of food was perfect! Not a single complaint. 54 items ordered from the menu, and they didn’t even break a sweat! Handled the service so well. Highly recommended! Thank you for looking after us all so well. See you soon.

Really nice Robinson's pub. Food was great and we were really well accommodated even though they already had a party of 30+ people. Also had Heineken 0° on draught which was a bonus. Will definitely go back.

Great local pub with great beer garden

Nice pub. Good food and good selection of drinks.

Love this place. Local to us and everything you want from a local pub. Great food, drinks and setting.

Disappointing visit. Cold pub, nearly empty, pie burnt around edges, snail trails across carpet. What has happened to this once thriving pub?

Lovely chilled pub with excellent Sunday dinner

Disappointing! I ordered Greek chicken skewers for a starter. I was told they had run out of Tzaziki, so would substitute with Garlic mayonnaise, which I was ok with, but I was shocked when presented with a couple of cocktail sticks with a small chunk of chicken on them and the salad that accompanied it was brown! Overpriced and underwhelmed!

Roast dinner was soooo small ....no Yorkshire pudding because they ran out 🤔my husband had 2 slices of meat .....not worth the money......so disappointing

Amazing place to eat food was lovely cooked to perfection, staff nice and friendly, reasonably priced

Always been a favourite of mine this pub. Been in tonight and had a lovely meal as always. Nice beer garden, good service and cozy pub

Dined at the white lion this evening, food was ok, service was friendly, particularly from the two ladies. I was somewhat alarmed to see the man that was working sharing the tips from the glass on the bar, but not completely giving them to the staff. I observed him share part of the them(including his share that was put in his pocket) , then toss the coins that were left into the till, which looked like a couple of quid. Don’t think I’ll return to this venue if this is where the manager thinks a share of the tips should go! Think twice about tipping here!!

We always visit here when staying in the area at Lady Hayes. Cannot say a bad word. Great service even better food. Lovely location. We never feel rushed

Meal booked for a birthday, staff not interested in taking our orders, food took an hour to come out and was so hungry just ate it not impressed 8 chips half a carrot and a dessert spoon of green cabbage and a slice of cheese pie which should have been on the menu as potato pie, no taste of cheese, person came to ask if all was well completely ignored our end of the table and on eventually clearing plates I said the meal wasn’t good but ate it as I was hungry this was met with heckles raised and swiping of plates from customers next to me, we were a party of twelve and I wasn’t the only disappointed but I chose to speak up, best was yet to come when desserts came I had the waffle which was very nice one of our party ordered the apricot dessert ate half and then found to her horror a grub/maggot (we all have photos)in her dessert, on reporting this we were told the desserts are bought in and this wasn’t anything to do with them , shocking was there an apology don’t think so after spending over £250 there not happy with them staff very poor lady that was waiting on clearly didn’t want to be there rude and the manager was also rude , wasn’t even busy so no excuses for bad service not worth the drive out .

Visited tonight - ordered chilli with rice and steak & chips. Not one kidney bean in the chilli contra to what menu stated- were told by waitress the kitchen had run out of them, and we asked why no one said anything when we ordered - she said she would report to General Manager . He then came out of the kitchen & said they batch cook the chilli & would’ve just got a portion out- the batch had kidney beans in - when asked why the chef hadn’t checked the fact that there were no beans he didn’t reply. We asked for money off - he openly shook his head at us, and we queried why he was doing this, but he just didn’t answer us, which was extremely rude. He took the price of the chilli off our bill with him completely silent. Obviously they must have kidney beans there - or have they??? Won’t be going again.

Dog Friendly, attentive service and great Steak Pie. Along with lovely wine and beer what more do you need? We will certainly come again when staying in the area.

An excellent place to eat fantastic menu and all home cooked fresh amazing value for money and service is first class fifth time we've been this year and never disappointed excellent selection of cask beers as well

It took 20 minutes from entering the restaurant for our order to be taken after 3 waiting staff just walked by us. We where clearly waiting as we had been acknowledged by a young man serving. Staff slow not on the ball and will not return. They weren't even busy and we felt ignored. Sunday roast not the best a bit bland. Not very tasty.

