Wetherspoons pubs

[Tom0]

At the local weatherspoons around here you need to buy tickets at a till then go up to the bar to get pints, like dinner stamps.

This, coupled with their No music, No games, basically no frills policy; it's like drinking in a hospital waiting room.

 

[mattyj1085]

Surely the only reason people go to them is because of the prices!

Yes. If they doubled the drinks prices and food no one would go

 

[Mr Jack]

Weatherspoon pub can sell the drinks so cheap as they buy the stock which is nearing it's best before date...... hence the savings.

This has come up several times in this thread so far. Why's it a problem? It's better than beer that's been sitting on the tap for a week.

 

[Glaucus]

The burgers are 100x better than mcdonads or burger king and you get it with a pint for 5.49

 

[Jez]

Its not due to location costs....Henleys not that posh that they charge more for alcohol in a spoons/lloyds.
Theres plenty of chavs in Henley, its only a 5 minute walk from the council estate to the centre of town, plus its visited by neighouring towns like maidenhead...not sure how long youve been living there but it certainly is noticable, especially on friday and saturdays nights.

I have not found it noticeable in the way that it is in any way a problem as it is in a lot of places, it most certainly doesn't detract and make it a place which i would avoid due to it. It is inevitable that you will get some "chavs" in the cheapest place in a town and yeah, i would imagine a lot of people do travel in from time to time. The pricing must be down to the Lloyds bar thing then, or something, as annoyingly it is definitely higher than elsewhere, marked by the lack of 99p offers.

Where abouts are you from by the way? You seem to know the area. Lower Shiplake myself (a couple of miles out of town)

 

[I get around]

Food is alright in them. The beer is cheap, the savoy, the main wetherspoon in swindon, i keep saying if it had a pool table, a darts board, and a jukebox. It'd be a top notch pub. As it is, it's a cheap night of drinking. I can go out and spend £10, get 10 pints of ipa and get drunk in a wetherspoons.
Local pubs are good yeah but i don't like paying £3.20 for half a pint of beer and half a pint of water, and they're usually full of scummers anyway. I find there is more scummers in local pubs than there is in chains, more alcoholics in chains but proportionally it aint a problem because theres more normal people.

 

[jackthezipper]

The burgers are 100x better than mcdonads or burger king and you get it with a pint for 5.49

I would say that the beer and burger deals are not of the same quality as they were when it cost £3.89 . Theres less on each plate now for £1.50 more. The gourmet burger + beer deal for £6.10 is nice though (appart from the bloody whole jar of cheese sauce they put on the burger)

 

[panthro]

I have not found it noticeable in the way that it is in any way a problem as it is in a lot of places, it most certainly doesn't detract and make it a place which i would avoid due to it. It is inevitable that you will get some "chavs" in the cheapest place in a town and yeah, i would imagine a lot of people do travel in from time to time. The pricing must be down to the Lloyds bar thing then, or something, as annoyingly it is definitely higher than elsewhere, marked by the lack of 99p offers.

Where abouts are you from by the way? You seem to know the area. Lower Shiplake myself (a couple of miles out of town)

No definitely not, its still a lovely town, but its become more noticable on weekend evenings in the last couple of years, Ive even been randomly picked on by someone wanting to start a fight!! Im from Wokingham but went to school and college in Henley and most of my friends are from that area so I know the place like the back of my hand.

 

[Jez]

Where did you go?

 

[crunchman]

The food at spoons can be good, but it can, and more often than not is very dire

It all depends on what your local is like, some of the ones in Cardiff ar a bit naff but up in north wales they aint too bad

wow I feel completely opposite, love going to central bar and gatekeeper in cardiff !

Which North Wales branches are you talking about ?

 

[panthro]

Where did you go?

Only baby school, didnt go to Gillots, Shiplake or Borlaise but have friends who did. Then I went to Henley College.

 

[Vegeta]

I don't see whats wrong with the food - I like it...

 

[Substance]

Their burger and a beer is awesome, and they serve some cracking beers at low prices, The only problem is that it can take ages to get served even at relatively quiet times