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The Poste of Stone (JD Wetherspoon), Stone
Stone
ST15 8AB
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Steve C left this review about The Poste of Stone (JD Wetherspoon)
Poste of Stone is a long Wetherspoons housed in old Post Office building. There’s seating around the front entrance before steps that lead up to the bar area where the long bar counter runs up the right-hand wall facing high tables up the centre and normal tables and chairs under the windows along the left-hand wall. More steps at the rear lead up to a large open plan seating area that felt more geared towards dining overspill. In amongst the standard and premium keg are two banks of five hand pumps that were drawing the usual three plus Orkney Brewery’s Boulder Beach, Lough Gill Brewing’s Andersons and Nethergate’s White Stout. The Boulder Beach wasn’t my favourite beer of the day. The service was polite, but I don’t envisage a return visit.
On 26th March 2024
- rating: 6
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Just a quick pint, then I'm off left this review about The Poste of Stone (JD Wetherspoon)
Housed in the former Post Office building, this two 'spoons is actually twice as large as it initially appears, with a second seating / dining located up a few steps at the back beyond the main bar area. Little else different to note, but it appears to be well run (with clean tables, etc.). I found eight different beers (being a mixture of usual suspects and rarer offerings) available from the two banks of five handpumps, with my Uttoxeter Final Furlongs (£2.15) being in good shape.
On 12th January 2020
- rating: 7
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Pub SignMan left this review about The Poste of Stone (JD Wetherspoon)
This town centre Wetherspooons is set in the former Post Office – a long, narrow building which has been subdivided into a couple of distinctly different areas. The lower level entrance sees you into a carpeted seating area with lots of tub chairs under some nice semi circular windows around the porch. Steps lead up to the main bar area, passing a pleasant mural on the way, where the servery can be found running along the right hand wall. The bar has a long backlit counter, broken midway down by a large pillar. Opposite there is a carpeted space with a row of high tables and stools giving way to bench and standard seating options on the left hand side. There is some partitioning of sorts in the form of unusual metal pillars, but otherwise it’s a very bland space with only a TV on the far wall showing muted live rugby to grab your attention. Steps lead up again to a rear room which is much wider than the rest of the pub and has turquoise walls and loads of standard seating in what is essentially a featureless space. For me, the pub’s highlight is the carpet, which incorporates repeated images of a postbox and postage stamp in a nice nod to the building’s former use. When a carpet is the highlight, you know you’re scraping the barrel. In my experience, ‘Spoons tend to be pretty busy up and down the country on Sunday afternoons (even now they’ve scrapped their Sunday lunches), but this place was very quiet, perhaps a reflection of the many superior pubs around town.
There are ten handpulls on the bar and these were split between three ‘Spoons regulars and four guest ales, with the final three out of action. I tried the locally brewed Lymestone Nose to the Grindstone (£2.50) which was in fairly good shape and served to me by one of the friendly bar staff team. I didn’t have very long here so I drank my pint at the bar, during which time I didn’t see a single customer order one of the ales.
I didn’t really think much of this place which looked quite promising from the outside but failed to deliver anything but a bland, corporate pub experience within (something I rarely accuse Wetherspoons of). I can only agree with Aqualung’s assessment that Stone has some excellent pubs that make visiting a national chain a bit of a waste of time.
On 30th December 2016
- rating: 5
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