The Plough Reviews Summary

Atmosphere

Pros:

• "This 16th-century pub is lovely. Nice atmosphere, and great food and drink."
• "Very enjoyable with pleasant staff and a lovely atmosphere."
• "Lovely pub with relaxed and friendly atmosphere, the garden provided a lovely sitting area and child's play area which was welcomed."
• "A very nice and quiet, pleasant atmosphere."
• "Great food, lovely beer garden and atmosphere."
• "Absolutely amazing place. Quiet and chilled atmosphere, great tasting food with generous portions, very polite and friendly staff."
• "Lovely old country pub, oozing with genuine character."

Cons:

• "Got led to side annex room, a bit echoey and sparse."
• "The room we were in lacked any appeal, cold and the seats were uncomfortable."
• "However, visited in January and the lighting was too bright, does not have good seating and has no atmosphere so for me not an indoor pub for a late drink."
• "The whole evening was ruined due to the restaurant area not only being rather dark by the bay windows but being extremely cold to the point members of our party had to put their coats on."
• "Overall wrap up warm and go for the food and not the decor."

Service

Pros:

• "Service is fantastic as well, Maria is a delight!"
• "Very enjoyable with pleasant staff and a lovely atmosphere."
• "The staff are very friendly, helpful and I must say that the food was excellent and didn't take long to come."
• "Fantastic food, well priced, service was brilliant with all staff being friendly."
• "Exceptional British pub management and all staff simply wonderful.. head chef immaculate and quality of food especially Sunday roast outstanding!"
• "Service was friendly and fast and a guy was playing live in the garden which was cool."
• "We were served very quickly (less than 15 mins from ordering!) by a very friendly & polite waitress."

Cons:

• "The waiting staff were just congregating by the bar and not checking in on anyone’s meals."
• "I was slightly worried on arrival to find 2 members of staff sat at the bar on their phones and I felt like my arrival was an inconvenience to them."
• "We found we were forgotten and had to ask for service each time to order drinks or our meals."
• "Service not particularly good, food was not very good at all and seating is very uncomfortable."
• "Waited 30 mins just for drinks. Lost order."
• "Awful experience, poor service. Cannot comment about the food because we didn't even get to order."
• "The service was non-existent, not a single friendly face."

Food Quality

Pros:

• "How refreshing to get high end cuisine that you can afford in a pub just brilliant!!!"
• "Excellent Sunday roast."
• "Absolutely amazing mixed Sunday roast. Meat all cooked to perfection, giant Yorkshire and plenty of gravy!"
• "Great home cooked Sunday roast. Freshly cooked vegetables. Delicious desserts."
• "The chickpea burger was awesome but the vegan ratatouille pie thing was on another level HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!!!"
• "The Thai vegetable curry was amazing!"
• "Chicken pie and mash were amazing followed by sticky toffee pudding... yum!"

Cons:

• "Unfortunately the food was sub standard in comparison to pre Covid times. Burgers looked not home made, Thai curry tasteless."
• "Mediocre food overall. Specials were better than main menu dishes."
• "Chicken tikka burger wasn’t great which my son ordered and my daughters tomato pasta was also average."
• "Amongst the starters ordered, both prawn cocktails had frozen prawns in and hardly any seafood sauce."
• "My partner said to me that her chicken was watery and tasteless and I must agree with her as mine was too also the pork was very fatty and the beef tough."
• "Found the pie very dry and pastry looked as if it had been warmed up in the microwave. Vegetables were Luke warm."
• "The fishcakes were very average and they came on a bed of salad, it needed something to liven it up, it was quite an uninspired dish."