Biggus Dickus
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Large family group need feeding after a day out at Cosford
Any one know the prices and quality of the Carvery here?
Any one know the prices and quality of the Carvery here?
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The Radford Bank Inn
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Tinkerbell
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I rate it, value for money
Biggus Dickus
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£4 ????????
Franklin_Delano_Roosevelt
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It really depends what you are after.
On the plus side it is great value and because it is carvery you can stack your plate up sky high. It is also very child friendly, has a decent sized car park and a nice beer garden alongside the canal
On the negative side I suppose you get what you pay for. The service is borderline shocking, don't ever go in there if you are hungry for a carvery on Sunday as you'll end up eating your own arms for sustenance. There are never enough staff to cope with the sheer quantity of people at peak times. The food is OK and thats about it. The carvery meat is tough and the vegetables are cooked to within an inch of their lives and then left to go all watery under that hot plate thingy. The gravy is akin to what you might relate to school dinners. Would make great tarmac patching gloop for the drive.
The place itself in terms of decor is looking shall we say tired and in need of a refresh.
As I said it is OK. If you are happy with OK then go for it.
On the plus side it is great value and because it is carvery you can stack your plate up sky high. It is also very child friendly, has a decent sized car park and a nice beer garden alongside the canal
On the negative side I suppose you get what you pay for. The service is borderline shocking, don't ever go in there if you are hungry for a carvery on Sunday as you'll end up eating your own arms for sustenance. There are never enough staff to cope with the sheer quantity of people at peak times. The food is OK and thats about it. The carvery meat is tough and the vegetables are cooked to within an inch of their lives and then left to go all watery under that hot plate thingy. The gravy is akin to what you might relate to school dinners. Would make great tarmac patching gloop for the drive.
The place itself in terms of decor is looking shall we say tired and in need of a refresh.
As I said it is OK. If you are happy with OK then go for it.
Alesto
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My son chose to go there for his birthday and we had an excellent meal. Meat and veg were very tasty and we had a great waitress who got us our drinks from the bar (didn't know they had waitresses!). We have found them to be usually quite busy so the food isn't sat there for too long.
grumpystaffordguy
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Its good value for money during the week and the food is decent quality. Not the most relaxing way to dine and not really suitable if you have small children as you end up making lots of trips up to get the food.
Sometimes the queues can be painful (10 minutes in line!), but if you are not in a rush you can always wait for the queue to die down.
Personally I don't like queuing up and find it a bit antisocial as you can end up eating at different times to your fellow diners, but its not half as bad as the Chinese buffet place.
Sometimes the queues can be painful (10 minutes in line!), but if you are not in a rush you can always wait for the queue to die down.
Personally I don't like queuing up and find it a bit antisocial as you can end up eating at different times to your fellow diners, but its not half as bad as the Chinese buffet place.
rimmer
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We went yesterday, left overs, reheated burnt food including overcooked carrots and a mixture of frozen peas, strangely undercooked but mushy cauliflower, gloopy gravy and miserable reheated frozen yorkshires and very odd tasting mash. Been before plenty of times and the food was very good value. Will not be going again, we went early, thinking we'd get feshly cooked food that was at least warm! It was the worst food I have eaten since primary school
Gramaisc
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Take-away carveries - honestly! - http://www.crowncarveries.co.uk/theradfordbankinnstafford/takeaway/
Andreas Rex
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Where do you get your info from, G?!
Gramaisc
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Just some bloke on Facebook - but checked it on their website, just in case he was talking rubbish..
Gramaisc
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I was persuaded to go to the Radford for a carvery at one o'clock this afternoon. I suggested that it would be packed, but was over-ruled. Of course, it was packed - in fact, I struggled to park the car, but luckily I had some loppers in the back and chopped a few brambles off to retrieve an over-grown space in the corner - however, we were slotted into a table in a few minutes. The food was the normal standard and the staff coped admirably with the onslaught of ravenous customers. Seats were empty for only seconds whilst the debris was removed. I expected a UN truck to arrive at any moment and start distributing sacks of maize in the car-park. By two oclock, it had settled to a reasonable level of activity. Be warned, if you don't know already.
One thing I would have suggested to them - if they hadn't been under such pressure, was that a few minutes hacking in the car-park would retrieve five or six spaces that have become over-grown.
The Polish chap carving the meat pulled a good stunt - one of our crew insisted that she wanted "just one slice of beef, one slice, just a single slice!" - so, he carefully carved a single slice off the leg, obtained her agreement that the cut was acceptable - and then put the rest of the leg on her plate - completely dead-pan.
In terms of there being 'not enough staff', I felt that the limiting factor was simply the space and seating available. There just were virtually no unused seats for more than a few seconds at a time.
joshua
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You really did deserve a discount for hacking out your own parking space.