Decent beer garden in stafford?

[Kinky Afro]

Anyone got any recommendations? Can't think of a good one at all. Cheers

 

[Withnail]

Swan
Bird in Hand
Picture House

 

[Gramaisc]

King's Arms
Crown
Radford

 

[Withnail]

Oh, and the Rose & Crown - not the best garden, maybe, but certainly decent beer.

 

[Trumpet]

Crown at Hyde Lea.

 

[Thehooperman]

Spittal Brook
Royal Oak
Butlers Bell
Shropshire in Haughton

 

[Gramaisc]

Spittal Brook

Doh! I listed that as the Crown....

..I must keep up..


Well, if we're venturing out into Yokelsville..
Greyhound at Burston
Dog & Doublet
Holly Bush at Salt

Not sure if Aston Marina would count...

 

[proactive]

Hollybush at Salt

 

[Gramaisc]

Hollybush at Salt

Is it not the Holly Bush at Salt and the Hollybush at Seighford? Not that it matters here...

 

[proactive]

Is it not the Holly Bush at Salt and the Hollybush at Seighford? Not that it matters here...

You are of course correct. I shall inflict pain on myself this afternoon as punishment by paying a return visit to Rugeley.

 

[littleme]

The Mill at Worston or Radford Bank if you're dragging kids with you

 

[Kinky Afro]

Cheers. Some good options. My old reliable (the sun) has a dire beer garden so fancied a change. Many thanks

 

[Trumpet]

Cheers. Some good options. My old reliable (the sun) has a dire beer garden so fancied a change. Many thanks

It's a shame when pubs think they can put a couple of benches on the car park and call it a beer garden.

 

[tek-monkey]

The sun doesn't have a beer garden, they have somewhere for smokers to go.

 

[darben]

The Bear & pheasant has a decent beer garden and its not too far from the Sun, it won a CAMRA pub of the month recently too!

 

[Bob]

In town then the Swan and Butlers Bell have nice outdoor areas. I quite like sitting outside Pizza Express as well but you have to order food.

I love the Rose and Crown, beer 'garden' is basic but clean and well kept, and as mentioned above - great beer.

I used to like sitting out the back off the Hand and Cleaver - unfortunately no longer an option.

Post house might be quite nice - to sit and watch the world go by.

The coach and horses has a small balcony overlooking the river, although I've never been in there.

Just realised that my daytime/beer garden drinking has been seriously disrupted by my driving licience/rural location/2 small children.

 

[Trumpet]

The sun doesn't have a beer garden, they have somewhere for smokers to go.

Sums it up perfectly.

 

[peggy]

the mill at worston is lovely. whats the pub at Great Chatwell? is that the one that has a wooden play area at the top of the beer garden? Oh i forget, I dont think I get out enough.

 

[flossietoo]

the mill at worston is lovely. whats the pub at Great Chatwell? is that the one that has a wooden play area at the top of the beer garden? Oh i forget, I dont think I get out enough.

That pub is The Red Lion. It used to be our local and for years was fabulous. Then it was sold and was by no means fabulous. We stopped going so I can't tell you what it is like now. It does definitely have a good car park and extensive beer garden. It used to have a little grey Fergie for the children to sit on.

 

[flossietoo]

When I am Queen I will decree that nobody making a roaring success of a country pub is allowed to leave unless they have satisfied a committee (headed by myself) that the new occupants are going to uphold the present high standards.

Further, if one of the owners is also responsible for the food, then they shall be required to stay on for a minimum term of three (iii) years after the sale of said hostelry.

Think of the number of country pubs which were full to the gunnels until a change of hands. So begins a rapid decline that sees them closed and turned into houses because "Nobody wants the pub". We do want a pub. We've just had to travel further to find a good one.