Kids eat free in Sandwell

The offer across this corner of the West Midlands is not what you find on a typical retail park. Nine venues, all chain-operated, and the flavour is overwhelmingly pub dining rather than family restaurant. Sizzling Pubs accounts for four of them — the single biggest footprint here by some distance. Around that, you get a Farmhouse Inns, a Stonehouse Pizza and Carvery, a Toby Carvery, a Harvester, and a Hungry Horse, each sitting in its own postcode pocket across B43, B68, B70 and the surrounding areas. A couple of those chains activate their kids-eat-free offer only during school holidays, so the Harvester and Hungry Horse entries are worth timing carefully. The postcode spread is reasonably even, which means most families are within a short drive of at least one option without any planning heroics required.

Holiday-only chains in Sandwell: Harvester. These quietly flip in for half-term and summer; outside the school holidays they drop off the list.

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