The Armoury

It’s G&T Saturday!
Our gin of the week is our favourite Tiger Gin served with Fever-tree tonic and fresh orange slices.
If you are out and about today pop in, say hi and sample our gin of the week.

Congratulations to the Jefferies family who won 100% off their food bill last night from one of our Christmas envelopes. Remember you still have time to use them before February 13th...just keep them unopened!

Treating that someone special in your life? Whether they are a group of friends, partner or family member, we have got you covered!
We have live music from the very talented Synergy and a menu full of small plates and sharing boards running alongside our daily menu.
We recommend booking a table to avoid disappointment. Call us on 01743340525 or email us at armoury@brunningandprice.co.uk

It’s Burns night so don’t forget to pop down and enjoy a dram or two from our selection of 100 Scottish whiskeys. We also have live music from the Melomanics so whip your kilt out and get your Scottish dance on.
Our Burns night menu will also be running alongside our daily menu if you fancy a change. £26.95 for a 4 course set menu.

!... This Friday ...!
Limited tables available. To book a table call us on 01743340535 or email us on armoury@brunningandprice.co.uk

With our burn's night event only a few days away we thought we would share some top ten facts about this traditional Scottish evening. Have a read and book your table with us for Friday 25th January to share your new acquired knowledge...
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-25 893710

Burns night evening is booking up fast so give us a call to book your table for Friday 25th January on 01743340525.
Still unsure if you fancy it? Here is a sneak peek of one of the dishes we will be serving on our Burns night evening - Vegetarian Haggis and paired with Lagavulin whisky. Delicious!

** Date for the diary **
Join us celebrating Burns night with a 4 course menu and a specially selected whiskey list to compliment each course.
We'll kick off at 7:30pm tasting the haggis with a wee dram, followed at 8pm with live music and merriment from The Melomanics.

We have you covered this year if you are participating in dry January with a wide selection of non-alcoholic gins, beer and cider!

We still have tickets left for our NYE event so call us on 01743340525 to reserve your tickets. This includes entry, a glass of fizz on arrival, live music from Vertigo and substantial canapés. It is a black tie event so put on your glad rags and celebrate new year with us!

Happy Christmas from all of us here, we are waiting to make your day extra special. Let us take this opportunity to thank all customers old and new for supporting us all year round. Hopefully we will see you at the bar for a drink later.
Have a wonderful Christmas.

We are choir night ready!!

Come join us tonight at 8pm. Our amazing neighbours ‘Get your Wigle on’ featuring our very own Armoury choir. Raising money for uplands care home. See you then!

Only 3 more sleeps until our choir night with the amazing ‘Get your Wigle on’. All proceeds going to The Uplands home please come and support a great cause and of course sing your hearts out!!!!!

It's that time of year again for our annual choir night so get into the Christmas spirit and join us on Sunday 23rd December from 8pm for some good old singing of your festive favourite tunes. We have the very talented choir from Get your Wigle on, plus some of our staff have made their own choir for this special evening so you may recognise some familiar faces... we don't don't just serve tables, we can sing also! Probably the newest, rising singing sensation Shrewsbury has ever seen! Don't believe us? Come and see for yourselves...
We will also be raising money on this evening for The Uplands nursing home who are very special to us so all proceeds will be going to them. Donation buckets will be coming round all night so please come along and show your support.

With Christmas just around the corner, this is the perfect time to organise a social get together. We are now offering drinks and nibbles packages for any group get together between Monday-Friday, 4pm-7pm. Whether you are planning a catch up with family, friends or work colleagues these packages are perfect for any social occasion.
Give us a call on 01743 340 525 for more information and to get your social event booked in with us. We still have tables left throughout December for drinks and nibbles so feel free to get in touch

Feeling stressed by the Black Friday sales? Just popped out for a loaf of bread and ended up with a whole new winter outfit...
What better way to unwind and relax than by enjoying a delicious glass of mulled wine by our roaring fire and forget those money woes.
We are serving all day from 12pm so pop in and say hello!

Wonderful, charasmatic pub at the side of the river. You walk in and are instantly taken aback at the sheer height and length of it along with comfy armchairs and plenty of seating. Staff are extremely friendly and hardworking. First time we felt relaxed during our hectic two day stopover in Shrewsbury and well worth a visit.

Very goid meal nice prawn starter super sea bream with Squid and rice. The bread and Butter pudding with Apricots snd clotted cream was superb and a great sized portion

Lovely food and drink was busy has it was the carnival but managed to find a table service was excellent and so was the food top notch would definitely return again �

Lovely dog friendly pub. Went in on Friday & returned again with our friends on Saturday.

Introduced two of my friends to this place...food is great we ate from the bite size menu. It is not fast food it is delicious though. Lovely atmosphere and staff. We will bring the men with us next time. Thank you.xx

Great place, fabulous food and lovely friendly staff. Glad to have found it.

Although the food was a bit dearer than a pub, it looked very good and served in a very clean environment. We were just drinking and found a great range of cask beers most being fairly local. All beers we tried were in top condition. Staff very friendly. Highly Recommend.

