The Plough, Ivy Hatch - pub details
Address: High Cross Road, Ivy Hatch, Sevenoaks, Kent, TN15 0NL [map] [gmap]
Tel: 0871 951 1000 (ref 35880) - calls cost 10p per minute plus network extras
Borough Green & Wrotham (2.4 miles), Kemsing (2.6 miles), Bat & Ball (4.1 miles)
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> Current user rating: 4.3/10 (rated by 14 users)
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user reviews of the Plough, Ivy Hatch
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| Dropped in on my saturday walk with a party of nine. Firstly even though we had covered our walking boots we were asked to remove them. Then I looked at the menu and before I could even taste the beer three of our party had decided to leave. We walked down Stone Street and The Padwell. We were made to feel most welcome by the young waitress and were taken into the restaurant without any fuss. The food was stunning. I had the halibut and lemon panna cotta. The chef had been to billingsgate this morning and delighted in telling us how big the fish was. Nice bloke for a Frog Beer. I has skrimshander and a bottle of superb chablis with lunch , the wine was under £20. We will be returning If anyone is planning a walk, just go to the Padwell. It will not let you down. Sessionmaster - 26 Nov 2011 17:28 |
| There is quite a lot in what the previous reviews say; this is much more a restaurant than a pub these days, and the food is at correspondingly high prices. That said, however, I didn't experience any of the rudeness which these reviews tell of; the young girls who served us, both behind the bar and at table, were friendly and competent. The food was indeed expensive for what you got, and nothing very special (but I wasn't paying, so it didn't hurt as much!). And the beer was in fact excellent - Tunbridge Wells Sovereign - and the barmaid showed a surprising degree of knowledge and interest. If I'd just wanted to sit outside in the sun and enjoy a couple of pints, I'd really have been very happy. I remember this place when it was a little old locals' boozer, at one time frequented by the stable staff from Peter Cazalet's training establishment down the road - but sadly things change, and not often for the better, in the world of pubs. earlydrinker - 3 Oct 2011 12:52 |
| My suggestion is you take your custom elsewhere, have never met such an unprofessional landlady and a very much overrated pub. Food doesn't match most other pub food eaten, bread stale and very overpriced for what you get. They really need to look at what their competition is as they certainly don't match it. Take your custom elsewhere so you're not disappointed. keepsmiling - 15 Aug 2011 23:21 |
| What a pretentious place: A restaurant in pub's clothing, served by a she-wolf wearing wool. True, we had entered the place with the intention of having a pub Sunday lunch. Outside it looked like a pub but inside we were treated like as if we had entered a stuck-up restaurant, and told to wait to be shown to a table: twice as it happens as we tried to look round the corner to see what the interior was like. We were stopped in our tracks by the she-wolf, and told to wait. We were told we could sit outside, at any table we liked but that we would have to come back to the bar to order with a table number locatd on the table itself: standard, inconvenient pub practice. We asked to see the menu. It was not in the place expected, by the bar, but inconveniently the other side of the room and not at the bar where we were expecting to find it, a menu printed in tiny type face - 6 point. We had to fetch the menu by ourselves, not the general practice in classier restaurants, but probably so in pubs. We looked at the prices. They were on the steep side of the North Face of the Eiger. OTT for Sunday pub lunches and well beyod my regular means. True, they had a snack menu for about half the price, but nothing on it what we wanted We had believed we had entered a pub: it passed the Duck test for a pub. It looked like a pub, it quacked like a pub, ergo it must be a pub. But no, the price of meals were way beyond those for regular pubs.. Restaurants which pretend to be pubs, and which charge high prices for meals are deceitful in my book. To continue to charge high prices and yet have the self-service practice found in genuine pubs which serve meals, is even more deceitful IMO. We ordered a half of cider, drank it and left. Drinks choice: meagre. mycetes - 11 Jul 2011 07:25 |
| I recently attented the Plough in Ivy Hatch and sure the location is idyllic and the furnishings are nice with a good sized restaurant, however like alot of local people, i was offended by the 'managers' behaviour, (Miles and Ania) when it came to the poor quality of food, small portions, chewy meat, under cooked fish and well over priced! We left shortly after with a heated argument with the Miles over paying our bill, we wandered up the road and found another pub, The Snail in Stone Street, the service was friendly and the food was excellent! Anyone thinking about the plough, dont! milo23 - 12 Apr 2011 19:36 |
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