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This week was our annual trip to the NIA/B'ham Arena/whatever it is now called so again popped in for a quick meal and drink (forgot to review last December's visit). Slight dispute with one of the regulars about who was next to be served (the clue was me standing there as he walked up) which could/should have been resolved by the unoccupied bar staff (not untypical in Wetherspoons I gather as the most prolific poster on this website will testify). Anyway, minor quibble aside, the Elgood's "A Christmoose Carol" was in decent condition. Same time next year?
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Popped in yesterday lunch(Sunday) to meet a few friends who live in the area, not that busy. I have used a lot of Wetherspoons pubs all around the country due to work. This is honestly the worst I have been in for service, all staff should be trained properly instead of thrown in at the deep end. 4/10
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I have never been so relieved to set foot inside a Wetherspoons, after my visit to O'Neill's next door. OK, so this is an older Spoons, a bit bland and sporting a bit of a canteen style layout at the back of the pub, but there were different areas towards the front to break up the space. Just looking a bit run down - dirty stained seating and varnish wearing off the tables. All part of the character though right?
Anyway, on to the beer - 5 pumps at the bar of which 1 was off. An interesting selection on this bank and I went for a pint of Midnight Express by Salopian at £2.35 for the pint. Bargain - and a much needed decent refreshing pint after my visit next door. Strangely after paying with a £5 note I received £2.35 in change, so I think the person serving got a bit confused. Not worth arguing about though especially once you have left the bar area. The Midnight Express was a dark ale and very tasty.
There was a second bank of 5 pumps which I didn't inspect fully but seemed to have the usual Wetherspoons offerings of Ruddles and so on, plus a couple of "coming soon" ales.
Busy but no problem getting a seat. Plenty of interesting looking characters around.
If I am up that way I would probably go again, purely for the decent selection of ale on offer.
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Seems fairly civilised on a Thursday evening, good service, reasonable beer at competitive prices.
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Seems fairly civilised on a Thursday evening, good service, reasonable beer at competitive prices.
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It served a purpose last night as we needed something to eat quickly. Service was quick and efficient. Conwy Welsh Pride, Old Speckled Hen, Bishops Finger and Lymestone's Stone the Crows were available and, at just over £11 for 2 meals and 2 drinks, we could not go wrong.
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Large Wetherspoons that was ok for a swift visit yesterday lunchtime. No fights and no sticky tables. But service was a little poor with preference given to those who could walk up to the bar and shout out their order first rather than serving people in turn. Beers were Kelham Island Pale Rider, Wychwood Hobgoblin, Sadlers Sundown, Batemans Summer Swallow, Greene King Abbot & Ruddles Best. Cider was Westons Marcle Hill & Country Perry and Gwynt y Ddraig Black Dragon. A useful pitstop before we headed out back into a heavy rain shower.
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great if you like watching fights and people vomiting outside the large floor to ceiling front windows. Even better if you like slow service and sticky tables. Ale is kept ok i suppose
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Ok during the week, does the standard JDW meals and must say the Thursday night hot chicken massala is, with a side portion of bombay spuds is better, in terms of price and quality than some of the balti houses nearby.
Avoid at the weekend, has a bloke in the gents selling toiletries, and it attracts the tanked up lower orders, having a cheap pre Flares pint, who are too tight to go in the Walkabout, O'Neills or the Sports Bar.
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Saturday nights, four deep at the bar, full of boyband wannabees and shrieking damsels (?) sticky carpet, bar awash with grog, bogs awash with p***, dumbo`s ordering food at 9.45pm......typical Broad Street mash up.
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The most appalling cold undercooked breakfast in town. Bloody terrible. (unless you like it cold, of course). Needs the chef to be kicked up the arse (or the microwave)
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Paid a visit to the Figure of Eight during the recent beer festival and I was pleased to see a good number of guests available, I've noticed a lot of wetherspoons aren�t like this, funnily enough a lot of CAMRA award winning wetherspoons, kind of ironic. All the beers we tried were of good quality. The pub was clean and had a good atmosphere. Only one complaint some in our group ordered profiteroles roles which were very plentiful for the price but were frozen solid making it rather difficult to eat, only a minor quibble though. Otherwise a enjoyable visit.
