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A rough and ready spoons full of low life (which isn't always a bad thing!).
Not all that big inside just a room with a bar really.
However £6.50 for a bottle of wine is insane and gets the thumbs up from me on that score.
6/10
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late afternoon saturday when i went in busy but got served straight away abbot ok average spoons
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been in here a couple times before - was ok, but now i feel Wetherspoons are attracting the real whinos of life...virtually everyone else in here was an absolute piss head, young & old (and this was Saturday lunch time!) my worst experience in a Wetherspoons ever, not nice , one drunk old woman at the bar could hardly talk and the staff opened her purse, took out her tenner for her, then put the change back in - UNBELIEVABLE !!!
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Not the busiest Wetherspoons around but it seems to take an absolute age to be served with the bar staff seemingly having no concept of who was next.
Also had food ordering difficulties - no meal was served after 45 minutes and when asked, was told that it had been sent to the incorrect table and that it would be another 15 minutes.
Food and Beer was the samem below average but cheap Wetherspoons Fayre. Atmosphere was better than the average Wetherspoon but still nothing special
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Typical Wetherspoons. Beer on it's sell-by date and the usual collection of day-time wasters hanging around. At least there's no background music and the chilli is pretty good.
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Staff are rude and in-efficient. I met three friends there for Sunday lunch. My friends ordered on one bill, I followed them, and saw the same cashier immediately afterwards. I said that I was on the same table and confirmed the table number. We were warned the food would take about 20 minutes. 20 minutes later my friends food arrived, but not mine, the waitress said she would check. Said it would be 5 - 10 minutes. 15 minutes later, still no food for me, but by which time my friends had finished.
I had met my friends for lunch, which suggests that I might actually want to eat at the same time as them! I went to complain to the manager - my food soon appeared. The apology did not appear as though it was sincere, and no offer of recompense. Perhaps a complimentary coffee for my friends would have been nice, whilst they had to sit and watch me eating.
I was told, that the wrong table number had been printed on my chit - and my food given to someone else. In spite of me seeing the same cashier, immediately afterwards. Just how difficult is it to get four lunches out to customers at the same time?
I wont go to this particular Wetherspoons again, and I have come to the conclusion that the quality of Whetherspoons in general is getting worse.
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In total agreement regarding the shoddy service, decent bar staff always know who is next in line, were it not for the fact that the regulars are either too old or too drunk to square up to one another this random serve who you're nearest to attitude could I imagine cause problems!!!!
The food is mediocre and quite often you are left with the previous occupants dirty pots on the table right up until the moment your own 'meal' is served.
The beer rancid, the lager rancid, the Guinness....didn't dare!
Awful, awful, awful!
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Good, friendly staff but they still have a problem in recognising who should be served next. This can lead to problems! 50 Ales about to be served during Cask Ale Week 2010. Busy at all times.
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Beer was very good, and once I finally got served, the staff member was very friendly and polite. However, as others have said, the staff did not have a clue about who had been waiting longest, and when a third member of staff arrived, he was not directed towards those of us who had been waiting ages, and served some people who had only just arrived.
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Usual excellent choice of ales, plus a guest Weston's cider in addition to the regular offerings of Blackthorn & Strongbow.
Unfortunately there were only two staff serving a busy and long bar. They had no clue as to who had been waiting longest, and seemed to completely ignore the central section of the bar. After I had been passed over twice by the barman serving people who had arrived after me, we gave up and went elsewhere. This seems to be fairly typical of this pub, it wasn't a one-off experience.
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Typical wetherspoons, great beer and cider on supply, but let down by awful food, dirty tables and undesirable customers (swearing teenagers in baseball caps, and smelly old men cluttering up the bar). also far too many fruit machines!
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the beer selection and quality has improved vastly this last week,had brews on from Woodfordes,Roosters,Caledonian,Box Steam,RCH,plus the usual gk dishwater. Keep Up The Good Work guys n girls :) yum
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Fat_beer_badger reports ex-Festival ales were on this wknd for �1 a pt. Including that 8% Carolus stuff. Jesus.
