Vale Royal Abbey Arms

Smashing staff, Amazing food

Nice cosy pub couldn’t fault it , didn’t eat just had a drink

Food was a disappointment. Mushroom and Stilton starter looked and tasted like a cheap mushroom soup. No hint or taste of any Stilton what’s so ever. Main was a vegetable curry. Unfortunately this was also bland and came with rubbery long grain rice (think uncle bens boil in the bag). Not a basmati rice either, that you would expect with an Indian meal? The other starter was salt and pepper squid. Very salty, but not peppery in any way. Also it was strangely cooked in some kind of batter that made it taste like chewing rubber bullets. Not a simple seasoned panko breadcrumb style as you would expect. Other main was 10oz gammon with onion rings. Now unless the gammon had gone on a diet in the fridge without the chef knowing, but still managed to maintain a high level of fatty marbling, this was not 10oz!! 6oz at best and the toughest, chewiest cheap cut they could find. The Onion rings were 2 anaemic tiny rings (about the size of onion rings you get in a packet of crisps), but with no flavour whatsoever. Just oily batter taste. Overall not a great experience, and we skipped any desserts available. I’ve visited similar JW Lees chains and the meals are not this bad, so maybe it’s just a pub to avoid. I certainly would not recommend. Staff were ok, but did not pick up on the fact that we found the food ok, but not great.

Tasty Sunday lunch. Shame not many vegetables everything centred around the Yorkshire pudding and meat.

Good food, attentive service and nice atmosphere

Lovely roast dinner, really beautiful homemade roast dinner lovely friendly place