The best restaurants in Lichfield West Midlands

Bit of weird one. I used to come here all the time. But it has been a few months since my last visit, I came here with my husband for a little date, the service was good, and our waitress was sooo lovely !! Couldnt fault her at all and was so helpful. My Husband ordered a Venison burger. He said it wasn't great, and even I was shocked on the portion of his fries. There was barely any on his plate, lol. But we brushed it off maybe it looked small portion because the plates are humongous, lol. However, when the people next to us got their order, it was a hell lot more generous size of chips. So we just brushed it off and he said oh well more room for desert lol. My steak was cooked very nice, however it came with the thicker chips, that was so undercooked it really ruined the meal, yes I ate most of them as I was starving, but my husband fries were cooked lovely, ( just not alot of them) but mine were awful, the neighbour looked at mine and said they look like they could break the windows, his words not mine haha. Also they forgot the add on to the steak which is a flat mushroom, however this was taken off the bill. We finally got to the deserts, we both ordered a salted carmal sundae, this was really nice and we both enjoyed it, however .... there wasn't any salted caramel!!! Or if there was we couldn't taste it, or again we're we unlucky and had 2 without them lol. But it was still nice without it so we didn't really mind :). Also when we arrived alot of things on the menu, we not available and we heard throughout our time there more and more items were out of stock, Maybe we caught them on an off day, as I havnt had a bad meal from them before and I've been going to them on and off for 25 years lol. The service was still really good though, the blonde waitress went above and beyond !!. Just didn't feel this time we didn't get our £70 worth.

Bit of weird one. I used to come here all the time. But it has been a few months since my last visit, I came here with my husband for a little date, the service was good, and our waitress was sooo lovely !! Couldnt fault her at all and was so helpful. My Husband ordered a Venison burger. He said it wasn't great, and even I was shocked on the portion of his fries. There was barely any on his plate, lol. But we brushed it off maybe it looked small portion because the plates are humongous, lol. However, when the people next to us got their order, it was a hell lot more generous size of chips. So we just brushed it off and he said oh well more room for desert lol. My steak was cooked very nice, however it came with the thicker chips, that was so undercooked it really ruined the meal, yes I ate most of them as I was starving, but my husband fries were cooked lovely, ( just not alot of them) but mine were awful, the neighbour looked at mine and said they look like they could break the windows, his words not mine haha. Also they forgot the add on to the steak which is a flat mushroom, however this was taken off the bill. We finally got to the deserts, we both ordered a salted carmal sundae, this was really nice and we both enjoyed it, however .... there wasn't any salted caramel!!! Or if there was we couldn't taste it, or again we're we unlucky and had 2 without them lol. But it was still nice without it so we didn't really mind :). Also when we arrived alot of things on the menu, we not available and we heard throughout our time there more and more items were out of stock, Maybe we caught them on an off day, as I havnt had a bad meal from them before and I've been going to them on and off for 25 years lol. The service was still really good though, the blonde waitress went above and beyond !!. Just didn't feel this time we didn't get our £70 worth.

My friend and I visited on a Friday evening. The restaurant was not overly busy, but the bar area was. We were seated at the bottom end of the restaurant - which unfortunately was freezing. I shivered throughout the whole meal. We had a main meal and a desert - both of which were lovely and very tasty Towards the end of our meal, we had to wait 20 minutes from placing the order for our desserts until they actually arrived (the restaurant was nearly empty by this stage at 8.15pm). We asked for our bill, but after 15 minutes the waiting staff still hadn’t brought it, so we went to the bar to pay - as there were 5 staff standing there chatting. The food was lovely and tasty, but unfortunately the waiting staff let it down on the service, as well as the freezing cold temperature of the bottom of the restaurant.

It’s a shame that what was a really good (if on the pricey side) restaurant with great steaks and superb fish dishes to mention some of the dishes, is now a very average Indian restaurant. Saturday night and we were dining alone. Staff were good chicken was well cooked and moist but overwhelming flavour of my dish was oil with a bitter after taste! Lichfield has some really good Indian restaurants with a much better choice of dishes and I can’t see this one lasting long once people realise it’s no longer McKenzies. It’s actually now called Heritage bar and grill but website has not been updated from McKenzies time.

Had lunch here today ,had the cottage pie croquettes, both had the light lunch menu and Shared a pudding, all food was delicious hot and beautifully prepared, thank you Keiler and Steve for looking after us today ,Already looking forward to our next visit.

Thank you to Ian and team, who went above and beyond to help with my special request to surprise someone. Although it proved challenging and went a little wrong :/ you really did go the extra miles and this was very much appreciated. We were deeply touched by your care. Thank you again.

lovely food, really tasty and hot. another great meal.

Great place with a fabulous atmosphere. Always very popular. (Over 21s only)

They squeezed us 4 in for the Saturday night at short notice, and were great to us. Service impeccable. I was particularly impressed with the allergies knowledge. The food was terrific too.

First visit and wasn't disappointed. Food good, service excellent. Not the cheapest, but value for money. Excellent atmosphere and will definitely return.

Managers were rude, staff looked miserable. Food was cold and atmosphere was dead do not recommend especially for the price!!

Lovely pub and the staff provided excellent customer service throughout our visit. The food was lovely and was not disappointed on my first visit

We stopped with our Motorhome. Great space in the overflow carpark for us. Had dinner for two consecutive nights. The food was good tasty pub food. The roast dinner on the Sunday was superb. Fancy parsnip curls as well. Enjoyable. The service has been second to none and highly recommend. Great sight as well for lovely canal walks. Very dog friendly pub.

Traditional pub food , good service.

another over rated restaurant service is good atmosphere is good hygiene looks good taste of good … something they should really pay attention to … naan (bread) basket is the only acceptable dish we ordered … chicken biryani, I read that many commented rice so soft & great … but this is like mushy & overall biryani rice taste simply not there (i think most other “ordinary” biryani seller do better than this Paneer tikka, no comment just dissapointed Methi chicken masala, ordered this so we can dip gravy for our bread … super heavy and super rich dish, I mean super super heavy, as if chef has put 5x spices required to cook this dish (we feel our stomach so stuffed the rest of the day, that’s bad) After our order placed, waitress recommend Papaddom (just 3 pieces) to eat together with biryani we ordered - best part is “after” accepted this “recommendation”, she commented to us that we must be hungry (obviously we ordered too much, then why not telling us, also pushed another dish to us?) Mango lassi we normally love to order, too thick and rich to finish … Maybe they pay all attention to services, atmosphere and everything, but … they forgotten they suppose to serve nice dishes?!? Because all this, this is super expensive & totally not worth the money … first and last visit for us 😅