The Plough Inn Reviews Summary

Category: Restaurant

Address: Cleobury Rd, Far Forest, Kidderminster DY14 9TE, United Kingdom

Phone: +441299266237

Rating: 4.3
based on 317 reviews.

Value for Money

Pros:

  • "The three course deal is great.. Really good quality food."
  • "Definitely great value for money."
  • "The menu offer of three courses for £12 represents great value."
  • "Three courses for £12 really can't be argued against."
  • "Where else can you get three courses, repeat three courses for £10.00. Amazing."
  • "The 3 course meals there are so much value for money it's unreal!"
  • "3 courses for £10 bargain."

Cons:

  • "Food was okay but nowhere near as good as it used to be."
  • "The Christmas menu was a joke, starter very poor, venison crumble described as fabulous, rubbish, festive pâté was shop bought plain stuff."
  • "Rip off price for a carvery of which normal prices are £13.00 - £14.00, their price is £25.00."
  • "Been in today for a 2 course carvery. £69.00 for 2 adults and a child. Never paid so much anywhere."
  • "I then find out after looking at the receipt that we was charged £79.80 for 4 adults and a whooping £15.95 for a 5 year old."
  • "The single most awful carvery I've ever experienced, I am vegan and had a cauliflower option which was straight from a freezer."
  • "Drinks are a little on the pricy side."

Quality of Food

Pros:

  • "The quality of the food is wonderful and the service is impeccable."
  • "All of the dishes were of good size, nicely presented and all round amazing quality."
  • "The best meal we have eaten out in a long time."
  • "Great food - esp. the Carvery."
  • "Carvery was beautiful. Everything was cooked perfectly."
  • "The food was delicious, the starters were really delicious, the carvery had plenty of choice the meat was gorgeous and tender."
  • "The food was excellent and plentiful."

Cons:

  • "The carvery was absolutely dire - only the Yorkshire pudding was good. Bland meat, the most unroasted roast potatoes I’ve encountered, overcooked vegetables, greasy sloppy stuffing, insipid gravy."
  • "The food was nothing short of awful!"
  • "The beef was awful, chewy no taste."
  • "The carvery was luke warm and not particularly enjoyable."
  • "The lamb tasted like it was off and neither of us ate it, the veg was overdone and not pleasant."
  • "The steak was cooked well and to our liking but absolutely tasteless with no flavour."
  • "The roast potatoes and Yorkshire pudding and stuffing was like concrete and inedible."

Service

Pros:

  • "Served by a proper gent who was very calm considering how busy it was for a Wednesday."
  • "The service was friendly and good."
  • "Staff really attentive and helpful."
  • "Service of staff was 2nd to none."
  • "Served by friendly efficient staff."
  • "Staff were excellent, everyone very friendly food was excellent and value for money could not be bettered."
  • "The staff were friendly, attentive and efficient!"

Cons:

  • "Some of the staff appeared like they didn’t want to be there especially the bar staff."
  • "Also slightly off putting hearing members of staff disrespecting others members of staff while we were eating."
  • "But some of the staff were not very attentive and didn't seem like they knew what they were doing."
  • "The service was extremely slow and we had steaks that were all overcooked and dry."
  • "Service was very slow, seemed like they had too many bookings for the amount of staff."
  • "Lady serving behind bar was very, very unwelcoming, everything seemed too much hassle."
  • "Not very friendly staff, wasn't met or served in a friendly way."

Ambience and Cleanliness

Pros:

  • "Clean, nice surroundings, beautiful gardens."
  • "Firstly, the venue itself is amazing and beautiful to be in."
  • "It is a beautiful pub restaurant quirky characteristic lots of cosy spaces to sit in garden beautiful pretty trees with lights outside seating."
  • "The place was very clean and tidy."
  • "Lovely pub/restaurant. Beautiful setting. Food great. Friendly atmosphere."
  • "The car park is well maintained. It needs to be as the pub is busy due to the excellent value that it represents."
  • "Lovely decorated pub (even the toilets were special)."

Cons:

  • "The bathrooms are an utter disgrace. The ladies featured a toilet seat half hanging off, laden with pubic hairs, and everywhere was coated in a layer of several days' worth of dirt and dust- amongst other things."
  • "The ambience was manic and a bit of a scrum to get to the service counter."
  • "Always chaotic and staff running around like headless chickens."
  • "We were seated so close to the next table there was no way we were 2 metres apart."
  • "Very busy...too busy for me, packed in too much."
  • "Decorations were a bit much as the lighting was too bright, cables running down walls with thin electric lighting wires taking the weight of extension cables. Certainly not safe electrics."
  • "It was very busy so couldn’t relax."

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