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I don't gettit.. the last couple Wetherspoons I've been in have been distinctly not that busy.. The White Swan in H&I last night, the Wood Green one last weekend..
What is happening?
:confused:
Hopefully, folks are flooding into non corporate chain boozers instead!
Or - more likely - it's because it's Easter and all those folks from the 'cultural quarter' in Wood Green have gone off to their garrets and countryside retreats to paint in oils.
I have to say I like Wetherspoons, it's one of the few places I can afford to eat - decently - in Leeds city centre.
And I can nick all their condiments hahahahahaha!
I like the fact that some of them are non smoking - it's nice to come home not stinking of fags.
I occasionally frequent them if I am meeting a parent for a quick pint or something but can't take too much time in there. Food is pretty basic but cheap and consistent I guess.
They have better ciders and perrys than any other pub I have ever been in, including the Wenlock. And the geezer behind them (whose name escapes me) has brought some new life into alot of our small breweries by simply buying what they have to sell. So you can't knock em all the way down.
The Wood Green one was pretty packed when we went in there on Saturday afternoon.
And the Turnpike Lane one is always rammed. People even sit next to people they don't know :eek: on the seats outside and everything! :D
cyberfairy
16-04-2007, 16:16
The Wood Green one was pretty packed when we went in there on Saturday afternoon.
And the Turnpike Lane one is always rammed. People even sit next to people they don't know :eek: on the seats outside and everything! :D
The Tollgate was a Wetherspoons that seemed most like a 'real' pub when I lived there-loads of random nutters from all walks of life :cool:
They have better ciders and perrys than any other pub I have ever been in, including the Wenlock. And the geezer behind them (whose name escapes me) has brought some new life into alot of our small breweries by simply buying what they have to sell. So you can't knock em all the way down.
Totally.
Corporations are at their worst when they treat their customers with contempt. Bass is a fantastic example, high prices, limited range of shit drinks in shit bars.
Weatherspoons at least have the decency to stock their bars with a decent selection of drinks and make them reasonably priced. They are generally comfortable and spacious.
The more local ones can be stocked with, err, interesting people.
Guineveretoo
17-04-2007, 11:00
Some Wetherspoons are fine. Some are not.
The one near where I live is in the latter category :(
The Tollgate was a Wetherspoons that seemed most like a 'real' pub when I lived there-loads of random nutters from all walks of life :cool:
That'll be me then :D
The amount of work I have got done in that pub over the years is so large I'm thinking of having my work post redirected there...
DeadManWalking
17-04-2007, 12:12
I went to the one in Forest Hill last Tuesday afternoon and it was very depressing, hardly anyone but a few alcoholics taking their kids out for lunch. Strange being in there now it's a pub as I remember going to a KDU rave there in the 90's.
You could work there though, free wireless access I wouldn't mind using my laptop there although I may be a little concerned about carrying it home.
Depends on the Weatherspoons. The Balham one is... Well, you won't catch me in there! :eek: The one in Epsom isn't so bad - just soulless, which they all are. I liked the one on Holloway Rd in the old theatre. Lovely building. Some of the ones in the City and the West End are almost nice.
Though if I was going to a chain pub centrally, I like Nicholsons.
Monkeynuts
17-04-2007, 13:28
I went to the one in Forest Hill last Tuesday afternoon and it was very depressing, hardly anyone but a few alcoholics taking their kids out for lunch. Strange being in there now it's a pub as I remember going to a KDU rave there in the 90's.
You could work there though, free wireless access I wouldn't mind using my laptop there although I may be a little concerned about carrying it home.
It does attract those who like... a few drinks, but most people are at work on a Tuesday afternoon so I'm not sure what you expected to find?
Do tell more about its use as a rave venue - hard to imagine much like that going on in Forest Hill!
Why would you be bothered about carrying your laptop home? A risk you have to take with laptops, really - just try and find a less obvious bag
The tollgate doesn't even have wireless :(
Well, they say they do sometimes, but I've asked twice and both times it wasn't working, so that's a 100% failure rate.
I'd go there much more often if it did.
DeadManWalking
17-04-2007, 13:47
It does attract those who like... a few drinks, but most people are at work on a Tuesday afternoon so I'm not sure what you expected to find?
Do tell more about its use as a rave venue - hard to imagine much like that going on in Forest Hill!
Why would you be bothered about carrying your laptop home? A risk you have to take with laptops, really - just try and find a less obvious bag
I have been there a few times recently and it was unusual for me not to be at work on a Tuesday afternoon and it was a sunny day outside so it was even more depressing in there than usual as there's not that many windows. The laptop comment was a bit tongue in cheek really.
Can't really elaborate on the rave as I went to a lot in the late 90's all over town, a lot of bingo halls and cinemas and the first time I went in the Forest Hill 'spoons I thought it seemed familiar and I was later told it was a rave venue. I think there's a few ex-rave building that are now spoons.
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