The Pigot Arms - South Staffordshire

The baguettes cost nearly £9 and I would liken them to no bigger than a bread roll. No music. No atmosphere

The food at this pub is very disappointing. Although the service was good, the quality of the food is lacking. The menu was missing steak and garden peas on the evening of my visit. It is surprising that they didn't have these basic ingredients, especially with a Co-op located right next door where they could easily source frozen peas.

This was my first visit to the restaurant since it reopened. Our waitress was very pleasant. However, I was disappointed when she handed us a worn and stained paper menu and informed us that three items were not available. The meal was average at best. It was not surprising that there were only two other tables occupied. The restaurant seriously needs to improve its quality.

I have used this venue previously and been generally satisfied but I found this visit disappointing. The Pigot has recently reopened after being closed for building work and renovation and they have certainly not got back to the previous standard. Of our group of five, 3 felt that their meals were poor in quality and presentation. one OK and the fifth good. One person had part of their main changed (new potatoes substituted with what she considered a mound of indifferent mashed potato) and would have ordered something different if she had known before the meal arrived. Service was slow, particularly between starters and mains. The staff seemed very sparse with just two serving in the bar and and quite a large restaurant area which didn't help..

Visited on the first day of the Scarecrow Festival, which was also the first day the Pigot Arms reopened after a refurb/change of management. On the plus side, it was spotless clean with lots of comfy chairs. Dogs are welcome in the bar areas and visiting dogs were offered a dog treat. We didn 't order food, but the menu choices look very good and the prices reasonable. There did seem to be some teething problems many people had apparently been waiting some considerable time for food. I asked about coffee: the gentleman who served me merely said Americano I had to ask about other choices. After I said I 'd like a latte, he disappeared (presumably into the kitchen without asking if there was anything else I 'd like (and there was! After some time he reappeared and said that the coffee would be a few minutes I was then able to complete my order. The coffee and beer was good (although for an opening day I was rather amazed that there were no ready salted crisps! Surely they hadn 't sold out? and we decided to have another beer and another latte. Again the coffee was good, but it was cappuccino rather than latte. We didn 't complain, but it wasn 't what was ordered, Hpefully these were all teething problems, and we may well visit again next time we 're in the village. Oh, one final gripe there really should be a mirror above the handbasin in the ladies ' loo!