What a place! Food amazing! Service amazing! Rob the general manager is a great host. All the wait staff are super friendly! The best quiz I've been to as well!!

Nice place to go for food & drinks .lots of room in side . & out side. Food is nice .and & well presented. Staff are helpful and professional will call again soon thanks

Service and atmosphere were excellent and all the food was really good except mine. I had the Moroccan style couscous with roast vegetables but it was no more Moroccan than I was and not a sign of roasted vegetables. Infact it tasted like a packet couscous Which for £11 was not worth the price. I have couscous on a regular basis especially from Aldi which is amazing. I didn't speak up about it as it was my father in law's birthday. You really need to re look at this as very disappointing

We held my mother in laws wake here on Thursday 27th June. Great communication and service from Rob the manager. Very competitively priced at £13 per head for the set buffet menu. Lots of lovely food and a gluten free option as well. The Garden Room was a lovely atmosphere. Glad we chose this venue to see my mother in law off in style.

First time we'd visited but had an excellent meal, in very pleasant surroundings with efficient and polite staff. Will definitely visit again.

Nice pub not to far from our accommodation. Most meals were fine just a couple the chicken was a bit dry. Great beer garden as well. Staff very friendly as well.

First of all it is fly 🪰 infested. Then the staff was not to be seen then the fish was very fishy bit smelly presnation was ok .but it felt like we was rushed and in there way because they was more bothered about quiz night rather than paying customers sorry won't be returning disappointed.

Top quality food and drink.The desserts are lovely.The Sunday lunch is a nice big size and the Steak and Ale pie is unreal! They have good gluten free options.Staff are nice and friendly.

Lovely food but the meat was a bit chewy

Lovely surroundings.Waited 90 minutes for starter!!! Party of six ladies. Two had a starter , stacked black pudding was delicious. Two had fish and chips, lovely, one had chicken pasta, lovely, one had steak pie but meat was not nice, very tough( overcooked as pastry very brown ?)and I had chilli beef .This was dreadful .Very runny and tasted of minced beef not chilli.Rice was unseasoned and hard and cold. Very disappointing.Desserts were quite nice.( variable).Since going a friend said she went last Saturday and had the chilli which was AWFUL.Would go again but would be careful what I chose.Also no salads on the menu which is quite remiss.

£18 for two courses the food was not good nice place but not how I remember it!

Great lunch time meal , served by Sophie.. who couldn’t do enough for us .. Will come again xx

Best Sunday roast I've had in a long while. Highly recommended 👍🏻

Beautiful place. Dog friendly. Good food. A place you must visit

Compared to previous visits, the food was on the average side. For a Sunday evening, very quiet. Service was good.

We've been to the White Lion many times over the last 30 years and had some amazing meals here, sadly this was not one of them. First off there was no staff about when we walked in so we stood for a while thenwandered to look for a table when suddenly someone appeared and told us to sit anywhere rather abruptly. There only being 4 other people in at the time, it wasn't hard to find somewhere. This lack of customers should have warned us. Our order was taken but took an inordinately long time to come out, with the pub being so empty this was surprising. Four of us had the roast, the lamb was good but the vegetables, broccoli, cauliflower and cabbage , no carrots at all which is very odd, were disappointing as 3 of us don't like any of them, so we were stuck with lamb, very hard roast potatoes, oddly glutinous gravy, a Yorkshire pud and some invisible mash, so not at all the glorious roast dinner it should have been . We also had the the scampi, it was deemed 'only OK' so not great. The Macaroni and Cheese was so dry my Mum could only manage half of it and I don't think she enjoyed any of it. The garlic bread that came with it was nice though. The puddings, Cherry pie - flat, very little filling, also the same said of the apple pie. Two of us had waffles but don't like chocolate sauce so asked for toffee but got told no so just had a weirdly damp, flat waffle with some ice cream plonked on the top. The Wet Nelly didn't have a lot of 'Nelly' (raisins ) in it and was drowning in custard to the point it covered the top of it ,along it waterlogged and not just wet! We came away very disappointed in the whole experience and won't be back.

