The Black Bull Lanchester — Restaurant in England

Edit: I apologise, I've transposed my own experiences of the pub which I used to work in and drawn parallels to yours during the small snapshot of time I was there, that's unfair of me. I'm glad to hear things aren't as bad as I surmised in my review, I appreciate your candor about the situation with your competition, We much preferred, and spent more time in the Black Bull than Crinnians when we visited recently and I put that down to the authenticity of your pub. I would love to come back with my family for lunch one Sunday soon to see the garden and try a few of more of your ales. Thanks for getting back to me.

The beer was good as was the pool table, but the pub looks very tired and is in need of sprucing up, especially the gents toilets. When I was there at 8pm on a Saturday, there were 4 people in the bar, and 3 didn't stay long. It's a shame as it reminded me of the pub I used to work in, the potential is there. This is my first visit to the area but I think that Crinnians up the road are in danger of depleting the Black Bull's business, which is sad because a village needs more than just one successful pub. I recommend this pub, especially to the locals, for their support, if you don't use it you...

First time at the Black Bull for Sunday lunch .... Not disappointed! 1 beef, 1 pork, you get plenty of everything, cabbage, carrots, peas, mashed turnip, mashed potatoes, cauliflower, roast potatoes, good old Yorkshire pudding and real meat that was cooked to perfection, not the sliced processed plastic we've received elsewhere, lots of tasty gravy too, all for just £10.99 each.

The staff were lovely and friendly, with table service and a cosy atmosphere. Thoroughly enjoyed it and will definitely be going again...

Amended review at first I left a positive review as the food was alright for the price. But this was before I checked the Bill, they added a £2 charge for giving us an empty plate to put some of our sunday lunch on for our 2 year old. If they told us at the time about this charge, it wouldn't have been too bad. We were going to come back a couple of weeks later with the in-laws and the extended family, but because of been greedy for the sake of £2.00 They've lost our custom. Hope they spent...