Arbor Lights is very civilised with a lovely warm atmosphere, friendly staff, not to mention comfy…read moresofas! Although one of Walsall's pricier places to eat, it's well worth it. They serve delicious meals in the restaurant area and light snacks in the bar. The food's always outstanding and they offer a seasonal menu with ingredients sourced locally. Arbor Lights really is a cut above the rest! It's ideal for romantic meals, a drink after work or just meeting up with friends. Near the town centre with plenty of parking nearby

Ate here last week and the food was unexpectedly sublime. My cod mornay was incredible (was the…read morefish of the day) and my partner's steak was similarly brilliant and cooked perfectly. Our starters were dazzling in their presentation (oriental pork belly, goat's cheese hash) and a ludicrous brownie (home made) to finish. Good selection of craft ales and the music was great too (REM, Stones, etc). Seriously recommended.

I have been visiting the plough and harrow for a few years now. I cannot fault the quality of food…read moreor service. The place itself is warm and beautiful and the menu is perfectly crafted according to the time of year. Each season they create a refreshing new menu with locally sourced ingredients and high quality fish and meat.

I travel from the US a couple of times a year and always stop here for lunch. The steak sandwich…read moreis great! The building has the late 1800's feel. Cozy and comfortable. A true hidden gem!

A country pub but not far from home. Gentleshaw is about 15 minutes drive from Walsall but feels a…read moremillion miles from the hustle and bustle. It is at the edge of Cannock Chase and if you sit on the far side of the pub by the window you can see for miles. The name comes from the old windmill in the grounds across the bowling green. In the winter it is lovely sitting by the roaring fire. There is a bar, lounge and upstairs restaurant. Sunday lunch is excellent with a good choice of meat. You can also order off the menu. The fish and chips are massive and amazing with crispy batter. Never had a bad meal here just sometimes they go over the top with peas but if you love them it's fine. They do good bread and butter pudding with custard. They also do real ale.

Beautiful pub and homecooked food with friendly staffread more

Went there on Easter. Buffet was fresh, hot and gosh dang tasty…read more The restaurant and restrooms were spotless. Only negative was the beer choice on draught. So I'll never go there if I felt like a good beer. But when I'm hungry...

A lovely pub and a pub I would visit again. Staff are friendly and the service they offer is…read moreexcellent. I have not had any food at the Malt Shovel but from what my friends have told me, the carvery is very nice. The beer garden is pretty spacious. It is a lovely place to be when it is a warm day and you have got a pint. Toilets are not too bad in terms on cleanliness. I found that a lot of old people do visit the Malt Shovel particularly during the afternoon. The Malt Shovel is a great place to be when it comes to live sports being shown at the pub and there are plenty of screens around the pub. I will be going back to the Malt Shovel and next time out I am going to try the food on offer at the pub. Should be interesting.

I ate here 2 months ago and it was awful. I should have known it would be a nightmare as i have had…read moreproblems here before but we thought we'd try it and the food was overpriced, microwaved and generally terrible. On my previous visit, i had struggled to pull up a high chair with my daughter and bag under my arm, the lady who worked there just sat there with her friend watching, once i managed to get myself sorted and get my daughter fed the lady came over and told me i couldn't sit there as the table was reserved (it was 3.30 on a quiet afternoon, all of 3 other people in the place) i couldn't believe how rude she was, she said she was the manager as well ! when i said 'thanks a lot' under my breath she started having a go at me, we vowed never to go in there again. Food is generally £10 per head, fish dishes from £14, a bit pricey for poor food and poor service. I have given this place 2 stars as they do have a gated area outside that is good for children to play in the summer, however you are not allowed to eat anything more that a starter out there and that generally causes them an inconvieniance !

