The Coachmans - Menu

This place used to be known as an old mans pub and if your face didn't fit.... ANWAY its been taken over, given a facelift and hey what a difference.

Just had Sunday lunch here today. Lovely friendly service, excellent food with good value for money. Will definitely be back. Plenty of parking available too.

I love this place, great pub, great food, dog friendly, the staff are fantastic , I can’t recommend this place enough, it’s the new community centre for Whickham View menu

Really well done out since refit,seems disorganised,starters mostly ok but main courses average at best beef not a nice taste veg ok,watery gravy,being generous with 3 stars.

Just been to The Coachman for an early evening Christmas meal with our friends (X 2 Couples). It has a great atmosphere, the food was brilliant. Staff are friendly attentive. Highly recommend !

We booked Sunday lunch and unfirtunately it was our worst ever experience. There was a function in the bar area, do I assume that the staff forgot about us. We entered a vast lounge area with only two tables occupied. They were at the furthest point from the serving area and we were placed between them. Three toddlers amongst them. They were not badly behaved but why sit us there? The fishcakes have been mentioned before, aweful and seved with hard broccoli and cold peas. Main course wad cold and served with yes hard broccoli and cold peas. We had to ask for cutlery, then for accompaniments then for the bill(when I had to go looking for staff). Never again! View menu

Family visit on Saturday 2nd February at lunchtime. Having visited a few times recently, we decided to pop in for a bit of lunch due to previous very positive experiences. Unfortunately on this occasion, all 3 main areas of the pub had large wall mounted TV’s showing the Newcastle Utd football match, with the volume turned up quite loud. Despite popular stereotypes, not everyone in the North East of England is a devout follower of their local football team, in fact some people don’t even like football and have other interests and hobbies! Which leads me to my point, that devoting the entire pub to the sights, sounds and smells of groups of blokes grunting at a television set is a bit excessi...

We came for food to the newly opened Coachman's Rest which is housed in what was the function room. We were greeted by friendly waiting and bar staff and shown to our table. Once seated out waiter introduced himself, which I found to be a lovely little touch and made it a pleasant experience by removing some of the awkwardness. I had the Venison Carpaccio with blackberry to start and it was delicious, well seasoned and the horseradish gave it that little kick needed to balance the sweetness of the Venison. My main was the Chargrilled Mackrel with creamed leeks and new potatoes. Mackrel was perfectly cooked and the leeks too. Would have liked a little more seasoning in the leeks, however this...

Arrive and enter the back room which although had few tables seated had no atmosphere it was set out weirdly so quiet no back group music just felt uncomfortable. Any way we approached the bar was seated few minutes later but not given menus. Waited waited for staff to come over. Ordered lamb pork dinner which arrived in good time looked tasty, but no veg... sat and sat waiting for veg with dinner going cold and no arrival of vegetables so had to go ask at the bar! Not what you want on a relaxing Sunday having to chase up what should obviously come with a Sunday dinner and staff admitted they “forgot”. The dinner was lovely but the restaurant just had an uncomfortable feel. Laid out all wron... View menu