The Crown, Wolverhampton

Large pub / restaurant (with the emphasis very much on the latter aspect), featuring numerous, semi-separate seating and (mostly) dining areas plus a front beer garden. Just Doom Bar (£4.70) from the bank of three handpumps.

A detached pub and restaurant, with a patio area. The pub is in undressed brick, with a couple of wood panelled side gables. The pub looks modern, but it does incorporate and earlier pub of the same name - which was there at least in the 1880s, when it was pretty much all that was in Wergs. The pub website chooses instead to fantasise about the Battle of Tettenhall. The Monster's review below is spot on. The interior is modern, with a central island serving bar. To one side is the 'bar' area, which is in fact populated by polished tables and comfy seats. The rest is given over to dining, with a private area too. Features include the open hearth and some bistro art - as well as what looked like a wine display behind chains. The decor seemed to be a coffee and a clay colour, but i was in the beer garden most of the time. The service was fine, the clientele mixed, but all eating it seemed. Beer; some of the usual tap stuff, with a superior range of continental lagers and three handpulls that had; Doombar, UBU and a decent enough Adnams Kristal White. This is a plush restaurant with a 'bar' area that equally feels like a restaurant - so genuinely, as a traditionalist, i felt uncomfortable being there - to the point that i went outside. It goes for the 'higher-class' image and i half expected that not only would my car be the oldest on the car-park, but it would be clamped for being offensive. A place for a nice family meal, but not just a pint.