Toby Carvery, Windsor

Official site of Toby Carvery Old Windsor - www.tobycarvery.co.uk

Official site of Toby Carvery Old Windsor - www.tobycarvery.co.uk

Usual Toby stylings, drinking area to the right with TV news for company and the large carvery area off to right. Two ales on, was pleased to see local Windsor & Eton on a pump with their Knight of the Garter, Brakspear Bitter being the other one. Cheaper than the Langley Toby earlier in the day for the same ale and lemonade combo (hmmm). The W&E drank surprisingly well and I was almost enjoying myself until some fat woman and kids plonked themselves down our small table without so much as a by-your-leave and then started loudly complaining about the wait for restaurant seating. On a Friday night, without a booking as well! Who’da thunk it?

I forgot to get a photo when I stayed here in the pre-Christmas week last year but if I say this is a Toby Carvery with an Innkeepers lodge bolted onto the back of it, that probably tells you all you need to know. You enter to face the main serving area around which there is a bit of a bar space with some comfy chairs and then the much larger restaurant section stretches off to the left. Strangely for an InnKeepers Lodge, it is not separate from the Toby Carvery but bolted on the back, so if staying here you have to walk right through the restaurant area to a secret door at the back.. Three handpumps on the bar with two of them dispensing usual suspects from the M&B stable on my visit and although good to have a real ale to go with the roast if you eat here , you probably need to wait for it to thaw out if the half of the Wychwood brew I had before moving on was anything to go by. Obviously being a Toby Carvery, this is more family restaurant than traditional pub, but no concern if staying here because the Jolly Gardeners and the Fox and Castle are available a short stroll up St Lukes Road to the side of the Toby.. If I had remembered to get a photo, it would have shown the one KSP (key Selling Points) of the Wheatsheaf, which is a bloody enormous car park..