The Swan Inn Stalham — Restaurant in North Norfolk

We went to The Swan several times during our recent week spent in Stalham. March 2022.

The staff are very friendly and helpful. On the initial visit we just had drinks. It is an Adnams pub and doesn't serve Guinness. However, the Adnams Blackshore is excellent ( and looks like Guinness).

We returned on 2 separate evenings to eat. The chilli con carne was excellent. A huge serving. The other half had the Bolognese which was also excellent. She chicken curry on the second visit.

The sticky toffee pudding was huge and floating in custard. Excellent.

The pub is very DOG FRIENDLY. The local drinkers were welcoming. Finally, the whole pub was clean and well presented.

A special thank you to NIAMH who was bartender, food server and a great front of house worker.

Well...

Lovely little pub with an excellent array of beers on hand pump. Food was generally good. We had a carbonara, which seemed to go down really well. I had a chicken Penang curry, which was disappointing as it seemed to be chunks of cooked chicken dropped into a pool of a pretty thin penang curry sauce. Still, it was edible and really good sized portion. Dessert was great, which led to a bit of forgiveness. Service was first rate: we'd been alerted to a vacant medical appointment about 10!mins before arriving, so we're on a tight schedule. Deserts appeared in short order and the bill had already been printed out and was waiting when I went to the bar to pay. I think we'll be trying them again,...

Lovely friendly owner very cheerful when we arrived sat us down, service was great to start off with, untill towards the end we finished our mains and wasn't asked if we would like deserts (we had heard him ask other tables as he took their main plates straight away) we had asked for another coke with a couple of straws (straws were forgotten, fair enough it's only a little thing) after waiting another 20 minutes we still were not asked if we would like any deserts so decided to ask for the bill and to pay this however was done immediately, wasn't the best impressed with service today along side the waiter seeming really moody, dispute all this the food...