Tried it again, now it's under new management. Genuinely impressed - the food was always excellent…read more- it still is, but more fitting. Would compare it favourably to Hand and Flowers, Marlow. Much better is that the welcome is warm now. Fantastic to have a great gastropub close to home.

Really lovely and warm welcome, an incredible menu selection and knowledgeable staff…read more Its in such a pretty little area too.

A very large pub in a residential part of Milton Keynes. A range of meals, quite an extensive menu,…read moreat reasonable prices. Food was very good, service was good too. Staff were pleasant.

Great family run pub, good selection of drinks, food and very clean. Highly recommend.read more

This is my local. Everything you can expect from your local including fabulous food. Only peckish,…read morethey serve some lovely baguettes/sandwiches for £5 and come with chips, side salad (very fresh, very nice with dressing) and a lovely creamy coleslaw, I recommend the following (and my stomache is growling thinking about them) prawn bagutte, Chicken, Chirizo and cheese Panini and their burgers. More hungry they have a full menu and my better half rave over the Liver and bacon, whilst I prefer the steak (juicy). Very nice staff and whilst they don't remeber my name (don't get out without the kids much) more importantly they do remember what I drink, what more do you need from your bar staff!! PLEASE NOTE, this is not a place to take the kids, this is a place to go if you are lucky enough to escape from them for a couple of hours. Fancy a flutter they run a poker night on a Thursday

I have been here on three very different accounts, ie Lunch, Sunday Lunch & Snacks…read more Every time it has been perfect, food is hearty and good quality, staff lovely and on a whole its what we have craved so much in a good local pub in west MK. Cant fault it as is has that local feel but with the high end gastro touch, great decor too, cant wait to see what they do with the garden.

i have visited the talbot inn at m/k and found excelent food,staff were very friendly great value…read morefor money,the over 50 deal what a great idea, i would recomend this inn and i will be back very soon.well done to all staff for makeing me so welcome , good luck

The Waiter said that they have No Chicken dishes. This was…read moreat 5 o'clock so they had just started cooking food It took nearly 3 hrs from start to finish. It was to expensive. For an example one cheesecake £9:45, the seabass wasn't much on the plate for £20:45 Maybe go back for a drink in the garden

Great food, Great views, Great beer. This pub is everything you could ever want from a village…read morelocal. Situated in the tiny village of Great Brickhill in Buckinghamshire this pub is a great mix between hub of the community and classy country pub date material. On one side you have the restaurant serving up delicious local produce such as steak as well as a few spanish flavours (tony the landlord is from the canary islands) On the other side is the public bar with a few round tables and a roaring log fire in the winter months to keep you cosy. In the summer the garden is wonderful overlooking the beautiful countryside of aylesbury Vale. They also have various events throughout the year such as tapas nights and beer festivals. The drinks selection is good with some fine real ales and a decent selection of wines as well as some fine salty dog crisps to snack on if you're only there for a drink. Its also only 15 mins in the car from the centre of Milton Keynes so after a hard days shopping its a great place to unwind. Little known facts about this pub: the krays used to drink there as they had their countryside abode just across the road, Mick Jagger has had lunch there when researching the movie enigma. If you find yourself in this neck of the woods, i would heartily reccomend it.

So after looking online for places to eat around the area, Shoulder of Mutton's name kept popping…read moreup, not so much on Yelp, but other review sites. Its an 'old skool' pub, which engages with the community, serving the best grub in town... well I kind of agree some what. On arrival, we were told we had to order a drink before we were allowed to sit at a table, there were quite a few empty tables, I thought this was strange and unnecessary, the pair who just arrived before us, didn't seem to have order before taking their seats. I remember a time when I received this kind of treatment was up north in Middlesbrough. But anyway, the venue is quite cosy, intimate, small, but had a lot of character, it is an old building after all and certainly well looked after. There is even that smell of coldness when a new customer enters the 'cabin' The menu looks good, and I can see why people here has given nice review, ordered burger and chips, burger came in a nice bun, burger was home made, and its was skin on chips. Certainly the type of food you would not be served at a local cafe, or chip shop. I guess its not a surprise to me, because living in London, its kind of the standard. But I would still have given four star. However the food took over an hour to arrive with no apology, had to asked for sauces.

The Crown at Great Horwood is a nice village pub with a small dining area with about 4 tables. The…read moremenu is fairly small, but quite varied with some additional menu items in the evening and a reasonable selection of wines. The food is quite good, but seems a little overpriced for the quality of food on offer, although the portion sizes are quite good. There was a group of us and we tried a selection of starters, all were around £4.50 each: Black Pudding stack with pancetta was nice, but there was an over abundance of onion relish; mushrooms with port and cream, quite tasty but served with half a bought-in Ciabatta bread which seemed an odd match; a huge portion of fairly ordinary pate served with a large pile of white toasty loaf. Mains ranged from around £8-15 each. Coq au vin was quite nice and good value at £8.25, but seemed to have been over cooked and perhaps bought-in; chicken with Brie and Pancetta for £11.95 was perhaps the best of the bunch, but was served with a few over cooked and very oily new potatoes; the £15 rib eye steaks did not appear to be rib eye and was ordered medium rare and arrived medium to well. On the up side the food wasn't bad, just below expectations. The service was rather slow all round, but the staff were friendly and helpful. The place gets busy so you should book in advance: so on this basis I'd try the place again, but I'd probably try the simpler dishes and see how they turn out. The pub is in the middle of the village, but has a reasonable amount of off-road parking.

