The Gog and Magog in Plymouth

Just an average Wetherspoons. Exactly what you'd expect.

We attend the pub quiz at The Gog and Magog every Wednesday- Jacob is the best host! :)

Great place to go for food and drinks

Great place to start your night, good food and a good pi g at a good price

Can be nice during the day but weekend evenings just avoid the place. Unless you are looking for starting a punch up or feel like waiting for someone else to start with you. Someone should take a serious look at maximum capacity numbers a bit closer

Up their game with the food. Cheap beverages all around.

Packed no one behind the counter waiting for over 15 minutes gave up and went somewhere else

Nice relaxing place for an afternoon drink

Really nice food, fresh and hot. Highly recommend

Great find, decent coffee and breakfast menu. Never disappoints

Breakfast Luke warm No alternative milk

Be nice to visit when renovations are finished but good for keeping it open

Very affordable place to dine in with a lot of options to eat and drink.

Alright Spoons but a bit narrow. The biggest issue was no phone signal, no WiFi and only one person behind the bar so a long wait to be served despite being a quiet Sunday evening. The staff tried their best but also a lot of items were out of stock making it even slower.

love getting drunk love the quiz love spoons!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Typical Spoons in a good location for exploring the Barbican area of Plymouth.

A spoons so you know what you get. Good value as ever , nice vibe tucked up an alley. Right on the front and plenty around

Small pub fast service very quiet small beer garden

Wetherspoons fills an important space in loads of people's lives. Cheap food and drinks within a comfortable space.

Popped in with my daughter and 4 older grand children . Reasonably priced drinks and pleasant to sit and have a chat and a drink

I eat here often, so I must like it. It is a typical Witherspoon. Not flash. Good range of beer, and affordable food.

Just can't argue with the business model. The small fish and chips is very small but the flavour was good and two portions with a couple of drinks for under £17 cannot be sniffed at.

Excellent venue lovely hot breakfast back down there next week with my partner

Ruddles tastes like I scraped the beer off the ground 0/10

Very pretty little pub tucked away off the main street. Took me a while to find it as it's hidden away. Very quiet when I went for breakfast which was nice. Nicely decorated. Food was really nice and staff were friendly. Would visit again.

A fairly typical Spoons regarding service. The barmaid didn't give a smile, but poured a good pint of 'Festive Ale' on tap which was only £1.99 - excellent value if I'm honest. I didn't have food, as Wetherspoons grub has gone somewhat downhill in recent years, so stayed away from that one. A great location on the edge of the Barbican however and a nice seating area outside to watch some of the Plymouth public walk on by. Will I go back again? Yes, of course - if only for a well-priced pint of ale. Cheers all 🍻 5 stars given as a good pint was pulled at a very good price at a good location.

It's ok a bit dark inside but they are always friendly

Dirty tables plates & glasses left on them. Place so dark you nned a flashlight to see. Needs a spruce up desperately

Waiting long time for meal - part off meal was frozen when arrived on table staff didn't really care trying to get some one attention was unreal!

Not bad, but not much selection of real ales

Absolutely disgusted. We ordered sirloin steak medium rare. One with chips one with jacket potato. The steaks were raw and sat on the plate with the accompanying potatoes looking just like they were potato and meat. Nothing at all appetizing would not consider visiting that establishment again and would seriously have to consider visiting a Wetherspoons again. I am a 77 year old lady having plenty of experience of eating out.

It I'd wat it is a weather spoon again cheap and cheerful.

Food portions were small. I like the app for ordering. Table clearing took some time to happen - tables left cluttered for a long time

Waited nearly an hour for our food, then had to ask for cutlery!!! Food wasn't even average. Had to ask for our table to be cleaned, if it was busy you are tolerant but the place was empty.

Gets really busy at night time due to it's location

Lovely spoons in Plymouth. Right next to a lovely part of the city, and still what you would expect from a Wetherspoons.

On the Barbican, nice location, quick service, quite busy with university students

Late on a Thursday night, so it's not that busy. Quick service from the young team on duty, some nice advice from one young lad about a couple of local ciders they had in the fridge. As always , we lost 2 sherpas and 3 climbers in our hike to the Wetherspoons toilets ....we shall remember them .

A brilliant meal deal double American burger plus a pint for £4.83 fabulous

You always know what you're going to get in a wetherspoon pub. Food came out hot and freshly made. It wasn't too busy so got served quickly too

In dire need of a refurbishment. Most disgusting scrambled eggs - tasteless and swimming in water and no I didn't eat. Baked beans cheapest & tasteless. Such a shame as position is great and nothing to complain about the staff.

Busy Wetherspoons. Real ales in good condition.

Popped in for a drink and something to eat after a day out!

