Excellent boozer, friendly guv behind bar.
Beers top notch (all 14 of them)
Handled a group of us on Saturday afternoon brilliantly with no warning.
Next time in Kettering this is the only pub to visit.Cracking pub with a fantastic range of ales. Friendly barman.
An Absolute Cracker. Pub as a pub Should be. Thirteen real ales on, Yep thirteen. one brewed in the cellar no less. Lived in Ketteringshire for nearly 3 years now and this is the best pub i have come across by far. wish i had found it sooner. Will be comin back as much as she allows. Yee Ha!

uninspiring selection of ales (6X ,doom and courage best) opted for guiness and doom @ £5.70,not very happy barmaid and a smell of toilets lost a few marks,6/10Really awesome pub!!!! Really great managers now who make you feel welcome!!! We had a great night watching the football and the pub dog is cute well worth a visit!!The Coach is under new management and is heading in the right direction, superb selection of real ales twinned with fun loving people and SKY SPORTS on the telly seem to be taking this pub forwards................the selection of live entertainment on the weekends also helps with the landlords wanting to encourage any local musicians to play there.pool competition on thursdays and a quiz to be started on sunday nights.......looks like daventry could have a real community pub on its hands

me and a friend went for a meal here a earlier this week and i have to say the food was excellent, i had Coq au Vin and my friend had the steak and ale pie, the service was homely and the prices were good too.

I reccommend this to anyone after a good mealThe above post is outdated as the tenants have changed.

The food is now all homemade and the pub has a selection of around 5/6 real ales.

The service is very friendly and if you fancy challenging your taste buds ask to try the beetroot and horseradish ice cream

all ice creams e.t.c are homemade also and i think they're about to start making their own sausages

A must try for all foodies and to top it all the chips are Hand cut on siteNice enough pub, friendly staff who made you feel welcome. Avoid the food as we found it obviously bought in and just heated up and therfore represented poor value for money. I was charged £3.50 for a dessert and then saw exactly the same dessert in the same portion size in Morrisons Cafe for about £1.50!!!

There must be a monthly mag.about potatoes ar yes `The potatoes tasters guide to the pefeck spud` that will do nicely.I thought this was a Pub Review Site - not somewhere to drone on about the condition of your new potatoes (post below) - get a life! What was the beer and pub like by the way????I ordered a meal there last week, and it came with new potatoes. The majority of the potatoes were rotten and inedible. Nobody came to ask how the food was during the meal, so when my plate was collected (and we still weren't asked if the meal had been satisfactory!) I told the waitress I was not happy with the potatoes. She said she would talk to another member of staff, presumably the manager and get back to me.
Next thing, desserts were dished out and nobody came back to me regarding my meal, I was offered no explanation or apology at all. It may be a small thing, but I paid for food which was sub-standard, not at all what I expected.
Overall, VERY disappointing!!!

Visited yesterday and a bit of a mixed bag sadly.

The pub itself is very attractive - just a few miles detour off the M1 and with a beer garden right on The Grand Union Canal. The building is HUGE, with various rooms, a hotel upstairs and masses of parking.

Unfortunately, such a grand pub lets itself down on several fronts. There seemed to be plenty of staff for the amount of people in the place on a Sunday evening yet service at the bar was painfully slow. The pub is clearly selling itself on the food front and employs a rather stranfe two-for-one policy where prices are deliberately inflated (£11 for a goat's chesse tart and salad!) to encourage you to double up the meals, meaning that there is no point in solo visitors ordering. Our order went awol for 45 minutes and when it did eventually arrive had clearly been reheated and both dishes dried to a crisp. We complained but little apology was offered.

Overall, would not recommend.This pub is an excellant choice if you are looking for great food very friendly staff and excellant garden area this pub is definately worth a visit and the prices are excellant as wellSeemed OK to me on my one visit.

Usual sort of meals, quite a choice, 2 for 1 offers etc. but fairly good.

Reasonable choice of real ales .

Seemed pretty crowded with all sorts (mainly eating) on a Saturday night.

Visited this place to find a very attractive looking building which opened up inside to a very clean, bright and polished bar inside.
There were several real ales to choose from, the Brains 'Party Popper' being well kept. The price was on the expensive side, but as a one off visit, I felt I was paying for the overall atmosphere of the place which was impressive.
Would have liked to have had a bite to eat, but they only appeared to serve expensive meals which a simple sandwich or similar would have been appreciated.
Reading previous posts, this may not be the perfect place, and I cannot comment on how the pub was originally, but whatever your views may be on pub makeovers of this sort, they do appear to have made a nice job with the decor and the atmosphere. we have recently revisited thsi pub after several years of not going in and oh how it has changed! The ambiance was lovely, with the lights dimmed and the open fire on. It has an excellent range of beers and ciders and now offers 1st class guests ales which made me very happy. It is a little pricy but for the atmoshere, the setting and the friendly service we were given it was well worth it. The barman told us that they have just started on a new menu so we shall be back there very soon! Avoid sunday lunchtime if you dont mind very slow service from the waiters/waitress.

They seem to pack the restaurant out but dont have enough stuff to cover the amount of customers. We encountered long periods with empty glasses, staff standing around talking, and a very long wait for our meal. We found it very difficult to attract any member of staffs attention during our visit.

We tried to bring the issues to their attention but they didnt seem interested and their unsincere smug apology was rather frustrating.
There are better places to enjoy a sunday lunch in northamptonshire who seem to value their customers