The Crooked House - South Staffordshire

What a find , really out of the way pub/restaurant, we had a lovely meal , staff really friendly , felt at home in the clean dining area , a must for anyone visiting the area ,I'm from the south coast in Hampshire and would be more than happy to visit this little gem again.oh and the toffee apple crumble with rice pudding, and the coffee were to die for

Have visited the Crooked House in the past and had some lovely meals. On my recent visit the quality and service has gone downhill. Still as quirky but they need to up their game and not rely on past reputations.

Absolutely terrible service, a girl asked me to wait in the restaurant area to be seated, she then approached me and even though the restaurant was empty explained I would need to wait at least 30 minutes for a table as it wasn 't fair that someone who had booked a table had just been seated, there was 4 staff standing doing nothing in the second bar while 1 staff member had approx 8 people at the first bar, the lady who told me she was the manager Bex spoke very loudly and her attitude stunk!! I I asked her if all the empty tables was booked and she said no, but it wasn 't fair for me to be given a seat as someone who had booked a table had jut been seated, The pub is actually very dirty and tbh I 'm glad she asked me to leave when she did there was all flies in the first bar swarming the beer trays!! I had asked for a menu and one of the young ladies was going to give me one but then again Bex came to the rescue and explained we was not allowed to view the menu even though there was several tables available!! I then asked to speak to the manager and a chef was sent out to speak to me, upon seeing the chef I am glad I did not eat from this establishment, he said he was the owner and was also very argumentative and said I had swore at Bex , when I had not, I had just told her I could speak louder than she could, if there was an option to give a 0 rating then I would of done just that!! I don 't understand the reasoning behind them having tables and chairs which cannot be used!! Went here when I was younger and it 's gone very downhill, I wonder when the last time it had a hygiene inspection was?

Attended a wedding here and fell in love with the venue! It was intimate and wonderful for a wedding. I love the 'quirky mess ' of this place with it actually being crooked! I would like to know more about its history! Only had one issue with this venue and that was the flies while we were trying to eat. A waitress explained it 's because he chef grows his own veggies herbs so therefore uses manure on his garden.

We thought it strange that there was only one table occupied in the middle of the day. It soon became clear.Throughout our meal we were trying to stop them landing on our food, flies landed on two out of the five meals which were then abandoned. We told the waitress and the person who took the payment and the response was the doors are open , we could see people sat outside who were not swatting flies away.