The Plough, Huddlesford Reviews Summary

Staff and Service

Pros:

• "The staff as always were friendly, diligent and customer focused."
• "friendly capable staff"
• "Service was attentive, all of our meals were well presented and tasty."
• "Staff were truly accommodating to find us a table."
• "Service was both friendly and efficient and we will definitely be returning again."
• "Fabulous food and efficient, friendly welcoming staff."
• "Fantastic service. Thank you all at the Plough."

Cons:

• "After 40 minutes had passed we went inside to ask about the wait."
• "The manager immediately took offence and basically dismissed my request."
• "Very disappointed with staff & lack of choice of roasts."
• "Only thing I'd say is that the service was a little on the slow side."
• "Food ok but service as bad as we have had anywhere! We sat there so long after starters we got asked if we wanted desert menu!"
• "staff proved to be very inattentive."
• "Unfortunately 20 minutes later, still sat there, by now drink less and had still not been asked if we were ready to order."

Food Quality

Pros:

• "Food is always amazing"
• "Really good portion with a nice mixture of veggies & meat excellently cooked"
• "The food was great and we didn't have to wait long for it after placing our order."
• "excellent food/Beer"
• "The food was served piping hot and plenty of it"
• "The food was absolutely fantastic, great portions and cooked to perfection."
• "Best xmas dinner my partner's ever had any best filet strogonoff for me."

Cons:

• "Dreadful..skinny fries full of dirty fat yak. Tasted like they had been cooked with doughnuts."
• "Awful service and terrible food...messed up several of the orders."
• "The beef shin was rather bleak, the mash was awful"
• "The chips were soggy....nasty."
• "food overpriced and pretentious."
• "Edit 2: we returned in early March, and the carvery was disappointing, to say the least. Burned potatoes and veg, it would have been better to throw them in the bin rather than serve to a customer."
• "If you drink bitter/ale stay well away, we ordered 2 pints of Timothy Taylor Landlord, it was undrinkable."

Ambiance and Location

Pros:

• "Lovely country pub by the canal side."
• "the outdoor area looks great for summer afternoons"
• "a real community pub."
• "Lovely setting with friendly staff."
• "wonderful old pub very traditional"
• "Lovely decorated with friendly atmosphere."
• "A lovely, welcoming country pub"

Cons:

• "Lets it self down with NO disabled toilets. Very difficult to navigate my wife and wheelchair to the toilet."
• "The outside tables were dirty and the condiments had congealed sauce around the tops."
• "The only downside was that the garden seating was right beside the car park."
• "No disabled facilities, toilets falling to bits"
• "Only seats with dog were extremely high bar stools. Embarrassing when hubby has to help you up and down!"
• "As a tall man, the low ceilings pose and immediate health and safety risk as I have for sure lost 2 out of the 10 remaining brain cells I have after slamming my head against the low ceilings a few times."
• "May be hard to access in the winter months unless you walk along the canal towpath."

Value and Pricing

Pros:

• "Chips are fantastic ham egg and chips great value at £6.99 at lunch time."
• "if a little pricey but still excellent value specials available."
• "Not expensive and really tasty!"
• "Food was nice and reasonably priced."
• "well worth the small price we paid."
• "The food was fantastic and well worth the small price we paid."
• "good home cooked food and great value none the less."

Cons:

• "at least a £1 per pint higher than the Stoke on Trent price!"
• "a pint of Bitter (pedigree) was £4.30 a pint which seemed expensive"
• "Food and drinks are higher priced but location and quality of food justify the cost."
• "slightly pricey for what was basically posh bangers and mash."
• "The menu was not cheap and the service certainly didn’t match."
• "Drinks are expensive, but well kept so worth it."
• "food overpriced and pretentious."