Food was great good service great

Toilets (Gents) not clean. Visited on Monday 26th at 1420. Check sheet stated that check performed at 1400. Grimey cubinles with ingrained dirt and soiling. Interior of pub worn and tired. Manager was not around when I tried to advise.

Close to Harbour but better pubs nearby.

breakfast was delicious, fast served!

We had 2 jacket potatoes for lunch and a side of coleslaw. There was no coleslaw and the potatoes were barely Luke warm. They were also watery. Very surprised because the food is usually good here.

One of the worst Wetherspoons I’ve been in. Not many useful tables to actually eat from. The chairs were horrendously stained and in general everything was sticky and unclean. A lot not available on menu so choice was rubbish. I think it’s more targeted at the nighttime barbican crowd hence the state of it.

Foh took my beer while in the toilet, had a chin wag behind the bar and made an executive decision to not reimburse me to save their own skins considering they’re not paid enough to give a

Its a Weatherspoons, what more do I need to say. Sticky tables, cheap beer and basic but reasonable food, all served at a fair price.

Food was tasty, good that you can order from the table. Dark and dingy where we were

A good place to go to for a meal daytime .don't know what it's like at a night time. Don't go there at night.

Just got IDed with my 82 year old Nan despite being a full grown women. I understand the law and have worked in plenty of pubs, but the bar staff here seem to have a distinct lack of intuition. Thanks for wasting our time asking us our order(!)

Staff at the gog last night were life savers! (Quite literally!) Our friend had gotten into a bit of a state last night and the staff at gog called us on her phone to let us know she was okay and ask us to pick her up. We are students so we had to walk and they were very patient and polite with us and waited with our friend until we could get there. They made sure she had all of her possessions on her too and gave them to us upon arrival. So appreciative of all your guys help, sorry for keeping you guys behind after close!

The tables are left full of crockery for ages. Staff work hard but can’t cope. Tables remained uncleaned all the four hours we were there being very sticky.

Witherspoon's have great value meals and a huge selection of different menu choices.

Tipacle witherspoon food but no complaints look after us very well

We were in Plymouth, visiting, looking for the sights and sounds. Naturally we headed to The Gog And Magog for a spot of lunch. Named after a mythical giant and his land, apparently; The pub is a Wetherspoons establishment. For that reason, we knew exactly what we were going to find within and we were exactly right. Another dreadfully designed carpet, run of the mill tables and chairs, the blue patterned plates, toilets with a steady trickle of urine under each and every urinal, standard stuff. The Gog served us up a couple of chicken wraps with stodgy chips in good time. It was adequate, nothing more than that. The actual wrap was tasty, but the chips were average at best. All in all, the pub was a pleasant enough way to kill an hour while walking around Plymouth. It did the job.

Good atmosphere, good selection of beers and at a great price.

Waited 30 minuets for food and drink of coke ordered another drink of coke waited another 20 minutes will not be coming here again.

Can't speak to the service as my friends ordered while I got a table. Food was very filling and a good price

We all know Wetherspoons for its historic buildings, excellent alcohol at the cheapest prices, and good food at reasonable prices (although, slowly, the price of food is becoming standard with other restaurants; e.g., for a few pounds more, you can buy a pasta Alfredo at twice the size in an Italian restaurant). Normally, I would give a 4 star rating for the Gog & Magog, but my last visit gave me a shock, as I was asked by the manager to deny my own experience. The cheek! I ordered a large fish and chips but was given a small size. When I complained, the manager argued that it was the standard large size, although he did kindly reordered for me. The reordered fish was twice the size, yet he insisted the size was the same, only the first fish looked smaller because the ends were curled (the curvature didn’t make much difference, by the way). The manager did say that the fish came in 2 sizes, and the 1st fish was in the large batch, so it could be a fault with the packaging and distribution of food, but his mistake was to imply that my cognitive faculties are not up to scratch. I have reason to believe that the food arrives at the Wetherspoons pub precooked and reheated on the premises. For example, I am told that the poached eggs for eggs benedict haven't been delivered, and would I like fried eggs instead? Wetherspoons in general, and the Gog & Magog, in particular, need to lower their food prices as it's food cannot compete with freshly cooked food of the restaurant.

Food was good service fast could do with some music or TV

A typical Wetherspoons. Great beer choice and prices, plus a fracas going on... Same old!!. Only three stars because of the extremely slow service. There was only me and another chap waiting at the bar. Four staff behind the bar. Maybe we were invisible!. Otherwise a decent pub.

Great pub, excellent food. Barman stands out as the most miserable and unfriendly person I have ever met. Let's a good team down.

Sorry I love a spoons but this falls short. Dirty tables .feel like cattle. Staff matter of fact. Service poor ...what a shame considering the surroundings.

Usual standard of food and service. A filling meal and resealable priced. Will go again .

Always some interesting characters inside but a decent pub nonetheless! Drinks are cheap - what more could you want?

