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Pub is clean. Staff tend to be pretty efficient. I like it for the Polish Bottles Beers, which are excellent value. Food not great quality but good value for money if you are hungry. Overall, standard wetherspoon-factory affair but has a nicer ambiance than most I've been too and secrity is pretty good on a Friday night, which keeps the kids in line.
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Popped in here to-day, walked the length of the bar and went out the door. The reason; only one 'guest' ale on plus the usual ones.
It has never been much of a pub from the day it opened; there are definitely much better pubs in Epsom.
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girlfriend and I had a shocking couple of beers but the staff were very efficient and friendly in exchanging them for something bottled
big square box of a pub with big plasmas for the football - a good spot for a game with the lads
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good food. great prices.
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Had a swift half here while waiting for a train. Bog standard Wetherspoons but nice to see a range of Hogs Back: HBB, Hop Garden Gold and Winter Ale. Also had Pedigree and GK IPA & Abbot.
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Not bad for a wetherspoons pub, fairly large. But running by the numbers
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Went in here for a meal as we had a discount voucher. The steak was surprisingly good - tender and tasty, not the cremated remnants that many pubs serve up these days.
As for the atmosphere - well, there wasn't one. This is otherwise a sterile, cavernous town-centre clone pub, with no character or real appeal. It's functional, at least.
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I had a drink in here before and after the Derby at the weekend. It definitely wasn’t my idea to travel all that way and end up in the same Wetherspoons pub twice.
The management were very strict on people not drinking outside, which was a shame as it was a lovely day. I was informed by a member of staff that they are waiting for the council to decide on their application for drinking outside.
The pub itself is the usual large spoons pub with very cheap drinks.
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A large Wetherspoon pub in the centre of Epsom with a large paved area outside. Ideal if you have a motorbike like me. Large lounge on 3 levels with bar on top one. Comfortable with plenty of seating. It appears to be popular with families. There is a good range of real ales that are well kept. Although it is well worth a visit, it rather lacks character for me.
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Hey. The beer is good, the pub is pretty nice inside (flagstones, period details etc), and it is a good place for a cheap mid week drink. No obvious signs of pikey elements. Thursday to Saturday nights, it does suddenly become an 18-21’s pub, but even then it is just noisy. If you want real ale, or a quick cheap drink in a reasonable surroundings I would recommend it – but for the more refined drinker go to the Marquis of Granby which is infinitely better and just across the road.
anonymous - 9 May 2007 15:51 |
wetherspoons is wetherspoons, you know what you get, food has gone very much downhill overlast couple of years and this is throughout the company - basically the novelty has worn off for me, i once ordered my food and 1 minute later it was on my table in front of me.
better value for food is the stonleigh inn, go there at lunchtime and the food is much better value
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as far as wetherspoons go a good 'un.
nice and busy,service not too bad,good choice and cheap as chips. u get what u pay for.
anonymous - 17 Apr 2007 22:45 |
I work for this pub and i used to despise working there, but since the refurb and the management has changed really enjoy my job there. I agree you cannot pick your customers which is really a shame as a lot of the customers there are scum, and you cannot put atmosphere into a pub that has no music and tv with no sound. You also can't have anything more than a limited choice of drinks. However, the pub has turned itself around in the last 6 months and is a nice place to work in. However none the less it is still a wetherspoons and that can not be helped. As a pub to go to for reasonable priced drinks and food i do recommend it. Go there on fridays and try the new fresh fish is my recommendation as it is absoloutly beautiful, and unlike most of the other food all comes in fresh and the sauces and side dishes are all prepared in the morning and as per order. The range of beers has gone up recently and even includes fruli which is an interesting choice for people with a sweet tooth.
If you ever wonder why the staff seem uninterested and perhaps moody i would suggest you put yourself in their position. Get told off for chatting to long to the customers, there is no music, and then the customers you are allowed to chat to are mainly the people from the local council estate and the reason you are chatting to them is to stop them glassing your nicer customers! That aside this pub is never going to go out of business because for some uncanny reason people love wetherspoons.
Lets face it, there is never a boring day there either with the amount of action that goes on....
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I agree with kobyrne, its not worth the watery "beer" its soaked in. musicless, atmosphere free, watering hole of the job seeker. Beligerant door men who I.D old age pensioners, poor service at best. god help you if you eat there.
like the man says, go to the marquis accross the road, unless you frequently offer your custom to weatherspoons in which case please remain behind.
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I visited last Friday, 15 September and the refurbishment has made it slightly better. However, still a boring, atmosphere-less pub. Uninterested bar staff and not a very good selection of real ale. Never have more than one pint as I usually use it as resting place as I await my bus home. I visited it during the first week after it opened it was not much cop then and it still remains so.
anonymous - 20 Sep 2006 13:27 |
Crappy Weatherspoons pub.
Had had a big re-furb, but I found it to be dirty with sticky unwashed tables and torn chairs / stools.
Full of rough chavs too.
Shame as it is a nice big old building with a lot of history (was the original Epsom Spar house.
Go to the Marquis of Grandby across the road. Much better!
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Newly refurbed but is still very much a whetherspoons I'm afraid!!
However, the only place I have found so far that sells Kronenbourg Blanc in Epsom!! This is worth a 10/10 in it's self!! Overall though not gonna come near that rating yet I'm afraid....
And they have the best toilets I have ever seen....! It doesn't take a lot though! ;-D
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it has now benn closed for a refurb lets hope when it re-opens it doesn't fall back into its old ways
anonymous - 5 Aug 2006 13:52 |
Godd place for cheap food and beers but you always get the scumbags in there looking for a fight every weekend.
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Soon to be refurbished, will be closed from around the 30th July for a week.
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Cheap.
Nasty.
