The best restaurants in East Staffordshire West Midlands

Located on the main Lichfield to Ashbourne road, the main bar at the Swan remains a traditional, largely unspoilt place to come and enjoy a convivial drink. Lovers of real unspoilt pubs will, no doubt, enjoy this space. The back section of the pub is somewhat more modernised and is focused mainly on food sales. The food here is very good, and reasonably priced too. There is an extensive menu, nothing over-ambitious, but the house speciality is the homemade pies - and excellent they are too. These are 'proper pies' - by that I mean they are fully encased in pastry (not just in a dish with a pastry lid), and there is a good selection available ranging from traditional pies such as Steak & Kidney to some more unusual choices. I opted for the aforementioned Steak & Kidney, a personal favourite, once the staple of all pub food menus but now becoming increasingly rare - and an excellent choice it proved to be. Pies come with mash or chips, a selection of fresh vegetables plus a jug of gravy. The one small negative about this pub is the selection of ales - Bass or Tribute at the time of our visit. I would like to have seen at least one ale from a small independent Local brewery on the bar. There is a small farm shop, mainly selling meat and meat products, adjacent to the pub.

Went to bilash after row with current partner. Took our own carling and villa maria private bin. Food was good. Staff were nice. Not rowing (rowing that is not rowing) afterwards. What can you say.

Being back in Burton for another pub crawl we thought we would look this place up again for probably the last time as it is due to close at the end of October in an act of complete vandalism by Molson Coors, showing a total lack of respect for brewing history by planning to redevelop the site for offices. Have these people no morals or respect? Clearly not. As for the tap room and restaurant itself, it’s a fairly sterile corporate affair but at least the hanging pub signs in the restaurant section does try and give it a bit of character. And in my experience the bar staff serving behind the bar have always given the impression that they are suffering for their profession and would rather be somewhere else. Although cannot comment on the food as we have never eaten here and again were only here for the tap bar bit, but can certainly pass judgement on the ale and in that respect the beer was very good, but then you would expect it to be as it is the official tap bar for the Heritage Brewery, embedded in the National Brewery Centre next door, and they don’t have to travel very far. The Tap bar has six hand pumps and for our visit these were dispensing the Heritage Brewery Masterpiece IPA, Heritage Gold, Charrington IPA and Oatmeal Stout as well as Draught Bass and Elgood black dog on as a guest. I went for the Oatmeal Stout. It is not one of the best tap rooms I have ever visited, but it is probably one of the most famous, so I will be very sad to see it go, if this act of vandalism is allowed to proceed by the local council and the local MP. If it is then the very soul of Burton on Trent will go with it.

The title says it all - the best fish & chips in town. Can be busy sometimes, so can end up waiting a while, but it's worth it! The best fish & chips in town hands down!

Looks a lovely pub from the outside. Once inside very rude staff and bad attitude .Walked straight out

The Beacon Hotel was selected as the venue for my mothers 90th birthay family meal. We had a party of 30, mainly adults but also some young children and a couple of infants. We pre booked it to go on a Sunday afternoon to take advantage of the carvery. Everything went extremely well. We met for pre drinks then were led to a room which had been prepared for us with several tables waiting for us. Most of us went for the carvery. The food was very very enjoyable. The atmosphere was very relaxed. The staff were great and couldn't do enough for us. Thank you to all the staff.

This is an Indian/ Bangladeshi restaurant serving fabulous food, great menu, we opted for popadoms for 2, Sheek kebab starter + tandoori king prawns (to die for) main course, Bombay dreams and traditional chicken madras, pilau rice and roti, wide choice of alcohol or non alcoholic drinks, exceptional service. Good value for money!!! Highly recommend.

Very poor meal, Ham salad looked like someone put a bag of lettuce from the supermarket and a bit of very cheap ham. Bread roll inedible. When I mentioned to server, got a blank look and “do you want another roll” No I wanted a decent ham salad. Clearly no qualified chef or staff with any responsibility. Don’t bother eating here. Waste of money.

I ordered food from this “restaurant” and was underwhelmed food was honestly awful greasy food.. and some of which inedible

We booked earlier in the week, but somehow they couldn't find the booking. Nevertheless, they did find us a table. Food was average to good, but small portions compared to other Indian restaurants. They presented us with the bill after the main course which was very strange and said they were very busy. They obviously wanted the table asap and had people waiting for it. We asked for the desert menu and did get a desert and then left. Felt that we were being hurried!

Again to be clear. The serving team does a very good job. Attentive and Professional. Always it's clean. Range is very limited, poorly thought out Junk food menus. Could and should do so much better. Plastic cholesterol junk food. Any motorway cafe across Europe does so much better. Rail stations too. Equipment forever breaks down. Poor preventive maintenance. Poor planning. Poor group management. Uttoxeter Store staff are good, doing a great job. Let down by Cowboy Group Management and lack of support. Good Staff leave. Some healthier foods, and better equipment preventive maintenance getting a grip? Store team 5 stars. Costa 2. Costa needs to really up its game. Cowboy outfit. It should be so much better. Get a Chef review, what is possible? Could sell more and be more. Costa lot for not a lot. Costa innovate for God's sake. Support the stores. Look at the competition. Are you mentally wrapped in Missionary opposition? At least try face up. Could be so much better.

The first time I had the sweet retreat experience I was relaxing in the bath when my truly perfect current partner brought me some treats back. After a hard day painting the bathroom ceiling I was treated to a Cents Me Shake and decadent Chocolate Sundae. Both were even better whilst watching the England Euro Finals Match. Had 2 more deliveries since courtesy of the lady in my life.

We visited Willows (previously Tutbury Tearooms) for lunch. There was a good selection of meals, snacks and drinks on the menu, although there didn’t seem to be a children’s menu. The cafe was comfortable and nicely decorated. The food was nice, but very expensive. £9.75 for a jacket potato with cheese (plus £1.50 for each additional topping) is far too much!!! My son had two potato waffles with grated cheese and baked beans, which cost £9.99!!! We left feeling negative due to this and are unlikely to return.

Fantastic to have this cinema showing National Theatre productions so local.Warm reception great selection of drinks and free water available

Paid for the Mother’s Day special, spend £50 get £50 voucher, and let’s just say you need it! Food is OK but how can a restaurant on the A38 charge Birmingham City centre prices. Starts expensive and main £26-£30 I go to top restaurants in Birmingham for this sort of money. To top it all I regularly buy take aways and have been let down big time with late delivery with lame excuses never again!!!!