The Queen's Head

Visited 28/04/2023 and it was our first time here, so not seen it before the much-mentioned refurbishment. It seemed like a lovely place to me. We booked online which was quick and easy and were swiftly led to our table and given menus. We ordered drinks and they came swiftly, followed by poppadoms and the mains. The food was really nice. We had Indian food and didn't sample the pub grub type food. It was classic Indian in one sense, but each dish seemed to have some kind of interesting twist. There was something sprinkled on top of the Pilau rice for example which had a really unique flavour but only briefly. My curry had some long thin sticks of ginger on top (see pics). But it was all lovely. My wife has the lamb passanda, and I had chicken karai, and both were superb. Spice levels were indicated clearly on the menu and seemed accurate to me. There were all kinds of layers of flavour within my chicken karai so each mouthful was interesting. Very impressed. We felt like it had a really good atmosphere actually. It was medium-busy with a friendly hubub of chatter. There was some music playing. The decor was pleasant. It all seemed clean. The menus were professional in nice cases. The staff were attentive and I get the impression they'd have bent over backwards to ensure we had a nice time. They called me by my name when asking if we wanted the bill - a personal touch that shows they like to make an effort. Overall we had a very nice time. If I was being super picky I could pick out a few shortcomings. Firstly, the staff were a little uncoordinated. We were asked twice by different people if we wanted drinks, and if we wanted poppadoms, and then 3 different people asked how our food was after it arrived. Better to be asked 3 times than not at all, but it was a little disruptive and they could probably have communicated about who was serving us. Secondly, the service was a bit too fast. We had drinks, poppadoms, mains and were paying within 35 minutes. We would have been quite happy there for 90 minutes if they'd chilled out a little and taken their time. Thirdly our naan didn't come out until we were about half way through our mains. I'd rather have waited a few more minutes and had it together. Fourth we asked for a poppadom each and were given and charged for 3, and finally there were no little chockies with the bill! I always love those at Indian restaurants. Those are picky little things, and I've taken off 1 star for them all. Overall a nice place which will hopefully become our local! We will definitely be coming back as its right round the corner and the food was so nice. I'd recommend you give it a try.
Apr 27th, 2023

Food : 4/5 | Service : 2/5 | Atmosphere : 4/5 Parking space Plenty of parking Parking options Free parking lot More
Apr 25th, 2023

Over priced & awful Poor quality and poor service
Apr 24th, 2023

Food : 5/5 | Service : 5/5 | Atmosphere : 5/5 More
Apr 23rd, 2023

This used to be a great pub, we used to go a regular basis. Visited yesterday, it was awful and expensive. We ordered plaice and chips. The plaice was poor quality, more hard breadcrumbs than fish and hard dry oven chips. Only 6 people in the pub at 13.00 hrs. We will never go again. Parking: The car park was empty at lunch time. That says it all.
Apr 16th, 2023