The Bell Harborne

The Bell is a low-beamed former coaching inn in Harborne run by the Heritage Pubs group, and it is the pick we would send most people to for a dependable, traditional Sunday roast. The kitchen lists roast beef, turkey and pork, or a mixed plate of all three, served with mash, roast potatoes, seasonal veg, Yorkshire puddings and gravy, with roast potatoes, Yorkshires and gravy offered as unlimited top-ups according to the pub's own listings. That unlimited-trimmings offer, plus a large beer garden, is the main reason it edges the Lord Clifden below it for an all-round family roast, though it trades away that pub's city-fringe convenience: Harborne sits a few miles from the centre with no rail station on the doorstep. Prices are indicative and typically sit in the mid-teens per person for a single roast.