What they say about us?

Plenty and it's always good!

From Golf Wales

The Plough has recently been featured in the new book - Golf Wales, in which John Hopkins visits his favourite courses, in the run up to the Ryder Cup Wales 2010. Colin Pressdee gives advice on where to eat and stay.

"Each place to eat has been carefully selected by food writer Colin Pressdee based on the high quality that he expects. Colin Pressdee is a writer and broadcaster who regularly presents Hedgerow Harvest on Great Food Live on UKTV Food Channel, and food items on BBC Radio Wales."

And our writeup - one of only five places recommended for the Southerndown course.

"This traditional pub is steeped in history. It has long been renowned for serving real ales and a fine table. The daytime menu has a host of hearty dishes including traditional faggots, steak and Guinness pie, Glamorgan sausages, soup and baguettes. Evenings the choice is wider with a regulary changing menu. This offers items such as mussels, smoked duck, tiger prawns, garlic mushrooms, with several fish and meaty dishes to follow. It's excellent value and a truly entertaining place for a good evening"

and from the national press ...

By Paul Gogarty, The Guardian Saturday July 14 2007

10 Best seaside pubs

Plough & Harrow, Monknash, Vale of Glamorgan
A peach of a boozer that has won a ledgeful of awards including Camra's Best Pub in Wales 2003. Great atmosphere, with everyone shoehorned into two rooms with low ceilings and a roaring fire. The real ales are pretty strong - witness the local who assured me that the Holy Grail was held in a Barclays Bank near Strata Florida Abbey! The varied menu uses best local produce.

From Alistair Sawday's Special Places - Pubs and Inns af England & Wales

The Plough recieved the Community Pub Award - An award for "cracking rural locals run by enterprising, hard-working landlords who have succeeded in making their pub the hub of the community"

"The kind of pub you wish was your local - and it is as welcoming to single drinkers as it is to groups. Originally part of a monastic grange, today's Plough & Harrow that sometime Aussie Landlady Paula can vouch for the presence of the piratical ghosts that many say have been hanging around for centuries. Ancient, low white walls draw you to the front door. There are low ceilings and low lights in the rooms to either side, each with a big fireplace filled with churchy candles or crackling winter logs, and the bar groans with an impressive array of handpumps, up to 11 ales are served.

Happy yellow walls, original floors, a well-loved assortment of furniture - and a trombone used to play Happy Birthday the other day. Traditionalists will enjoy gammon and chips on the lunch menu, but for the more adventurous there are dishes such as summer crab salad and more restauraunty but fantastic value food in the evenings. A brilliant atmosphere, a great find."

From the Good Beer Guide 2006

"A welcome return to the guide (Pubs aren't allowed to enter the year they change hands) for this well-known watering hole under its new licensee. The range and quality of ales remains excellent. The two-roomed pub is located in what was a medieval grange; the public bar having once been a mortuary. Visitors to the lounge are advised that the real aleis in the bar, including up to five guests in winter (seven in summer) plus Westons Old Rosie cider. The food here also makes it well worth a visit. "