Greville Arms, Elmdon Heath, Solihull

Official site of Greville Arms - www.sizzlingpubs.co.uk

Official site of Greville Arms - www.sizzlingpubs.co.uk

Substantial Sizzling pubco outlet, set deep in suburbia but looking more like a 1930s roadhouse. Various seating / dining areas around and off to the side of the central servery, all with the expected anonymous semi-modern furniture and decor. Doing surprisingly good food business early on a Wednesday evening. Doom Bar and Purity Pure UBU (£3.30) available from two of three handpumps.

A large, detached Sizzling pubco place, in brick and white render, with beer patio The interior is the generic open plan foody kind of thing, with multi-coloured walls; purple, blue, olive, white, red, French mustardy etc. The menu is cheap and the food functional, i having a burger thing. Not much in the way of decoration, apart from a few mirrors and vases and the background music is general. Service was good, the clientele, as ever for this kind of place, mixed and lots of them. Beer; tap stuff, with an M&B MILD that was too cold even for keg. On handpull there was a so-so Hook Norton Old Hooky, as well as the untried Spitfire and Spekky Hen. I have visited worse pubcos than Sizzling. This place does what it says on the tin, nothing more.

Sizzing Pub. Nice looking pub with nice decor. Bit cramped on busy nights especially Fri and Sat nights. Can be reached by M42 easily. Large car park.

Pub was done up Dec 2007. Nice clean pub and beer is good