The William Foster - Lincoln

Absolutely terrible place wouldn't recommend at all the manager and workers on shift seem useless and like they knew nothing at all. You had one member of staff sat down for majority of the time I was in there.

I don 't typically like to leave bad reviews as I understand the impact it can have on a business, but I feel so strongly about this situation that I feel it is necessary. I visited The William Foster in Lincoln and had the most awful experience. The manager in that pub is awful for trying to accommodate simple requests. The organisation within this company is atrocious, and I have still yet to hear back from them regarding my complaint. I had emailed the pub and asked for my complaint to be passed to higher management (since the person I had a bad experience with was the responsible manager at the time) and I had a reply from said person. Granted, he apologised, but the issues on the day were just not dealt with efficiently. In short, I had booked a table for our family (13 people) on a Saturday afternoon. I had messaged prior to ask for a baby high chair as we, of course, had a baby with us. When we arrived, we were told by the manager that we were going to be seated on high stools. I explained that I had requested a high chair for a baby and hence that would not be appropriate. He then said 'well that 's where you 're sat '. I spoke to him separately after he 'd accused us of not communicating that we needed a high chair, and so I proved that I had by showing him evidence. He still didn 't accommodate. We ended up sat in the sports area, with a leaking roof, not enough stools (which we did get in the end, just planted in the middle of the floor) and a mother having to stand up to feed her baby on her dad 's knee. They couldn 't even cook a medium-rare steak right and they were all overdone. Appalling. I will never, ever be returning, nor will I ever recommend to anyone.

Called in for a drink whilst shopping in Lincoln Friendly pub, great beer prices and quality. Amy, one of the bar staff was very welcoming and attentive to our requests and even came over to the table to check all was good. Very professional. Will definitely return,

Good food, a lot to offer for ‘pub grub’, very prompt with service. Good for watching live sports with pool tables. Quite busy on a Saturday, other customers during eating someone would tap you on the shoulder to ask when you are done to come get them. Would suggest the need for a front of house service to prevent this from occurring

Average sort of place with a good selection of beers. Food was decent enough and would use again. However, I must mention the miserable girl? with the blue hair who decided to just slam the condiments tray onto our table without a word and with a face like a bulldog chewing a wasp. Maybe some charisma training wouldn’t go amiss.m? Apart from that, yeah, decent boozer.