The Rat Trap — Restaurant in England

I've been to the Rat Trap more than once. Love it. Great pub under the Arkells brewery banner. Passes the fish and chips test with flying colours!! Staff are friendly and welcoming. They accept chip and pin and contactless/Apple Pay too. On this visit, I returned to my favourite dish. The fish and chips is served with a hearty salad, a massive wedge of lemon and really really good chunky chips. None of your skinny chips here. They're not home made but sure are a good compromise. The beer batter is light and crispy and apparently made on site. Bread and butter is real. Large doorsteps of fresh crusty batch bread. I needed more butter to get through mine. My trusty food mate Bob visited with me this time and he had Lasagne which if you check the photos you can see the quality. Large garlic breads kept him filled up for hours! I'd be wary of the bad reviews on here. The food is great. Pub food but leagues above average fare like Beefeater or Harvester. I'd even go on a road trip just to pop in for food. So five stars...

This was the first visit since The Rat Trap changed management in Sept. The menu selection is smaller but with some pub favourites including lasagne, burgers and steak. They also offer a smaller bite menu at lunchtime of sandwiches and jacket potatoes.

For a midweek visit, it was very busy with the clientele being very much silver surfer in age. We were advised that there was a long wait of at least an hour for lunch, with this time being accurate.

The tuna mayonnaise jacket potato was very generously filled and served with a decent size salad. The specials included a vegan BLT bean burger which was tasty but would have benefitted from being served with something like salsa or similar as it was quite dry. The chips were crispy and fluffy.

Service was friendly and the staff definitely knew their regulars.

Looking forward...

This place wasnt great for many reasons. There wasn't many people eating here at all maybe 3 tables upon arriving!

When we arrived there was no one on the restaurant side.... all staff were in the bar side!

I went to the bar to order the food and a drink and i was stood there for at least 5 minutes before anyone served us. No sorry to keep you waiting etc.

Ordered the food which wasnt great I had a rump steak which i ordered medium rare it was tough and no juices running through... It was so dry and flavourless it literally was the worst steak I've ever had without a shadow of a doubt.... The service as previously stated was shocking... The atmosphere was non existent and the place seemed so dirty! Wont be back dont see how this is highly rated... Its poor wont be back. I left all my meal practically which...