please note - reviews on this site are purely the opinion of site visitors, so don't take them too seriously.
The trouble with 'spoons is there is this perception that they are all the same. They aren't. This is in my experience one of the better 'spoons in the south east.
It's not particularly good compared with other local treasures, but compared with other 'spoons, it's OK
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Seems to be a standard Wetherspoons outlet, rather soulless and lacking atmosphere. However, meals and drinks for 2 people for less than £10 and a good selection of ales served in good condition. Certainly the best option in Hastings town centre.
Floyd - 15 Nov 2007 14:20 |
Forgot to mention I really enjoyed my first "smoke free" pint in "spoons" even if it was only Directors.
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Went there today and they had run out of Guinness, Abbott, Hookey, Summer ale, Butcombe and Bombardier! the only beer they had on worth drinking was Directors and it was only 4.30pm!!
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It's a 'spoons, but it's quite good as 'spoons go. They had five ales on, and there's not many places that do that.
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"Sonia & Tom"? It was Reg & Sue at the end of November.
"dinner at your restaurants"? It's a Whetherspoons.
Have you got the right pub, Kurt?
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Dear Sonia and Tom,
You're all doing a damned good job at the John Logie Baird. Above all, thank you so much for accommodating 60 students from Austria and making their evening out an unforgettable one. In later years, they may not remember their excursions to Rye or Brighton, but they will remember our dinner at your restaurants. Also say a big thank you to your young and friendly staff. We really appreciated everything, the meals, the service, and the warm welcome.
Kurt Mocker, M.A., Austria
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A rather dark Spoon with a low ceiling and deep purple walls. In need of refurbishment. Not a pleasing environment.
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Young staff who are not that customer aware, not always got guest beers as they say but when they have they are usually very good and cheap, seems to be getting refurbished at the moment but very slowly, Sunday roast was bigger than I expected with beer included but I could not have the real beer which rather annoyed me. have been to better Wetherspoons but you get what you pay for here.
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After not visitng for a couple of months, I walked in, looked around, and walked out again! It's still dire. Consoled myself by going to The Filo - a real pub!
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I was in here yesterday, when I used the ladies I was greeted by the word "scum" written on the toilet door in either blood (period?) or faeces, how delightful, I am not surprised by the reviews here, never, ever again.
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And 'Spoons had gotten rid of that the last time I was in High Barnet a year ago. It's been replaced by a similarly, eminently forgettable establishment.
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"Typical Weatherspoons."
really?? I have been in many over the years starting with The Moon Under Water in High Barnet in 1978, none have been quite as bad as this.
"Not sure why there are so many bad reviews."
Because the place has been a toilet for so long, home to the street scum, the staff would serve anybody regardless of how inebriated/aggressive they were.
"Maybe we didn't get the best experience going on a Tuesday night, but seemed all right to me."
Then maybe the new managers are starting to sort it out, possibly.
"Didn't sample the cuisine."
No? then you had a lucky escape.
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Typical Weatherspoons. Not sure why there are so many bad reviews. Maybe we didn't get the best experience going on a Tuesday night, but seemed all right to me. Didn't sample the cuisine.
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To the pair of anons. Instead of trying to insult our intelligence with the obvious fake postings, why not just come out with the truth. If there is new management and they are working to improve things, just say so. Trying to 'big up' the place in such a way makes you look like a: fools, and b: desparate.
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Word must spread incredibly fast if they've 'built up a reputation for very good food' in less than two days! Oh, come on....
Sadly, even they admit the ales are only 'reasonably kept'. I'll steer well clear.
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Give me strength. Even spoon's management are posting now.
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I'm with 'anon'.
The new management team took over two days ago and have turned this place around completely. Reg and Sue have worked tirelessly for nearly 2 days to build up a reputation for very good, 'value' meals and reasonably kept ales. And the 'cheeky' locals keep all amused.
Its a must visit!
anonymous - 24 Nov 2006 09:04 |
I am sure you did mr anonymous - 23 Nov 2006 19:44 but not in this dump, I will give you the benefit of the doubt and assume that you placed this comment on the wrong page, if not then you are a liar.
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Visited last night with my wife and had a delicious meal in convivial surroundings, enjoyed a couple of competitively priced, quality drinks and listened to the lively banter amongst the locals.
Keep it up Reg, Sue and the Team! We'll be back!
BTW Quiz nights are excellent - so I've heard.
anonymous - 23 Nov 2006 19:44 |
Sets very low standards and consistanly fails to reach them.
Biker - 21 Nov 2006 16:04 |
If I ever find that I have awoken to discover that the Wimbourne manse has been reduced to rubble, and I am reduced to a state of abject penury, then I think I would move in. Truly the last refuge of all that is worst in this once-great nation of ours!
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It's near the station and cheap.
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The bar staff have serious social skill issues, the place is full of inebriates, need I say more?
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Personally I find this wetherspoohs to be particularly awful, the food is served cold more often than not, its cheap but well below average.
anonymous - 25 Oct 2006 07:41 |
It's a Wetherspoons. They are all the same. Don't go in there expecting good food or particularly good service. It's exactly like going to a Beefeater... people should know better.
The only reason this place is busy, is because its cheap. I go in there for a pint, I go in there for a bite to eat, but I never go in there expecting anything great, and that is the entire point of Wetherspoons - cheap and 'ok'... and this, is the same for ANY Wetherspoons in the country... some are better than others, but this is just your average. No worse no better.
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The food in this Wetherspoons has to rate amongst the worst in the country, it is simply abysmal, how anyone can continuosly get it so cold and tasteless at service is incredulous. The staff have all graduated from the school of indifference and rudeness with distinctions. A family pub? I think not, especially with the aggressive street life that inhabit the place for most of the day, they moved the street drinkers out of Hastings town centre with by-laws, they now reside in the John Logie Baird.
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Where do I start!? This is the roughest Wetherspoons its ever been my misfortune to set foot in! The food is always served piping cold or frozen and very late. During the day it is full of borderline doser couples having domestics and people talking to theirselves. Its at nite it comes alive with underage near-naked underage girls sicking up alcopops and fighting.....but hey...its cheap!!
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Alright food, but the bar staff have the worst attitude of any Wetherspoons pub I've been in (and that's saying something!) If you want to stand at the bar for 20 mins on a Friday night and be studiously ignored by a spotty git with self esteem issues, by all means proceed. Otherwise give it a wide berth and go over the road to the Havelock.
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