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This JDW has a fantastic beer garden at the rear, & on a hot day this really is a city centre oasis. Plenty of green foliage, a water feature, wooden tables, decking & large umbrellas. The pub itself is on one of Birmingham's busiest streets. Tasteful wooden old library themed interior with plenty of seating options including booth & high tables. 3 or 4 guest ales which were local. No problems with service & we went here for breakfast the next day. Certainly one of the better Wetherspoons.
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The feel of pub is good. As for the food, it seems they had degraded the quality over time due to recession.
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Large JDW that can be really busy due to its location. I�ve been in here loads of times and usually the beer and clientele are OK. Called in last Wednesday for the first time in a while and nothing had changed really. The guest beers are on the middle bank of handpumps not those that face you as you enter. I had a pint of Sadlers Stumbling Badger and a Milestone Maid Marion, both were good. Apart from that, well it�s a fairly standard JDW.
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Lively for a midweek visit for an "out of towner". Beer range OK. Full of students getting tanked.
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this was a great place to meet up as we could actually hear ourselves think and plan our evening for a wetherspoons it had a nice atmoshpere and cheap drinks are always a bonus
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Yes it's a Wetherspoons but probably the only one in the City Centre worth drinking in. Food and drink quality generally good.
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it's a wetherspoons in the centre of town, so you know what you're getting really. The ale is alright and well priced, the food is not great but cheap. Its alright in the afternoons but as it's Broad Street anyone with any sense steers well clear of an evening.
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Hit and miss really - beer has been both lovely and awful. Magnet for allsorts!
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Large JD Wetherspoon pub right in the middle of Broad St, so I expect it gets packed with local chavs of an evening, getting tanked up cheaply before trying to blag their way into the many bars and clubs in the area.
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This is a decent Wetherspoons, compared to the overpriced low quality ale available that seems the signature of Broad Street, this is cheap and the real ale selection generally has a few good local ales.
Has made me rethink my attitude to Wetherspoon pubs!
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This pub is a cool place to wile away sum time, decent spoons and located in the middle of Brums most buzzing nitelife location. Cheapest beer on weekends to rest of Broad St
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nothin special but still cheap n decent ale. prefer the lloyds just minutes away though. 7/10
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Decent Wetherspoons (nice pint of Pedigree). Very good service and decent food (well worth what we paid).
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Food and Abbott Ale, Directors Ales were very good, bit of a suprise really, the chef knew how to cook steak rare, which is rare, for a Wetherspoons. Visited here because hungry and late, they serve food til 11pm.
But parking was near impossible in all surrounding areas even at gone 9:30 at night on a Tuesday so unlikely to return and the pub itself was a bit scruffy with half the food tables uncleared and uncleaned.
On the whole especially the food better than avaerage Wetherspoons
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Tends to get suits early in the evening followed by students
tanking up cheaply before moving on to somewhere trendier.
The usual plusses and minuses of a 'spoons. Can be an opportunity to drink decent beer cheaply in the Broad Street area, which is
nothing to complain about.
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Typical Wetherspoons with mixed customers. Well kept real ales, service can be slow.
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Personally, I'm not very keen on ANY of the bars on Broad Street, and I would regard this one of the less unpleasant ones. It's Wetherspoons, so you know exactly what you're going to get, which to me is a slightly grubby interior, indifferent bar staff, and not-very-well kept beer. But at least you can hear yourself think.
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Wicked pub, nice, friendly atmosphere, with good service. I hope more people visit it in the week, as it gets most busy on a Saturday (like most of Broad Street, now the students have gone home!) Friendly door staff (love you guys!!!!!) and bar staff, enjoyed my visit! Thank-you :-) An added bonus is the beer garden in the summer, it's very nice to sit there!! If you choose to go here, a good place to carry on-to is Lloyds No1. (also on Broad Street) as it is also a Wetherspoons, with extended licence til 2!!!!
anonymous - 2 Jul 2005 01:01 |
good food, cheap beer best pub in B1 postal district
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Huge Wetherspoon pub on one of the busiest streets (pub & club wise) in the city. Beer is cheap and the food is okay but the place is full of people who have drunk too much. The service is sooooo slow! I would rather pay a bit more and enjoy a relaxing drink.
Colin - 2 Apr 2004 12:05 |
