The best restaurants serving British food in Aggborough and Spennells Wyre Forest West Midlands

Not terribl and I’d like to give it two and a half. Not poor but less than average too. We ate here because we love the food and service at another Chef and Brewer pub near Shrewsbury but this one isn’t a patch on it. Service was functional at best. Nobody was rude or unpleasant but I can’t put a finger on it, we just felt like the staff were going through the motions. I ordered the game mixed grill and was quite excited because I love all of that. The menu listed venison, boar and duck. What was served was badly overcooked venison, chicken and gammon with an egg!!! No boar, no duck. Some chips were served with it but they looked like they’d been thrown on the plate from six feet away. My wife’s meal was nice though so not all was lost. However, presentation is not the kitchen’s forté. I suggest they send their staff up the road to The Riverside Inn to experience good pub grub and excellent service. We won’t be bothering with the Mare and Colt’ again.

Our second visit. They have a small dog-friendly section, we had our dog with us. We were celebrating a family birthday. The reasonably priced roast dinner buffet is excellent, favourites at our table were the gammon and venison. There is a host of delicious vegetable side dishes. The price included a dessert which the menu tells us was taken at the table. There is an option to purchase a kids roast dinner which we recommend for children, we had two teens. However, we waited a considerable amount of time, well over a half hour for this. When we found someone to enquire the young lady (we had enquired twice) assured us that it would be sorted. All the desserts were good, my only comment was that the Eton Mess was considerably lacking in meringues a very tiny amount, I asked if there was additional meringue that could be added but the young lady insisted that I already had some. All things considered well worth it, we drive neatly 40 min to enjoy it - local parks and dog walks make it a lovely afternoon out.

After having our main meal we decided to have a pudding. We approached the till but staff were talking or making their own drinks. Waited several minutes and were then asked what we wanted asked for a hot pudding and was told in no uncertain terms that it was 3.00 pm and hot food had stopped. It was just 3.00 pm but the fact that we had waited several minutes was irrelevant to the staff, there was no point in arguing because they were not interested. Be a long time before we venture there again.