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Huge, cavenous place. Despite the favourable comments of the previous posters I've always found this a bog standard Spoons, no better no worse. Seems to attract it's fare share of fist faces. At 9.30 one Sunday morning a juiced up guy weaving about on the smoking porch outside offered to entertain me with a punch-up just for having the temerity to walk past and mind my own business. It was lucky for him I'm such a cowardly weakling who'd get outpointed at shadow boxing otherwise I'd have murdered him.
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not bad , good choice of real ales , one of the better jdw's ,much preferrable than say walkabout opposite.
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I agree with most of the comments about this Wetherspoons. It's one of their better ones (along with the Knights Temple around the back of Temple Meads station).
If you want an awful Wetherspoons go to the King of Wessex in Bath!
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Not updated for a while so here goes. Range tonight was Hooky Gold,Brewsters Hop-a-doodle-do,Duchy Organic(made by Wychwood I believe),Triple FFF Alton Pride,Outlaw Wrangler,Ringwood Old Thumper,Woods Wonderful,along with 4 cooking ales. Place was mad busy but top manager was working so service was bearable. Rest of servants were generally at least competent. Serious drinking was going on. Still it was well worth enduring the throng.Overall by value,service and selection still one of the best-if not THE best-in Bristol city centre.
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Not updated for a while so here goes. Range tonight was Hooky Gold,Brewsters Hop-a-doodle-do,Duchy Organic(made by Wychwood I believe),Triple FFF Alton Pride,Outlaw Wrangler,Ringwood Old Thumper,Woods Wonderful,along with 4 cooking ales. Place was mad busy but top manager was working so service was bearable. Rest of servants were generally at least competent. Serious drinking was going on. Still it was well worth enduring the throng.Overall by value,service and selection still one of the best-if not THE best-in Bristol city centre.
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Very ornate, and not as bland as most JDW's. Beer choice and quality was absolutely excellent, the usual good quality breakfast, and very friendly service. A good quality pub.
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always look forward to comin in here on my visits to bristol..lovely architecture..never had a bad pint in here and always had a good scran.can get very busy..not keen on the high bar though..but good all the same.
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One of the best Wetherspoons you will find
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Biermiester you know little about pubs or ale!
This pub is an excellent ale house, great range of ale, good food and good service - worth a visit on any day of the week!
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Why?
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I can't believe it's beer!! Typical Wetherspoons cavern with usual selection of weirdos, DSS claimants and drunks.
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"spoons pub of the year" is hardly a reason to visit; more likely an indication of being a pub to avoid.
A bit like "macdonalds restaurant of the year".
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Great Selection Of Well Kept Festive Ales when visited last week, quite slow service but then such good beer at such good prices deff deserves a 9/10
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WETHERSPOONS REAL ALE PUB OF THE YEAR 2007!!!!!!!!!!!!
Sold 8900 pints of ale at the recent beer festival-6th best in the UK,5th was the Imperial in Exeter which is about 3 times the size and only sold a few hundred pints more.
To quote a scots lady visiting Bristol recently-"I can't believe I'm in a Wetherspoons...........!"
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Highly successful beer festival,even the most hardened whingers and complainers were finding it difficult to fault the beer. Evidently had a double order of everything,and also mopped up any spares left over in the other Spoons pubs in vicinity.
Festival ales will probably be around for a few days more,but goodies like Exmoor and Cotleigh are returning now. (Beats the "cooking" ales GK IPA etc they insist on having in the Shites Templar hands down!)
A faultless performance. Well done again.
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Deservedly in the new Good Beer Guide,probably the best range of ale in the centre of Bristol nowadays,and the quality is consistent. MILES above the majority of the rest of the Spoons in Bristol. The staff,though hard worked,make a decent effort. I would find it difficult to criticise anything about the place. A job well done folks. Keep it up.
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Very good selection of well kept beer, including a lovely Porter. One of the best Wetherspoons I have been to.
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Excellent architecture. Good range of beers.
anonymous - 21 May 2007 12:25 |
back again this week, food and beer fantastic!
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excellent beer and food. Great range of real ales and realy clean pub.
would recommend to all
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Place has been good lately,great range of ale,served and kept well. Started getting better when they got rid of the obnoxious weekday pot man/weekend bouncer. And banned the cancer.
Steve manager is a good bloke,but his mini-me needs to brush up though!!!
BIG Wesley has gone to Temple Meads spoons recently,hope standards here don't fall as a result of his promotion.
Probably close between Fishponds and here for best spoons in Bristhole.
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Always a bit of a mixed bag clientele-wise, as is the case with numerous JDW offerings, and that hasn't really changed in over 12 years. However, the Commercial Rooms are by far not the worst of the 6 Wethy's in the city, and is worth a visit for the ale-lover as an antidote to the ever-encroaching bar culture of the immediate area.
Most impressive is the architecture: they spent a vast amount of money on converting this grandiose fomer gentlemen's club and with considerable sensitivity. The result was an arresting, well-designed drinking and eating space which retains the character of the old building with the function of the new occupier.
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Seems to change management every few months and the beer range and quality lurches from the fantastic to the dire. But it's currently as good as it's been for years (mind you, all things are relative and we're talking 'Spoons here) and the "urine soaked wretches" seem to be on the decline. Natural wastage I suppose.
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Went there on an evening out with my finnish girlfriend. Staying in bristol for the weekend at the local motel. Went early bought two dinners for cheap and a great bottle of wine! What a difference a totally non-smoking environment made! all pubs should go that way. The air smelt fresh and the beer and wine tasted great. Def 10 rating.
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Big barn of a place, was a businessmans club but very run down untill Weatherspoons got hold of it. It has its drawbacks, being central it gets racked out with kids thur fri sat evenings getting tanked up before going on to clubs and there are a good smattering of unsavoury characters. All down to Weatherspoons more than reasonable prices. Food is cheap and cheerful but it can take a lifetime to get served at busy times. One more point, the bar staff can be ultra keen to enforce the limits on drinking up and chucking out.
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The pub is smoke free. Got friendly staff. Best Value food and drink in the city centre. Nice building. And a large variety of drinks and food menu.
I love it. :-)
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Great place to either have a good value lunch or get absolutely plastered and roll out the door and down the hill towards Evo. Like a labyrynth to et to the loo's from the bar - quite a cool dome-building thing towards the back. Standard Wetherspoons really
Tom - 4 Apr 2004 21:25 |
Aww, I dunno about that Rufus. I thought it was a pretty cool place for a drink. I was backpacking from Australia and hung out in the commercial rooms for a night. Every pub in Australia sucks so i guess i think every pub in the UK rocks. BTW, your words on the pub were great....good laff.
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Brutally real description by Rufus. Nice building compared to many other Spoons
Gareth - 3 Dec 2003 15:48 |
This pub is a favourite haunt of local alcoholics, beggars and the mentally disturbed, due primarily to its cheapness in relation to the other city centre bars.
It also seems to be the place where yellow-eyed hollow-faced old men go to just before they die. Perhaps this is why it's easy to imagine that you're in purgatory as you watch another of the urine-soaked wretches totters past frantically fighting against their palsied hands as they battle against spilling any of the rough cider they're carrying slowly from the bar.
The other reviewer is right though. It was a nice building.
Rufus - 10 Nov 2003 16:00 |
Nice Wetherspoons use of a historic building.
What were the "Commercial rooms" and who were the presidents on the boards, anyone?
Vindaloo - 27 Aug 2003 13:24 |
