Hearty Goodfellow

Fantastic Sunday lunch, best cauliflower cheese I have had in a very long time with the exception of my wife of course!!!
Excellent friendly & knowledgeable staff!!!
Only just started serving food under the new landlords, guys you have a great future head well done !!!

We visited the Hearty Goodfellow on Sunday for a classic Sunday roast. The service was wonderful, all the staff were incredibly helpful and friendly, great selection of wines, the pub is delightful, especially the fantastic beer garden, however I am very sad to write that I was not impressed with the roast at all. The meat was bland and tasted boiled rather than roasted and the roast potatoes were very hard. I absolutely love the Hearty, and will continue to visit but it might just be to enjoy the drinks for now

Expensive for us Northerners! Even though it's only 30 miles or so south it was certainly more expensive than we are used to for pub food. £12.95 for fish and chips and £14.95 for gammon is certainly top end in my opinion. The food was very good though and I would highly recommend it although we were disappointed to have been served frozen chips at those prices. A good selection of ales, a 5.1% IPA was excellent. Madri lager at £5 a pint is also more than we pay in our area. A friendly landlord who likes his football is always a help. It would have been five stars if it was a tad cheaper. Definitely give it a try, these places need your patronage to survive otherwise we will only be left with Wetherspoon's and Greene Kings. Yet another one of Thatcher's legacies. Sell off the pubs because the breweries have got a monopoly. How well has that worked out???

Really good pub, great food.

Spacious pub with roof beams and decent ales, log burning stove inside

As always we were looking forward to having Sunday lunch and this time with no washing up... Alas, the only good things about this lunch was the potatoes and not having to do the washing up... When asked how the roast beef was served we were joyfully informed that all the meat is well done. Therefore the menu consisted of Beef, Turkey and for an extra an extra £2 Lamb, All overcooked with lifeless underseasoned vegetables and a very thin tasteless thin gravy...
In essence I would have
been happy to pay twice the amount for even edible fodder
..not a pale, imitation...

Sunday lunch after the races.
Nice cut of beef and a shoulder of lamb accompanied by a nicely cooked, albeit skimpy portion of vegetables. Pub was quiet and we were tabled in the front room which wasn't really a restaurant, more of a pub table. There is a restaurant area at the back which looked quite cosy. The beer garden looks great for the summer, and generally the service was tight and pleasant from attentive service staff.

Price wasn't too bad either.
3 pots of tea.
3 Sunday dinners.
1 Cauliflower cheese (tiny portion).
1 dessert.

£52

Sat next to a log burner in the middle of January. It wasn't lit. 🥶

Great pub serving delicious food - much needed after a schlep up the M1.
The homemade steak and onion pie was possibly one of the best I've ever had - the filling was absolutely superb - and I also went for a rib-sticking portion of treacle pudding and ice cream for pudding. It would have been rude not to.
All washed down with a couple of pints of Longhorn IPA. Marvellous!
Very friendly and efficient staff too.
Highly recommended...