The Lunesdale Arms in Tunstall has become known in the area as a reliable place that serves good quality food and carefully selected wines and local ales in an environment that is warm, friendly and relaxed. The ambiance is simple and bright, encouraging customers to feel at ease.

The food is all homemade; the meat is from local farms so very much British, the salad leaves are grown organically, and the bread is baked in Lunesdale's own kitchens. Lunches take in steak, Guinness and mushroom pie, beer-battered fillet of haddock, and Welsh rarebit with homemade chilli jam. Expect to find potted salmon, slow-roasted belly of pork, and organic breast of chicken on a bed of roasted garlic mash, surrounded by diced winter vegetables at dinnertime.

The ubiquitous sticky toffee pudding and local cheeses with oatcakes appear on the dessert menu. A selection of beer and weekly changing ales as well as wine, spirits and liquor complement the food well.