Spouter's Corner (JD Wetherspoon), Wood Green, N22

Busy branch of Wetherspoon's in the middle of Wood Green. It now finds itself in the latest Good Beer Guide. There were bouncers on the door for our Saturday evening visit, which is never a very good sign. However, inside there were just quite a few people with all tables taken. So, perhaps the bouncers are solely there to manage any potential overcrowding. Customers inside were typical Wetherspoon's customers - elderly people enjoying cheap beer and youngsters having some cheap alcopops/cocktails before heading somewhere a bit more hip/lively. The usual 'spoon's beers were all available - Greene King Abbot, Ruddles Best & Sharp's Doom Bar. Guest beers were Marston's Old Empire, Salopian Hop Twister, Sambrook's Candlemaker & Milestone West Coast IPA. Bag in the box ciders in fridges were Weston's Old Rosie & Gwynt y Ddraig. Service was like pulling teeth. We ended up with a young girl who was struggling to work the till and couldn't locate the beers we had ordered. It wasn't even a difficult round. I had to walk her along the bar to locate the Candlemaker (a black IPA) pump. When she dispensed it she said "ooh, it looks just like Guinness". She was probably quite friendly, but certainly a little vacant. In fairness, they did have plenty of staff serving, but we did end up with the wrong one. The interior has a few murals to hold your interest for a little while. But it's generally one of their typical drinking barns.

Gloomy workaday Spoons (opened in 2000, I think), bedecked in an unsatisfactory colour scheme of mushroom and burgundy. The metal servery is unusual and is the only thing of interest. Tables are really squashed together and the atmosphere was horrible and claustrophobic on a grey wet Saturday afternoon. Four guest cask, my Maxim didn't clear (NBSS 1.5) but the Kirkby Lonsdale Radical was much better (3). Didn’t get on with this place at all.

This is a large ,modern 'spoons housed on the ground floor of a huge building and close to the tube station.There is a very high ceiling,a raised section to the right and a rank of high tables down the middle of the space with regular furniture elsewhere.Noise reverberates around the cavernous interior,it lacks charm and has the atmosphere of a drinking barn. There are 10 handpumps drawing on my trip regulars GK IPA,Abbott,Ruddles Best and Doom Bar with guests Banks and Taylor SOS,Redemption Urban Dusk,Portobello VPA,Lymestone Ein Stein and a very decent Nottingham Brewery Rose's Oatmeal Stout. Despite the downsides,at least you can get a decent pint here which is rare in this part of Wood Green.

Spouter's Corner is a typical looking Wetherspoons that is set under some sort of complex,so that pleased me. Once inside there is a long oblong shaped room which runs to the rear,the bar is situated on the mid left side,there is a raised area to the front right which is where i sat to watch the world go by,the room is carpeted and the seating normal tables and chairs. The guest beer choice was not that good,but i only wanted one drink so a half of Trumans Runner went down well,there was also a beer from Sambrooks on,plus Spoons regulars GK Abbot Doom Bar and Ruddles Best. I found this to be a decent Spoons to have a pre 11am drink,it was very quiet on my Thursday morning visit. Pub visited 4/8/2016

The usual Wetherspoon format.Quite unattractive imo. Usual line up of beers but I tried a bottle from their craft range.Thwaites-big Ben which was very good and at least £2 cheaper than I could have bought it in a central London craft beer bar although they probably wouldn't sell it as Thwaites aint really craft or cool.Massive choice of beers in Wetherspoons now .Well done Tim.

This is a large Wetherspoons pub set inside a pretty unattractive leisure complex next to Wood Green station. You enter past a partially covered outdoor seating area and porch into a vast open space with the servery midway down the left hand side. The bar counter is slightly curved and the bar back, which is adorned with some plaster artworks, also visible elsewhere around the room, follows the same shape. There is a good deal of seating in the front part of the pub, including a slightly screened off area in the front right on a raised platform. Colourful artworks brighten this spot up somewhat and there is also a statue here depicting one of the 'Spouters' from whom the pub takes it's name (the pub standing on the site of an area used until the 1950's for public speaking, a-la 'Speaker's Corner'). High tables and stools are the norm opposite the servery before the room opens out again to the rear. Here there are lots of standard tables and chairs, ideal for dining, plus some booths along the left hand wall. The décor is a bit more drab, with glass brick windows to the right and rear and walls painted in neutral colours. TV screens were showing rolling news coverage and a board near the bar helpfully listed upcoming ales, which is a nice feature for the regulars to make use of. There are ten hand pumps split into two banks of five, dispensing no less than six regular 'Spoons ales and three guests with a real cider on the final pump. I tried the Celt Experience Native Storm and thought it was some way past its prime. Service was remarkably slow, but then there was just the one barman behind the bar when I arrived and the place was filling up quickly prior to a big gig at Alexandra Palace that evening. I thought this place had the potential to be quite a good 'Spoons outlet, but was disappointed by the slow service, relatively uninspiring beer range and poor quality pint. It's worth a look due to the lack of other decent options in the immediate area but you may want to go with expectations suitably lowered.