The Marquis Wellington — Restaurant in England

Attend regularly, and went tonight for chicken and ham pie, and roasted vegetables with perfect crispy chips. The meat in the pie was excellent, very well seasoned and the pastry top golden and just puffy enough. I'd give this a 9, and is how all decent pub food should be.Perfectly priced at £7.95. Burgers are excellent too, as are the onion rings. The Marquis is nicely decorated and due to the input of some staff over the last year with good music tastes, the playlist features a mainly excellent non-mainstream eclectic seliction from the likes of the Smiths, the Specials, Pixies, classic soul and 60s psychedelia. Great! If they turned the lights down past 11pm about 20% and added a few candles it would be all the better, and further the pub's slightly alternative yet traditional pub atmosphere. Please do this! Staff clearly know what they are doing and are mostly friendly and this adds to the experience. Be nice if Everards brewed some tastier beers with bolder flavours - re Oakham ales, Castle Rock and Thornbridge. Some good guest ales and local cider though. Pub is open usefully late at weekends. If the lights were lower from 10.30pm ish, and after that time on fri and sat turned the music up 10%, I think it would be busy til 3am or as late as they liked, I'd certainly stay. A very very good pub,...

I visited yesterday evening to have a meal. After attending the regular COVID checks (the pub works on a first come first served basis), we were instructed by staff to go to the beer garden (open space) and wait at the table. We asked staff to move table, as ours was 1) in an inconvenient location 2) too small to have a meal and drinks 3) one of the two chairs was unstable and we were not close to any heaters 4) there was an empty larger booth right next to ours. We pointed this out to staff who said that they would have sanitised the larger booth first and then allowed us to move in. We also said that we would have been happy to wait for the table to be sanitised. While we were patiently waiting, a group (three men) entered the open space and took the booth without waiting for staff to sanitise it. When staff came and saw this did not ask the group to leave the table - the table needed to be sanitised (as it should have been done!). They just seated and had drinks. We pointed this out to staff, but we got completely ignored.

I had a word with another member of staff at the bar, who ignored us as well. It was an awful experience. Extremely disappointed for the lack of consideration and...

Not the best dining experience tbh. The young lady wasn't as friendly when placing my food order and the food itself is overpriced for what you get. The steak dish was already nearly £20 but in faint writing it says a sauce would be almost £3 more. Surely it should be included? The peppercorn sauce was so thin and the chips came on a ceramic bowl? To give the impression of a fuller plate, I don't think it's neccessary. Generally, this place is nice to have a few drinks, it's spacious and mostly well kept. They have a nice outside drinking area at the back but I feel they could offer better quality in their dishes. The other dish we ordered was the Scampi, could have done better with salad/presentation for the money you pay for these dishes. I would suggest all staff treat all patrons with in welcoming & friendly manner and make some adjustments to the presentation/ quality/ quantity of some dishes. Afterall, this is not a student pub with...