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Most Wetherspoons are much of a muchness but this one stands out from the crowd with an excellent range of beer at great prices.
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Ale 8/10, Food n/a, Atmosphere 6/10, Overall 7/10
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not loads of atmosphere but a great pub. best wetherspoons I've ever been in. Well done to all involved
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Very, very good selection of ales but supping a pint of mild at 11am on a Sunday morning is probably not the optimum time to enjoy a good beer. Friend's brother said his pint was off but mine was well-kept. Friendly welcome, too.
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Never thought id agree with anyone who called a wetherspoons pub good. I fact I said it would be awful before we went in but I had to eat my own words or is it drink several pints of very well kept real ale! Superb.
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Best wetherspoons pub I have every been in.
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Best Ale In Spoons I've Found, Love the departure board of ales behind the bar!a very well deserved 10/10 without a doubt!!
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One of the better Wetherspoons I have come across, especially for their real ale selection. They have a massive 18 hand pumps with details of the brewery, strength price etc. shown on an electronic “blackboard”, like the Wellington in Birmingham (q.v.). Unfortunately they also ask you to order your beer by pump number instead of name which makes me feel as if I’m in a Chinese takeaway. The pub has a nice frontage with a few outside tables. Opens at 9am and with breakfast and a pint for around £4 you can’t go wrong.
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This is definitely more for the ale drinkers than the place to start your night out. It's the other end of town to Standing Order, and away from the bars so you tend to find it's a bit quieter too. Apart from that it just seems like another Wetherspoons...
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Say what you will about Wetherspoons- and they do attract mixed opinions - the Babington presents probably the largest selection of real ales on one bar (excepting festivals). Up to eighteen in prime condition. The pub is pretty much bog standard as I believe it was a showroom but who cares; a pub is for beer!
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Of the two Wetherspoon’s pubs in Derby, I prefer the Standing Order to the Babington Arms.
For me, the Babington with its low ceiling, the dark wooden wall panelling and the lack of natural light make it rather claustrophobic. The plus side however are the 18 hand pumps … most of which dispense guest beers …Interestingly, the Wetherspoon regulars (the Abbott and the Marston’s) pumps are discretely tucked away at far end of the bar.
I know that Wetherspoon’s get a lot of flak about the quality of service, which from my own experience in a number of their other outlets, is probably justified, but it certainly isn’t the case at the Babington because the staff are great and I have never yet had a problem with the service here.
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Visited for the Mild Beer Festival and had a great time sampling the many milds on offer as well as a good breakfast to set me up for the day. On my list of places I must visit when in Derby as it the best Wetherspoons I know of for choice and quality of beer.
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Visited Saturday morning on way to Derby beer festival and found this to be a great pub. I'm not normally a fan of Wetherspoons, but this is an exception, the best I've been in. An excellent range of beers, well kept and quick, efficient service from the staff.
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I went in this pub again recently and found it to be really changed for the better. I'd been in a couple of times a few years back and it was terrible. The staff didn't seem to want to serve you and the whole atmosphere was miserable. The service is now slick and the beer choice is huge (14 handpumps) and wonderfully kept. I've managed to tempt several friends back there and they all agree how it's upped it's game. Must be one of the best 'spoons I've visited.
chick - 28 Dec 2006 15:42 |
THIS IS A GREAT PUB!!! the best pub in derby, i dont know why its a weatherspoons, the chain connection dosnt do it justice, the best weatherspoons
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Visited on Saturday - excellent range of real ales on, many local (Derby Brewing Company, Tring) and the ones we tried were in good nick. A pretty good Weatherspoons.
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For a 'spoons it's not bad, feels like quite a decent pub and you could almost forget it was one. Beer was reasonable and the curry night had the full range of options actually available. Crowd fairly normal and not too dominated by old soaks and underages.
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Amazing 'Spoons - a bit like the Wellington in Brum in
a civilised and healthy setting. Beer quality high on my visit, despite my general view that a dozen or so handpubs is not sustainable.
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Had the full range of Derby beers on, the ones I tried were superb. Don't know if it's the best spoons in the country, but it's certainly the best I've had. Had 17 ales on, food was fine both times I've eaten there
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Visited this weekend - just your 17 real ales on tap, then...no pumps off or just for show, either, they were all on. All excellently kept, well the six we tried were, anyway! Not the greatest ambience, but with the cheapest pint at £1.29 when we're used to £2.50 plus in Reading, well worth the time.
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Widely regarded as one of the best Wetherspoons in the country, I think I counted 14 different ales on handpump. I was a bit unluck in choosing a pint of stout that had lingered a day or two too long. Unfortunately the stiff local competition and the fact that I don't really care for the Wetherspoon's ambience means I probably won't return in a hurry.
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One of a couple of Wetherspoons in Derby. On my last visit, for lunch, we were informed that most of the menu was unavailable due to some (obviously horrendous) disaster in the kitchen.However it is a very comfortable pub, serving a good selection of interesting cask ales, there is limited seating outside. Well worth a visit.Oh! It's just a matter of minutes walk from the centre of Derby...hardly a "backwater"...enjoy!
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The problem is that it's at the wrong end of town for most pubs, but still it's hardly a long walk, 3 or 4 mins at most. It's a JDW so your usual JDW stuff applies, no music and daytime is full of OAP's and pissheads. That aside, it's a reasonable place, okay food and usually quiet for a swift pint or two. Fairly good beer choice. Perhaps more suited to a daytime drinking place than an evening.
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Not in a backwater - right in the centre of the city. Serves two decent draught ciders alongside the fizzy stuff, several bottles including perry as well.
Probably the best Spoons in the country; twelve pumps serving wide range of beers, each week they showcase a particular brewery at the weekend and they run their own festivals as well as the JDW ones.
It's a low-ceiling building and does get smoky quickly; the rear area is no-smoking but has inevitable drift, savoid it by sitting near the front which is opened out in the summer.
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I visited last year and it seems to be in a " backwater",not much you can say about spoons,the only thing I have against them is that I am normaly a cider drinker ,spoons sells Dry Blackthorn or Westons but only in bottles,there never seems to be a guest cider in any of them,quite small fo a spoons (as compared to the other one),beer good,staff freindly.
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Paid a visit earlier this month and was very impressed. Great range of Milds (about 8, I think).
Tried four and all were excellent. Although quite busy at the time of our visit (Saturday afternoon) the staff were prompt and courteous. One of the best Wetherspoons I have been to.
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