Had Sunday lunch here. Beautiful village setting…read more Delicious food at a very reasonable price. Wonderful polite and helpful staff. Even the scary looking shaven headed bar man turned out to be a decent chap. Will definitely come again.

My family and I went here for an Easter dinner rather than staying home. As soon as we walked in…read morethe atmosphere was warmly welcoming and the service was impeccable. Our food arrived promptly with pub-like presentation which met expectations. The food was of good quality with a large range of dishes to choose from. Additionally, their accompanying wines were reasonably priced. However, the food was on the high side price wise for a pub but the menu suggests that it is catering as a restaurant. I would highly recommend this pub/restaurant for anyone fancying a nice night out with their family.

The Betsey Wynne describes itself on the web site as an award winning country village pub, and…read morelooks like it has been there for a few hundred years, but looks can be deceiving. Despite the traditional village pub looks, the building opened in 2006 and is probably described as a gastro pub, certainly not a village pub. From what I can research it has won an award, but not for the food: it won the South East New Build category in the CLA's Rural Building Award Scheme. I find this rather misleading: if it has won any food awards please let me know and I'll update the review. We arrived on a fairly busy Saturday evening for a pre-booked table, booking looks like a good idea as it was very busy. The bar area is small, the pub is definitely aimed at diners, so we were happy that we'd booked a table so we could sit down to have our drinks. The draft beer and bottle of red wine were both nice. I asked the waitress for more details about the King Prawns in Garlic Butter (£7.95) starter, she went away to check and when she came back she described it as prawns cooked in garlic butter (duh!). Sounded fine so I ordered it and what we got was 6 large prawns, with heads still attached, in garlic butter with a little lemon and some fresh bread. Strange the heads on didn't get a mention when I asked for clarification it seemed like a key feature to me! We also had some additional bread (£2.95) some of which had been stood around cut, so the edges were dry and hard, served with an small dish with lots of oil and a tiny bit of balsamic vinegar hiding in the bottom: not impressive. For one of the mains we had an Aberdeen Angus ribeye steak with onion rings, tomato, hand cut chips and (a singular) mushroom (£18.95). Generally this was very good: onion rings were homemade, the steak was very nice. My only complaint was that the twice-cooked chips were soft and fluffy in the middle, but not crisp on the outside. The second main was Glen Falloch venison (£16.95) served with an orange and juniper jus, dauphinoise potatoes and spinach. The venison and jus were very good, the spinach was fine, but between the two some thinly sliced caramelised onions were a little too sweet. I wasn't too keen on the dauphinoise potatoes, I thought they had an odd after taste, but my fellow diner thought they were fine. We briefly dabbled with the idea of sharing some cheese for pudding, but after the waitress went away to check the selection (stilton, cheddar and goats cheeses) we decided not to bother. At this price-point the service was disappointing: the waitress didn't know details of the prawn dish, or know what cheeses were on the cheese board, and we had to ask to receive side plates and a steak knife. The Betsey Wynne is nice, but it is trying to be up-market and to do this the standard of the food and the service both need to improve. The building and car park are both good, but what goes on inside the building needs to improve.

While the food took a very long time to come out because there was an error in the cooking process,…read morethe service we received after was very pleasant. The manager came over and offered us another cocktail free and made the wait worth it!

I used to love Furzton Lake when I was a vegetarian, their mac and cheese always hit the spot for…read moreme. Since going vegan, I'd only gone back once and had beans on toast and felt the options were limited. My sister suggested going there for lunch and I initially said no before deciding to check if they'd changed their menu. To my surprise they had added a vegan fish and chips -- which was well-priced and simple, but did the job and I'll definitely be back again. Quick service too, missed a couple things off our order but was quickly rectified. Has a real family pub vibe. Recommend for a catch-up with friends or an affordable meal out with family. Only issue I found is it could be a lot cleaner - floors were covered in food but fortunately we weren't eating on the floor!

In a city with such little heart it's a blessing that somewhere so honest and true has prevailed,…read moreagainst all the odds. That somewhere is The Cricketers, Milton Keynes. Whilst my experiences here are limited to Thursday's "Curry Club", prior to the rugby last night, that singular experience transcended normality, taking me and my colleagues to formerly uncharted territory in terms of our gastronomic Weltanschauung. Besides the aforementioned Balti-Bonanza, the pub's kitchen produces food offerings covering all corners of the globe, including American, British, Italian and even fusion via their unique "Mix-it-up Buckets". Rarely in life do you find such culinary variety in one place. Lager lovers are very well served here as The Cricketers boasts Stella Artois, Carlsberg, San Miguel and Coors Light on tap - a line-up more impressive than the '98/'99 United team. From an entertainment perspective you'll find SIX fruit machines, a top quality Winmau Blade 4 dart-board (as used in BDO professional competitions), a pool table and many, many televisions. There truly are very few places on God's Earth that stir the soul in the way The Cricketers in Milton Keynes does. Bravo.

I'm not sure how old this pub is but I have a feeling that it might be around the same age as…read moreMilton Keynes, though it does have more charm that many of the other parts of the town has. I thought it was okay mind you, but still, there are better pubs out there.