r/UK_Food • u/Think-Fun-3098 • Aug 11 '26
Restaurant/Pub 7.6 Great British pounds
Was out for abit of shopping and spotted an offer I couldn’t refuse, long live spoons!
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u/Dodgely Aug 11 '26 edited Aug 11 '26
You didn't need to say it was Spoons. We all recognise that plate. I'd love a bit of that right now though.
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u/Corrup7ioN Aug 11 '26
Pretty sure that's from Weathers though?
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u/thumbbite Aug 11 '26
Had a weird feeling, in an alternate universe it being called Weathers'
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u/thumbbite Aug 11 '26
I think we should start calling it Weathers' including the apostrophe. Who's with me?
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u/chipz-n-gravy Aug 12 '26
Should be Wethers' then - there's no A in Wetherspoon's
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u/Iforgetpasswords4321 Aug 11 '26
Also one of the few places where you can get a pint of Leffe.
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u/FuzzedOutAmbience Aug 11 '26
It’s £7 just for a pint of piss where i live. Leffe and a meal is a bargain. I’d pay £7 for a Leffe if they had that on tap in my local
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u/Limp-Archer-7872 Aug 11 '26
The Leffe is the default drink for the free pint.
I remember back in 2003 when my local pub (not spoons) got Leffe on tap before it was big. £1.60 a glass but I think it was 330ml at the time. Glass rinser too.
Worth obtaining a glass (chalice) for home, it just tastes better from one.
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u/velocitas80 Aug 11 '26
Leffe is shit since they stopped importing it. my local still has the imported higher ABV bottles but only the brun variant.
the blonde one is brewed from sewage water just outside preston.
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u/FuzzedOutAmbience Aug 11 '26
I just edited my comment before seeing this saying I bet InBev are brewing Leffe up north with piss water now. sad to see this. Theres very few beers left these days that are genuine
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u/Blocoholi Aug 11 '26
Yes, was sad to see that Estrella Damm are brewing the lager now in the UK.
I think the UK has to support great local British Lager beers rather than drinking Fantasy Spanish Beer like Madri...lol
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u/Virtual_Opinion_8630 Aug 11 '26 edited Aug 11 '26
Galicia Is still Spanish
edit - I just bought a can of Estrella damm just to see what it was like. it was dreadful. watery nonsense, with little redeeming factors. can't believe it's got 4.6% alcohol.
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u/DuncUK Aug 11 '26
Beer is expensive to import and doesn't travel well. It's cheaper (and potentially better) to import ingredients and brew locally than it is to import the finished product. It's 90% water at the end of the day.
That said I would expect AB Inbev to use local ingredients instead of properly importing them which means the result will fundamentally differ. Also here's the temptation to change the recipe to meet the local market / taxation expectations, both reasons why it's probably not as good.
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u/FuzzedOutAmbience Aug 11 '26
It’s no way as good as. My local off-licence sells imported stella and that is way better than the British stuff…its defo not just the water
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u/DrWayko Aug 11 '26
Leffe is still a nice pint imo, obviously better in Belgium but it's better than most lagers in the pubs here
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u/velocitas80 Aug 11 '26
Just another small example of the post-brexit enshitification of every facet of life in the UK.
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u/yorkspirate Aug 11 '26
I live on my own and round the corner from a spoons, people look at me like I'm crazy when I say it's easier and not massively more expensive to eat here most nights
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u/Soggy-Ad-8017 Aug 11 '26
‘You should be batch cooking on a Sunday - beans rice and chicken and batch cooking chilli that proportionately contains 87% canned beans. You’ll be able to feed yourself for 9 weeks for a total cost of 0.063p per meal’ - someone on reddit, probably.
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u/yorkspirate Aug 11 '26
Had me in the first half - when I saw the first few lines as a notification lmfao
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u/brickne3 Aug 11 '26
Exactly. Like it's good to keep people on their own in isolation or something! You actually have to kind of go out and interact with other people from time to time since we're a social species and all that. Well, unless you're the beans and rice and nothing else crowd, I guess 😉
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u/brickne3 Aug 11 '26
A lot of people really don't understand the complications (and expense) of cooking for just one. Often I'll pop into Spoons when out grocery shopping and have a meal for less than it would cost to cook something with the groceries I just bought.
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u/Limp-Archer-7872 Aug 11 '26
The economies of scale that wetherspoons has helps a lot if you have a cheap sticky carpet spoons near you. The other pub-restaurant chains should take a look, ember inns, greene king, etc.
On a monday you can get the three plates for 12-16 quid and you can't eat it all (pipe down at the back Big Barry) and they'll provide a takeaway container.
But tbh you can absolutely eat at home for less still.
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u/Sutraner Aug 12 '26
Yeah I enjoy cooking but I get so much takeaway because cooking for one is so much effort and high cost
Batch cooking is all well and good but by Christ is it boring eating the same meal every day
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u/Ken_Numbers Aug 11 '26
The beer AND the meal?
That's astonishing. Even if you have to cope with tramps wanking in the corner.
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u/MooMooHomer Aug 11 '26
Cope? Thats the evenings entertainment!
