Oxleathers, Highfields, Stafford

Busy Marston's estate pub with both pool tables in the front bar in use and the disco / karaoke starting up in the lounge. All quite boisterous on a Friday evening, but in a good-natured way. Sadly, all the handpumps are now for display purposes only, so a pint of the keg Smooth (£2.85) it had to be.

A large, modern, low-level, Marston’s estate pub/eatery, in undressed brick with beer garden. The interior has two rooms. There is a bar room, which like the exterior is in undressed brick. It has two pool tables, a dart board, a TV, with some film on and a few sporty cartoon/prints on the walls. There were a couple of people in. The lounge/dining area is large and in cream and wood panel with moulded cornice. It is on two levels. There is a basic menu, but I didn’t eat so I can’t comment on the food. There were a lot of landscape pictures, a TV with the same Bravo channel film and there was no music. There were a few locals in this room as well, but the place being so big it felt like there was nobody in. The service was fine. Beer; usual tap stuff, with Banks’s Bitter, Hobgoblin and a decent Banks’s MILD on handpull. In my view, a better than average estate pub and worth a visit. It has all the facilities from pub games to food.