The Alvanley Arms Inn

Not at all what we expected, the menu had changed from the website but not for the better, the lack of choice was poor but not as poor as the portion size!
I ordered a duck filled pancake for starters and received ONE small spring roll style effort on a few brittle cabbage leaves for £5.95 they must be having a laugh! (at me) The main course fared no better as the classic steak pie was as dry as the Gobi desert! Truly sorry to say that we were most disappointed as we had to travel 25 mile each way to sample this very poor effort, NOT to be repeated.

Picturesque Cheshire pub just outside Eaton village on a bad bend on the A49, a popular stop for the traveling trade. It’s a cracking looking building, and there is a big shire horse connection — the inside is decorated with hundreds of photos and rosettes, and there is a shire horse centre nextdoor.
It’s got an olde-​world feeling to it — not in a 17^th century way, but it looks like not much has changed for about 30 years inside. Which is nice. Sadly, I’m only going to give it 3 stars. I had a decided average ploughmans lunch here yesterday, which at 9.95 was super-​expensive. For that sort of money, it would have to right, and it wasn’t all there. The ham was good, but there wasn’t much of it. The cheese was pretty standard mild supermarket fayre, and the salad wasn’t up to much either.
Robinsons is on tap, but again my first pint of bitter in about 4 weeks was a touch on the ropey side.
Worth a look, but don’t order the ploughmans. I should have had the gammon.