Years ago when Wetherspoons started up I was always reluctant to go in them, I'd rather go down the road and pay the extra 50p, coupled with finding them a bit cold and having no character(a bit like @Royston Vasey and @Clb74 ). However, that 50p difference is now sometimes £2. A Wetherspoons is always packed, I was in the Bromley South one on Tuesday night and there must have been 150 people in there. The breakfast wrap is nice as well. You cannot knock a Wetherspoons.
I used to enjoy their Sunday roast & a pint, which were good value. Inexplicably they stopped doing it. Their curries are awful but the majority of their food is decent value.
You still owe me 3 roast potatoes from Mansfield away. No way does a pub do a roast dinner with 2 roast potatoes
Whenever I've tried to use them recently for a meal they've been too busy, had to go elsewhere. The beer is good value.
Never used the one in Orpington. Don't like any of the Orpington pubs in fact, although I've occasionally used the Maxwell to support a band I know.
FRidays I think. I hear from Out of the Box when they are playing there and go along, that's all I know.
I'll be doing a nice little pub crawl around Bromley North tomorrow, I'll avoid the Bromley S Wspoons as that will be heaving.
There's a nice Spoons in Dovercourt, near Harwich. In fact, it's the only nice thing about Dovercourt. My old local was the Gilpins Bell in Edmonton. It used to be an excellent pub, but then groups of youths started congregating to watch the football, with a single glass of coke between them. The manager, brave though he was, gave up asking them to leave, and the place soon went downhill.
I had a very unfortunate experience in a Wetherspoons in central London last week. A pint of Kronenbourg - £4.50
