The Ship - Staffordshire Moorlands

We visited Sunday lunchtime and the pub was very busy with diners. The food we had was mainly Good, we had some errors in service but it is attentive and the draught cider we had is quite expensive. We had a prawn starter which was nice with flavoursome cocktail sauce, salad and a piece of warm bread and butter. I had the roast beef sunday dinner which had to be sent back because there were no roast potatoes or stuffing on the plate. Then I had to ask for horseradish rather than being offered it. The roast dinner comes on a smallish oval plate and portion control is alive and well. My beef portion was small with two measley slices. It tasted okay thankfully. The veg on the plate was tasty as was the gravy and Yorkie (we had extra gravy at no extra cost) The meal overall was pretty good but not Excellent. My vegetarian partner had the beetroot wellington and roasted veg. The extra gravy was sent back as it was meat gravy and was then replaced with veggie gravy. My partner pretty much liked this meal. Waiting times for food were not long at all (and the pub was very busy at the time) and the kitchen seems very efficient where this is concerned. The draught cider we had was Inch's at £2.65 for a half pint. This is pricing at the top end of what you should be paying! So it is expensive! Pricewise for Sunday Roast it's okay here and reasonable, but then, for us, it's much the same price at the Red House, Caverswall (bigger portions), Red Lion at Checkley (bigger portions), Butchers Block at Stone (bigger portions) and Brewers Fayre in Hanley (bigger portions)! Overall a nice visit, but watch the drinks prices!

The food and atmosphere were excellent for celebrating Mother's Day.

A family member booked this pub no one had been before so we didn't know what to expect the pub was very busy as you would expect we were welcomed in and showed to our table had our drinks with us from the bar the young waitress came and spoke to us took our orders the food came and it was spot on on time hot tasty great atmosphere our whole experience was excellent the prices aren't stupid in fact very reasonable a very enjoyable day we will definitely be back and we will recommend you to try it out

I wanted to be able to give a better rating, I may actually have been quite generous. I don 't like giving poorer ratings but if the cap fits and all that...the food was hot, but no imagination in the menu, the presentation, or the setting. It 's a lovely pub but they have stark white lighting over the bar area ? and it feels like it 's stuck in an era when diners didn 't have higher expectations, it has a slight 'canteen ' feeling. This review might be taking the brunt of my disappointment in this type of venue; you have a nice venue, don 't be lazy and make the most of it!

Had a lovely post birthday Lunch with family. Food excellent, service hight quality lovely relaxing and able to have a good catch up. Thank you so much.