A nice cozy pub set back a little from the street. As always consist quality at a fair price with a good selection of real ales at below normal pub prices. Located on the Barbican and just 2 minutes walk from beautiful sea views. Staff are friendly

It's a spoons tables sticky +full need more staff outside area nice ppl smoking in the doorway drifting into eating area

Curry arrived and was ice cold in middle of bowl. They took it back to kitchen to heat it. Had to remind the staff that i was still waiting for the food and by the time it arrived my wife had finished hers. No offer of any discount or anything. They could've offered a dessert or something so that we could've eaten something together. Disappointing experience.

Perfect for a quiet night or a night out with friends or as a couple.

Great pub to have a beer outside in this warm weather, service was very quick using the app.

Good for simple pub food. Service is fast and good. Toilets are always immaculate whereas some in the Barbican area are pretty grim. A lot of people say Wetherspoon's isn't too good. I disagree as I think it is all formulaic and reliably so. The food is good and the staff polite. I would always choose. Wetherspoon's over some restaurants. Comfortable seating and not chaotic service.

Great service. Very spacious and clean Lady's room.

Usual spoons, good beer at great price.

Dreadful! On the positive side it's cheap. However the service was terrible. Twice I had to complain about short pints (in one case it was nearer a half than a pint!), got a really rude comment about fact I dared to ask. Will now consider reporting to weights and measures. Asked for a table to be cleaned, covered in beer, it never happened. Tables left uncleared despite staff wandering around. Avoid!!

Bouncer age shamed me despite being handsome YOUNG man

Absolutely disgusted with the two bouncers on the door last night. Refusing my daughter into the establishment because of her disability. She had a lift threatening blood clot in her leg just over a year ago and since then still has a slightly different walk because of this they said she was too drunk to enter. I explained her situation and they still refused entry. Won’t be going back there again. Totally unfair! This has no reflection on the other members of staff that work there just the bouncers!

11 June 1330…. Four members of staff no customers, left waiting at bar! Finally served by a miserable girl (glasses, slapped back dark hair) no Please or Thank you’s, hardly any interaction other than being irritated that I wanted service.

Best Weatherspoons breakfast. Our local breakfast OK but not as good as Gog and Magog, thank you chef

Was served by the lovely Izzy and dearbhla. Very friendly and efficient at their job. Had a great experience, absolutely perfect poured pints

A Wetherspoons, and a good Wetherspoons.

Classic Spoons, although they do serve Rattler

Love it here , staff are very friendly! Great vibes.

Good Weather spoons located on the Barbican

Tasty chicken spicy wrap with spices, quick service even though it was busy, it was quite filling, didn't need anything on the side

Wetherspoons in Plymouth is a cool spot with good drinks and vibes. It's a nice place to kick back with friends and enjoy a relaxed atmosphere. Overall, a solid choice for a night out

We just went here for evening drink and it is your typical spoons but the staff are worth a mention here, nothing was too much trouble and they were happy to help. Thank you.

Cheapest drinks on the planet. Can get very busy, but service normal very quick.

Exactly what you would expect from spoons, why pay more elsewhere.

Me n my daughter regularly do lunch there

Not enough staff!! No wraps!! Had to leave with purchasing!!

Cracking wetherspoons on the famous Barbican in Plymouth, good food , cheap booze, ticks the boxes as most spoons do

Went in around 10 15 am for coffee a very pleasant lady explained how it works and I apologised not knowing the form ,nice coffee , then after a visit to the distillery next door we came back for lunch ,which was nice although my husbands steak was a bit on the tough side ,....the service was good ,people pleasant and happy so a nice lunch time .

Sam was amazing, he kept us entertained whilst he poured our drinks and we were back at our table in record time. 10/10 service!

My husband and I visit here weekly and on several occasions recently they have served red wine in a half pint glass because there are so many uncleared tables, that they run out of wine glasses. Not nice drinking wine from a half pint glass.

Visited today whilst visiting family. I need gluten free options, as Coeliac. Unfortunately the lunch menu wasn’t on at 11.07 at time of visit, but went to bar to ask if they could do me a jacket potato early, as easier than swapping out numerous options on breakfast. Lad I spoke too asked what I wanted then said he’d check with kitchen. Came back and they agreed, he even went further to make a note on my order it was gluten free. Amazing service and added touch of safety, and would definitely visit again. Lad on till was called Sam F, polite and credit to the place.

Live in Manchester but visit Plymouth every 18 months to see friends. 2022 visited GMGog 3 times was plenty of staff - tables automatically cleaned - food excellent each time.l sent an email to head office praising staff. Went recently on a Thursday only 1staff serving at the Bar l was in a queue of 14 people took 20 mins to order. Food service only 2 staff but was very good when it came. I spoke to Manager