I used to be a huge fan of this place but it has really gone down hill. We visited last week and…read moreour meal was appalling. Upon arrival we noted that the tables were sticky, there were children gambling on the fruit machines and the whole place seemed chaotic. The chap on the opposite table was in the process of sending his steak back as it was inedible. We should have left at that point in hindsight. Our starters never arrived and having heard the other complaints regarding the food we decided to go without them and move onto the mains. My meal wasn't even cooked?! The meat on my brothers mixed grill was inedible and my husbands pie was 98% mash! To add insult, the meals had clearly been sitting under a heat lamp for quite some time as the lettuce on the salads was brown and slimy. We asked to speak to the 'manager' who could not have cared less and didn't seem to understand why we were complaining. She just stared at my father with a vacant look on her face. She made no attempt to apologize and seemed to think that this was nothing out of the ordinary. To make matters worse, when I said that the the whole meal was awful and older waitress collecting drinks at the bar turned and laughed at me! I'm so glad she found our ruined family meal so funny. I can only imagine that they are under new management as standards have really slipped. The kitchen needs a visit from environmental health if they think that sending out un cooked food and off smelling meat is acceptable. I have made a formal complaint to the brewery in the hope that they can intervene and save what was once a lovely pub.

It's superb. Simple as that. I went last night. £14.50 for 3 courses! Pretty much everything is…read morehome made. We are just at the beginning of asparagus season - so that's what I ordered. Asparagus, wrapped in Parma ham topped with a golden tolled egg. Delicious. For the main, I went for home made corned beef hash. Brined brisket of beef, slow cooked with beetroot, (mainly to add colour), with a perfect egg on top. 10/10. It's not of the evening menu - apparently it's not good enough - but IF you ask nicely.... Desserts are known to be great here. You won't get a better chocolate brownie. Last night I went for an orange/almond cake with orange coulis/sauce. Brilliant. Please try this place. It's incredible value for money and excellent food.

Self-styled as Sutton Coldfield's best kept secret, the Butlers Arms is being a little bit modest…read moreto say the least. It wouldn't be no exaggeration to call this smallish pub in the Four Oaks suburbs 'Birmingham's best kept secret'. I can't really think of another pub where you need to book a table on a Monday evening! Those in the know just can't get enough of the place... and this is why. Visit on Mondays, Tuesdays or Wednesday and you can enjoy a three-course meal of first-rate, intelligent pub cuisine for a mere £11.50! I started with the chicken terrine, which came with a welcome helping of crusty bread. For mains I had a gorgeous burger with hand cut chips that came presented in a china mug! These little touches mean so much! My sweet was cheese and biscuits and, unlike many pub's attempts at one of my favourite desserts, there was plenty of it. If you want to treat your family or impress you friends this is the place to go. I can't even begin to tell you about the Sunday lunches or the early bird specials... Go find out for yourself!

I was let down, took 3.5 hours, and we didn't receive the cheese platter. The table beside us did,…read morewe were getting everything at the same speed as the other table, so we were made to wait for a long while with no food or beverage.

This just happens to be a ridiculously good restaurant disguised as a modest pub in the middle of…read morenowhere. I can't really think of anywhere you can get better food if I'm honest. The menu changes daily based on what they have fresh and what they could shoot that week (seared pigeon is amazing). The staff are all very friendly and its an excellent all round dining experience. Not too pretentious and lacking a lot of the frills that can come with this kind of quality meal but thats why I like it. Definitely book ahead but well worth a visit. The only downside is that its difficult to decide what to order with such a good selection.

Permanent closed，do not come here. Restaurant changed, now…read moreit's a bar only offer drink

A wonderful meal for my father's 80th birthday…read more Starters were; scallops and the fried cheese. Mains were; surf and turf, 18oz Fillet, mashed potatoes, onion rings, and mixed veg. Desserts were; white chocolate cheesecakes. Wine; Malbec and Chardoney Afternoon opening 12-3, nice underground setting - great artwork dotted about. Nice selection of wines and ales. Service was great. Knowledgable staff. The food was superb. Scallops were tasty, and accompanied with a delicious aoli. My steak was cooked to perfection - medium rare, my parents has medium and again it was exactly as you'd expect. Dessert was sweet without being too strong, and went perfectly with a double espresso. There's also a nice selection of spirits for the end of the meal, so a frangelico and a whiskey were also appreciated. I can't recommend it enough. Price was good. Plenty of other local bars around to nip to after. Happy customer!

