Sunday Roast in Wirral: Where to Book, Checked October 2026

Sunday roast on the Wirral is mostly a country-pub affair: the thatched Wheatsheaf Inn at Raby, the Red Fox at Thornton Hough, the Fox & Hounds in Barnston and the Irby Mill, with Hillbark Hotel for a roast carved at the table and the Magazine in New Brighton the cheapest at £14.99. Every entry was checked against the venue’s own website and Sunday menu on 25 October 2026.

We have not eaten at these places for this guide, and nothing here is a review. Each entry sets out what the venue publishes: its Sunday menu and prices, serving times, booking rules and house rules on dogs and children. We add the Food Standards Agency (FSA) hygiene rating given by Wirral Council’s inspectors and, for pubs, details from the Campaign for Real Ale (CAMRA). Prices and roasts change week to week, and Sunday tables fill early, so book and check before you set off.

Raby and Thornton Hough

The Wheatsheaf Inn, Raby

The Wheatsheaf calls itself “probably the oldest public house in Wirral”; the datestone over the door reads 1611, the year it was rebuilt after a fire. Its Sunday lunch menu changes weekly, and the sample on its site has roast sirloin of beef at £22, roast turkey at £20.50, a roast duo of both at £22 and a No Meat Loaf at £17, all with roast potatoes, carrot and swede mash, Yorkshire pudding, vegetables and gravy. Starters are £7.50 to £10.50. Sunday lunch is served 12pm to 3.30pm, and the pub closes at 8pm. There is a children’s menu. Dogs are allowed, but not in the Cowshed restaurant. Book online or call 0151 336 3416. Hygiene rating 5 (FSA, 13 October 2025). The Green, Raby Mere Road, CH63 4JH.

The Red Fox, Thornton Hough

The Red Fox is a Brunning & Price pub in a 19th-century brick and sandstone building with open fires and terraced lawns, and it posts each day’s menus on its website before midday. On the Sunday menu checked for this guide, roasts are £21.95 for porchetta, £22.95 for beef served pink or half a roast chicken, £24.95 for mixed beef and porchetta and £26.95 for roast shoulder of lamb, all with roast potatoes, vegetables and gravy; a vegan mushroom, celeriac and ale pie is £17.45. Food runs 12pm to 9pm, per CAMRA, and the pub opens at 10am on Sundays. On the first Sunday of each month it hosts a charity walk from 10am. CAMRA lists dogs on a lead away from the dining areas, a ramp at the side and an accessible toilet. Call 0151 353 2920. Hygiene rating 5 (FSA, 30 June 2026). Thornton Hough, CH64 7TL. Our listing.

Thornton Hall Hotel, Thornton Hough

Thornton Hall’s Dining Room bills itself as somewhere for “a relaxed Sunday lunch”, in a room with chandeliers, an ornate fireplace and a mother-of-pearl leather ceiling. Its Sunday menu, labelled as the spring edition on the hotel’s site, has roast sirloin of beef served pink at £25 and roast chicken at £23, each with roast potatoes, vegetables, Yorkshire pudding and house jus, alongside the grill menu. The dress code is smart casual, with no sportswear. The hotel does not publish Sunday serving times, so book ahead. Hygiene rating 4 (FSA, 12 November 2025). Neston Road, Thornton Hough, CH63 1JF.

Heswall, Barnston and Irby

Fox & Hounds, Barnston

The Fox & Hounds says it stands on a site that has been home to a pub for nearly 400 years, which makes it one of the Wirral’s oldest pub sites, with an open fire in the snug and another in the main bar, a sheltered courtyard and a garden room. The Sunday menu file on its website, which dates from 2024, heads its section “Our Award-Winning Roasts” without naming the award and lists roast leg of lamb, topside of beef, chicken supreme wrapped in bacon and double-roasted belly pork, at £18.50 to £19.50 when it was printed; check current prices. The food page gives Sunday service as 12pm to 8.30pm, while the opening hours panel says food stops at 8pm on Sundays. Bar open 11.30am to 11pm. Call 0151 648 7685 or book online. Hygiene rating 5 (FSA, 9 December 2024). 107 Barnston Road, CH61 1BW. Our listing.

The Coast, Telegraph Road, Heswall

The Coast describes its menu as “Italian-influenced (although not exclusively)”, and runs a separate Sunday roasts menu: roast loin of pork with crackling at £18.95, half a roast chicken at £19.95, sirloin of British beef at £20.95, a mixed roast at £21.95 and French-trimmed rack of lamb at £32, all with roast and new potatoes, roasted carrots and parsnips, green beans, cabbage, Yorkshire pudding and Barolo jus. Sides are £5.25 to £5.95. A discretionary 10% service charge is added. Open Sunday 12pm to 10pm, last food orders 8pm; closed Mondays. Call 0151 294 2899. Hygiene rating 5 (FSA, 15 January 2026). 146-148 Telegraph Road, Heswall, CH60 0AH.

