The Little Owl

New Year, new you? Join us for Veganuary and take your pick from our hearty Vegan menu, full of colour and flavour - perfect for new resolutions! 🥑🥕🥦 Explore our menu 👉 http://bit.ly/Vegan-Menu

Happy New Year! To celebrate, we’re treating you to 33% off food between 2nd - 13th January! This offer is available exclusively on our Vintage Inns app. Simply download and register today to get your voucher! T&Cs: http://bit.ly/2CKPg3m iOS: https://apple.co/2S69rhl Android: http://bit.ly/2CWQMQe

Happy New Year! 🙌 Raise a glass to a fresh, new you this January 🥂

Happy New year to all our customers from 2018 and welcome to our customers from 2019!!! Thanks to everyone who have visited us and spent their special occasions with us! See you in 2019!!!!

We are currently looking for passionate chefs with a great eye for detail to join our team. Do you know someone who is looking for a change?

Christmas Eve | All is calm, all is bright 🌟

Still looking for the perfect present this Christmas? Give the gift of time spent with friends and family with a Vintage Inns gift card 👉 http://bit.ly/VintageInnsGiftCards

Cold days = delicious hot drinks ☕ Join us for a delicious mulled wine.

The countdown to Christmas is finally here!🎅🎄⭐ Book your festive meal with us today https://bit.ly/Vintage-Inn-Festive-Season

Brace your 'elfs, you can now enjoy our festive menu! 🎄❄️ Book now and join us this Christmas season! https://bit.ly/Vintage-Inn-Festive-Season

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Such a brilliant night last night for our Taste of Christmas event. Thank you to those who were able to attend and for your kind words. Here's a sneak peek of some of the photos.

Chilly temperatures and shorter days call for one thing...gorgeous, hearty meals! Join us for our Sunday Roasts: http://bit.ly/VintageInnsSundayRoast

Last day tomorrow!

COMPETITION
WIN one of ten bottles of Bottom Sniffer Beer for Dogs for your four-legged friend to enjoy at The Little Owl! 🐾 For a chance to win, share your favourite picture of your pet and add the image to the comment section below. Competition ends on 17/11/2018 at 23.59. Full T&Cs apply https://bit.ly/2RAVnvq

We are currently recruiting for chefs to join our fantastic team in our newly refurbished pub. If you have a passion for food and cooking then click here to apply or drop us a message for more details. https://www.harri.com/Little-Owl-10/job/9 62443-Chef

Visiting NEC, gardeners world/bbc good food show, eaten at The Little Owl Friday night and Saturday night, both nights amazing food, very attentive staff, couldn’t fault a thing, well done all ��

What a waste of time the gin tasting was last night.

Winning a competition for a gin tasting session & stating we would be able to taste a ‘selection of gins.’ In reality we were told to go to a small room - for the amount of people whom had also won the competition - queued up for a gin to be given a sample taste and then when we went back up again, told now you had to purchase them. Don’t quite understand how this was meant to be a tasting session.

If we were told before arrival we would be given one free sample gin and then would have to purchase wouldn’t have bothered travelling for this�

The pub itself was lovely, a very cosy and rustic interior, it’s such a shame to have been let down by a disorganised gin tasting session. Surely a gin tasting session included a little talk about the gin, the history, a taster of several gins and what is recommended as it’s mixer & if you wanted to purchase a full size cocktail or a bottle of your favourite one then that would be your opportunity.



Disappointed.

Meh, as the kids say. Beautiful little pub, real log fires, great decor, what I would call a "proper pub" if located in a village somewhere.

Friendly staff but food was, at best, 'ok' if feeling very generous. Server forgot cutlery and very short staffed on the bar to the extent my food was cool by the time I got back. And the taps in the toilet upstairs are broken. Massive improvements required for kitchen quality and staffing numbers. Saying that, I'll be back: nowhere else is in walking distance from the hotel.

We visited today and it was not busy but it took ages to get served. The food came and was cold!! Not good enough really! We did tell the staff.

We have been to this little pub every time we have stayed at the NEC but tonight the food was really bad !!! I ordered fish and chips it was that over cooked I couldn’t eat it!!! My husband ordered steak and that too was very over cooked and not very nice. It’s such a shame as this is a lovely little pub but we won’t be visiting again unless there is a vast improvement.

This could be such a lovely local pub within walking distance but it’s always disappointing..... went last Thursday certain lagers had ran out so had the cider on draught and some of the wines had ran out too... Went yesterday still no cider and only one bottle of Bulmers in the fridge... The camping and Caravan show was on at the NEC so they knew it could be busy there is really no need to run out...there is always staff shortages and no one behind the bar to serve.... never enough glasses as no one around to collect them off tables.... and the foods quite disappointing as well. The men’s toilets has a big hole in the floor and has been like that for well over a year the taos also don’t work in the men’s. The ladies toilets have hot taps that just keep running and do not turn off. The whole pub needs a complete overhaul probably starting with the brewery first!! ☹️☹️

Such a shame as this use to be a lovely pub however yesterday was terrible. Food ordered a huge wait even though it wasn’t busy had to send meal back as wasn’t cooked correctly and came back worse. We had to clear the tables ourselves as no one took away dirty plates even when we asked if they could. I would not recommend this as a good place to eat. Nobody cared that we weren’t happy either. Such a shame.

Poor everything! We stayed in the holiday inn and arrived at apx 7.30, wanting to have a nice dinner and an early night before flying in the morning. First impressions were good, nice cozy country pub. Menu was varied but not huge, starters £6+, mains £12+, puds £6 & kids main meal £5.50. So not cheap pub grub. We eventually ordered at the bar after being ignored by staff for a few minutes, lager off but found alternative. When food arrived, even the children were shocked and I wish I had taken photos! Kids meal 1- The kids burger was so small and dried up, 8 chips & a desert spoon of dried up beans. Kids meal 2- 1 sausage, skin coated mash and an even smaller amount of beans - no gravy as mentioned on menu. Adults fish, chips & peas, fish looked like a frozen supermarket value portion, tasted of nothing and had wet batter (not freshly battered but prepackaged frozen) 12 over cooked chips and a pot of dried up peas (now I’m exaggerating! The pot had a coating of green peas and certainly was not a portion!) we actually laughed at how unbelievably bad it was! Our waiter fetched missing items but it was so bad I eventually asked for the manager who struggled to see a problem but wanted to know how he could help.... I told him not to expect a pleasant review and I was asked if he provide a refund would the review go away!!!! Er no! Bathroom were disgusting and food made school dinners look amazing. Having looked at other reviews now, our experience appear to be the norm for this place and management will respond with shock that customers expectations are not met, well start with kids meals and work up because my children are not that tricky to please and you failed miserably.

My family and I attended your pub this evening and ordered four meals.

The children ordered chicken with bacon and bbq sauce off the menu, my husband ordered a burger with extra bacon and I ordered steak and ale pie.

We waited 40 minutes for our food for it to arrive with no bacon with the children’s meal and my pie was a chicken and mushroom / leek instead of steak and ale!!

My husband had one slice of streaky bacon for £1.00! Which seems a bit extreme for one slice of bacon.

My pie was sent back and I waited a further 10 minutes for what I actually ordered, meanwhile the bacon came out for the children, which was only slightly grilled and my daughter choked on a slice.

A lady at he bar asked if she was ok, but no other assistance was offered as my daughter was clearly distressed.



The lady did offer us complimentary tea or coffee or pudding but after a dramatic and long wait for food we just left as we sat for 5 minutes after our food and our table was not cleared.



Overall very poor service from start to finish and we will not be returning again!