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'Spoons that is getting better. Some of the new staff are more on the ball, friendlier and deal with waiting customers (on an overly long bar) fairly, not just relying on the customers to tell them who's next!
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OK and good for a Wetherspoons, a long frontage along the High Street and some seating out the front. Usual range of usual suspects at one end of the bar (the beers, I mean, not the customers!) and the 'specials' at the other end, range here was reasonable.
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Good Spoons.
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Cheaper than the slug and lettuce.
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I see W/Spoons seems to get the same sort of reviews from the usual suspects. Does what it says on the tin is fair comment, although service and table clearing was better than expected on the two occasions we visited. The food is average but ridiculously cheap, especially the food + pint combos ! And the array of drinks at yesterdays prices, well what can I say !
I have to admit, I wasn't there at chucking up time and so I missed the obligatory - "Leave it Wayne ! He's not worth it !!!!" (Doh !!!!!!!!!!)
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Decent pub, does what a Wetherspoons should.
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Big and busy pub, slowish service, reasonable range of beers - a pretty typical Wetherspoons. Despite some posts, I've never seen any issue with the clientele - it's pretty varied, from younger drinkers, to families, to some older drinkers.
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The service is soooo slow and at lunchtimes you generally have to clear you own table if you want to sit down. Everything happens in slow mo....walking, talking etc but they are friendly. I've seen the food, just not been brave enough to try it.
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Service is woefully slow. DCDevil's review says it all unfortunately. Might be worth visiting early evening when it's quieter before going elsewhere.
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Went in here for a drink after a lovely meal next door in the Slug and Lettuce. The service here is terrible. I stood at the bar for over 2 minutes before one of the staff said whos next. Half the staff were stood chatting at one end. I even made eye contact with 2 of them and still no service. The place wasn't even busy and under half full. It's very cheap and attracts 'BARGAIN' people. Vicky Pollard types can be found stood outside the door waiting for Joe'Chav'Bloggs to invite them in for a 99p drink.
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Some of the staff need to learn that ignoring a waiting customer for one that's just come to the bar is not good practice, the English don't complain, they just never go back. And to compound the fact by admitting that you know they're a queue jumper...
The beer's fine, the prices great, it's just the service (or lack of) that needs work.
If they're busy, don't bother.
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Went in there on Sunday, to escape from the wet weather!
Quite, despite the Monaco Grand Prix on the television, very friendly service. I sampled the "Scorpio Porter", and when this ran out had some Tongham Brewery "Hogs Back Bitter". Both beers were well kept and served.
For a Weatherspoons pub this is one of the better ones!
anonymous - 30 May 2007 10:13 |
Thanks Tim for giving us a non-smoking pub, and thank you Karen for your hard work and Brendan for the rare smile. But you should keep the children and their large, room-consuming ankle-smacking pushchairs should be confined to the back area of this enormous pub, as before; perhaps after 11.00 am. Then the adults would again be allowed to converse, drink, eat, read their papers or whatever - in peace. It would also stop your many adult clients leaving you for other pubs because of the intrusions which relate to your allowing kids everywhere. Otherwise, an excellent pub.
anonymous - 15 May 2007 17:51 |
The Jack Phillips is a VERY busy pub, frequented by all walks of life in Godalming.
The beer is rarely poor, the JP has the best variety of bitter in Godalming. I pay £1.85 for a good pint of Pedigree, on a like for like basis you can easily pay 70% more in most of the pubs in Godalming.
Being a no-smoking pub is very much in it's favour.
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Only been into the JP on a weekend morning but for what you get its excellent value. The breakfast menu is good and the food cooked well. Speaking as a parent, its also now very child friendly. The little ones are well catered for and plenty of room with lots of high chairs. Cant yet advise what its like on a friday night but the booze looks pretty cheap as well. SITCOM.
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Pub quiz is a waste of time here but atmosphere and the drinks range make this pub worth a visit
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Admittedly my last comment was rather petulant. In fairness this pub is much, much better since the smoking ban, with many of the dubious characters now drinking elsewhere.
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I have seen him smile too, and regularly have to encourage him to do so. Karen always smiles, works her socks off, and clears and cleans the tables at a great pace. If only the rest of the staff were taught to clear the tables so rapidly, and leave them nice for the next punters! But this problem with the lack of swift table clearance and cleaning seems to be endemic at Wetherspoons - we always carry our own beer mats, as sticky tables are disgusting. Sort it out Tim!!!!
anonymous - 7 Oct 2006 19:52 |
It's really simple. YOU GET WHAT YOU PAY FOR! If you want finely kept real ale and, gastro pub grub off spotless antique tables, served by Mr Pub Host of the Year, it'll cost you. And as for atmosphere, you get what you make. This is one of the better examples of the Wetherspoons chain. But one point I really must argue, a few months ago, just for a brief second, I saw Brendon smile!