The Irby Mill, Mill Lane

The Irby Mill says it opened in 1980, a sandstone pub on the site of a former windmill, with eight cask ales and a Cask Marque award. Its current Sunday menu, served 12pm to 8pm on Sundays only, has slow-roast porchetta, roast topside of beef and half a roast chicken at £19.95 each, with garlic and herb roast potatoes, carrot and swede mash, red cabbage, greens, Yorkshire pudding and gravy, and a vegetable wellington at £17.45. Pigs in blankets are £5.45 on the side. Dogs are welcome in the beer garden and the bar area, and several walks start from the car park. Open Sunday 12pm to 9pm. Call 0151 678 0198. Hygiene rating 4 (FSA, 24 July 2025). 174 Mill Lane, Greasby, CH49 3NT. Our listing.

Frankby and Hoylake

Hillbark Hotel, Frankby

Hillbark’s Dining Room looks out over Royden Park and the Dee Estuary, and its Contessa Sharing Roast is carved at the table “just like a traditional Sunday at home”. The sharing roast menu is £50 for two courses or £60 for three, with children under 12 at half price. Tables of seven or fewer share one starter, one joint and one dessert; tables of eight or more choose two of each. The joints are beef with Yorkshire pudding, leg of lamb, leg of pork, whole chicken, a side of salmon or a roast vegetable wellington. It is served from midday to 10pm and is pre-order only. The dress code bars sportswear. Hygiene rating 5 (FSA, 23 June 2026). Royden Park, Frankby, CH48 1NP.

Arthur’s of Hoylake, Market Street

Arthur’s calls itself an “independent wine bar and eatery” on Hoylake’s main street. Its winter menu has a homemade Sunday roast every Sunday from 12pm at £20 for one course or £26 for two, with a children’s portion at £14.50. Food is served until 8pm on Sundays. Tables can be booked for up to six, indoors only; call 0151 294 6436 for larger groups, and the terrace is first come, first served. Under-18s are welcome until 8pm and dogs on a lead inside until 7pm. Hygiene rating 5 (FSA, 5 February 2026). 22-24 Market Street, CH47 2AE.

Wallasey and New Brighton

The Magazine Hotel, Magazine Brow

The Magazine says it was established in 1759 and is “one of the oldest pubs on the Wirral”, with a beer garden looking across the Mersey; CAMRA lists it on its National Inventory of historic pub interiors. Its Sunday menu is £14.99 for one course, £19.99 for two and £23.99 for three: a traditional roast with sausage meat stuffing and homemade Yorkshire pudding (ask for the day’s meat) or a homemade nut roast. A children’s roast is £6.99 for under-14s. CAMRA lists dogs in the bar and one side room, children until 8pm, and steps at the entrance. Open Sunday 12pm to 10pm. Call 0151 630 3169. Hygiene rating 5 (FSA, 4 December 2024). 7 Magazine Brow, CH45 1HP.

Contento, Belvidere Road, Liscard

Contento is an Italian small-plates restaurant with a separate Sunday roasts menu: herb-roasted chicken breast at £15, roast sirloin of beef at £17, roast leg of lamb at £18 and a Mediterranean vegetable wellington at £15, all with roast potatoes, Yorkshire pudding, vegetables, stuffing and red wine gravy. A sharing platter of beef, chicken and lamb for two is £42, and there is a children’s Sunday menu. Open Sunday 12pm to 9pm, last food orders 7pm; closed Monday. Parking is limited. Call 0151 691 1444 or book online. Hygiene rating 5 (FSA, 14 October 2025). 146 Belvidere Road, CH45 4PT. Our listing.

How we chose

There is no Wirral award for Sunday roasts, so these are the places people search for when they want one, chosen on the public record rather than on taste: pubs and restaurants with a published Sunday roast menu we could read on the day, a spread across the borough, long-standing pubs, and a Food Standards Agency hygiene rating of 4 or 5. We left out places whose Sunday offer we could not check on their own website, and nothing here is paid for. Run a place that should be here, or spot something that has changed? Email newsdesk@wirralonline.co.uk.

For more, see our Wirral pubs guide, our Wirral restaurants guide, things to do in Wirral, what’s on in Wirral this month, and every pub in our Wirral business directory.

Frequently asked questions

How much is a Sunday roast on the Wirral?

On the menus published in October 2026, a single roast runs from £14.99 at the Magazine Hotel in New Brighton (one course) and £15 for roast chicken at Contento in Liscard to £25 for sirloin at Thornton Hall and £32 for rack of lamb at The Coast in Heswall. Most pub roasts sit between £19.95 and £22.95. Hillbark’s pre-ordered sharing roast is £50 for two courses or £60 for three.

Which Wirral Sunday roasts allow dogs?

Arthur’s of Hoylake allows dogs on a lead inside until 7pm. The Irby Mill welcomes dogs in the bar and the beer garden. The Wheatsheaf at Raby allows dogs but not in the restaurant, the Red Fox at Thornton Hough allows dogs on a lead away from the dining areas, and the Magazine Hotel allows them in the bar and one side room, according to CAMRA.

Where can a big group share a Sunday roast on the Wirral?

Hillbark Hotel at Frankby serves the Contessa sharing roast, carved at the table: tables of seven or fewer share one joint, eight or more get two, and it must be pre-ordered. Contento in Liscard has a sharing platter of beef, chicken and lamb for two at £42.