Booked in advance to stay here for one night on return from Durham to Cheshire, guided by good reviews on this website. We chose it as somewhere we could eat/drink/stay all in one convenient location. There was no explanation on arrival that no food was available due to the chef having broken his leg (not his fault I know but not helpful when we'd picked this place specifically for the fact that it served food!!) - we only found out by asking at the bar after being shown our room for the night. We couldn't fault the room - very clean and well-stocked with coffee/tea & biscuits and those helpful little "extras" like shower gel and shampoo, however it was very hot even with the window open (it was a very hot day though so I suppose that's not really a fair comment)! We didn't want to drive out to get food because that would have meant my husband couldn't have a few drinks and although we were told lots of pubs in the vicinity served food, we discovered that this was not the case on a Saturday night!!! The whole area seemed very rundown and the pubs a little "seedy". Hence we made the decision to checkout and return home that night - a 3-hour drive which wasn't too bad as the road were very quiet late at night!Fortunately my husband had had only 1 drink and we hadn't paid in advance for our room - in fact we hadn't used any of the items in the room nor even unpacked!. All very disappointing but maybe we were just unlucky on this occasion and we would have been very satisfied if we'd been able to eat there.