Plough — Restaurant in Lincoln

Booked a table here for the Euro’s final, which in itself was far harder than it should have been. Now I appreciate that it wasn’t a normal occasion and the place was very busy indeed, but even allowing for this, the word “debacle” springs to mind. We were told to arrive 2 hours before kickoff to avoid the rush, which seemed excessive but never mind. Part of the deal was a pitcher of beer on arrival, which wasn’t an option on the table service app and I had to go to the bar three times to ask for before it was eventually delivered 45 minutes after I ordered. The table service app then failed to give the option for ordering any draught beers at all, only bottles, and a limited choice at that. Three different staff gave three different explanations for this, but again, never mind. Ordered a round of bottles at 7:15, another at 7:40, and our group ordered another three rounds between us between 7:30 and 8, having seen how long the pitcher took to turn up. From there on it went completely to rat—s*. The drinks from the FIVE rounds we ordered finally began to arrive at around 8:35, in random order and no order being fully complete. I had to take email proof of my first order to the bar at 9:45, over two hours after placing the order, before they grudgingly gave me the drinks. We didn’t get all the drinks we had paid for by the end of the night by a long stretch, by my reckoning we were around £24 worth of beer down. To top it all off, the set-up for viewing the match was abysmal. Big projector screen under a sagging tarpaulin roof that blocked the top half of the screen, placed so low to the ground that only the front row of tables could see the bottom half of the screen. Coupled with this was the fact that the contrast of the picture was so poor that you could only make out the picture as the light began to fade mid way through the second half, so we ended up watching the match huddled round a tiny phone screen drinking warm bottled beer, when we actually had it delivered. You would think that if anyone could organise a proverbial in a brewery, a pub would be the one, but it seems not. I won’t be going back. Oh, and we lost on penalties, but I suppose that’s at least one thing that the Plough isn’t...

The Landlord has a terrible attitude. The fact he gets so much negative appraisal is his own fault. You can't ban half of the local community in the hope that a microwave is going to get you a Michelin star, lol You may as well put ropes around the place like a boxing ring with the amount of trouble you get in there... violence in front of kids isn't an atmosphere anybody wants. They have just had a diabolical cacophonous weekend rave that has been a torment for the local ppl here.... with strung out ketomine users wandering around off their heads and a heavy handed bouncer that shouldn't have an sia licence. An utter dive of a place. If you want rubbery insipid tasteless food served up luke warm in a grotty unfriendly grubby doss-house this is the place for you. and The place is synonymous with class A drug use and the landlord is a xenophobic bigot who has very very questionable ethics on who he believes is fit to drink in there.

He gets assaulted regularly and I know plenty of ppl who have worked for him that have a very poor view of him. His excuses don't wash and he has turned nothing around. The community here generally don't like him. Raves until 2am well above the decibel limit right next to housing isn't turning anything around.

He calls the community out as riff raff and called me a devil worshipper. I like rock music. Prejudice comments like that and his own bar staff fighting in full view of paying customers isn't a place I can recommend. He doesn't want ppl in there unless they are spending over 100 quid on food. His own words.

Trouble is..... the food sucks. Avoid unless you want to be profiled and...

Music blaring all weekend, no consideration for the people who live here , all because the landlord has been there a year 👏👏 well done you. The fact I've had to keep the windows shut all weekend because of you and can still hear the bass won't make people want to come to your pub and the managers attitude is well its only one weekend ! And we're at half the legal limit , take the feedback and turn it down !! Some of us have work for the next 5 days !! Reported to local police as have many other apparently this weekend, when I called 101 they knew which pub it was before I even said .

• further update , they have also blocked me on thier Facebook for posting the same comment

I'm regards to the reply from the owner below, I have been a customer there I even had Christmas Dinner there last year and have enjoyed a few nights there before listening to live music ,but no longer visit there as there was alot of drugs being taken in the toilets(some of the people in your videos at the weekend) that wasn't the usual level of music last weekend and you know it ,as alot of people complained to the police! why feel the need to block me from your facebook if I cannot voice my opinion, regardless if I go in now or not I'm still part of the...