Would’ve got a 5 but unfortunately was offered a Gin and Tonic in a wine glass or a tumbler!!�.. There were lots Gin glasses about and the glass makes a difference ... I did say this to the bar person but he just said ‘sorry’ ..(instead of customer service’ let’s see what I can do ‘).. great location by the river ..

Two adults, two children. Food was good and plenty of it, table service good. Long wait for food after ordering. Pleasant experience.

Lovely pub and even better that it's dog friendly. We went for a drink there yesterday but unfortunately had our experience ruined by someone with an unruly dog who went for our dog but ended up biting my dad on the leg. Would still come back as the pub was lovely

I have eaten here many times over the year, both in the restaurant area and the bar. This time we were a 'walk in' and sat in the bar; my daughter and I had walked the dog through the Quarry and into town, she was treating me to an early Mother's Day lunch. I had never been in with the dog but there were a couple of other dogs in there too. It is useful to be able to do this as you can combine the walk with the lunch; I'm sure this provides extra revenue.



The quality at the Armoury is pretty consistent; you can guarantee some good food cooked to order and the menu caters for all tastes, however if you're a vegan then you'd struggle. I am veggie and found that the veggie meals relied heavily on diary. It may be different on other days but come on guys, it's about time you revised your menu in light of this.



The atmosphere is always great and they serve a variety of real ale. It's always busy, which illustrates their popularity.



The only other down side is accessibility; if you are a wheel chair user or struggling with a buggy (especially a double one) then it's difficult to get in. It is possible that they do have a ramp but this is not noted outside. If you are on your own and a wheel chair user how do you summon help to enable access? I feel this does need to be addressed.

Very disapointed as after 40 mins waiting they had a power cut to which they couldnt deliver our food, they said we couldnt leave unless we left card details, they said this dosent happen often how ever been informed it happened in april, we asked if we could have a complimentary drink while we waited to which they said no!, also asked if we could have starter's olives, Their loss we went to the Alb, absolutely great food and great staffing!!!!

Though a lovely place with friendly good service, the food selection on the vast menu for someone needing gluten and or dairy free were unfortunately disappointingly limited

I'm assuming there's been quite a few staff changes recently. On previous visits over the years I've always scored the Armoury 5 stars, sadly though last night's visit wasn't as good as it should have been. The guy waiting on our table needs to learn not to throw the plates down, but place them instead. Always useful to have your drinks served before starters turn up as well. Meals being served on stone cold plates is poor. However the meals we still nice, just lacking in basic finishing touches.

After visiting there several times and always very pleased with the food unfortunately yesterday was a different matter. 3 of our party had the roast option which was very disappointing,only warm and horrible roast potatoes and that was after a 40 min wait. This was mentioned to the waitress but nothing happened. It was mentioned again when paying the bill but that was too late.

We arrived a bit early which is just as well, because after an hour's wait we had still not been served with our mains. The starters (which were very nice) were pretty slow coming. In the end we left because we had an appointment but to be honest, we would have left anyway after waiting that long. "They are just coming now," was an inaccurate reassurance.

It wasn't particularly busy and it was very noisy. And expensive. I won't be going again.

Saddened to say we won’t be returning. After first being served warm beer (as the cellar cooling system wasn’t working), to then having to wait as somebody was sat at our booked table, to then having to collect our own menus.. this was all before we had even looked at what we wanted to eat. We then waited 20 minutes for an additional drinks round (which we had to mention to the waitor to initiate any kind of service), and then waited 45 minutes for our food, which was very standard and ordinary. Very poor experience

On Friday evening a party of six of went to eat here. There were some lovely parts and some dodgy parts to the evening. The starters (those of us that had starters) were delicious and then it took a good 40 - 45 minutes before anything for the main course and it took a member of our group to inform them that we were still waiting before anyone noticed.



When the main courses arrived some were very good (the steaks in particular) but no one was offered a steak knife making this hard to cut. A basic requirement really when serving steak. The waitress was clearly so rushed that she dumped the food in front of people and was hollering the names of the dishes at people as though at a cattle market. The two fish dishes (hake) were inedible as they were overcooked and dry (probably from sitting under something to keep them warm whilst the kitchen rushed to complete our tables order. This would also explain why the pastry on the pie was uncooked also. We were also offered no extra condiments at the table. Again quite a basic.



The staff member who came to speak with us couldn't have been more apologetic and took the affected fish dishes off of the bill and provided the coffees and desserts free as a gesture of good will. This was much appreciated.



It was just a shame that happened in the first place as we have enjoyed dining here quite a few times in the past. The excuse that there weren't enough staff working for the busy night doesn't really cut the mustard on a Friday or Saturday. Especially as our party arrived for our 6.30pm booking and the management of the situation still hadn't been resolved by nearly 11pm when we left.



Some strong points but outweighed on this occasion by the bad.

Beef topside sunday roast dinner review: Gravy was way too thin and lacking depth of flavour, roast potatoes were unseasoned and hard and unpleasant to swallow(oil fried?) meat was very good on crust but got more and more tasteless towards center and started to resemble liver flavor(mrs agreed too), Yorkshire pudding was chewy and hard tasted oily (like they were store bought?) veg was very good though perfectly cooked and seasoned well

verdict: 4/10, its not a right off there were positives. I assumed i came on a bad day but for £13.45 you expect a higher standard from such a reputable establishment.