July 2025 by Marie Williamson
Great place for a family Sunday lunch. The food is lovely and well priced, and the staff are friendly and polite.
Only problem was neither of the loos in the Ladies flushed ?
hopefully sorted as we will be back again soon.
March 2025 by RW
Lovely pub, great food, great prices, great staff. Came for a meal mid-week and was impressed so returned on a Sunday for roast without a booking and was seated immediately. The roast was perfect and very reasonably priced. Highly recommend and will be returning in future!
March 2025 by Scott Mills
Fantastic Pub, great staff food is the best value around and Guinness is perfect ??
March 2025 by Nick Jeakings
Good basic pub food, great selection of beers , and cheery service
February 2025 by Katie Meades
A bang average pub, that is unfortunately absolutely filthy. We were seated in an area of the pub that looks like it is used for storage (a load of abandoned chairs, and lots of doors to what looked like storage areas). It was honestly COVERED in dust and cobwebs, gravy stains on chairs, and the stickiest table I?ve ever been seated at. I couldn?t wait to leave.
The food was okay, mozzarella sticks were really nice, and the chocolate fudge cake was pretty good too. The main was the most bland food I?ve ever had. Completely plain vegetables (nothing nice on them like garlic butter or seasoning), veggie sausages that were tiny and tasted like cardboard, and mash that was lumpy and utterly boring, again completely unseasoned, and tasted like it had barely any butter, the gravy was like water. My family wanted roasts, and they barely had any meat left, this wasn?t the first time. One of my family members had come to the Rising Sun for a Sunday roast before and they had run out of most of the meats then too. I have also seen a review from someone who had said the same thing. Clearly, they aren?t ordering enough food for their roasts. They both had apple and blackberry crumble, both of them remarked how it might as well just be a blackberry crumble as there was little to no apple in them.
Finally, the service was pretty good. They were very friendly, my only criticism was that we would have to call them over to get served. Having said that, it was really busy so I don?t blame them at all, and as I said, they were very friendly.
I wouldn?t return to this pub, it was disgustingly dirty, and the food was quite hit and miss. The only saving grace was the staff. If you aren?t really into seasoning and enjoy very basic and bland food, this is the place for you.
February 2025 by Brian Whitfield
Good food and good service.
February 2025 by mark Lynch
Both myself and my friend had roast brisket for lunch unfortunately the brisket tasted very spicy like it was cooked in a chilli glaze. After leaving half of my meat I did tell the staff who said she would tell the chef but i heard no reply. After leaving both myself and my friend ended up with a upset tummy. So neither of us will be visiting again
September 2024 by Andrew Welsh
Excellent food and value. Very pleasant staff and reasonably priced.
May 2024 by James Bacon
We have been visiting this pub for over 30 years and have always been more than pleased with the lovely food, bar staff and young servers alike.Today we went for lunch, ordered from the lunch menu and a mistake was made that I was given the same choice but from the evening menu, it was minus a bun and had a bit more salad, I addressed with the young lady who brought it, and it wasn?t rectified successfully (only needed to add a bun) but I waited a while and the whole meal was re-plated, some chips and salad removed and a bun added, I mentioned that it seemed a lot of change when they could have just brought me a bun, which would have saved my meal being returned cold and my husband having eaten half of his by the time mine was returned.I asked to see the manager (lady in the kitchen) who asked me what the problem was-and not in a helpful way, she was not understanding that it seemed a lot of trouble to re-plate and remove things and did a bit more salad really matter? Unfortunately it fell on deaf ears and the chef wasn?t having any of it.I was spoken to like I was making a fuss and she just wasn?t getting anything I said, she was rude and it was very upsetting.The bar lady (who is always lovely) went to speak to the chef and my goodness the shouting we heard from the kitchen was shocking and unnecessary.We left our meals, paid and after 30 years of visiting our go to place we will not be returning.Such a shame when customer service is so lacking and errors are made by the establishment and the customer has to suffer for it.
March 2024 by Paul Smith
1st time there and was very pleasantly surprised, great guiness and decent prices on drinks and food with a good choice. Friendly staff and nice atmosphere. Will definitely return to try some of the menu out well worth a visit if in the area.
March 2024 by Alex Bainbridge
Really good pub food and excellent
February 2024 by Jennifer Ivanciu-Wilkinson
Had a lovely roast dinner today. Portions are very generous. The apple crumble desert was yummy too. We eat here quite often and whether they're busy or not, the staff are always welcoming. I would book at the weekends as it gets busy. ?Dietary restrictions: We often need both dairy free and GF options and they always try to accommodate.
January 2024 by Nicholas Thorpe
Very warm welcome, keep very food . I had the rack of ribs . Never seen a bigger meatier rack of ribs!! Came with a selection of chips , jackets or roasts, with gravy and I asked for mint sauce.. good selection of veg and I feel very full now.. they have a great and wide selection of real ales. I had the Tribute. Lovely pint. They allow dogs. I brought my Puchon..he got a nice welcome and the customers gave him a few busicuiys which were provided at the bar. There were other dogs in the pub also. This pub has a great atmosphere.. I would love to come back again.
January 2024 by Sharon King
Great value and really friendly service
January 2024 by David Brooks
This pub used to be the place to go for fresh fish and chips. Unfortunately, they appear to have cheapened down and produce cooked frozen food disappointing. I would be quite happy to pay more for fresh quality food.
