“Loverly staff”

Staff very friendly and the food and beer very very good ,the staff make the pub entertaining and greatsense of humour ,there's plenty iof parking and a very good bus route Justin and natasha are great gun

“Wonderful family meal out”

Wonderful food, great atmosphere and very reasonably priced. I'd thoroughly recommend for a family dinner! The kids menu is £6 and portions are huge! Been a couple of times now and the service is fantastic. Make sure you save enough space for pudding!

“Wonderful good, great service ”

My wife and I visited the Marquis for a date night and it was lovely. Good value meals with significant portions, the atmosphere is welcoming and the staff are very friendly. Under new management and clearly making a real effort

“Traditional Hearty Fayre”

I fervently maintain that the quality of an establishment's food can be determined by the number of cars in the carpark; the more the cars the better the food as people are keen to visit. The Marquis of Granby in Wellingore has no carpark so nothing to go on but we ploughed on nevertheless. We wer… more

I fervently maintain that the quality of an establishment's food can be determined by the number of cars in the carpark; the more the cars the better the food as people are keen to visit. The Marquis of Granby in Wellingore has no carpark so nothing to go on but we ploughed on nevertheless. We were welcomed with a cheery smile by the pleasant landlady. We were shown to our table in the restaurant area, in fact we were offered any table as there was no-one else there. This is a reflection perhaps of the times we live in when a country pub is empty at lunchtime on a sunny Friday afternoon in early Summer. The restaurant was clean and tidy with smart, wooden tables and comfortable chairs with houndstooth check upholstery. S Club 7 was playing through the speaker above the bar quickly followed by Madonna. The menu was very comprehensive with the usual choice of ciabattas, sandwiches and jacket potatoes. There was a specials board but I opted for the Spinach Cannelloni in a creamy tomato sauce. Unusually this came with a choice of mashed potato or chips together with peas and carrots. So, apart from the veg it was heavy on the carbs. I chose the mashed potato. The dish would though benefit from a small salad of mixed leaves with perhaps a vinaigrette or French dressing instead of the mash, chips and veg. Mrs Wanderer, by her own admission, was not adventurous and went for the Prawns with Marie-Rose sauce jacket. The food arrived about 15 minutes later so was presumably cooked to order. Mrs Wanderer's jacket came with a surprising amount of prawns, a homemade coleslaw with cheese and a light salad which I think consisted of lettuce, some tomato, cucumber, peppers and onion. It was difficult to see how many cannelloni there were in the sauce but I'm guessing there were three. To be fair the pasta and the sauce were very tasty but the meal was let down by the dry, under seasoned (for my palette) mashed potato. The carrot batons were quite thick but, with the exception of the cannelloni sauce, the meal was dry. On the plus side though both dishes were piping hot and the quantity left neither of us feeling hungry at the end. All-in-all this is a traditional country pub and it serves traditional, simple, no frills meals. Not to everyone's taste perhaps. At a push, if we were in the area, we would return but I wouldn't necessarily make it a destination. Read my other reviews at willoughtonwanderer.blog "Eating my way through life one bite at a time!"

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