The Plough & Harrow — Restaurant in Bromsgrove

Christmas eve, eve, our works mini get together. Although lots of customers who seemed happy and enjoying themselves, it wasn't that easy for others to manoeuvre past them to other tables and seating. Lady seated at a chair partially across main door into bar with her dog, another chair someone is seated at and someone standing at the bar, the walkway is completely blocked. Not that practical, can only imagine how wheelchair users or someone with walking sticks would feel. Might look good on plans but no good when there's bums on seats. Very dissapointed with price and quality of drinks. It was a Friday and first time visiting since refurb. Would have been nice to be told there was an offer on wine(thurs,fri,sat). I think it was £18 for a bottle of wine which wasnt enjoyed, yet a special offer on other wines buy two large glasses get rest of bottle free. Although food looked appealing we didn't get to sample it. After situation regarding drinks, felt we werent comfortable ordering food. Also it was fish Friday but they'd run out of fish? 5.30pm! No Christmas decorations. No Christmas music. No Christmas atmosphere. Didn't feel we were made welcome atall. Shame as we had been looking forward to returning. Can't believe the door on the ladies toilet still opens from the right, would be so easy, more practical to change it to the left. The new seating area in the garden looks very nice and I'm sure will be a hit for many. Sadly we won't return. Not that I think the...

Just useless. The carvery was hit and miss - mine was quite passable but my mother in law had a dry slab of beef so it seems a lottery at best. The big problems were with the table reservations and seating, and the venue itself. We had booked a table for 5 being 4 adults and a toddler. We turned up and, frankly, felt like an afterthought. We were squeezed onto a table big enough for 4 at best; right in the middle of an access way. The thing that really grated was that there were numerous tables with reserved signs on them which remained empty throughout this ordeal. There was even a group of 4 on a table for 6 right next to us. It was just an organisational shambles. I'd have overlooked it this once if it hadn't been a near exact repeat of the last time we went. On top of this, be warned that the venue is in dire need of more than a lick of paint and the beer garden was closed due to broken glass that they "hadn't had time to clear up". Yeah, nice. There WON'T be a...

Food was appaling - not a carvery anymore. Used to come here most Sundays when it was a carvery, real shame. Menu wasn't clear and had spelling mistakes. Beef was too tough to cut. The portions of veg and mash was that of a baby serving...cauliflower amd broccoli bake we literally a brocoli stem on the plate no cauliflower. Vegetables were not fresh as the menu stated they were frozen 😕. Hair in my moms food too (this was Mother's Day we visited) Gammon was pale like Turkey and extremely salty. Not prewarned about extra charges (not on menu either) for gravey, although the amount put on the plate was next to nothing to begin with so the additonal gravy was needed and we got the charge removed. Appaling wouldn't recommend, and we as a family going back - such a shame the local...