The Montagu Pyke (JD Wetherspoon), Soho, WC2

Huge sprawling pub that was rammed solid on a saturday night,in fact it was a bit of a cattle market, however a good selection of beer with the Titanic Stout probably the pick at £ 3.40 a pint. I have been in worse places.

Large spoons(Lloyds) with a split level interior. Originally a cinema then the marquee club with posters of bands that played on display. 6 real ales served.

One of the better spoons had a good meal it was steak night so two steaks and a bottle of wine for less than £20 can not do better than that in London

We popped in to see if there were any beers to tempt us. There were six ales on hand pump, luckily enough there was Wolf Brewery Jackall, so this made our visit a bit more interesting.

This place had a brief claim to fame as The Marquee club from 1988 to 1996 before being taken over by Wetherspoons. Of course the "proper" Marquee was at number 90, Wardour Street where just about every London based sixties and seventies band played at some time or other. It seemed a bit contrived therefore to have sixties era pictures of Pink Floyd and Jimi Hendrix around the place. It's a Lloyds No 1 even though most of them are virtually indistinguishable from standard Spoons during the day. It looks as though this place could well have loud music playing of an evening. The original use as a cinema is obvious as you enter and go through a small front area with tables and chairs (the Foyer), then descend into the cinema area where the main bar is on the left. This large room has a wooden floor and not a lot of seating for a Spoons. There are stairs leading up to the toilets and a small area of tables and chairs. I presume this is where the projector room was. Right at the back there is an entrance to another bar which I didn't bother to investigate. Six handpumps is pretty poor for a place this size and although there was no GK IPA or Ruddles, there were four beers that are not on the current guest ale list, two from the Marston's stable (Banks's Sunbeam and Wychwood Bountiful), London Pride and Adnam's Topaz. This meant there was just a single proper guest ale the uninspiring Beartown Bearly Literate (£3.15) which was in decent nick. Given the poor choice of ales and the Cental London prices I wouldn't return here.