The Fairfield Arms

Came here with a few friends for tea yesterday. Really enjoyed it, the staff were very helpful and pleasant and the cheese and onion pie was the best I had ever eaten! My friends enjoyed the 2 pizzas for £15 and said they were lovely. After food we stayed for a few drinks and tried a selection of the Gins they have. Overall, really enjoyed our visit and will be back again soon!

Service was wonderful. Staff were polite and friendly. Nothing was too much trouble for them. Colouring and activity sheets provided for the kids to keep them busy. Food arrived promptly and was really good. Highly recommend the sticky toffee pudding!

Was here yesterday evening and ordered a couple of meals for me and a friend. The turnaround of the meals was quick which I think was down to much of the food being microwaved. I ordered a pie which was dry inside and had really chewy undercooked pastry. My veg had dried out because I think it's had been under a hot plate prior to my order. I may have ordered the food just before the cooks normally close the kitchen down but I expect the same level of food they they would serve earlier during the day. For a family pub that charges over £11.00 for pie and chips, I expect a much better quality of food, when it was plainly obvious the cooks could not be bothered.

Good afternoon. My husband and I ate at the Fairfield Arms (PR4 3HE) yesterday (8th March). We placed our order at 14.58 (according to the till slip) and were told that worst case scenario, the waiting time for the food would be 30 minutes. There were not very many people eating at the time. If we had been told that the wait would be any longer, we would have gone somewhere else. Our meals arrived 53 minutes later - certainly not acceptable. I asked the manager if the kitchen staff had a break at 15.00, which might explain some of the delay but was told that waiting time was usually 45 minutes. Why? By the time we got our food we were virtually the only ones eating. Can hardly kick up a fuss then, can we - we've paid! A couple of years ago there was a chef in our local pub who was so slow, we were convinced the chickens were freshly caught and plucked and the eggs collected as per order. He has since moved on (thank goodness!) and the chef who took his place can cope with a full restaurant at a considerably faster speed. You should perhaps suggest the same to your chef. The food, when it came, was by no stretch of the imagination a "good" pub meal. The cheese and onion pie - the filling covered about a third of the depth of the dish and was reminiscent of cheese sauce, with a mediocre piece of frozen pastry plonked on top and some poorly cooked vegetables (why was the sweetcorn brown - how old was it?) My jacket potato was slightly better - although the "roasted vegetables" tasted as though they had been fried and it was a pretty small quantity. I don't remember much else apart from onion. The goats cheese sat on the top and, yes, it had been grilled. You can hardly go wrong with a small dish of commercially prepared coleslaw and a scrap of lettuce for garnish can you? Can I ask what sort of an idiot puts the portions of butter (cold) under the potato (hot) - when I picked the portions up the melted butter drizzled sadly out of the wrapping. Not a meal to remember. Regards (PS - the email address for customer services on the till slip is no longer valid!)

Excellent food. Lovely staff. Pleasant surroundings. Lovely Christmas decorations. It's on our list to visit again