The Old Smithy in Eccleshall is our Love Your Local this time. Its a destination food pub and although an old Smith from the outside its a very open fresh decor inside with plenty of light and friendly staff to greet you.
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00:00So we're here at the Old Smithy in Eccleshaw for our Love Your Local feature and what's your name madam?
00:07Katie.
00:08Katie, why are you working? It's your birthday today. What are you playing at?
00:12I love working here, it's a lovely place to work and we have some lovely customers that come in.
00:16Yeah, I guess if you chose to work on your birthday I guess that says it all doesn't it about the kind of place it is.
00:22So it's called the Old Smithy, is that just a name or did it used to be an Old Blacksmiths?
00:27It used to be the Blacksmiths originally and then they kind of moved on a little bit further down and since then it's been a restaurant and a pub.
00:37Well I was quite taken aback when I came in because it's kind of, for a start from the outside it feels bigger when you come inside, a bit like a Tardis and it's quite fresh and modern isn't it?
00:47Yeah it's nice.
00:48Yeah the outside is very lovely and quaint but the inside is equally nice but in a different kind of fashion. How would you describe it kind of decor wise?
00:57I'd say it's quite modern and Charlotte and Martin like to keep it quite fresh and simple so yeah they put a lot of effort into it. They get a lot of compliments on the decor.
01:10Yeah I can see why. And what's, I'm gathering it's kind of quite a food destination, is it 50% kind of bar 50% food or how does it work?
01:20I'd say it's mostly food, I'd say it's about 75% food here. We do do like functions like when the Domino team come in and they have like sandwiches and buffet food and things like that and other functions because we've got the function room upstairs.
01:35So we have quite a few parties up there but mostly people come for a sit down meal.
01:41And is it what they call a destination pub? Do you have people kind of travelling over from Stafford and other times?
01:46Yes definitely we have people and people stop off when they're on the motorway. They tend to when they're passing through they stop and so yeah we have and we have lunches as well.
01:56We have quite a few people come on working lunches and phoning their orders through before they get here so they can make the most of their lunch break.
02:03Yeah yeah and will I discover a beer garden? Is there a little space out back?
02:07You will discover a beer garden yes.
02:08Oh we'll take a look at that. So if you were going to pick something off the menu is there any particular favourite that you might choose to?
02:14The two favourites have to be the stroganoff and the smithy pie.
02:17Yeah smithy pie oh wow okay I like the sound of that. Well thank you for letting us look around your lovely pub here, thank you.