0/10
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I popped in for about an hour yesterday afternoon. I was amazed to find that on this occasion there were bar staff eager to serve the customers!
Still rather poor on clearing away glasses and changing ashtrays though.
They still need to sort out that uneven floor which causes tables and stools to wobble.
The group of unpleasant drunken old men seem to have relocated to the Albion, but this still remains (at times) the Chav centre of Epsom, and a day centre for unemployed alcoholics.
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Like all pubs in this chain the beer is very cheap. Also the decor is pleasant and the toilets are clean. Unfortunately, the service at the bar is abysmal. It is typical to wait a long time to be served, and for the staff to pay no attention to which customer is next. At times, the bar can have several people waiting to be served, while staff who are not behind the bar are standing by the food hatch talking, or replenishing the fridges or other duties, despite the growing number of customers waiting. You can spend an hour there without tables being cleaned, glasses collected, or ashtrays emptied. The high tables and stools in the center of the pub wobble, and are frequently stabilised with menus etc. I asked for a pint of Courage Best the other day and was told it was off; I said "why don't you turn the pump sign round so that customers will know?", to which the barman replied that he "was not allowed!". If there is a manager he or she must be very part-time.
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Further to my review below, I popped in yesterday to have a quick drink (after checking there was a clean table to sit at) and am pleased to report much improvement.
Prompt service at the bar, clean tables, staff clearing plates and glasses, a much more pleasant experience.
I ordered a meal and it was served promptly on a hot plate and the food was fine.
Keep up the good work.
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What a pity that this lovely building is home to such a filthy pub. Everytime I visit I see dirty plates, glasses and menus all over the place. A dirty knife and fork on the floor on my last visit. Food was luke warm, took ages to get served. It is such a pity. Needs a good Manager to sort the place out. Toilets spotless. Shame about the rest of the pub.
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What is going on in this pub?! The managers definatley don't know. I didn't realise that you had to wade through 2 members of door staff & an middle aged couple to get into spoons on a friday night! surely they need to clear all the glasses off the floor & wash em, rather than standing around! Crap!
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This place is a dump, anytime i go in here its filthy. Empty glasses, plates everwhere and when you walk in to the place theres allways chavs sitting by the door with about 10 kids. This is enough to put you off even thinking about going inside the place. Beer is cheap and so it bloody well should be because to be honest id prefer to drink my own piss, at least i know my cock would be cleaner then the glasses. Rubbish rubbish rubbish.
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Cheap beer, but gets the knock-on effects as a result: a few lairy geezers and chavsters get in here, but the atmosphere is fine (no doubt the burly, surly bouncers help). Food is adequate but nothing to write home about.
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Beer is good for the price: now and again they have some good guest beers on. 5 bean chilly is very nice. Excellent value!
Colin Wills - 29 Oct 2004 15:47 |
Friendly enough pub, but the draught beer is awful. The last time I was in there, both me and my mate had the squits all afternoon.
Leslie - 24 Oct 2004 15:46 |
I just hope one member of staff reads this, now that the litten tree has gone, all the chavs had nowhere to go, so they just half go vestry (now that the new doormen are so rubbish) and half go to this place, its just a shame that nowhere else is so cheap.
The Swill - 18 Oct 2004 15:28 |
wetherspoons are only good for one thing, cheap booze. Otherwise its full of dirty old men, shit staff, arse hole door men, underage drinkers, little kids in family area, dirty glasses and mess everywhere. mmmm, nice.
anonymous - 15 Oct 2004 13:34 |
Am considering mounting my challenge for the World Record attempt at the longest wait to be served at a bar. Unbelievably slow and surly...none of the staff smile (not surprising, can you imagine working there?!!). Cheap steak night and curry nights cannot even help lift this pub from the deep trench of filth that it is currently residing in. A major rethink and redesign is needed as this could potentially be a good place...just get rid of the chavscum.
G - 7 Oct 2004 17:18 |
Do yourself a favour and go to the best pub in Epsom ... it's over the road and called the Albion. The Assembly Rooms has cheep beer, but is full of Epsom chav youth.
antichav - 23 Sep 2004 19:58 |
Service is terrible, the place is full of chavs, and devoid of any atmosphere whatsoever. Well done wetherspoons.
Anon - 20 Aug 2004 16:43 |
Entrance only granted on wearing of burbery cap, tracksuit bottoms and ripped of England football top.
Gareth - 17 Mar 2004 17:17 |
Not as bad as the one in Leatherhead, I almost like going there, it's okay for an hour or so with the right people.
Keion - 19 Jan 2004 17:31 |
Too loud and too many idiots. Police and sniffer dogs came in looking for drugs one Saturday night. Good wetherspoons prices though.
It's nice during the day for lunch out although it was freezing cold in there.
Dimple Chops - 14 Jan 2004 22:05 |
music needed!!
anonymous - 30 Dec 2003 19:02 |
Staff are a good laugh. Service great. Get rid of the pikeys and u'll have the best place in Epsom.
Kim - 14 Dec 2003 13:46 |
Total blandness prevails, Full of the pikeys in the Run-up to Shit-cagos (sure that place must have some great reviews!!). Although surely the toilets must win some sort of award for their sheer size, SOO much room for the Typical Epsom beating. Then on to the lovely Roosters next door for Round 2.
Mattd - 14 Nov 2003 17:27 |
Feels like having a drink in an airport bar, cavernous and without atmosphere of any kind
Nick - 24 Sep 2003 16:50 |
Packed, packed, packed.
Also I got asked for ID, not that I care but I'm 23 and was only geting someone out of the pub to go to a less pikey place.
Alex - 22 Jul 2003 23:43 |
General trend of a Wetherspoons pub, its ok for cheap drinks!! It feels a lot cleaner than most Wetherspoons though...
anonymous - 15 Jul 2003 09:15 |
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