{"id":369,"date":"2008-10-08T17:30:46","date_gmt":"2008-10-08T17:30:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dine-online.co.uk\/foodie\/hand-and-cleaver-restaurant-and-inn-ranton-green-stafford\/"},"modified":"2016-10-05T15:53:11","modified_gmt":"2016-10-05T15:53:11","slug":"hand-and-cleaver-restaurant-and-inn-ranton-green-stafford","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dine-online.co.uk\/foodie\/hand-and-cleaver-restaurant-and-inn-ranton-green-stafford\/","title":{"rendered":"Hand and Cleaver &#8211; Restaurant and Inn, Ranton Green, Stafford,"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Reviewed by: Tony Burgess<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Hand and Cleaver &#8211; Restaurant and Inn<br \/>\nButt Lane, Ranton Green, Stafford, ST18 9JZ<br \/>\nTel: 01785 822367<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Hand and Cleaver &#8211; Ranton Green<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Our Most recent date of visit (we have been quite a few times now) was Sunday 5th October 2008<\/p>\n<p>As always, we were warmly greeted by the owner and staff upon arrival.<\/p>\n<p>We chose to browse the menus in the bar area before going through to the<br \/>\nrestaurant area.<\/p>\n<p>There is a great selection of real ales which is part and parcel of a<br \/>\ngreat eating out experience for me.<\/p>\n<p>The food is fabulous! There is something for everyone.<\/p>\n<p>The Inn has recently been assessed for the Red Michelin Guide and was<br \/>\nsuccessful &#8211; they will appear in the 2009 edition according to the owners,<br \/>\nCathy and Trevor.<\/p>\n<p>We were served a free appetiser of &#8216;paper bread&#8217; which is a delightful<br \/>\ntouch.<\/p>\n<p>A bowl of mussels for starter and a Sunday roast dinner for the main<br \/>\ncourse. Wonderful! Top quality and plenty of it!<\/p>\n<p>This time I resisted the tempting dessert menu and a favourite from<br \/>\nprevious visits is a South African &#8216;malva&#8217; pudding which is simply divine!<\/p>\n<p>The welcome is second to none in my view!<br \/>\n<strong><br \/>\nIn my opinion this is the best Inn in Staffordshire!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Web: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.handandcleaver.co.uk\">http:\/\/www.handandcleaver.co.uk<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Hand and Cleaver &#8211; Restaurant and Inn<br \/>\nButt Lane, Ranton Green, Stafford, ST18 9JZ<br \/>\nTel: 01785 822367<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 Reviewed by: Tony Burgess Hand and Cleaver &#8211; Restaurant and Inn Butt Lane, Ranton Green, Stafford, ST18 9JZ Tel: 01785 822367 Hand and Cleaver &#8211; Ranton Green Our Most recent date of visit (we have been quite a few times now) was Sunday 5th October 2008 As always, we were warmly greeted by the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/dine-online.co.uk\/foodie\/hand-and-cleaver-restaurant-and-inn-ranton-green-stafford\/\"><span>read more&nbsp;&#8230;<\/span><\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[473],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dine-online.co.uk\/foodie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dine-online.co.uk\/foodie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dine-online.co.uk\/foodie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dine-online.co.uk\/foodie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dine-online.co.uk\/foodie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=369"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dine-online.co.uk\/foodie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1240,"href":"https:\/\/dine-online.co.uk\/foodie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369\/revisions\/1240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dine-online.co.uk\/foodie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dine-online.co.uk\/foodie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dine-online.co.uk\/foodie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}