The Vine, Wolverhampton

Good-looking Vintage Inn, and the sort of reasonable semi-traditional look to the various seating / dining areas that you would expect from this chain (plus a welcome real fire). However, that's where the good points end, with a clearly inadequate number of staff on duty (so I abandoned my plan to eat there and just had a quick Doom Bar (£1.75, half) as the only real ale available from the five handpumps. Perhaps I was just unlucky on the day?

Pretty standard foody pub in the Vintage Inn chain. Nice enough and very friendly service. Doom Bar and Sunbeam on when we called in along with a couple of unused hand pull's. The Sunbeam (£4 a pint) was very good. Worth calling in for one.

A nice detached Georgian looking Vintage Inns multi-building pub/eatery, with front and rear patio areas. The pub is in cream render with coffee coulred window frames. There is a wooden covered entrance. The interior is an L-shaped room, which in typical Vintage Inn style is divided up into diferent areas, al of which are still generally dining. The decor is white, red, coffee wood panel and undressed brick with a red tile floor and white and wood beam ceiling. There is a nice exposed brick fireplace and exposed support beams. Again, in true Vintage style, there is a plethora of pictures, prints and other ephemera dotted all over the place to give the historic feel. We didn't eat here, so can't comment on the food, but having eaten at Vintage before i wouldn't hesitate to do so again. There is no TV and there is no music. The service was friendly and the place was busy with a mixed clientele of diners. Beer; usual tap stuff with Peroni. On handpull there was Bombardier, Flying Dutchman, Doombar and a decent Enville Ale. I completely endorse the views of the Monster below. Vintage Inns are ideal for those that don't like the usual gastro-pub style, or vase ridden Ember Inns. The traditional look is very much for people like me. I am more than happy to eat in them, or just stop off for a real ale.