Anybody have experiences of the Moorlands at Owler Bar. The car park is always full at lunchtime, it seems very popular!

On first glance it appears to be "delivered in an artic' generic chain carvery stodge". Try the Peacock on the roundabout it's much nicer.

I did have an experience in the Moorlands car park once though. A whole different thread that one...

Its very good value at £3 for a carvery, and the drinks are cheap too

its always full of pensioners!

Its very good value at £3 for a carvery, and the drinks are cheap too

its always full of pensioners!
Sounds like the film set of Cocoon!

It is actually £3.50 for the lunchtime carvery, but goes up to about £6.00 in the evenings.
I was actually taken out there one lunchtime and the average diner was around 50 years older than me.
The food however was remarkably good for the price, although there were long queues.

As a pensioners lunch spot it certainly fullfills its role. Not so sure that I would rush back though.

You get what you pay for, at the Moorlands you pay buttons and get garbage. The Peacock is 200m away and a much better option.

On first glance it appears to be "delivered in an artic' generic chain carvery stodge". Try the Peacock on the roundabout it's much nicer.

I did have an experience in the Moorlands car park once though. A whole different thread that one...

yes but at the moorlands there is somewhere for the children to play, when I nannied fultime we often used to take the children there to the ball pit !

I think it is spot on.

There you go then, beat a pensioner to get to the front of the stodge queue or have family fun in the ball pit.

did i say the Peacock is about 100 yards away?

There you go then, beat a pensioner to get to the front of the stodge queue or have family fun in the ball pit.

did i say the Peacock is about 100 yards away?
I think I get the picture!

yes but at the moorlands there is somewhere for the children to play, when I nannied fultime we often used to take the children there to the ball pit !

I went with my little one to find the play area had been removed.
Yes it is full of the older generation and they had no potatoes at all but managed to blag more meat haha
what do you want for £3.50? but i wouldnt go when they want full price £6.95

You don't get good food for £3.50, you get the lowest quality crap available.

The whole family went to the Peacock at owler bar yesterday afternoon, its a regular haunt and we enjoy the great food and real ale.

Anyway they had an electrical fault and no hot food was being served, hese things happen.
We went over the road to the Moorlands and had the pile it high carvery, I take everyone's point about getting what you pay for but this provided a cheap meal out for a significant number of us.
The veg was overcooked but the beef was quite good as well as the new potatoes, all in all great value though I have to admit I will continue to eat mostly at the Peacock.

yes but at the moorlands there is somewhere for the children to play, when I nannied fultime we often used to take the children there to the ball pit !

been today for sunday dinner and was hectic and by the way there isn't nowhere for the kids to play now