I've been to a couple TGI Fridays before, in Aberdeen and Sheffield and I didn't enjoy it that…read moremuch, but now Walsall has the restaurant so I wanted to try it out. The other weekend we went in about 5pm and could not get a table unless we wanted to wait 1.45 hours so we left. Next day I phoned up to book a table for a week's time, to be told all bookings were filled but some tables are free for walk ins, but there may still be a long wait. So we planned it, to arrive on opening at 12pm (we actually arrived at 11.30am n had a walk round the shops lol). We got our table and used a birthday offer email for smoothies and ordered a main each. I had the jack Daniels chilli hot dog and my boyfriend had the chicken strips. The chicken was nice, I really liked the sauce. My hot dog was best one I have tried, compared to Marco Pierre White etc the bun was soft and fresh. Only thing was it was all served in a trough like container so it was hard to slice the hot dog up and very messy to pick up and eat. But I managed it. You do have to pay for parking outside TGI but the restaurant is good. I would come again.. I played the match n win game on their app and won a bottomless Coke drink which expires in October so it's worth downloading the app. Download the TGI Fridays UK App, use my code LingYi78, scan barcode on your receipt and you'll get a free appetiser!

Where do start? Second visit here after it opened a couple of months ago. Well the first visit was…read moreplagued with long waits and not being able to get hold of our server. Was hoping for a better experience. Well it's a wet and windy bank holiday Monday. First of all we drive round the pay & display car park to no avail so we had to park over the road. After trying to decide where to eat we chose TGIs we were informed there would be a 30 to 40 minute wait. We went and sat at the bar to have a drink to wait. About half an hour later our buzzer went off and we were shown to our table. This was a high booth right outside the toilet door by the pass. Not a problem unless you are vertically challenged like me. I felt like Alice in Wonderland because my feet were swinging and came no where near the rail for your feet. We had already been looking at the menu while at the bar. It took 10 minutes for our server to come over to take our order. A Let's Play Ball hot dog with no pickle or ketchup and a crispy duck fajita with a Coke Zero no ice. My partner had his drink of Coke Zero he had at the bar. Another 10 minutes wait for the coke which came with ice, I reminded our server that I had asked for no ice. She took it away and returned with a drink sans ice. We watch food pile up on the pass before it went out some on there for more than 10 minutes. About 25 minutes after we ordered our food came out. My tortillas came out then I had to wait for my duck. Our food had not say for long. Mine was ok just really really messy. Not first date food. My partner didn't like the topping on his hot dog the bit in to one of the fries. He pulled a face and went yuck. I knew they were seasoned. He can't have salt due to medical reasons and hasn't for about 9 months. I then tried one and they were disgustingly salty. I called our server over. Explaining that no where on the menu does it say the fries are seasoned just crispy. That we normally would ask for no seasonal on if stated on the menu. She tried to offer us more fries but my partner didn't want them. I asked to speak to the manager. A manager, Nigel came over. I explained again and he tried to offer us more fries but my partner refused. I just said they were over seasoned and it should be stated. We were asked a couple more times by a couple of people if everything was OK. We replied yes so we didn't have to explain again. My partner ate half of his hot dog and none of the fries. I ate most of my fajitas. We then waited for our server to clear our table and get the bill. I nipped to the toilet to wash my hands because they were sticky from my fajitas. I returned and no one came. About 10 minutes had passed. Some then dropped something in the kitchen and a shard of ceramic about the size of a thumb nail came frying over the pass and hit my partner on his arm. I shouted 'that just hit him on the arm' and a manager was summoned. We then started discuss what happened again. He then said he would sort something out and went off to get our bill. After I explained we had been waiting for the bill and table to be cleared for 10 minutes. I said the service and experience had not been good and half off the food had not been enough. After my partners arm had started bleeding. He then wanted it to go in the accident book. He then just came out with a folded piece of paper the said we didn't have to pay anything. We told him we would not return. They even took food off the pass that could have had shards of ceramic in from the drop. If you want the TGI experience avoid Walsall and go to Hagley Road or Sutton Coldfield much better all round. Just to add I have been home for two hours and the food is still repeating on me. I think it is the greasiness of the duck.