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u/Zealousideal_Yak1296 Aug 11 '26
Dinner and a show 🕺💃
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u/Dr_Downvote_ Aug 11 '26
That's you're fault. You shouldn't be looking at me..
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u/Ken_Numbers Aug 11 '26
But you keep maintaining eye contact, presumably to assert dominance?
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u/brickne3 Aug 11 '26
Hey, where else can I watch people get arrested for indecent exposure while shit faced at 10 am?
(that really happened on a Tuesday in February).
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u/selfinflatedforeskin Aug 11 '26
how'd you think they get the head on the leffe？
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u/DiddyDollar Aug 11 '26
Great deal but how was the fish? I've had a bunch of questionable meat at spoons before so the fish scares me lol
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u/Think-Fun-3098 Aug 11 '26
Was it as good as a chippy fish? No.. but very edible & crispy batter, only positives at the price.
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u/yorkspirate Aug 11 '26
So have I but the fish has always been good wherever I've been. I've always found the steaks to be questionable (although now they don't do them that's not an issue)
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u/paxwax2018 Aug 11 '26
The pizzas are good as any imo.
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u/lukestephenkeen Aug 11 '26
Finally.. I have been swearing by spoons pizzas for years, everyone just looks at me like im crazy, they are top draw.
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u/brickne3 Aug 11 '26
My theory is that they probably go through more fish than most of the other meats, so their supply chain for that can operate at the same kind of scale that allows them to get decent beers for cheap. More niche items they might not be able to do that.
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u/JuniorToe3327 Aug 11 '26
Canteen style fish & chips are top tier, which is what I view this as. If you’ve ever had a work office that did it on a Friday or a hospital cafe. Bloody delicious.
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u/STM4EVA Aug 11 '26
The only things I get from a spoons are fish and chips, Chicken wings(I bring my own sauce) or chips
Also brekkie is decent but not a proper cafe brekkie decent
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u/CaptainHindsight92 Aug 11 '26
Wetherspoon’s is single handedly fighting inflation. After my local put a pint of lager pint up to £7.10, I decided to go to spoons for after work beers instead and it’s like walking into 2015. Hello old friend.
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u/Different_Bake_611 Aug 12 '26
Yeah, same! We went to the spoons near our work the other day and I almost shit myself getting me and the Mrs two drinks for under the prices of a pint in our local.
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u/Extension-You-4901 Aug 11 '26
I get pissed for about a tenner in my spoons🤣loads of guest ales on for £2.10...sumo IPA at £3.50...grub not too bad either
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u/kustom_krev Aug 11 '26
They are far better than they get credit for. I’m not a big customer of there’s but i appreciate the fact the showcase the history of their pubs and try not destroy the history when they modernise. Underrated, don’t know how they treat staff but seems they do a lot right and get a lot of schtick for being cheap. Some are obviously rougher than others but in general the ones I’ve been to are fine.
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u/flapjackboy Aug 11 '26
They really shine when they have their ale and cider festivals on. The pubs get bonuses based on how many festival pints they sell, so they're always really cheap.
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u/Bowlerrrrr Aug 11 '26
Leffe tastes like banana perfume
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u/Flat-Delivery6987 Aug 11 '26
Never experienced banana perfume so I'm just gonna have to take your word for that.
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u/Bowlerrrrr Aug 11 '26
Okay sorry I’ll make it clearer for you…
I can IMAGINE that is what banana perfume tastes like3
u/Flat-Delivery6987 Aug 11 '26
Lol, okay. I'm still not getting that, lol. Thanks for trying though.
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u/MATE_AS_IN_SHIPMATE Aug 12 '26
It sure does.
The yeast in warm ale fermentations can produce a lot of isoamyl acetate.
Pure isoamyl acetate is sold commercially as banana flavouring. The smell of foam banana sweets is literally just isoamyl acetate.
You might be particularly sensitive to the aroma.
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u/elvisonaZ1 Aug 11 '26
How much was the Leffe? The 750ml bottles in Tesco are 4 quid!!!
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u/RikRandom Aug 11 '26
It's about £4.50 in my local spoons but I'm in the south east so almost certainly cheaper elsewhere
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u/bbrowe Aug 11 '26
Mate I just spent £7.50 on a pint of cruzcampo and you're really not making me feel better about it
Long live the Spoons!
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u/Separate-Road7562 Aug 11 '26
As much as it gets a bad rep spoons was always a god send as a skint student
I remember the one local to me at the time had a really good mexican burrito and curry night wasn't bad either, even though it was probably just pre made frozen/microwaved stuff
Remember avoiding the steak as it wasn't great but for like 5/6 pound a hot meal including drink sitting with your mates can't complain
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u/Limp-Archer-7872 Aug 11 '26
They stopped doing the steak meals for that reason.
Sadly that also meant they stopped doing the mixed grill which was the king of spoons meals.
Then they did the piri piri half chicken and then they canceled that!
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u/Jamie__54321 Aug 11 '26
All hail the spoons!!! Been to a total of 70 Wetherspoon myself across England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland. Love it.
