Royal Forester Country Inn

Finally, after 5 years of frankly mediocre food and service (at best), the Royal Foresters has gained a new manager/chef and a new team who give every indication to be working hard to provide a step change improvement. Our family has eaten there twice in the last week and on both occasions both food and service have been much improved. As this is our local pub, we look forward to going regularly again. Keep up the good work !

Christmas Day Lunch .... absolutely awful ftom start to finish. Charging £95 per head this should have been all singing all dancing, instead it was poor quality, poor service and extremely disorganised. Staff serving were inconsistent, had no knowledge of menu and disappeared when items were requested. Starters were cheap and lacked taste. Main course had a couple of sprouts hidden under two small slices of turkey. Stuffing was hard and again tasteless. The menu said seasonal veg which was cabbage. No carrots, no cauliflower no effort! No sauces offered, had to request cranberry sauce, which came 10 minutes into main course in a pot that served one person! Service was by staff that had obviously no experience, they leaned over people, had no (or very little) concept of how to wait tables. Dessert consisted of Christmas puddings which were little microwave ones, could have been an aldi special. They were hard and tasteless. No after dinner coffee offered, no mints or token chocolates. In fact other than a glass of prosecco and some canapes on the bar it was past poor. This was the poorest christmas day lunch we have ever had. If I hadn't been with my parents who are 90 and were doing this as a treat for us I would have complained during the meal. I intend to go in and complain in person before New Year. What a sham for £95 per head .... meal was worth no more than £25 per head!!

Very average evening meal. Needs improvement from the chef overcooked pork and fish and very soggy cabbage. My meal came with boring boiled new potatoes when it should’ve been sauté. The waitress( who was doing her best to be fair) took them back - the same potatoes were returned to me just chopped up - it actually made us laugh. There was no bacon on the bacon burger. The bread and butter pudding was just made of ……..well, bread! No fruit - not even pear as advertised. And we were overcharged for it - £8. Honestly we gave up complaining. Paid a fairly large bill and left