George in the Tree, Balsall Commonback to pub details please note - reviews on this site are purely the opinion of site visitors, so don't take them too seriously.
Its a Beefeater so you get what you get. The A446 makes a restful change from the motorways around Birmingham these days - it used to be the primary route and a nightmare - and this pub is indeed useful for a half hour's break if you're passing, the next one north towards Lichfield is a fair stretch away.
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went for a meal for my daughters 20th birthday. she came all the way from North Devon. Staff were ok but the meal was atrocious. cold food over cooked steaks. on the whole bad experience will not be going back
anonymous - 19 Aug 2007 16:04 |
Great to see the improvements in enviroment and quality. A lovely pub and restaurant!
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New Manager and the place has gone up in quality and standard no end. I would definately recommend.
Food Quality and variety fantastic and service equally good.
I will be going back - as will my friends!
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Similarly bad experiance, with what i wouldnt describe as large group (9 people). cant fault the staff, very pleasent and apologetic when we eventually complained. managment did not show their face. not using again
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Really Not That Great.
Whilst the worst our 3 meals had to offer were over-cooked steaks, un-peeled carrots which had been left for far to long before serving and bad service by the staff; The same cannot be said for the two other couples who arrived shortly after us who in one instance recieved literally a tiny cremated piece of steak and a cold baked potato and in the other, cold, undercooked food. Not surprisingly both parties sent the food back. We weren't far behind.
As for beers, we couldn't vouch for the bar, but not surprisingly they had none of the cheapest wine on the list, leaving us with one at around £4 a 250ml glass.
To summarise, the pub is nice, has a modern feel and a mixed, friendly atmosphere but is let down by almost consistently atrocious food prepartion and a desire to cover every meal, no matter what type, with tabasco or another form of strong spice.
Its not quite a tradidional pub, trying to get business from almost every other form of culinary style (indian, italian, thai, chinese, tabasco), not quite there yet.
Edward Johns - 9 Oct 2004 22:24 |
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