Review: Three Horseshoes Country Inn, Near Leek
Last week we met up with my brother, his girlfriend and their 16 week old son at a reservoir just outside Leek in Staffordshire. We had a bit of a walk around in the gorgeous sunshine and then drove back to the Three Horseshoes Country Inn for lunch.
The pub was quite typical in how it dealt with orders. Choose your table, choose your food and go and order and pay for it at the bar. We opted for paté and garlic bread with cheese for starters between us, and their own burger with goats cheese for our main course. My brother and his girlfriend chose their Carvery.
Our starters were brought to us, and were all pretty good. Then my brother had a ticket for his carvery so that he could just go up to the serving area and get his food. This is pretty standard with carveries. Of course with us having a set menu item we assumed they would just bring the burgers to us. However one of the waiters then came to our table to tell us that our burgers were ready for collection… which confused us a little as surely he could have just picked them up and brought them with him?! So David went to get those whilst I looked after my nephew (no complaints from me!).
The burger itself was very good, however that was about it. The salad and chips had clearly been put on the plate when we’d ordered the food, as the salad was limp and uninviting, and the chips were not too nice either. Luckily the burger made up for it, but considering we had to collect our food, I don’t understand why fresh salad and chips couldn’t have been put on the plate on collection (although I don’t know why it couldn’t have just been brought to the table!).
So unfortunately it doesn’t really get top marks. The main food was good but the service and effort on the additions seemed to be lacking.
- September 26th '09
I give it 2/10. The burger itself was fine, but there was too much goat’s cheese on it and I had to scrape half of it off to taste the burger, and as you’ve said the chips and salad were just bad. So bad that I’d rather eat at a roadside takeaway stand.