Spread Eagle - Herefordshire, County of

The venue has been recently made over and is very pleasant inside. The staff were very friendly. However, the food was very hit and miss. I definitely ordered the wrong thing smoked salmon and toasted pine nut salad. How can anyone go wrong with that?? Well, they can! This was a bowl full of lettuce leaves, not so much dressed as drenched with oil, possible one whole sliced spring onion might have been half of one some pine nuts, not toasted, and around 4 slivers of poor quality smoked salmon. I managed to eat the salmon and a few forks full of soggy leaves before admitting defeat. I then had the privilege of paying £11 for that! In usual circumstances I would have sent it back and asked for something else as a colleague had the beef Ragu which said said was fairly good. However this was a business lunch so it wasn’t appropriate to complain at the time. After we left, another colleague said her fish and chips (which she left pretty much uneaten) were greasy, while another said her burger was fine but again, left her chips because too greasy. This is under new management the pub has changed numerous times over recent years. Unless they up their standards on the food front, this owner will soon be gone too. We won’t be returning.

We had a buffet lunch for our choir and friends (a group of 34) who were singing at the Cathedral services. We had limited time between services to eat, but Craig and his team provided us with a great buffet and were very accommodating. They even gave us takeaway boxes for leftovers, which was much appreciated for our long drive home. They reserved a section just for our group and were extremely helpful and pleasant to work with. I would recommend them to anyone looking to host a similar group event.

Disappointed really as this pub was one I frequently attended 54 yeas ago when their steak sandwiches were to die for. I took my husband as the menu on the website looked promising and he was looking forward to the steak. However although the surroundings were great and the service was very good the menu we were offered was the summer menu not the one advertised. My Husband chose the steak kebab and satay sauce with flat bread? Although the steak was good the satay sauce was too liguidy and lacking in flavour and a salad was served on top off the flat bread not really presented well. We ordered a starter of olives with focaccia bread but this came with our main meal so was wasted really. My salmon with linguini was better than advertised as instead of smoked salmon it was poached salmon which I preferred and was delicious,, if a little cooker not piping hot. The wine was excellent. I hade desert of ice cream which in fact was Rick hard and tasted more sorbet than ice cream. The waiter was excellent.

Dissatisfied with our lunch. Due to a hot day went for the salads. Which was tasteless, three small pieces of salmon, and dried up chicken on the Caesar salad. Noone came to our table so went to the bar to pay. Greeted my the owner who I informed of our dissatisfaction. He said did you tell anyone I said no one had come to ask us. At this point he walked off. No compensation or a drink to smooth things over. Would not recommend this ,and will not be going again.

I always like to give a new restaurant with new owners a couple of chances as I believe everyone can have an off day. The first time we visited in February, my husband had the mussels which were really good. Unfortunately, I ordered the fish and chips and found the fish to be greasy and placed on top of the chips, making everything oily. Not a good experience. Today, we decided to have Sunday lunch at the same place. We started with vegetable soup and toast. The soup was thick, cold, and quite bland, served with untoasted white sliced bread. We asked for the bread to be toasted, but when it came back out, my husband found a full stock cube in his soup. The bread was only toasted on one side. We decided to leave as we were concerned about the quality of the main course if they couldn't get the soup right. This review is not a reflection of the staff, who we found to be pleasant and attentive. Sadly, we won't be giving this place another chance.