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After reading these previous review im not sure what people where thinking?
I've had many visit to the wibbas and found it a charming pub! The staff are courteous and well mannered, bend over backwards to help, food is available from 9am until 10pm! The real ale selection is amazing and i hear the pub is turning back to a wetherspoons rather than a Lloyds!
Brill Pub Brill Service!!
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Worse than football hooligans. Was in there last night 29/2/8 and seems like a mixture of cheap alcohol and simple minded yobs is the perfect recipe for fights. I dont mind if they want to go round killing each other but dodging the flying glasses puts everyone at risk. Doorstaff need to be trained better and a strict door policy is in need to keep out the trash.
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Typical Spoons - but a vast one. Just what you'd expect - except because of its size, you can sometimes escape from the usual Spoons clientele. It has two bars, and the one nearer the theatre tends to be margially more upmarket.
One plus point is that it does have a good range of ales, sometimes some unusual ones. It's not really a place to linger, but can be OK to have a couple of pints before going on somewhere else. There are definitely worse Wetherspoons than this one, and they did have a decent ale festival in October, with two racks of casks on the raised area near the non-theatre entrance.
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I used to go here 7-8 years ago and more. It doesn't see to have changed much reading the reviews, and I can't really add much more. Rubbish.
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It is now indeed a Lloyds bar, which means they've added tv screens and music (and DJs on Fri/Sat nights). In my youth I had great fun in Spoons, but if I go there now for a swift (cheap) one I spend my time people-watching, and wondering if I would have looked so "samey" when I went in there years ago.
The clientele in there nowadays seem to all dress the same!
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Dreadful place, dreadful service, just dreadful.
On a recent early evening visit, the bouncers were busy blocking the front entrance chatting with each other(and a manager). Which considering that we had just walked miles from the back entrance where the trained monkeys weren't letting anyone in (no admission - you'll have to go round the front) was a bit much. Especially when the place was still half empty.
Has recently gained a DJ area and a dancefloor. Also lots of flat screen TVs showing Sky News with sound turned off, but with rolling subtitles
which lag minutes behind the video. Both of which have served to make the place look even more of a downmarket dump.
Service still deplorable, largely because of the the policy of using the minimum number of seemingly totally inexperienced staff possible.
Beer - well the draught Belgian beer was good, even if we had to use Google when we got home to decode the cryptic message on the pump clip to find out what we had been drinking. Will Wetherspoons start selling Stella as Luton lager I wonder?
anonymous - 17 Apr 2007 14:34 |
Very similar to the one at Kingston which is now a Lloyds. It was originally part of a supermarket but to me it's another one of JDW's conversion from a gallery in a coal mine. Dark and gloomy and not very inviting. The bouncers do not help matters as they were obviously not taught manners when they were in captivity at the zoo. It has certainly deteriorated overthe last 2 years or so. Would not visit again.
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I used to go there on late Saturday afternoon (the only decent time for a Wetherspoons) for a couple of decent ales (the only decent reason for aWetherspoons).
However, the last two times I went in there, the service was shoddy. I was waiting for ages to be served, to no avail, and walked out on both occasions (I gave it a second chance). This is nothing short of criminal for a pub and I've not been back since.
Now I go to the Hand & Racquet, which has decent ales served directly from the cask as well as good service.
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As with all Wetherspoons, the top-drawer selection of guest ales is the main selling point and the reason it gets a 6. There is always unique beers on to try, although despite this the majority of patrons seem to stick to their chemical lager.
So if you can put up with the smell, the sloppy service, the drunks, the tatty interior, the kids, etc, it is worth a crack, if only for a new pint of beer.
anonymous - 10 May 2006 16:53 |
My regualar for the last 7 years when im skint. full of chavs, underage drinkers and hardcore alchoholics (the ones that smell of beef and onion crisps). bouncers have serious attitude promblem, no id no entry on a friday and sat. its just crap. and thers no music.
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I agree with the previous lot!
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Gone down the pan recently - i'm having trouble seeing my pint on a friday night cos it's so dark.
Why have spoons got silly coloured lights everywhere
anonymous - 4 Apr 2005 22:40 |
good food good prices ok drink thats about it, i hear this place use 2 b a tescos dont surpise me its massive, if you want a fight then this is the place except for yates of course
anonymous - 20 Feb 2005 13:47 |
typical weatherspoons, namely cheap food and beer, however the bar staff seem oblivious to the 14 year olds drinking in there making the whole place a chav palace.
if you want cheap, then this is the place, and thats the only thing going for it.
