retrogirl23 Â Â 10 #1 Posted August 30, 2017 Had meal At Golden Ball Whiston Rotherham Food was awesome & pub quaint with a lot of character Staff very helpful & welcoming Would recommend Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...
allwednesday   11 #2 Posted August 31, 2017 I Agree I've also been recently the food is good and nice pub all round Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...
Jim Hardie   527 #3 Posted August 31, 2017 M&B upgraded it from its Ember Inns brand to Vintage Inns a few years ago. Very good for its type. I much preferred it about 30 year ago before it was messed about with. It was a proper lively pub then and the only food you could get was a bag of crisps or maybe a sandwich at dinner time. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...
DerbyTup   10 #4 Posted August 31, 2017 So it's a Vintage Inn then? Same menu and food quality as most other Vintage Inns no doubt. Like Dore Moor, Fox House, Castle at Castleton, Admiral Rodney...etc Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...
stpetre   12 #5 Posted August 31, 2017 M&B upgraded it from its Ember Inns brand to Vintage Inns a few years ago. Very good for its type. I much preferred it about 30 year ago before it was messed about with. It was a proper lively pub then and the only food you could get was a bag of crisps or maybe a sandwich at dinner time.  Do you recall the first pub you went to-Sheffield area- that did cooked lunches? (I can't). It was as you say sandwiches and crisps but perhaps on the 'expensive' side of Sheffield did them. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...
top4718   838 #6 Posted August 31, 2017 So it's a Vintage Inn then? Same menu and food quality as most other Vintage Inns no doubt. Like Dore Moor, Fox House, Castle at Castleton, Admiral Rodney...etc  Not for me then Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...
sedith   19 #7 Posted August 31, 2017 Not for me then Me neither, Vintage Inns are not the best chain group. When the Golden Ball was Ember Inns, it was a good place to eat, well cooked food at a reasonable price ... we even did the Christmas Day Lunch there which was excellent. Then came along the awful Vintage Inns with their overpriced microwave warmed up 'plastic' food ... that's when we stopped going. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...
Jim Hardie   527 #8 Posted August 31, 2017 Do you recall the first pub you went to-Sheffield area- that did cooked lunches? (I can't). It was as you say sandwiches and crisps but perhaps on the 'expensive' side of Sheffield did them.  Not in Sheffield but across the road from Stockport town hall there was a pub called the Nelson that did a roaring trade in simple meals, mainly pie and chips. That was in 1969. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...
DerbyTup   10 #9 Posted September 1, 2017 Me neither, Vintage Inns are not the best chain group. When the Golden Ball was Ember Inns, it was a good place to eat, well cooked food at a reasonable price ... we even did the Christmas Day Lunch there which was excellent. Then came along the awful Vintage Inns with their overpriced microwave warmed up 'plastic' food ... that's when we stopped going.  I wouldn't know the difference between an Ember Inn or a Vintage Inn to be honest! I'm guessing Vintage Inns are for older folks and Ember Inns are for folk who enjoy going out a lot?  Joking aside (that was meant to be a joke btw): They are both owned by the same big brewery, Mitchell & Butlers, or "M&B" as they are known. In fact, M&B have dozens of brands - here they are:   Sizzling Pubs Vintage Inns Harvester Ember Inns Toby Carvery Crown Carveries Castle Nicholson's O'Neill's ALEX All Bar One Miller & Carter Browns Innkeeper's Lodge Oak Tree Orchid Pubs Premium Country Pubs Stonehouse Pizza & Carvery  A right load of rubbish in the main. Cheap food, for undiscerning people. But millions love these brands so I realise I'm in the minority with this view.  Out of the above list, if I was forced at gunpoint to have to dine at any of these I'd choose the Miller & Carter option - which at least tries to be a bit upmarket and offer decent food, or probably All Bar One, mainly because it attracts some gorgeous women! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...
Dales   10 #10 Posted September 1, 2017 I wouldn't know the difference between an Ember Inn or a Vintage Inn to be honest! I'm guessing Vintage Inns are for older folks and Ember Inns are for folk who enjoy going out a lot?  Joking aside (that was meant to be a joke btw): They are both owned by the same big brewery, Mitchell & Butlers, or "M&B" as they are known. In fact, M&B have dozens of brands - here they are:   Sizzling Pubs Vintage Inns Harvester Ember Inns Toby Carvery Crown Carveries Castle Nicholson's O'Neill's ALEX All Bar One Miller & Carter Browns Innkeeper's Lodge Oak Tree Orchid Pubs Premium Country Pubs Stonehouse Pizza & Carvery  A right load of rubbish in the main. Cheap food, for undiscerning people. But millions love these brands so I realise I'm in the minority with this view.  Out of the above list, if I was forced at gunpoint to have to dine at any of these I'd choose the Miller & Carter option - which at least tries to be a bit upmarket and offer decent food, or probably All Bar One, mainly because it attracts some gorgeous women!  I didn't know that M&B owned all of the above. You learn something new everyday. In regards to your comments on people who eat cheap food: I know people who don't have much money but still enjoy not having to cook every so often. They tend to go to Carvery's / Wetherspoons etc. That is their budget and it's not something they do regularly. Please don't think i'm having a go at you because i'm genuinely not, I just wonder what other options are open to people on a tight budget who want to eat out from time to time. That aside I agree with a lot of what you say on here. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...