The Kings Head — Restaurant in Stratford-on-Avon

Just been for a meal here and our first time visiting Napton on the Hill. It is a miserable night and we are staying just up the road from here and thought we would give it a go. The attentive young ladies present saw us helplessly searching for the entrance and came out and invited us in. We said we hadn't booked but they said no problem. I ordered the RACK of ribs...and believe me it was a rack and a half...immense, it was cooked to perfection and tender with a rich sticky sauce accompanied by fries and coleslaw (to be honest I couldn't finish it as lovely as it was). My wife Ali had the Sea Bass accompanied with petit pois à la francaise and potatoes which she said was georgeous. The ladies who took care of us were really efficient, polite and very smiley...a pleasure to see in these times of shortages in the service industry. I used to be in the trade and it was good to see they knew what they were doing and contributed to a very pleasant meal. For dessert I had the Banofee concoction which I can say was delicious and presented really well in quirky glasses. I don't like Banoffee Pie but this alternative was spot on. My wife doesn't favour desserts but she said it would have been nice if a cheese selection had been on offer..so please note Management. At the end of the meal was that nights offer that you could toss a coin to see if you got your meal half price...we lost...we didn't care as the food had been so good anyway. I think we paid £65 in all with drinks & gratuity which I would happily spend again. A really great meal well appreciated by us. Thank you. Just a footnote, we enjoyed it so much we went back again last night and my wife had the same and I had the scotch egg & black pudding starter and the baked cheese which were both presented really well and tasty. Service...

The food was absolutely delicious, everything was fresh and cooked to perfection and all the flavours went well together. I felt sorry for whoever had to wash up the assortment of plates, bowls, miniature buckets and mugs that it arrived in, but this didn't detract from the quality of the meal. I was slightly disappointed that there were only two veggie main courses to choose from (not even a vegetarian pizza, which should be easy). Although I enjoyed what I had, I left still feeling hungry. My partner had a meat heavy meal and felt very full afterwards. I don't know why restaurants always assume vegetarians have less of an appetite than meat eaters. My main reason for 4 stars is that we felt both rushed and ignored although this sounds like a contradiction. We were ushered straight into the restaurant when we arrived and not given a wine list until we ordered desert, it took some time to get a drink and was hard to get the attention of a server to get another. However they didn't give us enough time between the main course and the desert but then seemed to forget about giving...

It's a lovely little country pub but the service was shocking. We had to chase our drinks order, we didn't have the menu's straight away but as soon as we received them, not even opened the front page the next waitress was coming over for our order (the previous girl had told her we were ready to order as soon as she put them down). She said she would come back to us but we seemed to be waiting ages and she never arrived. We didn't want to chase as we had already chased for our drinks so started to wonder how long we would end up waiting for the food if they couldn't even get drinks to us. We paid for the drinks and left. The waitress was informed why and looked like she couldn't care less, no apology, no attempt to get us to stay. We ended up going to the Countryman in Staverton (absolutely lovely and amazing service) and all 4 of us had a 3 course meal with multiple drinks so they missed out...