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No coffees today, so no complaints!
The beer is good, the price great.
The atmosphere is quiet, but rather that than in your face, especially at lunchtime.
The staff are variable.
For a relaxed, un-smokey, cheap lunch it's hard to fault. For me that is proved by the number of suits lunching there.
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All non smoking with an area outside for smokers. similar to all weatherspoons has great selection of drinks and reasonably priced food. Clean pub and friendly staff.
anonymous - 1 Oct 2006 21:33 |
Been in here for their bargain breakfast on a Sunday morning after the night before. Last time we were there we were trying to figure out what it reminded us of and we came up with two suggestions, 1. a cross channel ferry and 2. airport departure lounge. No atmosphere but very edible food, wouldn't necessarily go there for a pint though.
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Wouldn't be so bad if you didn't find yourself waiting 5mins for a pint while they serve coffees.
It makes you realise what makes more money for them...
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Must be some one who works here that put a review on The Slug and Lettuce site just after writing this guff below.Poor show guys O out of 10.Not saying The Slugs any better or worse than here
anonymous - 18 Jun 2006 18:49 |
This pub i believe i seriously underrated. There may be an excessive amount of people in on the weekends but that is the sad result of its value for money. On a weekday and Sundays the atmosphere is jolly and there are an appropriate amount of people to enjoy your evening. The theme nights are varied and enjoyable. On the whole the food is of a high standard and more recently greater effort has been taken to keep the place clean although it is a struggle with the rest of the workload. If the staff are given a chance they are generally all very friendly, helpful, and more often than not will go out of their way to help.
anonymous - 17 Jun 2006 13:46 |
average food, beer ok and for the price you cant complain
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Now has a pub quiz on Monday night, which is surprising (but great) to see in a Wetherspoona
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Good beer, but just another Wetherspoons not a real pub.
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Plain and characterless Wetherspoon in harsh modern building with higher than average prices. Very popular for Sunday lunches but limited table space and over-long wait (one hour +) for meals to be served. Beer in good condition and food very tasty. Below average but not too bad.
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Thanks for clearing that up, Karen.
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NO where near as bad as other people describe it.
I, and many others eat there reguarly with no problems. They have an intresting selection of real ales, and the fact this is Godalmings ONLY NON-SMOKING pub should be heartily prasied.
Some of the complaints listed below are Local Council / Trading Standards issues, the fact that I've never heard 'serious' complaints makes them seem like petty gripes…
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Prices low - hence the low calibre of some of the clientelle; even in the morning, and particularly from about 2.30 pm onwards. I certainly would never go there in the evenings. Very, very smokey, despite their 'air-con/smoke extraction', and even worse when the front windows are open, and too dark to read. Why should the non smokers, the majority in this town, have to sit in an area devoid of windows, and with the kids, where it is even darker. Why can't they locate the no-smoking area in the front window areas, as at Guildford - which, I understand, is now a Lloyds Bar? Some time ago I ate just the once at the Jack Phillips, and it was OK, but understand from others that it now varies quite a lot. We need beer mats, as the tables are rarely cleaned, so are always sticky, and all the empty stuff and residue of meals and drinks is piled onto a nearby table. Quite disgusting really! And the staff are mainly miserable and not interested! Needs a good shake up -and perhaps a sincere smile and a pleasant word on a regular basis from the staff and management.
anonymous - 15 Mar 2005 14:05 |
Really good place for a piss up. Drinks are the lowest price in Godalming and there is a massive range of ales and cocktails. Also the staff are quite young and are really easy to get on with
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Standard Wetherspoons job, always quite busy with people who don't want to pay the normal inflated Surrey prices.
Quite large, not as big as Guildford's.
Russ - 8 Sep 2004 16:01 |
Perhaps becoming a victim of its own success. Table cleaning is getting rarer and it can get very smokey...
Gav - 16 Apr 2004 17:12 |
Not a bad Wetherspoons, far better than Guildford's!
monty - 28 Nov 2003 16:17 |
Named after the 'local' who was the telegraph operator of the Titanic and the first to use the newly devised 'SOS' emergency morse code.
Typical Whetherspoons, but VERY big, situated on the old Waitrose supermarket site. Plenty of seating but does get very busy at times.
Centrally situated in the town.
Seán - 22 Oct 2003 23:15 |
Claim to fame: named after a local who died on the Titanic?
Vindaloo - 30 Aug 2003 08:22 |
A weatherspoons pub, very popular eating and drinking place for locals of all ages - surprised it is not on weatherspoons pub lists. Put godalming on the map weatherspoons!
anonymous - 29 Aug 2003 17:06 |
