The Wild Boar Houghton Le Spring

Lots of handy free parking nearby, usual great value Witherspoon's beers/ food!

Great environment and great prices! Better than the spoons in the bigger cities nearby

Been quite a few times and always enjoyed our meals until today I would never give back, oumrdered 2 burger meals for myself and husband and curry rice and chips for my grandson.i must say the place was buzzy but no excuse the meals came what was a dry bun with a grain and 2 greesy tasteless burgers in and blob of tomato sauce with a dozen half cooked frozen chips slung on plate, grandsons curry rice and chips with nann bread and poppadoms he said was just the worst, rice was clumped together curry had a skin on it poppadoms you could bend chips raw inside everything was left, terrible won't ever return and all the people I have told to visit this place will be warned not to bother,we left there and won't return. Forgot to mention I had to get bottle of mayonnaise as food was that dry and bottle was empty a managed to get one squeeze out of it.i wish I took more photos but my grandson just wanted to leave

Went here for lunch, 1st time we had been in the Wild Boar. Not a great experience. Lots of local history displayed which i found interesting at the start, and the loos were looked after.. however it went downhill from there. We noticed the seating area was generally unkempt with dirty plates lying about, stains on the seating and not a very clean feeling, but we were hungry and wanted to give the place a chance so we ordered food. Problems at the bar: asked for a coke and a small wine, got given two wines, so a refund was needed as alcoholic drinks are a higher cost with the meals. 2nd problems, i requested two orders of garden peas with our meal, when it arrived it was with one mushy peas and one garden. When we informes the server of this we were met with quite a patronising and annoyed attitude, even being asked well what would you like me to do? We decided to keep the order as we were very hungry by this point, but when we opened the cutlery from the napkins they looked very unclean and one fork even looked like it had dried gravy on it. So we asked for a clean set at the bar. The server came over to apologise for all of the issues and we thought that was the end of it..... The food itself was ok but as i went to take a drink from my coca cola i noticed red lipstick around the rim of the glass so at this point I left the drink and we quickly finished our meal and left. Wouldn 't return, far too much went wrong unfortunately.

Came here yesterday. Me and the partner Fast service friendly staff and beautiful hot food! And deserts are gorgeous!! Cant beat it I can never complain