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ok, its a Wetherspoons - so you get what you pay for generally. I wont comment on the food & drink, as its always consistent (read into that whatever you will). What I dont like is the dumb idea to dim the lighting so low that you can barely read your newspaper! I'm told that this is to create an "ambience". I was there yesterday. It was 25 degrees and sunny outside, the front doors open wide, people in their shorts, yet it was so gloomy inside that the back end of the pub was empty, apart from a few sad night light candles flickering in the gloom. I like to pop into the pub to read my paper after work, but they just have got it so wrong. Leave the candle lit gloom until darkness please!
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Ordered an esb and eas asked if i wanted the special glass..... Which was a nice touch. Is it true that jdw buy their beer when just out of date? This no headed, cloudy bilge water was on the cusp.
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Small Wetherspoons with indifferent staff, although not rushed off their feet. food meagre in quantity and not well cooked. Table not cleared of previous meal's debris until my food arrived although waitress appologetic. Beer was fine though and Sunday club included all the guest beers.
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Small 'spoons, with some rather stereotypical mid-afternoon customers and seemingly disinterested bar staff who evetually got fed up of talking to each other and actually went off to clear (and clean) some tables. Quite a modest selction of real ale with just six handpumps sharing a range of usual suspects and a few more interesting beers. To call my pint of Holdens Golden Glow 'lively' would be a major understatement, but when the barman at last managed to get near enough a pint in my glass it was thankfully £1.89 well spent.
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I let rip with the odd "colourful phrase" now and again but, boy, the clientele here would make Gordon Ramsay at full pelt sound like David Cameron addressing the WI. Yet another reason for not going to the place. Crystal Palace has lots of much better places.
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Goodish pub, with potential to be a lot better.has come through its fly infestation and beer watering phases.Normaly stocked with good selection of real ales, the carlesberg can be crab moreoften than not.
The trouble with this this pub,for the last few tenures,has been the managers themselfes.
This pub seems to induse moby dick syndrome in whoever takes over,(thats moby big bonus dick),With the consequence that,there is never enough staff behind the jump.
A visit to the bar can seem like the oddessy,when you get back to your company conversations are forgotton, people have aged,and what your purpose on earth has escaped you.
Meanwhile the manageress with the mad captain ahab look in her eye, struts around with keys jangling everywhere like a demented jailer.
The best staff again jump ship,customers feel ailenaited and on and on and on.
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One of the better Norwood Wetherspoons. As others have said, it does attract more than its fair share of local 'eccentrics' many of whom move from JDW to JDW as I have seen them in many of the others.
I have a food a few times and its been what you'd expect. Good but nothing to shout about.
Range of beers is good. Will come again.
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Smallest JDW I've encountered. Standard JDW fittings, though with a more intimate pub feel than normal.
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I'm giving this boozer a honk of my horn for approval. Yes, it's a Wetherspoons. And yes, it's seemingly a hostel for the down and outs who would otherwise clutter up the Park. BUT it puts on a wide selection of interesting ales that are otherwise hard to come by in my little ghetto. The food is honest and uncomplicated and everything is well priced and the staff are helpful. What more could you ask for. Honk!
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could do with more staff behind the bar at times, however on the whole the beers good the staff are brill, the new manager seems to be top notch.
best move he made was to get rid of the bloody sofas,
now we all have a bit more room, well done Tomas.
PS
Anya should get promotion,
and David is just fantastic, always attentive, alert, and polite.
for those that i have not mentioned keep up the good work.
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Nice pub until the manager started watering down the beer....
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Nie pub with a good choice of ales although the quality has been rather poor for the past couple of months I've noticed. Friendly enough atmosphere although the staff seem to have a habbit of giving you less change than you're owed. Ha shappened to me a few times in recent weeks, maybe I've just been unlucky, who knows...
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LOL I think I've overheard the guy who bemoans 'the onslaught of Brussels' and more. My ears started bleeding after a while. On the upside I go in here because I like to try out the guest beers. I find the staff OK at present - there's always something of a turnover but they have been worse. Wish the atmosphere was better though.
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I am in two minds about this pub. It undoubtedly deserves its Cask Marque accreditation as the cask ales are excellent, with plenty of choice. I always finish up with the Directors which is particularly good in here. BUT it is a Witherspoons pub at the end of the day with all that that brings! Some staff OK but others surly. OK for a couple of pints.
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typical wethersppons, full of the usual low life scumbags you find in most wetherspoons. Nice pint of Caladonian XPA last night though.
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A decent enough Wetherspoons, with a more mixed clientele than some. The beer range was wide this week, but all seemed to be served through a sparkler, giving an unwelcome "cappucino" effect. Other Wetherspoons don't do this - why here? Next time I'll ask if it's possible to have my pint served naturally, and see what the response is. If negative, I may have to write to Tim Martin again...
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Excellent range of ales and lagers undermined by sterile JDW environment and purple faced senior citizens bemoaning the "onslaught of Brussels" and casting aspersions on social workers and "women who wear trousers."
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Not as bad as you might think. A good range of real ales, in good condition.
Although the place smells of old mens trousers.
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You can get Adnams and Wells in the Royal Albert...but yes, you're basically right Rich66
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Relatively small for a Wetherspoon's, better than average service for a Wetherspoon's, otherwise the usual Wetherspoon's formula of an old building that used to something other than a pub (a post office in this case) fitted out to look like a "traditional" sort of pub.
Cheap prices and the chance of a decent guest ale are the main attractions for me. To my knowledge it's the only pub within quite a wide radius where you're likely to find anything more exotic than Young's/Fuller's.
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its a weatherspoons...what do you expect? - cheap drinks, real ale...good value for money and the clientele aren't bad at all......
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