The Poachers Cottage in Stafford

We arrived at the Poachers Cottage and were slightly disappointed that it took about 8 minutes to be shown to our table as the manageress was busy serving customers behind the bar.Once shown to our seat the waitress was very polite, helpful and efficient.We went to the salad bar and were still shocked that you have to have the salad bar served to you funnily enough by the manageress who was too busy earlier.Why are you persisting with this method. Does it save you money as people don't get quite as big a salad and as they have to be served don't go back for seconds? Or is is still a left over Covid19 protocol?If its to do with people touching the serving spoon, why don't you provide each customer there own plastic serving spoon and when they have finished they drop it in a "basket" at the end of the salad bar. These spoons can either be cleaned in the kitchen or disposed of by recycling in a box near the salad bar?Food, once ordered, arrived quickly and was to the normal Harvester quality.Would award only 4* as 1* deducted due to the displeasure over the salad bar.

Fantastic place to go to, the staff were so helpful and always got a smile for you even with my 2 yr old grandson running round getting in their way and made a mess. The food was top notch, it was all very hot and so tasty. Well worth a visit.

Food was amazing ! Table service was too. Not a thing to complain about. Went for lunch, wasn't too busy which was nice and plenty of parking available

Visited for colleague meal on a Friday night. Table booked for 7pm. Meal was absolutely lovely - I had beef brisket- see photo. Only complaint is that they started hinting heavily that we should leave at 9.30 by bringing out the cleaner! Eventually they asked us to leave at 10pm. No problem with that but it would have been nice to have been told when booking or even on arrival. Be warned if you book here.Apart from that, a great night👍

Well actually I was pleasantly surprised. There were 4 people in our party and we went to poachers cottage as a spur of the moment decision. And we all really enjoyed it. The food was good and not overly expensive £90 for 4 mains, desert's and 2 rounds of drinks. The service was great, all in very pleasant surroundings. So all in all a great night out.

First time in a long time I’ve ate out in a pub and thoroughly enjoyed the food, service and atmosphere!Family of four, all had different dishes, all came out at the same same time, hot, fresh and very tasty. Salad bar was good, bread rolls nice and fresh, CANT fault this place at all, will definitely be back!Oh, and I had the kickin garlic sauce and spiked maple syrup as an accompaniment and loved it so much I bought a bottle of each to take home 😍

Great food goid service nice place we definitely be calling back

Very helpful members of Staff,particularly Tom. He kitchen had experienced gas supply problems and had resolved them by the time we arrived. Our meal was delicious, fresh and the salad bar crunchy, colourful and inviting. Will definitely go for a return visit.

We decided to eat out on Christmas day this year and chose The Harvester at £50 a head as it was very reasonable in comparison to other restaurants but still would of expected higher quality for the price. We were really disappointed. The pate starter was stone cold, including the toast and had a few strands of lettuce that looked like it had been unceremoniously thrown onto the plate. The Christmas lunch wasnt any better. The turkey was processed meat and the veg had barely seen a saucepan of boiling water and I could of quite easily of broken a tooth it was so undercooked, there again I had only been given 1 sprout whilst everyone else had a generous serving of 2!! not even any roasted parsnips included. I had the Christmas pudding to finish which was quite nice but the rest of the family had the Billionaire bar which they couldn't eat as the chocolate was very bitter tasting. All very disappointing and a poor show for £50 a head and we left the table still feeling quite hungry. The table service is the only thing we couldn't complain about as the staff were very attentive. Poor show Harvester and we won't be recommending or returning ourselves next year.

The location is good, the venue itself is nice enough. The staff are friendly and helpful, patient despite being busy! The food is perfectly pleasant but for the price of our dish I would have expected something higher quality. We did, however wait far too long to be served.