The best restaurants serving British food in Leek East Staffordshire Moorlands West Midlands

We used to eat at this pub before it closed and was sold, so we were expecting similar high standards from the new owners - but we were disappointed. Saturday evening was busy, with the staff being fully occupied. Starters were good (ham hock and goats cheese) but the ribeye steaks were poor quality meat and were very under-cooked (had to send both of them back for a second spell on the grill). The chips were unusual, like mashed potato inside a crispy coating. Anyway, at £150 for four people, I didn't think it was good value for money.

We were staying over in Leek on a Sunday evening, wanting to sample some Staffordshire oatcakes the following morning, but the oatcake shop we wanted was closed on Monday! Poor planning. But luckily this place was open at 7.30 am and we found what we wanted here: oatcakes with various fillings such as bacon or tomato; all with cheese. If you've not tried them, Staffordshire oatcakes are very different to the Scottish biscuit that most people associate with 'oatcakes'. Here, they are a soft, flexible wrapper like a pancake, or perhaps a chapatti, made from a thin layer of a yeasted oatmeal/wheat batter griddled until it sets, then wrapped around your chosen filling. We took a pair of oatcakes with cheese and bacon, and a full English of 2 eggs, 2-3 bacon, 2 sausages, 2 toast, beans and tomatoes, plus extra hash browns. This was all in a takeaway tray - there is no table service here. It took about 10 minutes, which is fair enough as everything is cooked to order; but we were the only customers at that time. I imagine at busy times there could be quite a wait. The food was excellent, piping hot as you'd expect with it being cooked to order; and good value too, under £10 for the 2 breakfasts described above, though coffees added a bit more. Highly recommended.

La comida muy buena, precios muy sabroso y muy buena, con mucha variedad de bebidas de café y un montón de bollos y galletas.tuve un BLT, el tocino era realmente bonita, corte grueso tocino. mi otra mitad tenía una hamburguesa de pollo, ¡era enorme! Realmente disfrutamos. También tuvimos un hombre de jengibre pan! Un flapjack y 2 bebidas bakewelltodo genial muy sabroso y un montón de cambios de 10 libras!A++++

A proper pub. Really friendly welcoming pub, big portions, food is exceptional. Especially nice at Christmas.

Well worth the walk from the football ground.

Staff were extremely rude from the outset, and I tried to order at the bar multiple times only to be told they were helping other people. I wanted to take a picture of the bar, but they told me no photos. That’s fine, if it is an actual policy, which should be written. I mean, seriously, when are photos not allowed to be taken of a bar?? Honestly I think I rubbed someone the wrong way at the outset when I tried to order at the bar downstairs which I was told is not a bar. Or maybe they just don’t like Americans. Who knows… I left without getting a drink. Most likely they are so popular they just don’t care if one customer doesn’t get a beer and leaves. I won’t be back. Too bad since I had met another person at the Blue Mugge who worked there and said it was a good place. Oh well.

The food and atmosphere were both very good. And the servers were helpful and friendly. However the 3 behind the bar couldn’t be bothered to answer questions about the menu

We were staying overnight and the rate included a two course dinner and breakfast. Our meal was from the set menu with plenty of choice. Starter and mains. We went for the Philippino sausage and the pate. Both were good portions! It was good to have something out of the usual pub grub with the Philippino choices. Our mains were the curry and duck. The curry was pronounced fantastic! My duck was well presented and plentiful. My only minus was that I’d asked for it to be cooked ‘pink’ and it wasn’t. But it was very tasty. No room for desserts. I was shocked to read negative reviews on here as our experience was very good. Perhaps it’s just the carvery offering that needs work, because the evening meal was great. Breakfast was good. Again generous portions. The water in the coffee/tea maker wasn’t hot enough so the tea was undrinkable. The cooked items were very good.

Spotless tables, excellent service and food. Reasonably priced, it was a busy time but we had our food really quickly and Keira was amazing doing a fabulous job looking after the people eating in. Definitely be going back

Called in for a drink here before going to eat after football, the building is a lovely old building, drinks choice wasn't great, the woman behind the bar was friendly as were a couple of the locals. Speaking of which, it did seem to be a kind of a local hangout for the locals, one or two seemed a bit odd.

What a little gem. Lovely club sandwich, stew, chips and coffees. Simple food done well. Thoroughly enjoyed our lunch. Thank you.