Only popped in for drinks. Sadly it was quiet in there. But it's a fab pub and the menu looked good so we will be returning soon.

We enjoyed our lovely meals at The White Lion. The small fish and chips was just right and the Garlic chicken was very tasty! Compliments to the Chef! Rob, Charmaine, Jo and Kirstie make us very welcome when we visit and are an asset to this pub. We did notice the flies in the pub but this obviously isnt the pubs fault just the time of year in the countryside! They are a pain but I wouldnt consider downmarking you as I know these flies are causing problems in the neighbourhood. Thank you for our fab visit! We will definitely be back!

We tried to enjoy our lunch but we were unable to due to 3 flies constantly flying around us. I can understand if we were sat in the beer garden but definitely not acceptable whilst dining inside, the staff were aware of the fly issue but chose to ignore it.

Used to be a favourite but no more. Slow service, flies buzzing around the dining area, and average food. We waited over an hour for food and in the end decided it wasn’t worth waiting for dessert, so paid and left (having asked twice for the bill).

Very hard to find a excellent venue for Sunday lunch. I've been to the white for Sunday lunch before and unfortunately I do have to say it was appalling. The meat was that tough it asked me outside for a fight .bearing mind it was over 2 years ago . Had Sunday lunch in March 2024 and a big well done to rob and his team .always nice to get a warm welcome by staff . Especially by jo and Emily. So glad to see me local getting very busy .

Very nice food. Great pub with a very very big beer garden

Flies everywhere!!!! Myself including other customers complained about the flies and was told that it was because the farmer/farmers has sprayed there field. Had to cover drinks and side order of food with napkins. Explained to one of the servers that covering food with napkins isn’t acceptable because of the flies, she became agitated and asked what would I like her today??? What a reply. I responded saying as a customer I should be able to eat my food without covering it because of the fly problem. Her response to that was that she would take one of the side orders off, then went on to tell customers in the bar area and a workmen on site what I had just said at the table. How unprofessional. In my opinion the restaurant/ food should not of been served that day, and food not served till the fly problem was dealt with.

Went for mother's day , 6 of us so we had a good selection of different food and all was good.

Really good food but can be busy which results in a long wait for your food. Certainly worth the wait though as it's excellent value for money.

We’ve been using the White Lion for over 10 years & it has had some difficult times through & post COVID … today we had Sunday lunch & it was excellent, the service was equally as good, so it’s fair to say that with the White Lion’s food back to its best & so with it the pub itself.

Lovely country pub! Very friendly Aussie served me today, chattering about dogs and runs. Lovely girl 🙂. Lovely Pub and Lovely Food 10/10 👍🏻

Very welcoming and food excellent.

Great food, 4 of us 3 x curry which was fantastic, 1 x vegetarian curry and again really tasty, 1 x rump steak cooked to perfection 😬👍. 3 kids on there own table who loved there meals & desert's 😬👍. Service was brilliant thank you Rob & the team 🙏

Great atmosphere and great food

Waited over an hour before our order was taken and another 40 mins before being served. My mac and cheese had no source and the garlic bread had no crisp. The salad was oily with no vinaigrette. My wife and our two friends also had issues with the food but the wait was the worse thing. It took forever with no apology or explanation and it was my wife's birthday! Terrible!

Oh dear, the last time we were here it was lovely, I had the Penne Pasta, delicious. However, last night 2 Cheese, Onion and Potato pies were ordered, it should have said Potato, Onion and Cheese. There was so little cheese in it you couldn't taste it, with huge slices of Potato. The other dishes were OK. I know the price of food has risen steeply, but it would be so much better to raise the price slightly and do a good job. This pub is part of a chain of 5 or 6 and all their menus are virtually the same which is a shame because it becomes very boring, unfortunately this pub is the worst. The Hanging Gate at Weaverham is definitely the best. However, the chips and veg were nice and the food hot and staff very friendly but it'll be a long time before we return.

