[News] Wetherspoons

[The Clamp]

There’s some nice Wetherspoons around. There’s some shocking ones. Brighton ones are rather ropey except for the Marina.
I do a lot of walking/hiking with a mate and we will often pop into a spoons for a good value breakfast. Great walking fuel for very little money. I look forward to the ritual fry-up before a good long walk.
And I can tell thee, cost of things has become a BIG priority for me.

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

Usual beer snobs on here I see.

Until it comes to the Red Lion at Gatwick North Terminal, that is

 

[Peacehaven Wild Kids]

Not a fan of Wetherspoons, I won’t say I’m boycotting as, example, I’m out of town at an away match, shanted up and the debit cards had a hammering, I’ll pop in for a £1.29 offering when it’s at that sort of stage in the day when my wife asks “enough is never enough for you is it?” I just tend to make the effort to visit some non Lonsdale footwear pubs these days

 

[Peacehaven Wild Kids]

Until it comes to the Red Lion at Gatwick North Terminal, that is

Indeed, this is the exception to my above post!

 

[The Fits]

If it’s a decent spoons the beer tends to be decent. If you think buying cask from a small independent is a guarantee of quality you are way off.

 

[WATFORD zero]

Yeah, sorry about that. I knew it was wrong to wear my white trousers - they tend to show up everything. I’ve now left them to soak in a bucket of White Lightning, they should be right as rain when I wring them out.

And a slice of fruit away from a white lightning cocktail

 

[BN9 BHA]

I just tend to make the effort to visit some non Lonsdale footwear pubs these days

 

[Hugo Rune]

I’m changing my view on Wetherspoons.

I hope a few more open in Brighton, they are incredible value, they really are. They are also generally the best run pubs around.

 

[Hugo Rune]

No zero hour contracts and they’ve paid well over £350m in bonuses to their staff. They also pay an astonishing amount of tax compared to retail.

 

[AmexRuislip]

Everything tastes good when you're standing next to a piss stained alcoholic with a handful of cardboard discount tokens.

I take it you haven't been to the one in Western Rd, Bexhill.
Downstairs has all the hallmarks of a saloon bar from the 1848 goldrush, while upstairs holds a roof top terrace with views over the nearby rail station

 

[Whoislloydy]

Give your money to someone other than Tim Martin

 

[A1X]

Find a pub which doesn’t treat it’s suppliers like shit and isn’t run by one of the most unpleasant men in Britain

 

[Live by the sea]

Wetherspoons- hehe surely the most uncool pub chain ever !

 

[BN9 BHA]

while upstairs holds a roof top terrace with views over the nearby rail station

And not forgetting the nearby Sainsbury’s car park

 

[The Clamp]

I get the point about Tim Martin. Loathsome individual. However, own a mobile phone? Own clothing? Consume any product made by Coca Cola? Chances are you are funding exploitation of people on a regular basis.

I rarely drink in a spoons, but enjoy their breakfasts. I can live with that.

 

[GT49er]

I take it you haven't been to the one in Western Rd, Bexhill.
Downstairs has all the hallmarks of a saloon bar from the 1848 goldrush, while upstairs holds a roof top terrace with views over the nearby rail station

Sounds a lot better than many other pubs I've been to! Of course, if the lack of Belgian beers or French bubbly is a problem for you .................. well, yes, that would be a problem.




...................... yours!

 

[AmexRuislip]

Sounds a lot better than many other pubs I've been to! Of course, if the lack of Belgian beers or French bubbly is a problem for you .................. well, yes, that would be a problem.




...................... yours!

Wetherspoons is a bit too high brow for me.
Mrs AR and moi took my dad to the one in Bexhill for Sunday lunch, food was OK, but too many kids,with snot hanging out of their noses running about untamed, whilst the parents quaffed diet coke.

I prefer country pubs, the way they should be.
You should try the King William in Ipsden

 

[dazzer6666]

I get the point about Tim Martin. Loathsome individual. However, own a mobile phone? Own clothing? Consume any product made by Coca Cola? Chances are you are funding exploitation of people on a regular basis.

I rarely drink in a spoons, but enjoy their breakfasts. I can live with that.

The one in Burgess Hill can’t even employ anyone that knows how to fry an egg without making a total mess of it……with so many other good brekkie joints locally, Spoons is an absolute last resort for a fry-up for me. Agree re Tim Martin though. Nasty piece of work.

 

[lawros left foot]

proper ales. Wetherspoons has always promoted ales, CAMRA member. usually each pub has a range of local or regional ales, ranging from pales to stouts, from two or three breweries, have a proper tasting session. covid has reduced range in the one i go to, hopefully this'll see a return to broader range.

they also have range of lagers from across the world, particularly eastern europe (well aware of the irony), alongside some faux craft ales and standard keg fizz for the unadventerous. and a wide range of gins too for those inclined.

You are Tim Martin and I claim my £5.

 

[darkwolf666]

You may hate Tim Martin, sneer at the customers, deride the beer and food quality, but you have to admire the use of some of the buildings, that often would have been otherwise left to rot.

This is a classic example, the Samuel Peto, in Folkestone.