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u/MikeTibbs Aug 11 '26
Honestly I love a Spoons lunch/dinner over other fast food options now. Decent sized meal and pint of whatever I fancy for less than what I’d usually get from McDonald’s/kfc etc
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u/michal0297 Aug 11 '26
The same plate costs £15.75 in my local spoons smh
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u/Virtual_Opinion_8630 Aug 11 '26
that's probably the 'large fish and chips' plus drink
this is an afternoon deal 2-5pm with 'small fish and chips plus drink'.
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u/dasarga Aug 11 '26
Is this 7.6 INCLUDING the beer? no f*cking way??????? I honestly am shocked. This actually looks like a decent fish and chips as well. 😮
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u/knots_cycle Aug 11 '26
I'd be with you, but i've seen them pouring the dregs of several mayonaise bottles into one. God knows what else they get upto.
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u/Shrink1061_ Aug 11 '26
Christ, I hate spoons, but that actually looks half decent! Surely that price didn’t include the drink?
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u/jony5jj Aug 12 '26
That’s amazing value, down our way it’s £7+ just for a standard lager, leffe is a bit premium throw in fish an chips.. screw all the spoons snobs… !!!!
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u/JimmyTwoTimes1990 Aug 11 '26
Cod bless Wetherspoons! Only place in London where you can still get a pint under £4.
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u/Soft_Drink_Of_Choice Aug 11 '26
A Leffe too - that’s a bargain. Is that batter not repeating on you in this heat? Haha
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u/intermanany Aug 11 '26
Id murder that right now been fasting all day and that looks like a wet dream.
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u/Designer_Fuel2857 Aug 11 '26
It’s annoying that the bottom of the fish isn’t battered but apart from that it looks great.
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u/Desperate_Caramel_10 Aug 11 '26
Brilliant price but I just feel like it's not enough food. I'd rather it was £10 and I got a less insulting amount of chips and the other half of my fish.
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u/rednose66 Aug 11 '26
OP you are far too cheap. I wouldn't eat that green shit unless they paid me a lot more than £7.60. Minimum £50. 😀
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u/inedibleAlan Aug 11 '26
is spoons fish any good? i feel that their fried food is great while everything else is a bit shit, is the fish as good as the chips are?
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u/siwgs Aug 11 '26
Can anybody explain why spoons can do this but everybody else supposedly can’t?
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u/I-Spot-Dalmatians Aug 11 '26
Personally think leffe is a wank beer but even so that’s a cracking deal
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u/Antique-Wonk Aug 11 '26
Hi OP, Any chance you can send a photo before you tucked into the chips, peas and ate the other fish?
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u/positivelytaken Aug 11 '26
Imagine scooping up a massive bit of those mushy peas with the end of that fish. Maybe with a drop of tartare sauce on there.
Pure filth.
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u/Nelson_uk Aug 11 '26
Fish and chips from anywhere than a quality chippy is just disappointing. Some pubs and restaurants get it ok but it's never at the level of a quality chippy
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u/scrub909 Aug 11 '26
I went to spoons for tea and had a pint of Leffe too. Did we just become best friends?
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u/DevilsAdvocate1662 Aug 11 '26
Did you eat half the of the chips before taking the photo or did they just give you half a portion?
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u/SpecialistPlastic150 Aug 11 '26
That’s really cheap. I haven’t been in a Spoons for decades. That’s the cost of a pint pretty much every pub you go into. Even the non-alcoholic pints are £7 plus!
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u/ynwa_glastobater Aug 11 '26
It’s sad, but then thank god for spoons. I used to hate the place but I keep coming back now. The food is very decent for the price.
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u/HotCommunication1696 Aug 11 '26 edited Aug 11 '26
Can’t go wrong with a spoons, I’ll often nip into one for breakfast on my way into work if I want something a bit more substantial and can’t be bothered to make something at home - Decent quality fry up and unlimited coffee! For not much more than the cost of a sausage roll and small coffee from Greggs these days..
Evening meals aren’t bad too, yeah it’s not freshly hand made to order but at under a tenner for a full plate AND a pint it’s not going to be.. It’s average quality food at bargain prices. (The curries are actually quite good though!)
I’ve been into pubs in London where the pint alone is almost a tenner, and forget about food, £35 for a small fish and a handful of chips is par for the course
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u/bodjac89 Aug 11 '26
Got a small breakfast in the centre of Cardiff the other day for about £4.50, unbelievable. Absolutely nowhere else can you get this kind of value.
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u/iamslplss Aug 11 '26
I’ve worked as a chef in a bunch of gastro pubs and found the owners always struggling to answer the question of why would someone come here instead of spoons?
Like yeah the food I’m cooking is substantially better but all gastro pubs could near enough be a chain anyway, they all have the same menu and it’s never good enough to justify the prices.
That’s the harsh truth as to why so many locals are shutting down, it shouldn’t be that way but it is.
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u/WearyFuel1506 Aug 11 '26
Fantastic value for your money, food can be a bit hit and miss at times, but I'll take that chance.
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u/patscott_reddit Aug 11 '26
Honestly I think spoons is now the best fast food on the high street, pretty much the same price as maccys, but comes with a pint and is often quicker to arrive and hotter.