The Porch House Reviews

This is a great place to visit and eat, the staff were very friendly and helpful, we had a very nice meal of fish and chips with mushy peas and I have to say the mushy peas were the best I have ever tasted the only thing that let it down was the food was served on COLD plates

Good food, friendly staff, nice atmosphere. Managed to sort out a booking problem we had to our satisfaction. Would return

RECOMMENDATION: Must Visit

COME HERE FOR: A romantic getaway, the rooms, pub, restaurant, and friendly service and guests.

Came here for one night and absolutely fell in love with it. The entire inn is very charming, something straight out of a postcard. The staff and guests there are very friendly, we hung out at the pub, had dinner at the restaurant, and back up to the room to enjoy our tub.

Cosy, historic inn with good (and interesting!) food offering with friendly Cotswold countryside service! Can recommend it for that special night out in "Stow"! Loved the ambiance!

Englands oldest pub. Very nice inside with nice attentive staff. Dog friendly and even brought ours some water over. Food looked good but we weren't eating.

Tasty food, plus a great atmosphere in the oldest tavern in England!

Booked for 9 people Bank Holiday Saturday evening - two from Australia and one from Ireland. Most embarrassed at the standard of the meal. Cheese souffle looked more like a scotch pancake and my mozzarella and tomato consisted of three mini balls of mozzarella floating in the water with three slices of tomato, one atop each ball. It did have basil but possibly one leaf shredded. Risotto was so solid needed knife and fork and here they did remove the charge from the bill.

Beautiful building, friendly staff and great service. Felt very safe but still relaxing

Chicken and Veg pie. Very tasty with seasonable veggies! Just what you need on a sunny October afternoon

We stay quite regularly at the Porch House and this time was the most disappointing. The staff are under resourced, rushing around, tiring to be around and far from relaxing. Too many problems with too many things. Not in a rush to return.

Place itself was delightful...very oldly worldly & quirky....but coffee was cold & service very slow....great shame as we were thinking of eating there one evening..

If you voted no on brexit don't bother. Their views on race are as old as the pub walls.

Excellent stay at the porch house the ghost in the room number 12 is excellent makes the TV flash the lights flickering it's quite exciting

My husband and I were staying the night in Stow-on-the-Wold and decided to pop into The Porch House for a drink. The staff were very polite and helpful and we enjoyed a lovely hour sat in a window seat. As we were leaving I popped into the dining room to check out the fireplaces (I'd read about the history of the Inn) I was not disappointed! I really wish we were staying 2 nights so that we had been able to dine there also! It was a beautiful room! Thanks Porch House :)

Have visited this fabulous inn several times over the years and always found this old inn fantastic for food and drink.
Always find this place cosy. what with the open log fires and excellent friendly staff, definitely well worth a visit.

Easy to see why The Porch House was voted best pub by AA in 2016. This pub is "hygge" embodied. 947 beer and burger w/ brioche bun were excellent.

Lovely pub. Decent pint of their own brewery bitter. Friendly service.

Fabulous place. You feel the history of the place, really unique. Friendly service and good bar and food menu. Highly recommended

Service was pretty poor and staff not very on it. Food was quite overpriced and a bit over cooked and portions were stingy. That being said it s a lovely building in a very picturesque location, so might be worth visiting for a drink but we definitely won t be going back for food

Delicious food! We ate a fantastic risotto and drank delicious white wine. The staff were so nice. Recommended!

Lovely environment, staff could be a little more useful

Sat on the grass opposite here and ate packed lunch with location switched on... Enough to make Google think I'd been here.

Lovely old village pub in the centre of the town. Seemed nice and friendly. Wasn't there long enough to give greater comment.

Absolutely gorgeous find, comfortable and relaxing with excellent service

Very tasty vegetarian options, great service and great history.

Amazing old tavern that preserves the essence of its past but with modern amenities. Service was smart and efficient.

Lovely low ceiling pub. Great comfort food & lovely atmosphere. Well worth a visit. One of the good pubs in Stow.

They had the booking online open, so we reserved a table for 2 for tonight for my wife's birthday. We drove 40min to get here just to find they were closed! They didn't even bother contacting us to say they postponed their opening.

Charming village, great food, good beer. It would have had 5 stars if they had served bread with the meal

A long wait for food, but food was fantastic and worth the wait

Really cosy pub, had a lovely meal with good service and friendly staff

We had a lovely night stay in the larger room 9,great dinner and breakie.Would recommend thank you

We visited the porch house for a very short period after walking past and seeing it was reportedly the oldest inn. Staff were pleasant, lots of space in a nice location.

