The Fat Loaf

Just has Sunday lunch with the family. The food ( all courses & including a child's meal ) was superb and the service so friendly and helpful . Combined it helped to make our visit a great dining experience. Highly recommended

Such a lovely place!! The staff were so friendly and professional. Very accommodating to us with our twins and large group. The food was outstanding and so delicious. The French onion soup was the best I’ve ever had. We will be back for sure!

Highly recommend!!! My family just have the wonderful dinner there. We are really enjoy the food, dessert, and lovely service. Definately, we will be back.

Oh my Dog! I found this restaurant on Google as a fluke and best fluke ever!! The food is the best, better than high end London restaurants, I had the rump steak medium rare and it was cooked to perfection, it was flavoursome, it melted in the mouth, it was the best meal I have had in a very long time and the staff were friendly and great atmosphere, HIGHLY recommend!

We've walked past the fat loaf so many times in the 8 years we've lived locally and never once been in, yet kept saying we'd try it. We've heard good things from different people, and it is always busy on passing. Our son turned 25 this month, so I suggested we finally try it. After reading the menu online, he was super excited to try it. I booked online for 4 people, it is so easy to do, and I received a confirmation by email and a reminder near the booked date. There was no deposit asked for. We walked to the restaurant but there is plenty of parking available around the village on the roadside, parking in the buck which you pay for at the machine, parking in the plough pub providing you use the pub I assume. On entering the restaurant, we were struck by how nice the decor was. It's painted in warm dark tones but isn't dingy. It's cosy, inviting, and comfortable. Lighting is on point, enough to see what you're eating but not glaring and intrusive. There was a large table set up on the bar side for a big booking, other smaller tables around it and we went around the wall divide to an area with more tables all spaced to allow plenty of people to dine but not on top of each other. Having booked one of the early evening slots, it was quiet when we arrived, so we were given a choice of where to sit and chose the window area. The young man who welcomed us in was very nice, cheeky and fun, patient and great at his job. He recommended a lovely beer for my husband to try, and even I enjoyed it having taken a sip and then a big old glug after that - and I don't drink beer! Really good recommendation The drinks were served super swiftly and our food choices were taken from there. The menu has some fabulous options on it, spoilt for choice, to be honest. I think we all made such joyous noises on taking our first bites of the starters. They were absolutely delicious. The feta starter was spot on, served with a finely cut fruit, which added the juiciest, sweetest contrast to the taste of the feta tang. Crumbed and fried to perfection, timed perfectly so it wasn't dried out and tasteless. Pomegranate seeds and dressing finished the dish to the best taste level ever. The sausage roll starter was gorgeous. the husband practically inhaled it because it was so delicious. The meat was soft, juicy, and full of flavour. Our sons scotch egg dish was the best scotch egg I have ever sampled in my life. My son adored it, perfectly cooked egg, soft centred surrounded by the most moist of meats brimming with flavour. Black pudding is added to the meat mix, and it adds such a flavourful twist to what could have been a bland dish. Another amazing starter. DIL had the garlic bread, just heavenly! Crisp but not overdone, thin but not dried out, oozing with the freshest tasting garlic butter. Perfection. I can highly recommend the fillet steak for the main. Mine was cooked amazingly and completely on point, I can't stand seeing blood in any meat. Even pink meat puts me off, so I asked for it to be overdone. Previous places I've dined at have incinerated my mains and ruined dishes because of it. It's a fine balance, and the chef at the fat loaf has the most amazing skill of timing each one to the dot! My steak came with not a millimetre of pink to be found yet was so tender and juicy I was speechless. Literally, I didn't talk for most of the main as I savoured each piece melting in my mouth. Hubby once again devoured his food in rapid time, stating that it was one of the best cuts of meat he's had as a steak. Other dishes enjoyed were the steak pie (perfect pastry and melt in your mouth meat again) and the risotto with butternut squash(?). Cocktails were consumed after the main. I ordered the cheesecake, a good-sized wedge of light, fluffy, goodness that I could have eaten again and again. The birthday boy was full and didn't want a pudding. He soon regretted that on seeing and tasting mine. I ordered another piece, and it was delivered to him with a single lit candle by our fab gentleman looking after us that evening. Very thoughtful 5

Fantastic meal last night with my husband and two sons. Food was great and service couldn't have been any better. A big thank you to all the staff and we really enjoyed our evening. Hope we can come back when we are in Manchester again.

That little restaurant is lovely. They are clearly interested in the quality behind everything by. I fully recommend the place

I cannot wait to come back, as the menu had me spoiled for choice. The food was absolutely delicious and of top quality. The Fat Loaf feels like a true hidden gem and was not over priced either. Often, other restaurants treat desserts as an after thought, but the desserts here were exceptional and not to be missed!