Great pub lunch back on form again. Great for Sunday lunch, particularly liked the Cheese and Onion pie. You need to allocate a couple of hours though as the service is slow. Not happy with ordering coffee and dessert and the coffee arrives and when we had finished it the dessert arrived. When mentioned at the bar when paying I was told I should have specified the order. 🤨

Visited last weekend for a birthday meal. Food was lovely we had preorder the roast lamb and they ran out of roast potatoes. Great service friendly welcoming.

Second disappointing visit here. We came several months ago and were left feeling a little underwhelmed, so thought we’d give the place a 2nd chance. Sadly, they failed to change our opinion. After checking in and asking for a drink at the bar, ( to be advised our drinks order would be taken at the table) , we waited 25 minutes with no sign of any member of the team taking a drinks order ( and if honest, it looked like we weren’t the only table ‘left out to dry’ unfortunately. In our view the sister pub - The Netherton Hall fairs better

Had a beautiful cottage pie for lunch today. 10/10 thanks chef 👍

Awful experience. Waited 10 minutes to take our drinks order, then another 10 minutes for our drinks to arrive. When our food order was taken we had to wait 40 minutes for our starters to come out. We had been sat nearly two hours before our mains came out. Food was greasy, oily and bland. As a waitress myself i’m disappointed in the organisation of this establishment. Service was lovely.

Christmas eve with family. The food was well above expectations and so was our waitress eve. I have noticed the food is amazing when charmaine in the kitchen. We have some big events ahead for my family this year and as a regular we all agree as it's such a suburb location with an amazing warm welcome we will be sure to be at the white lion alvenly.

Great little pub good food and service

Surprisingly nice pub. From the outside it's not up to much but it's very nice and cosy inside. Good food and friendly staff but service was very slow, due to it being busy and short staffed. Certainly worth a visit if you are in the area.

We had an enjoyable lunch with family members at The White Lion. All the food was very good, especially the Fish and Chips. The staff were very nice, my only criticism was the pub wasn’t very warm.

Tbh I don’t like to give a bad review but.. I have to say I won’t be returning here. The white lion years ago was one of its kind, very popular with the Cheshire set. My partner and I went here today for a set 2 course traditional Xmas lunch. It was disappointing. Nothing bad to say about the staff, they were really good, friendly and helpful. Sadly the pub is now producing run of the mill chain pub food. Nothing home cooked and the xmas dinner we had was eatable but something you could get in a Wetherspoons. Years ago on their blackboard was a choice of fabulous home cooked food, not any more. The setting is perfect, the staff are lovely but sadly this place has gone downhill. The place was nearly empty, years ago it was full to busting. I asked the waitress why so empty? She answered people feeling the money pinch. Sorry guys, this isn’t the case. People have stopped going because of the standard run of the mill pub chain food. They need to get their act together and make it like it used to be. Even if the prices rise…. You get what you pay for.

Very nice food and friendly staff, had a great time

Nice friendly and not too pricey considering where it is

Such a lovely pub. Think it's charged hands so a little quiet. But I can't fault the staff. Food was excellent and they couldn't do enough. On such a last minute visit. Perfect food and drink and Rral open fires what more can you ask. Dog welcome in Bar area

What a great night we had, all 22 of us from the 22nd Cheshire Regiment Veterans Christmas Meal. Food, Service and staff were great. We would all like to thank The White Lion Alvanley for a great night.

The food was ok but was served on freezing cold plates. All six of our meals were sent back to get warm plates, but some of the food wasn’t improved by this process. I asked for cherry pie to warm me up but that arrived cold on a freezing plate. The haddock was lovely. The service again, was ok, but I was sat for thirty minutes before I was asked for my order. A drink on arrival on a freezing cold day would have been lovely. The atmosphere was bleak and cold. We had to ask if anything could be done to warm us up, by putting more logs on the fire. This was done but we were still isolated in the coldest part of the building.

