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In town with the Spoonburners' for their visit to St.Mirren yesterday.
I'd wanted to check out The Alamo, a boozer which scores highly on here but which made the average 1980s Kilburn High Road boozer look like a Henley-on-Thames gastropub when I was last in. That was a while back, though.
Sadly, as it was a typical West of Scotland summer's day (about 15c and lashing it down) I decided to go no further than The Last Post. As stated, it's a large 'Spoons with a huge variety of beers and a fair selection of slot machines. Surprisingly few punters in for a Saturday lunchtime, considering Hibs brought 1,600 to the match, so service was swift for everyone. I somehow opted for Magner's on draught at two quid and nine pennies. With a few Hibs shirts on display, it was hard not to get visions of Franco Begbie casually tossing a glass from the large but almost empty upstairs gallery. I'm sure there are lots of Paisley boozers more likely to attract Franco Begbies than this one.
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I had 4 pubs in Paisley to tick off so i started in this extremely large and imposing building that used to be Paisley's main post office and is right outside Gilmour Street station.
Typical Wetherspoons with a large selection of ales. 12 hand pumps dispensing 11 different ales, 6 of them were from Scottish breweries. My pint from The Orkney Brewery at £2.20 was great value for money.
The crowd were mostly 40 something's and upwards, pleasant and with constant chatter, there's no reason not to like this place unless you're not a fan if Spoons'.
Efficient bar staff unlike a lot of ‘spoons establishments, not so many “creatures” but maybe I got lucky!
All in all it’s a decent pub that more than serves a purpose.
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I popped in for a quick couple of halves before my train back to Glasgow and found it OK. The toilets were being upgraded so the only Gents loo was the disabled(enough said). The beer was fine and I didn't wait long to be served - it was lunchtime but not too busy. Standard spoons offerings but good between trains!
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I've started using this pub as a convenient stop off between my flight getting in to Glasgow airport and my train departing from Gilmour street. Decent pint of Guinness and have found the staff and manager friendly.
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Had an exceptional pint of Otter Mild (3.8%) here last night en route to having my nuts frozen off at Firhill.
Roll on the Paisley Beer Festival.
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Oldboots is right- they do some interesting real ales and the beer is good. I like the Dutch bloke behind the bar. I'd go in there early doors but not late at night- some of the clientele are, as stated, decidedly dodgy.
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Long, thin, old, building on two floors taken over by Wetherspoons, it forms one side of Paisley's rather dreary County Square, but it is incredibly convenient for Gilmour St station, taxis and the bus stops. However inside it is vanilla JDW, not the worst by any means, maybe in the lower third, but the usual lack of staff and those there are the normally bewildered creatures Tim Martin loves to employ. So slow service and uncleared tables are the order of the day. Sad really because the beer quality was actually very good. Mixed batch of punters with very little low life, what few there were lurked smoking by the doors.
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typical wetherspoons lack of staff where it matters pulling pints,nice breakie in morning though
mickh - 28 Jan 2009 10:34 |
visited saturday night reluctantly, what i expected was far form the reviews listed .great staff who were very friendly, efficient and pleasant. Ordered two meals from a man i think was the manager,he suggested food offers- great currys and he also suggested good beers to go with them.This pub was a paradise in Paisley, not a great town but well done THE LAST POST ,beautiful building, great staff and great service ,a large pub, would highly recommend especially for food and beers,we tried three ales and they were in top condition, boo the other reviewers as this pub has made a highlight of my town on a night out.
bodie - 29 Jun 2008 03:43 |
i used this pub to meet dates from sex sites.... you get a lot of those types in here...
look out for dyed blondes with tattoos on there thighs.. mutton as lamb ring a bell......
dougy - 24 Sep 2007 13:24 |
Forgot my shell suit and rottweiller.Awful place just the pits !
anonymous - 22 May 2007 13:00 |
Tried to drink here on Saturday last. Good range of beers, but as there were only half the bar staff needed to cope with the number of punters, and those present were all serving food, I gave up after 20 minutes and went elsewhere. I wouldn't disagree about the neds.
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Big pub. No atmosphere. Cheap beer. Full of neds all the time. Enough said.
Ross K - 17 Jun 2004 14:54 |
Poor food, but good beer prices.
Kingsley Matthews - 8 Oct 2003 00:03 |
Largest pub in Paisley (old post office), Very good beer prices less than �2 per pint. Meals are good price too, good selection.
J.D. Wetherspoon owned pub, busy pub no matter what time.
Paul Furay - 24 Aug 2003 22:12 |
