The Crown Inn, Trunch — Restaurant in North Norfolk

Stayed in a local Airbnb for the weekend and booked a meal at the Crown for the Saturday night as it was literally a 2 minute walk up the road! OMG! what can I say, the food, service, staff, EVERYTHING was amazing and highly recommended! Huge choice on the menu and not a chance that you wouldn't find something you liked, even for the most fussy eaters. They literally cater for everyone from pizza to pies to curry to steak to all your usual home cooked favourites like burgers, chilli, sausage and mash, lasagne and a vast vegetarian menu..... the list really is endless and the portions are huge. They have special nights on different days of the week (pie night, curry night, fish night), and even do a roast on Sunday. So glad we found this little gem and will DEFINITELY be returning when we are next in the area, even if just to try one of the many tasty looking puddings on the menu, as we were too stuffed to try them this time round!...

First of all service was excellent however the food really let it down. A pie has a lid, a pastry base with no top is a tart not a pie. Filling was mediocre and meagre, mash was cold around the edges so had been microwaved (not an issue but should have been checked) serving Beef gravy with everything is a bit weird especially as I had the noodle Filling (will you Brisket) However saying that what we did have tasted OK . Just wish the filling was a bit more substantial especially for £13.95

Not somewhere I'd rush back to unless there was a complete menu change. Some things just don't belong in a pie but that's just my opinion. Would have loved some more traditional pies rather than some of the concoctions. Us British have some great pies.

If you're going to market just one item like Pie n Mash then you need to make sure its the best of the best and for me it's far from that...

Sadly we must have chosen a bad day to visit. The pub and staff were great, very friendly and welcoming. Had some banter with locals and was good. However when it came to the pies, we were extremely disappointed. The Mac and cheese pie was very small and tasteless, couldn’t really cut it as was so hard. The steak and ale pie was so dry and pastry had to be broken in bits rather than cut and enjoyed, and could not eat it, the meat so hot it seemed to have been microwaved. We had creamed leeks as extra, but they were inedible, cold and so tough we could not even cut them. The supposedly crisp new potatoes were clearly just warmed up in hot water and certainly not crispy. Such a disappointment, we did mention it when paying the bill and was told the kitchen would be told. Sorry Crown, but we wouldn’t come back, seemed like a one off as other reviews are...