BITE user comments - Nanook99
Comments by Nanook99
The Plough at Bolnhurst, Bolnhurst
We visited the Plough (including my wheelchair). Pub is accessible via portable ramps and a little help on the way out. Staff were very helpful and understood wheelchairs and the person in them - that is they left the person in the wheelchair in control. Car park is shingle and challenging for chairs.
Food was very good and not expensive. Cost about �20.00 more for two people than you would expect to pay in a restauran/pub that had pretentious to be above the majority. For this we got attentive staff, food that was cooked on the premises, excellent service without any pressure, very pleasant atmosphere and a fine evening all round. The menu is restricted - quite right! Web site is very helpful.
A bright light in the desert that is Bedfordshire.
27 Jul 2007 20:34
This is a good pub for sitting outside and enjoying a pint. Beer is reasonably priced and there is a fair selection. The staff are very efficient and helpful. The food is Brewer's Fayre and you would be wise not to eat here unless you know exactly what you can expect. Having said that the kitchen staff were clearly having a very bad day when we ate there and it was very poor value for money.
23 Aug 2006 21:33
We had lunch! The beer was standard. The food was a severe disappointment. I had the pie and cheese ploughmans - not much to go wrong there I thought. The bread was 6 tiny pieces of an old and stale french stick. The pie was very heavy on the very poor hot water pastry and the meat was bland. The edifice was topped with some very old and tired red currants. the salad was exhausted and limp and the celery was dirty and unwashed. My friend ordered the scampi and new potatoes and received an incorrect dish - when it was, eventually, replaced there were chips and 9 pieces of overcooked scampi once again accompanied by the dismal and unimaginative salad. Food was overpriced and a real disappointment.
By the time all this weas sorted out almost evceryuone had left and the charmless landlord was busy packing up around us. His staff were OK but inattentive.
The good garden is only wheelchair accessible from the rear car park,
This is a good pub gone bad - don't go.
29 Jul 2006 16:40
Pub with enormous grounds leading down to the river Great Ouse - very pleasant. Lots of rabbits - watch out for the holes they make. Good selection of ale.
Friendly staff - very helpful.
Disabled (wheelchair) access to garden with assistance. Disabled access to the inside is very good.
Maybe we hit a bad day but the food was poor. I had the cod and chips. The cod was overdone and from the freezer, the chips had been cooked at least twice and the mushy peas were quite extraordinary, the bread and butter was a crust partially spread with something. MY friend had the shepherd's pie with fresh vegetables. The pie was almost all potatoe and the meat was tasteless. the new potatoes which were unnecessary were under cooked andthe fresh vegetabbles were frozen sweet corn. The cost was far too much for such poor fare.
The menu was far too adventurous and was entirely nbased on pre cooked food.
Rating 7 without the food, 1 with
29 Jul 2006 14:46
The Pilgrims Progress, Bedford
Food service is dismal, beer poor, good wheelchair facilities
16 Jun 2005 19:24
No comment - no wheelchair access. even after recent refurbishment.
16 Jun 2005 19:20
Very good pub, great beer, reasonable prices. Food some of the best in town and large portions. bars wheelchair accessible but NOT the new Patio Garden - a pity!
16 Jun 2005 19:19
New Landlord and lanlady - food OK - good chips and burgers very pleasant new fit out - not noisy suit older patrons and young.
Great facilities for wheelchairs
4 Mar 2005 21:27
The Park Pub and Kitchen, Bedford
Food is ordinary and uncared for - the camembert was tasteless, the sausage and mash had an inappropriate sauce and the apple pie was a disgrace. Service was very good, beer is mostly fizz
27 Jul 2007 20:50