The best restaurants serving British food in Staffordshire Moorlands West Midlands

All I can say is fantastic service and fantastic food. This is the pub you all wish for in your home village. Great beer choice Great menu and great value Staff with a smile Food is homely and country pub quality When we come to Alton Towers next year we will be back

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.

Wonderful gluten free oatcakes! I ordered from their website and were delivered within 48 hours. I ordered 5 packs of 6 gluten free oatcakes and they're just like the usual oatcakes. I would 100% recommend Poveys Oatcakes 😍

After a very pleasant hill walking day in the Grindon area with a group of mates, The Black Lion Inn was the perfect ending. This pub is a rare species. It is simply , a welcoming traditional country pub with a soul! Fab ambience, stonework,hospitable staff, excellent food at a very reasonable price and looked after, local craft ales. Close to a perfect 10. Just my opinion.

Had a wonderful visit this afternoon with my Mum. We went for the afternoon tea and we were not disappointed. For £12.50 each, we have two cakes, a scone each with all the trimmings, a selection of sandwiches and a pot of tea! Good value for money. The staff were polite and friendly. When visiting, make sure to pre-book your afternoon tea! Will be attending again. 100% recommend if you love your afternoon tea! There is also a lovely sitting area and garden outside for when the weather is a little bit warmer!

We were doing the Chrome Hill walk and called in for a drink before setting off. The ladies in the cafe were so welcoming, giving advice on the walk and even lending me a walking pole. This is a quaint, traditional tearoom with homemade cakes, quiches etc. Everything coming out of the kitchen was fresh and delicious. As a community hub there was also local produce to buy, including items to raise money for mountain rescue. Charming little place, well worth a visit, and even better when we bought cakes to bring home too - lip smackingly good!

We had breakfast here the day after our daughters wedding. The food was excellent, service excellent. The most amazing wedding venue ever

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++++

I had a takeaway breakfast from the Bistro where the quality of the food was fresh, delivered piping hot to my home with the driver wearing PPE yet still served with a big smile. Fantastic and definitely recommend. Thank you!

Both the steak and chicken dishes were delicious and cooked to perfection. Though they didn’t look like large portions, they were surprisingly satisfying. The candied carrot cheesecake was absolutely lovely, while the banoffee pie didn’t quite meet my wife’s expectations—perfect excuse for a swap! In the end, I thoroughly enjoyed it.

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

Nice country inn with a great selection of ales. What more can you ask for!

A substandard meal and service, we had a 45 minute wait for our main course, the plates and food were barely warm. The food was badly cooked and presented, vegitables floating in water, weird roast potato's. no seasoning etc. Desserts were good but within minutes of clearing the table we were asked to vacate the table, including an unnecsessary personal comment. We still hadn't finished our drinks and could have been invited to move to the bar.

We went for Sunday Lunch. Everything was wonderful apart from the pathetic amount of beef we received on our Roast Beef Dinner. My wife asked how they actually manage to cut it so thin. Two tiny pieces. Shame, everything else was spot on