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I go in here everytime I visit weston super mare, firstly i got to say this USED to be a real tom tit hole. The staff were rude, the customers were just as bad and the whole pub was covered in dust and falling apart.
On my last few visits something has changed whether it be a new manager or even the original manager having a epiphany but its become a very pleasant place to visit. The place is clean tidy and in good repair, instead of a load of dole receivers its now populated by people who are either retired or on a break not by people spending our taxes getting drunk everyday. Beer quality was good too, i personally enjoyed a lovely chilled pint of guinness and the ale drinkers seemed to be enjoying their particular choice of drink. The one real problem i saw is the same i see in every wetherspoons i visit now - the dragon inn is now a coffee shop. I think wetherspoons are really loosing the plot with this push on coffee sales and one day it maybe too late to reverse the effect.
But anyway the dragon is now a very pleasent place to enjoy a well kept tasty pint. Ill definatly be staying longer next time i visit weston.
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Excellent range of guests here today,i was recommended to visit by "fat_beer_badger"!! Top of the pops was Atlas Three Sisters with Holdens XB and Everards Sly Fox also sampled and enjoyed,all �1.99 a pt. The �2.99 Lasagne arrived in 20 minutes,not unreasonable in my book,but its delay was unnecessarily apologised for. The place was heaving with Bank Holiday bus trippers sheltering from the monsoon but the service was still good.
Not the worst spoons experience I've had for a long time.
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I find the beer is generally of good quality here and very well priced (as with most spoons pubs), but often the food is very badly cooked. In my experience of visiting wetherspoons bars, this probably has one of the most useless kitchens, usually food takes a long time to cook and often there are unable to produce some dishes on the menu. However, you can never knock the burger+beer offer that seems to always be running.
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A Very Delicious Pint Of 8.5% Exmoor Beast consumed here on carnival nite.8/10
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As the user who posted the original comments about this being the worst I can now report a significant improvement in the past six weeks. The pub has recently been kept much cleaner and tidier, and the staff have suddenly become more friendly. And the beer has gone up 10p per pint! Good on them.
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Believe me, this certainly does not compare to the Spoons in Tooting, south London.
It has the best selection of ales (including the excellent RCH Pitchfork brewed in Hewish) in the whole of the Mare, although The London (old one, not new one) often serves ale from the barrel, which is a rare delight.
Sure, the Spoons is rough and ready (as is the entire town to be fair) but the worst Spoons in the world, it ain�t.
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Of all the Wetherspoons I have visited this must easily qualify as the worst - and this is my nearest to home. It is dirty: run your finger along the dado rail for a few seconds and it will be blackened. The tables are often covered in empty glasses and plates and overflowing ashtrays. The toilets unlike most Sppons outlets are tacky and usually dirty. Some cubicles are regularly out-of-order and there is frequently no paper, although the "inspection checklist" is signed up-to date. Service is very slow - I have frequently waited up to ten-minutes. The staff seem disinterested, and although I know they are under pressure (because this is a busy outlet) they are mainly unwelcoming and spend more time complaining about their pay and hours. They often have no change so you get 75p in 5p pieces or "soory mate I'll have to owe you 3p. They have eight real ale pumps, and although they have some interesting offerings most of these are out-of-condition. A request to use a sparkler on an ale such as Marstons Pedigree is met with a blank stare. The Cask Marque inspectors need to call.The "Sunday Club" often has nothing available. When you order a Steak on the "Grill Night" it often comes without tomato and mushroom: "Soorry mate we aint got none".
Why do I go there? Well, er, its cheap, and a lot of my friends go there. But I would happily pay 10p or even 20p a pint more if the standards of service, cleanliness and quality were improved.
anonymous - 19 Jul 2006 15:04 |