Amazed to read recent reviews, unless the staff have taken such negative comments on board. Our experience was excellent. Staff attentive, food and surroundings excellent. Would highly recommend and wouldn't hesitate in returning again.

Food was nice staff were really friendly but only gave three stars as their bonfire fireworks were abysmal.

What has happened poor service some food undercooked but still charging good food prices could have had just as good at beefeater so disappointed

Maybe an off-day, as we have previously had several nice meals here. We met family for Sunday lunch but our food was lukewarm and tasteless, the room was cold, and the staff didn’t seem happy.

Visited again recently and loved the new menu. We can definitely recommend. Jo and Bexs where really welcoming and definitely a credit to the place. Given it was busy the service was great.

Some food was cold and what we pre ordered as a large group wasn't available so was pointless pre ordering.

Pity there isnt a zero star option as this place was awful. For a start the service was terribly slow. But when the the food finally appeared it was apallingly bad. Not one person at our table actually managed to finish their meal. In some of the dishes the pie was stone cold and had to be sent back and others had cold vegetables which were also returned. The batter on the fish was like a rock overcoat and when one person finally managed to break through there was hardly any fish inside. Also the chips were lukewarm at best. Not sure who was in the kitchen and had the audacity to send out such rubbishy food but certainly couldnt have been a chef with much in the way of cooking skills.

Great traditional bar area with roaring fires. Perfect place for a lunch on a rainy day 😁

We enjoyed a very tasty Sunday lunch. We both had prawn cocktail and then a small roast each. There was plenty to eat. The roast came with leeks, broccoli, green beans, carrots, mashed potatoes, roast potatoes and Yorkshires. We had one side of pigs in blanket extra. Our food was hot and tasty and the restaurant was clean and attractive. The staff were attentive. Thank you.

Wonderful place to relax and eat. The quality of the food is very high and is excellent value for money. Highly recommended.

Haven't been for a while we were not disappointed lovely.

Great pub with friendly staff. Live music night on the last Friday of the month was fantastic. The whole place was bouncing. Highly recommended.

First time visitor to the White Lion. What a lovely place to spend time. Ate late afternoon on a weekday evening. Food was great. I'm no foodie so I'm not going to deconstruct the menu. Everyone at our table was more than satisfied and every plate was devoured. We'll be back soon. Thoroughly enjoyed it.

Called for Sunday roast and was disappointed. The wait at the bar to ask for a table took a while, there were no prices for the roast dinners. Once meals had been ordered, food arrived in a reasonable time but no cutlery. No one came to clear away our plates and asked us how our meal was at any point during our visit. The vegetables and roast potatoes were too hard to cut and eat. Waited at the bar to say how our meal was and waited another 15 minutes and there was only a young girl to offer the feedback to. We won't be going again.

14 September:- Called in for lunch mid afternoon as we have done a number of times. Our chosen starter sharing seafood platter was fine, our main course of fish pie was only average with quite gluten mash potato, my main of chicken ham and leek crumble was not overly tasty and not very crumbly atall We had the distinct feeling that our meal at this visit was really an example of what is happening at many locations, the is a reduction in quality and portions in order to make up for more than any increase in basic costs, and that is lost revenue. The service we experienced was poor in comparison to previous visits, with a young girl waitress in need of proper customer service training. Although our sharing platter was fine, her attitude when she brought it to the table was in an abrupt and cold manner, ' who's is this' only. She also thought nothing of abruptly interupting a private conversation with haste when delivering our mains. I did not say anything at the time because there was no need or wish for us to expect any replacement food, and we do not want to create a possible bad atmosphere, possibly leading to further marring the visit. We will, of course be back at some point to check if today was an unfortunate hiccup, but remembering today hoping the White Lion has not joined other establishments in making customers think twice. As part of this review I will not make any positive recommendations.

