The Horse & Groom - Pub & Kitchen — Restaurant in Lincoln

MONDAY NIGHT QUIZ. It seems a little unfair on the staff members, and it is not really a pub or restaurant review, BUT it was positive comments online about the quiz which took me to it, and… This was one of the most unenjoyable quizzes I have been too. I can think of two in perhaps a thousand which might compete for paucity of content (the Bedford in Southampton and Navigation, Buxford). And just ‘cos the girl may be perfectly nice, she is no more a quiz host than she is the sous chef. It started half an hour late, poor, unimaginative content, no pen (although one was promised) and points denied for perfect answers where points were given to wrong ones. The quality of the pictures on the sheet were the worst I have seen, the ropey sound system was at best adequate. The music round was perfect for ‘researching’ she even gave them two shots to go for it. Nowt to do with the quiz but the fish and chips were lovely. But they should have been for sixteen flipping quid, and our empty plates remained on our table for 45 minutes. Binley Mega Chippy serves a huge deal more for less than a tenner! Andrew left half way through round three, bored shotless. I stayed to give it a chance. I should not have. It made me a worse person. I learned nothing. I never do. There is a pub, The Mailbox, which does a SpeedQuiz on the same week night which is 7 minutes walk away. It is not as cosy as this pub. But everything else is better. And though I was pretty scathing about my visit there one year ago (don’t think I’m some agent sent by them to garner custom), the quiz at The Mailbox was just a whole fecktonne of more interesting than this expensive waste of time (unless your a thicko who likes guessing games, google and Shazam) (and even then the SpeedQuiz wins! ) This is why I don’t go to written down quizzes more than once a blue moon, as its only service was to remind me how truly meh! they can be. :( N.B. There was one thing worse than the quiz – me. I turned a piece of what, in effect, was merely very shoddy workmanship, into something cryingly horrible, all between my own two...

My sister and I wanted to have a lunch out for her birthday. I suggested that we went to the horse and groom as I'd enjoyed a lunch there about 3 yrs ago.

We had a problem parking as there were a lot of cars in the car park, more cars than customers we later discovered. I parked opposite the entrance, not an official parking spot I know but I assessed it to be safe and not obstructing anything or anyone.

On getting into the bar I ordered a port and lemon for my sister as I was driving, and a diet coke for myself. The man behind the bar told me "we don't have any port", so she ordered something that he did have instead. We asked for a menu and were told that they were in the box. We looked around and found it on the wall, we looked through it and thought the choice was rather limited. Eventually we chose the slow cooked pork burger with apple sauce and stuffing served with chips and salad garnish. The meal was quite a while coming, and after thanking the waitress we started by opening the burger. There was a marble sized ball of what I think was stuffing, and a piece of soggy rind fat about 10cm X 4cm, but no sign of meat anywhere. It also contained salsa on the base of the bun, which was not mentioned in the menu ( my sister hates anything spicy). I called over the waitress and told her that our meal was unacceptable, I showed her the two pieces of fat served inside our burger. She apologized and took the plates away. Then the man that served us at the bar came over and told us that it was his favourite item on the menu. I explained that we understood it was going to contain slow cooked pork, not just pork fat rind. He asked me if we wanted to order something else, but we felt we had wasted enough time here and there was nothing else we fancied after that. He didn't offer to discount a meal or a drink to compensate us so we decided to go...

Due to Covid our eating out trips are now Rare so we were really looking forward to this meal having experianced some lovely food here previously (though not been for at least over a year) Sorry to say it was not good ! The Onion rings arrived burnt to a crisp. I had specifically requested the gravey on side it arrived everything covered in it, the whole plate swimming in gravy - waitress took back - returned it with fresh pot & veg same Pie they had tried to take gravey off but by this time the pastry had saturate through and was Soggy! This the very reason I requested gravey on side. Husbands CRISPY Belly Pork...... Wasn't! It was Rubbery and inedible. The manager was understanding and nice offered us something else but as we had booked very early when less people about we didn't want to prolong our stay. She did not charge for the food, which we would not have paid for anyway (we did eat the 2nd lot of onion rings as we were starving) We paid for our wine.

In all our years (we're pretty old now) can honestly say this first birthday meal to consist of only a bowl of onion rings to share and btl wine. Very Dissapointing and Spoiled my birthday.

No response to our experience / feedback - it's now 21/01/ 22..... Astounding!!!! Do Management care? Are they interested in their customers experience????? Come on guys - Get a Grip! Do You want us back? Make the...