Recommended by the Belle Vue Guest House in Denver. Popular venue, lovely fresh food, super service and next to super lovely Stow Hall Gardens. Will be returning!!

We have eaten here before on a Sunday and weren't impressed then but we thought we'd give it another go for my brother's birthday. On the upside the staff were friendly. The starters were variable. The tempura mushrooms, for instance, were particularly disappointing. Two mushrooms...dipped in batter with a sauce and a bring salad. The chilli beef was good however. Despite booking in and giving them our order weeks in advance, we then had to wait nearly an hour for our main meals. Two out of nine people were happy. I'm not sure how an incinerated nut roast can then be served cold, the gravy was gloopy and lumpy and I haven't eaten vegetables that cold and boring since I was a child at my nans in the eighties. It is a very rare event for me to leave half a plate of food but felt quite sick of the textures. I did eat the very nice roasties and Yorkshires I had left after donating one to my poor husband faced with the Cajun chicken. The Cajun chicken was on another dull plate of salad, disappointing to look at as much as to eat. Meals were too salty, the battered fish looked like it had merely seen a fryer. The ribs were good and the sandwich was all eaten. We'll not be eating here again and would advise others against it.More

Our previous visit was not our best experience but this most recent trip was very good in every way. The young staff were excellent; both polite and efficient. We enjoyed the variety on the menu and the drinks selections were good too. It was a...chillier day and we arrived quite early and found it a little cool and my lunch did cool a little too quickly for my liking and to be fair the other in our party disagreed with me but once the restaurant filled the atmosphere soon warmed up. We will not leave it so long before we returnMore

To celebrate my sisters 60th birthday my brother and i took her to dinner with all the significant others . The choices on the menu catered for all needs and the days special .....steak and mushroom suet pudding was superb . I love food which...brings back memories of younger days and the desert of whiskey and honey bread and butter pudding nailed it completely . The service was excellent and friendly . The atmosphere is also friendly . The decor is worth a further check as some of the old metal signs are truly evocative . We fully intend to visit again . Thank you to all at the Hare Arms for a lovely evening .More

Elsewhere on this site you will find reviewers described by the owner as "moaners" and "keyboard warriors" and he asks for understanding and kindness during these difficult pandemic times. Well, it works both ways and I can only relate our experience as it felt to...us. We cycled fifty miles from home to this pub where we had a dinner reservation - before cycling a further ten miles to our B&B. We wheeled our bikes round the back and asked the staff if it was ok to park them there. That settled, we went in and ordered. Shortly after our meal arrived my wife noticed our bikes had disappeared! After our initial panic we found that the owner had decided they were a "Health & Safety hazard" and had taken it upon herself to drag/carry them to another location! We had locked them together with two locks - one through the frames and another through the wheels. My wife's bike had been left to dangle by the lock from mine with a wheel off the ground. Both bikes were also laden with bags. The owner repeatedly claimed she did not know who they belonged to but that "they were a H&S hazard" and had to be moved immediately. The pub was far from crowded and we were the only customers sitting there in full cycling gear and yet she didn't feel she needed to summon the courtesy to come and ask us to move them. Her attitude seemed to be one of total indifference that these bikes were our sole means of transport for a sixty mile ride home on a bank holiday weekend. A bent derailleur could have left us stranded. As cyclists we were clearly a massive irritation to her despite being paying customers and her repetetive, stony apologies did nothing to restore our ruined evening or to convince us we should ever go there again.More

Lovely meal today with my family for my 60th birthday. All the food was lovely for 13 of us. My steak was juicy.

Visiting this pub spoiled an otherwise lovely weekend. Stopped by for Sunday lunch and the service was atrocious. Manager did not have any oversight of what was going on the kitchen and orders were not served in a timely manner. This pub is clearly very...popular with the locals, but visiting trade is not welcome. Food was also very disappointing and not worth the money.More