Cabot Hotel, Weston Super Mareback to pub details please note - reviews on this site are purely the opinion of site visitors, so don't take them too seriously.
As has been said before a complex layout on different levels.
Although it has a good location and view I did find it all a little boring in here.
But then again two o'clock in the afternoon on a wet weekday is a terrible time of day anyway!
7/10
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Unlike many JDW pubs the Cabot Court appears small but is spread over four floors. The main bar area on the ground floor and spacious seating areas with high ceilings on the first floor. There's lots of big windows with views across the pub garden and seafront. We visited on a Wednesday and were quickly served and our food arrived in good time. The food itself was as always with JDW good value, but in this case somewhat over-cooked. Not bad selection of ale but not the best ever tasted. Nice location, OK beer, cheap meals.
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This Wetherspoons is slightly different from many others. It feels fairly small at first. But then when you realise it has 4 floors and plenty of different spaces, it suddenly seems like a maze and makes a refreshing change from most branches of the chain. Beers on were Caledonian Summer Pale Ale, Great Western Hambrook Pale Ale, Lancaster Red, Adnams Broadside, Ruddles Best & Greene King Abbot. On the last day of their cider festival, they had Sandford Orchards Shaky Bridge & Bramble Saison, Gwynt y Ddraig Welsh Gold Perry, Westons Rosies Pig, Cornish Orchards Pear Cider & Farmhouse Cider, Mr Whiteheads Strawberry Cider & Field Farm Perry & Orchard Pig Philospher. Not far from Weston's newly developed pier, this is one of the better Wetherspoons I have been to and certainly better than the other one in town - The Dragon Inn.
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Visited late afternoon, so a quiet time of day. A few people sat enjoying their pints on the adjacent lawns.
The pub is spread over several different levels and easy to get lost.
Had a pleasant enough real ale. Sadly forgot its name while watching some of the tennis.
This is still the old Cabot in my memory as it was the first pub i regularly frequented as a 17/18 yr old. It had something for everybody. Widely different bars. I miss the old basement area with its jukeboxes and pool tables and the children area which was really a hang out for goth types. Still times change
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Really great pub! Lovely beer, great decor and facilities and not a typical Wetherspoon at all. The toilets are so modern and salubrious that you could happily sit drinking in there and never mind the rest!
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Couldn't put it any better than "Blackthorn" has. The only thing to add is that it's also a hotel. 8/10
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A cavernous pub on four different levels and although in many ways it has the identikit feel of any other JDW pub, in many ways they�ve made a good job of trying to give a bit of a local feel to the place, and I actually felt it had a lot more character than many of the company�s pubs.
The colour scheme is a mixture of cream, maroon and battleship grey which perhaps sounds slightly depressing but works well enough. There is numerous outside seating including a few benches along the front on the pavement, a small balcony to the left, and a larger terrace on the right which is a pleasant spot overlooking the Winter Gardens. There are various black and white pictures of old Weston on the walls, and there is various other seaside memorabilia such as an old fashioned bathing costume in a display case and a swimming pool depth marker (4�, 4�6�, 5�, etc.) on the wall. I particularly liked the old swimming pool warning signs, No Running, No Bombing, No Petting, etc. In addition to this there was a small area done up to look like a ship�s cabin, with floor to ceiling wood panelling and �views� through the windows showing surfers on the beach (this was quite effective � presumably some type of projection TV, but a nice touch). Beyond this was an area more like a hotel dining room, with an unusual bird cage surrounding one set of tables.
Unusually for a Wetherspoons, there is an area at the back of a top floor that doubles as a dance floor and an adjacent DJ booth along with some magic mirrors like you might get at a funfair. Apparently there is a regular house DJ on Friday and Saturday nights, and guest DJ�s on Thursdays. Staff were friendly enough, but could do with being a bit more switched on. One was clearly more interested in emptying the dishwasher than serving customers, but I�ll give them the benefit of the doubt since they�ve only been open a few days, and a manager soon put him right.
Good choice of beers on tap � Cairngorm Trade Winds, Abbot Ale, GWB Maiden Voyage, Ruddles County, Vale Brewery Gravitas, Bishop�s Finger, GWB Summer Nights and Butcombe Blond. Ciders were Strongbow and Thatcher�s Gold.
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Closed, waiting to be turned into a Weatherspoons,
D_J_C - 23 Dec 2010 07:01 |
Great sizzling steak's and a reasonable pint of Bath Gem 2 be quaffed, 7/10
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Decent enough pint in here, bit clicky but big enough to get out of the way.
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Now more of a nightclub than a pub. Still can be nice in the summer daytimes.
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