Weekly

Monthly
Monday (except last) Last Monday
General Knowledge Quiz night - 9:00 pm Super General Knowledge Quiz night 9.00 pm
Your team could win a gallon of beer plus "Don't Play Your Cards Wrong" with a weekly jackpot of up to £100. There are also a range of spot prizes available. Your team could win two gallons of beer plus "Don't Play Your Cards Wrong" with a weekly jackpot of up to £100. There are also a range of spot prizes available.
Entry fee 50p per person includes sandwiches or chip butties in the interval. Again only 50p per person including sandwiches or chip butties in the interval. Be early to get your seat!
Tuesday - Balti Night - See Food Menu Penultimate Tuesday - Cheese & Wine - see below 

Special events
Every Wednesday there is music in the lounge featuring one of our local bands. See the details on the Right hand side of the main screen for details of who is appearing on any particular night.

Cheese & Wine Nights
The penultimate Tuesday of every month is usually a Cheese & Wine night in aid of Animal Lifeline, which is a local charity devoted to saving abandoned dogs. This is our main adopted charity, although we do run the Penkhull Charity Group from the Greyhound and support many other good causes, including the Retired Greyhound Trust.

The evening starts at 7:30 pm in the bar and costs £5.00 per head plus a tin of dog food. You get 4 x 125ml glasses of wine from a choice of 8 (red and white available), plus your pick of around 20 cheeses from different countries.

Well-behaved dogs most welcome.

Jewellery Parties
Roughly every six months we hold a silver jewellery party, with more than just jewellery on offer. There are bags, sarongs, scarves, and cards in addition to normal jewellery items. Prices range from around £3 to £100, and the nights are very popular, run by Surya of Stone. The next one scheduled is Tuesday December 4th - ideal for present shopping! Everyone who attends gets a complimentary glass of wine.

Recent events

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In July 2006 the second Penkhull Medieval Festival took place, where the village centre around the church was closed off to traffic and several events were held. All day food could be obtained from the Hog Roast stall outside The Greyhound, whilst there were several other stalls ranged around the church's garden area. There was a tug-of-war competition between the five Penkhull pubs, and Morris Dancers from the Stoke Black Dog Molly troupe entertained outside the church. The culmination of the proceedings was the performance of the Medieval Passion Play on the village green.

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In October 2003, Andy Rushton, the nephew of local resident Primrose Rushton, undertook a Kilimanjaro challenge to raise money for Whizz-Kidz, which, as the name implies, raises money for disadvantaged children in the U.K. He succeeded, and you can read his thank you letter, describing his experiences here.

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 Medieval Dinners. Three medieval dinners were held in the Greyhound during October & November 2004, organised by the Penkhull Residents Association, and attended by some of Penkhull's well known residents, many of whom were dressed for the occasion. The event was to celebrate the fact that Charles II once stayed the night here (See History for full details).

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 October 2002 saw the Greyhound host the first of three (so far) highly successful Murder Mystery Evenings. The theme for this first foray into the world of sleuthing was a dinner party held on New Years Eve 1899, with prizes given for solving the mystery, making the most money, and attending in the best and most apt costume, the latter won on this occasion by the debonair gentleman on the left of this photo.

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 In February 2003 the second Murder Mystery Night was held. The theme this time was the death of a Ship's Captain as she sailed from New York to Southampton on the eve of the First World War. Again customers attended in numbers, most of them again dressing up in costume. Most people felt the plot was not as good as the first, but everyone enjoyed it nevertheless.

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 October 2003 saw the presentation of the third Murder Mystery Night, this time a self-penned mystery by two members of the Penkhull Charity Group. The title was "Twenty-twenty Vision", set appropriately enough in the year 2020. Fashion in that year is decreed to be retro 1970's, and the action centres around the General Election for the United States of Europe! Again a splendid turnout, and the evening was pronounced a great success.