Two main course have run out by the time I order. Not much of a wine list to talk about. The soup of the day potato soup I ordered turned out to be tomato soup. My 7 years old said it's probably because of her wrong pronunciation or bad English. Oops. The nice Eastern European lady waitress just doesn't speak much English.

Possibly the best service I have ever had in a pub. Both ate the vegie options, very nice. Extremely dog friendly and at atmospheric. Would visit again.

We had an excellent light lunch and enjoyed the stay very much

Beautiful hotel with lots of character, our room was pretty but we're a little confused about where our 9 year old would sleep as no z bed was provided but we all shared the bed in the end as I wasn't too fussed. We enjoyed sitting out in the terrace area, plenty of places to look around in stow with lots of history. I would recommend this hotel

Good food and ambience in a historic Cotswold town!

The location was great and the space was beautiful. The room we were given was exceedingly small, however, and the doorway between the bedroom and bathroom is deadly with its shockingly low headroom. I smacked my head quite hard on it. Altogether I think the cost was too high for our particular room (#4) but the overall experience was fine.

Stopped in for a drink and service was slow at the bar.

Amazing venue, full of history. Great food with plenty of choice on the menu all served with very welcoming friendly staff.

Two days ago I had the minute steak sandwich here and was shocked to find a 5" long hair in it. Upon showing the staff member who served me, taking care not to let others become aware, she just looked at it and said "oh", no apology, no offer of refund ...NOTHING! All I wanted was acknowledgement of the fact. Will not be returning and will let all friends and family know!

Very lovely .not enough area without kids too enjoy the intake off the oldest pub

A lovely old pub and restaurant with a quaint terrace garden...local ale served by freidly staff. We had a small mix up with menus when we visited but the manger couldn't have been more helpful sorting us out....would highly recomend a visit.

Great little venue with good food and refurbished interiors.

Old, old pub. Couldn't resist a drink in the oldest Inn in England??

The ambiance and age in such beautiful condition was right on. It made for a great night out. Party of 8 nothing but laughs and smiles... might have had a little to do with us on that. Try Porch a must!!!

A lovelly oldy worldy pub may even be the oldest with the writings on the wall

Wonderful old coaching inn. Unfortunately the food is not as good as before.

Great location for a drink out of the cold on a cold December afternoon in Stow.

Excellent food, and a damn fine playlist in the background too.

Amazing Place with a wonderful private dining space

Wonderful place. Cozy, well designed rooms in a extremely old historic inn. It's very old so expect small stairs and no aircon. Dinner was ok, with a very long wait. Breakfast good. Parking can be an issue

Real "old England style" atmosphere with nice rooms and stunning breakfast

A lovely restaurant, with lovely staff and an absolutely cracking Sunday lunch. Whole hearted Recommendation

Only called in for a drink, but beer was good and surroundings and atmosphere quite fitting for the Stow vibe.

A historic inn. We had to stop for a quick coffee to soak it up. Lovely nooks and crannies, tastefully decorated.

Amazing food, lovely friendly welcoming staff and a great cosy atmosphere. We had dinner there and came back for breakfast too!

A very relaxed comfortable pub. Nooks and snugs to be discovered with books and games on offer if you fancy a game with the kids or cards with friends. Big flagstone floors and wood burning stoves and in the snug an open fire.
Food a little pricier than usual but a good choice on offer. Live music events and dog friendly.
The staff were very helpful and friendly too.

We booked for an anniversary dinner with friends on Saturday 11th May. Our waitress came over and informed us that there was no fish pie and only 2 portions of another dish left and also the wine we chose had run out. We waited for an hour for food and had to ask 3 times for water. First time ever we asked for the service charge to be removed....great shame as lovely .......................................................

2 weeks have now passed since the owner asked me to contact them via the website which I have done twice and received no reply.
Could this have simply been a cynical ruse to show the owners in a positive light?.......draw your own conclusions.

Lovely place aspall cider quite pricey but all round lovely pub

Good traditional British food in keeping with the setting. Could be a bit heavy for some. Great service and ambience.

Had dinner there last night and really enjoyed the food along with the decor and atmosphere. Service was good whilst the food was excellent and prices were very reasonable. I would definitely recommend The Porch House and hope to stay in the hotel in future as I like the character and history of the hotel.

Lovely old pub, nice interior , but a somewhat limited choice of beer , and with the usual Guinness and peroni on tab, it feels like a chain pub