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Frankie and Benny's combine classic American and Italian in both style and cuisine. They specialise in home style cooking 'just like Mamma used to make it'. This is a great place to take the entire family and represents excellent value for money. The restaurant and bar is suitable for any occasion, whether it's a leisurely lunch, a family meal or a fantastic evening with friends - they make sure you have a wonderful time.

Walking into the restaurant is like stepping back into 1950s New York, from the clatter and chatter of the open kitchen to the bottle lined bar. Walls with black and white family photographs showing life in Brooklyn's 'Little Italy' surround cosy booth seating and tables. Combined with the classic music of the fifties, a mix of American swing and beat, they definitely provide a fun and friendly atmosphere for all to enjoy.

Frankie and Benny's offers starters, main courses and delicious desserts, and favourites include char-grilled burgers, pizzas, pastas, steaks and house specialities such as chicken parmigiana, BBQ ribs, lamb shank and much more. The bar serves a wide range of beers, wines, spirits, cocktails and soft drinks.

Start with sticky wings, crispy coated chicken strips, tiger prawn skewer or Frankie's fried calamari and if you are dining in a group choose the giant sampler platter. The pastas, calzone and pizzas are all made freshly on order. An interesting dish on the menu is a the Boston 7 speciality pizza fully loaded with slices of pork meatballs, spicy pepperoni, ham, crispy bacon, chicken, peppers and red onion, served on a BBQ sauce base. They also serve a variety of sandwiches and burgers throughout the day.

A good value lunch menu is available on weekdays from 11am until 5pm offering a range of popular dishes from the main carte with one course at £5.95, two courses at £7.95 and three courses at £8.95.

For children up to the age of eleven, an all-inclusive menu features a selection of main courses, desserts and drinks starting at £3.95. As an added treat, they'll also receive an activity pack to entertain them whilst you eat.

Enjoy an American Italian meal at Frankie and Benny's with freshly prepared food and warm hospitality that makes you feel right at home.

On the Shropshire/Staffordshire borders the word is out. Paul and Christine Waite, formerly of the New Inns at Kiddemore Green have re-appeared, less than two miles away at The Royal Oak in Bishopswood.

Between them they have transformed the run-down Royal Oak into a friendly neighbourhood bar and restaurant, using clever re-arrangement of the space, cool colours and rustic furniture, with a cosy back bar for the locals, to make a venue that is well on the way to achieving the same levels of popularity as their former location.

Chris is offering the same simple but satisfying dishes, with minimal formality, the sort of pub grub that people love, at prices that miraculously have hardly changed since they left their former hot spot three years ago.

With a short, unpretentious wine list, Timothy Taylor's Landord and other top flight real ales on the taps, they are well focused on the local community's needs. This is not gourmet dining, it is wholesome, well-cooked food in generous proportions, every bit as good as you'd enjoy at home - dare it be said, sometimes better - at prices people simply cannot afford to ignore, in congenial surroundings. Just try their Sunday lunch menu if you want proof of this.

Here is neighbourhood living at its best. When Paul and Chris were at the New Inns you often had to wait for a table - there are more of them at The Royal Oak and believe me they are going to need every one of them.

See you there.

For many years The Foresters Arms has been a steady English pub in an estate village when suddenly pow!! out of nearby Ironbridge came The King and Thai looking for a new location, and the rest is relatively recent history. It is proof of the regard in which they were held that customers from their old location have followed them up the hill to Broseley.

Much of their success is due to the quality of their ingredients, with a good number coming direct from Thailand, including the stunningly beautiful orchids on the tables as well as chillies, lemongrass and secret herbs and spices. The meats come from Shropshire, all carefully selected and accredited. Eggs are barn fresh and the vegetables are purchased locally. The nearby Birmingham Fish Markets supply the fish and seafood. In good Thai fashion the décor is restful and undemanding, no ornate busy stuff just a restful, candlelit interior that sets the scene for some serious palate pleasing.

Da Vinci's is a pleasant, intimate, family run restaurant offering traditional and modern Italian cuisine in the heart of the Ironbridge Gorge. With just thirty covers they aim to offer personal and attentive service in a relaxed atmosphere.

Owner/chef Nadia uses the highest quality fresh produce sourced locally and speciality Italian importers for authentic hams, cheeses, olives, oils and dried goods. Her husband David is on hand to share his impressive knowledge of Italian food and wine. The extensive menu offers a range of regional dishes with  the emphasis on fresh fish and seafood and other seasonal ingredients and changes almost daily.

Homemade desserts, artisanal and cooperative produced cheeses and a range of organic honeys are on offer to finish your meal. Special dietary requirements can be catered for as all dishes are prepared to order. They boast approximately fifty still and sparkling wines on their exclusively Italian list and more than one hundred liqueurs and aperitivi, Da Vinci's offers the true taste of Italy in relaxed style.

At last somebody's done it! The waterfront overlooking the River Severn at Ironbridge Gorge has been crying out for years to shake off its tearoom image and host a proper restaurant, and Eric and Beb Bruce have picked up the challenge. Fresh from their highly successful operation at Oswestry they have established a serious restaurant that offers a flexible and fast changing menu that still manages to retain the favourites of the regular customers, of whom there is an increasing number.

Amongst starters you are likely to encounter expect black pudding with chorizo sausage, mushrooms, bacon and a soft poached egg, with its wonderful overtones of that splendid meal we call breakfast. Or perhaps prawn and smoked haddock ravioli with shellfish sauce appeals?

Main courses can offer individual roast rack of local lamb, medallions of venison with sun-dried cranberries and a cognac cream sauce, whilst even hardened carnivores might feel drawn to a plum tomato, red onion and mozzarella tart wild mushroom soufflé.

Desserts of apple charlotte with clotted cream and apricot sauce, or dark Belgian chocolate torte with their own preserved cherries in cognac are frequently to be seen, and their cheese platter is a work of the art.

Décor is tasteful and exudes warmth. This is a long overdue addition to that exciting historical hot spot that surrounds the Iron Bridge.