The Berkeley (JD Wetherspoon), Clifton, Bristol

The Berkeley is a large Wetherspoons that is a good walk uphill from the train station. This was the starting point for my Bristol Crawl. Once inside There is a massive room with the bar facing,the rear area is much larger than the front area,there is a raised area to the front which has tall tables and chairs,the rear area has more comfortable seating. The choice of guest beers on the bar was pretty poor,so i had a drink of Butcombe Bitter which was a decent drink after a long wait,the other beers noted were Ruddles Bitter,GK Abbot and Doom Bar. Regarding the service,this was probably the worst i have come across in visiting over 300 Wetherspoons,when i arrived the bar was like the Mary Selest,so i went to the toilet,when i got back there were some blokes looking round for bar staff and even considering going behind the bar to serve themselves. I thought the pub was decent enough,but the service was very poor. Pub visited 4/2/2017

Not just a shop conversion but a whole arcade and parts of it do rather resemble one of those small up market shopping arcades in London's West End. It's well described below and on my visit was busy with students and a few of the daytime brigade. The bar is just a long narrow strip with room for serving at the street end of it and that appeared to be the only place you were likely to get served with just two staff on. The result of this was that the service was abysmal with two queues forming. The beer choice was also rubbish despite the two sets of six hand pumps. These had two unused, two available soon, four ciders, the two GK beers, Wood's Shropshire Lad and Exmoor Beast. I went for the Exmoor Beast (£3.09) which was in reasonably good nick but the city centre prices still apply here. I thought this was another poor JDW.