The Cricketers — Restaurant in England

We started going to this pub about a year ago and have always been treated well until today. My husband arrived at around 5pm this afternoon and me and another friend arrived a bit later, he chose the table right next to the small stage, which was NOT reserved, but apparently there was going to be a live band performing later. The owner and a member of staff took the middle tables away, never asked us to move or mentioned that they would need the space for the band. We spent there a few hours there, had some drinks and food as well. At around 8pm, this band arrived and one of the members asked my husband if he could move the table, he then agreed and moved it forward, however we were rudely told it was not enough as it was 6 members playing and they had loads of equipment as well so needed more space. As this team member was rude, my husband asked to speak with the owner. When the landlady and the landlord came to our table they asked us to move to the back or move to the next table, where there was a couple already, however they were happy to have us in the table. My husband said to the owner with as a joke “you owe me a drink”, but he then replied in a very rude way “I don’t pay drinks for anyone”, my husband didn’t enjoy that because we are regulars and the landlord has seen us and interacted with us many times to know it wasn’t serious; had the owner asked us earlier to choose a better table, before the pub gets extremely busy, we could have enjoyed the band performing, and wouldn’t have had this whole rude interaction. We’ve been there so many times and we’re never disrespectful to anyone. Regardless, we stayed and continued having drinks and chatting. As the music was very very loud, not the band, the music from the juke box my friend politely asked if it was possible turning the volume down a bit, the landlady said no, as everyone else was enjoying the music from the juke box and told him him that he should’ve move to a table in the back, at this point after so many rude interactions, my friend replied back, “thank you but you can seat there yourself”, then she replied “it’s my pub!”. At this point, I told my friend and husband we should leave, as there was no to be treated like this!! Unfortunately, we used to enjoy going to this pub nearly every Friday, but after this we won’t be...

Not normally one for reviews to be honest, however I feel this is more than necessary. I booked a table for 4 for my friends and I, and when we turned up the staff were polite and the food wasn’t too bad. Our main purpose was to watch the football, we ordered the food more to be respectful of the pub and ended up spending more than £50 between us. All was going well until we encountered the Landlord, who quite frankly has to be one of the most irritating and disrespectful people I’ve ever met. We had not long finished our food and drinks (all of which had just been cleared from the table) and he come over to our table and demanded we either buy something or leave, refusing to believe we’d bought items prior to our table being cleared. Along with his lack of professionalism, the so called ‘Landlord’ was quite evidently targeting a lot of this disrespectful behaviour at the ethnic one out of the four of us. Suffice to say we all got up and left immediately rather than spend any more money in this poor excuse for a Landlord’s pub. Although teenagers have quite a bad stereotype nowadays I can safely say all four of us were some of the quietest in the pub, and not causing any sort of trouble. I’ve never had such a terrible experience in a pub in my life, there is a hell of a lot of better alternatives in the area. All down to the racist Landlord, who certainly doesn’t know how to treat his customers, and most definitely doesn’t deserve to own a...

Another year, another visit same great hospitality from Vanessa and Ian.. so friendly and welcoming... Thank you 🤗

The Cricketers is a beautifully presented Punch pub.

Fantastic attention to detail, super clean throughout and a huge outdoor covered area to enjoy food, drinks and sports on the multiple outside screens.

This pub has a huge selection of bottled beers and ciders to compliment the usual draught options (photo)

I always say it but people want to know their food is prepared to the highest standard and with Vanessa's approval I've included the pictures of the exceptionally clean kitchen, all modern labelling and colour coded utensils and boards being used... Very high standards are in place at the cricketers throughout.

The beer garden is huge and dog friendly and children are very welcome

This would be a great place to while away a few hours with good food and drink in...