Nice place with large terraces and grassed area very close to Helsby/Frodsham. I must say the lower star rating was for time waiting to be served for food and drinks at the bar due to it being a busy evening and one person behind the bar. Service from staff was excellent once served. We ordered gammon/eggs and a steak. Gammon was very nice, steak average, frozen chips. Good selection of lagers and cask/keg ales. Would return as it has a nice interior and spacious gardens to dine in or enjoy a sunny afternoon/evening. Menu has many options for all diets.

Wow! What a jewel of a pub to find! We had spent the morning in Delamere Forest and then googled the nearby pubs for a late lunch. This was about 15 mins away and looked the most appealing. We weren’t wrong! It’s an absolutely beautiful pub restaurant in a gorgeous location. We were made so welcome as soon as we walked in the door. You can choose to eat in the bar area or go in to the restaurant part for table service, which we did. There are lots of tables so sit at, all beautiful. The menu is extensive and everything is freshly cooked to order. We were so impressed with our choices. The portions were big, so we weren’t able to squeeze in one of the lovely sounding desserts today but did have a very good coffee after. Melena was looking after us and she was very attentive, friendly and absolutely fantastic. So much so that I asked her name. What an absolutely fantastic experience! We will definitely be coming back when we visit the forest again.

Nice food good selection of drinks pleasant staff

Beautiful pub and restaurant. In a party of 6. Some of the food was lovely but some wasn't so great. In two minds whether to eat there again

Went to the whitelion for our anniversary meal on Sunday had the most beautiful roast dinner and my husband had a steak burger which was amazing welldone to the chefs and the staff serving were so lovely and welcoming and nothing was to much trouble we enjoyed it so much we returned again 3 days later to celebrate my daughters birthday and once again amazing food and service thankyou x

We have always loved the food at the White Lion, we have visited numerous times over the past 5-6 years. Unfortunately we went on Thursday last week and found the Specials Board has gone (which we loved) and the menu has changed in line with the Netherton, however the Cajun Chicken Burger with Chorizo (which is fantastic at the Nertherton) was disappointing, for some reason they have decided to cover it in a thick greasy batter, it was bland and only had 1 slice of Chorizo - why isn't it done the same way as the Netherton? Chicken breast in tasty Cajun seasoninh with 2 slices of Chorizo? My mum ordered the Chicken, Chorizo and leek crumble/pie it was like a bland soup that just tasted of celery.. Honestly tasted like a childrens home economics attempt. We left really disappointed as the food used to be superb, not sure if it's the management or a new chef or both but I think they'll be losing custom quick unless the quality of food and menu options are improved/revert to previous great standards.

Portions quite small now. Not as good as it used to be. Prices average. ..... One year on and the decline continues 😏 Decor ok, staff lovely. Ordered chicken, leek and chorizo crumble with "seasonal vegetables" .... A picture paints a thousand words....

First visit to the White Lion with friends who had been before and recommended it. I was not impressed. The house curry tasted like a spiced up version of tinned, chopped tomatoes , same consistancy too, the tofu was not battered but appeared to have been diced and just added to the sauce and no poppadom. My husbands salmon was submerged under a cover of cabbage, no asparagus spears as listed on the menu. All in all, no reason for a return visit. Friends had the gammon with no complaints.

Very nice place to visit, lovely country pub & the food & staff were fantastic, will definitely be visiting again

Good food after a day's walking

We were visiting from the US and couldn't find any kitchens open locally on a Monday night. The White Lion beckoned, and we were so glad that it did! Fabulous food, drink, staff & atmosphere. Couldn't recommend more highly!

Been here a few times for Sunday lunch and food has been great. Knocked a star off because chef needs to learn how to make crispy roast potatoes. They are always a little soggy and bland.

A lovely dog friendly pub with a good selection of ales on tap. We had some food which was Great! The bar staff couldn't have been more helpful. Will defiantly be going again.