Maybe, but when you go to Wetherspoons you accept a slight dip in environment, clientele and beer quality in return for extremely cheap prices. If Spoons is no cheaper than anywhere else in the vicinity then it's harder to justify drinking there.
Have visited a couple of times, first coincidentally on opening day 3 September.Apparently there's a new Wetherspoons just opened at Waterloo called the Lion & Unicorn. Anyone been in yet?
Wetherspoon The Lion & the Unicorn - The Sidings
thesidingswaterloo.co.uk
Apparently there's a new Wetherspoons just opened at Waterloo called the Lion & Unicorn. Anyone been in yet?
Wetherspoon The Lion & the Unicorn - The Sidings
thesidingswaterloo.co.uk
Though looking at their prices on the Wetherspoons app I don't think I'll be visiting very often - real ales at a whopping £4.79 a pint????
The beer quality in Wetherspoons I’ve visited has been good. I’m talking real ales.
As a CAMRA member and noting the number of Spoons in the Good Beer guide l would say that your dip in beer quality is utter rubbish.
Festival beers were £3.49 a pint two weeks ago, which is exceptional value for central London and especially on a mainline station. Just after opening prices were £4.79 or £4.99 for cask beers, still better value than most nearby alternatives. I don't know anywhere nearby at under a fiver and plenty are well over.
No issues with any of those on my visits so far. Beer quality has been good, atmosphere is fine while accepting that it's basically a fairly characterless modern building, the clientele has been quite varied but nothing to object to.
Whatever. The price, however, was the same at St Pancras just 2 hours ago.
The problem sometimes is that in some places there may be a decent real ale pub or two but they may not open at all on Mondays or Tuesdays, or don’t bother opening until perhaps 4pm and then others close at 9 or 10pm midweek.
Not always 2300 kitchen closure in Spoons e.g. in Stoke Newington it is 2230. Otherwise l agree.
I've not been in there for a while, but the King's Arms in Roupell St, which is arguably among the nearest traditional pubs serving cask ale, was £5.50 a pint in August. That's decent value for the area (and they usually have a good range on as well).
Last time I was in there, early this year, I paid £5.00 for a pint of Vocation Bread & Bitter.
That's sad news. Thank goodness for the York Tap.
www.yorkpress.co.uk
York Tap seems to have had a good endorsement:
This York pub is the best in the UK, says man who has visited 12,000 watering holes
York is a city said to have as many pubs as days of the year. So, you wouldn’t expect to find the best one inside the railway station. But that's…
"Topping a list of his favourite pubs is the York Tap"
Unfortunately the owners wished to retire....and presumably had to accept the best offer they could get.
I moved away from London in August; before then I was regularly in HITW and - as mentioned in another answer - the prices weren't too high London wise. The pub was generally quite busy, and hope that the Spoons doesn't affect its viability....
Off topic, but Spennymoor FC does serve local ale, and a bloody good one at that- McColls from Evenwood
that is bad news. A good pub with good beer lost. It has been on the market for a while.
Very spit and sawdust but a York tradition. What a shame.
I have never had a bad pint in there. Always on my agenda on a trip to York these days and near my bus stop when I lived in York. poor show.