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They might as well park the police van outside here on a Friday, it ends up there in the end. Has competition as the biggest fight spot in Wimbledon now Yates's is open.
Richard - 12 Oct 2004 23:12 |
The service is very poor, if you want a drink quick send your hardest looking mate. The cheapness though makes the wait almost bearable. It is the ASDA of the pub world, dirty but cheap.
mathew - 26 Sep 2004 14:29 |
Dreadful... the staff are rude, slow and always get it wrong... the management are useless... the tables are sticky and dirty and nobody seems to care... the food is soggy or stale... I only go there because it is cheap and on price it can't be beaten... on self pride it can be beaten almost anywhere...
A.A.L - 9 Aug 2004 14:26 |
i love it there...its good if u want to just go for a reasonably quiet night of drinks n chats with friends or as a place to kick a big night off at as its a lot cheper than other places in wimbledon!
sarah - 26 Mar 2004 16:33 |
much like any other 'spoons. the only appeal is the double g&t for £1.99. *re: Scotty's comment, well, that's wimbledon for you. they probably all came on the tramlink from croydon though.
johnson - 22 Mar 2004 16:57 |
As stated elsewhere - cheap but not cheerful. Weekends after 9 it turns into a creche full of pikie slappers and boy racers
Scotty - 15 Mar 2004 22:17 |
Nothing wrong with the place, it's busy every night and it's not just full of 'scum'. They must be doing something right.
sarah - 15 Feb 2004 00:08 |
It's rubbish. They don't clean the glasses properly. The clientle is almost exclusively Ben Sherman and Burberried up. Avoid like the plague
Joe - 12 Jan 2004 17:20 |
A massive pub with loads of seating. Usual Weatherspoons pub, and the beer is not bad and ok priced. Pretty good place to settle down for an evenings beer and chat. They do food, but I haven't tried - better off going to one of the millions of food places in Wimbledon.
anonymous - 7 Jan 2004 16:59 |
Cheap but not very chearful! A poor pub for poor people. Avoid if you're not on benefits.
anon - 27 Nov 2003 13:21 |
I used to drink here a lot. It's had it's ups and downs but in the end me and me mates gave up on it.On busy Saturday nights there was just never enough bar staff and those who were serving were totally inefficient and the organization hopeless. The length of time it took to get served became ridiculous.
It was a regularly especial pisser to see about 3 staff serving behind one long bar with 3 deeps worth of customers waiting, whilst there were 6 staff collecting bloody plates!
Better management needed here.
Bob V - 3 Nov 2003 20:49 |
door staff are definately on a power trip...probably of the sort who'd thump ya for 'looking at them funny'
cheap drink tho (what else would it be at wetherspoons?!)
anonymous - 15 Aug 2003 17:56 |
this is not a nice pub, but yet i'm strangely drawn to it. Been going there since I was 15. Scary customers - i went to school with most of them. At least it's unpretentious.
piglette - 1 Aug 2003 15:43 |
The beer ain't bad but it's too enormous to be welcoming. The bouncers on the door are a turn-off too and, a couple of weeks ago, I saw one of them being a little too 'keen' with an admittedly drunk but defenceless old boy. If this pub was a person it would be Shane Richie...which its regulars might take as a compliment.
Zak - 24 Jul 2003 19:11 |
cheap beer,but really homophobic staff.when myself and my boyfrend mark went in there we were made to feel totally unwelcome and made to feel uncomftable.
warren.bradshaw. - 7 Jul 2003 19:21 |
Full of Mitchamites itching for a punch up....and that's just the bouncers. The clientele range from 15 year old scrubbers to sixty year old wide-boys, the one common feature is all they sport large amounts of gold and have more than half their body covered in tats.
PC Spittle - 7 Jul 2003 09:41 |
Bloody horrible place. Awful beer, slow service, Doormen with attitude. Don't bother.
Andy - 4 May 2003 01:34 |
This pub is full of kids. The bouncers ID everyone, even if you're over25. And it takes ages to get served. Avoid at all costs.
FoxyChick - 17 Apr 2003 19:32 |
Huge, nicely decorated, friendly, very cheap! And they sell beer! What more do u want?
Pete - 26 Jan 2003 11:20 |
Cheap, when you eventually get served !
ritmic - 26 Jul 2002 12:51 |
Really huge (used to be a Tescos apparently). Cheep (obviously), take ID if it's Friday-Sunday. Gets very full during the school holidays.
Could do with more bar staff but so could every pub in the world.
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