The Job Bulman (JD Wetherspoon), Gosforth, Newcastle Upon Tyne

A perfectly functional Spoons tucked in behind the Gosforth Shopping Centre, mostly L-shaped round a central courtyard although there is a row of booths down the back as well. Decorations include a lot of work by a local artist, as well as the usual historical info. It was busy on a lunchtime with shoppers, twerlies and 'ordinary' folk, as well as Dawn's 60th birthday party, whoever Dawn is. There were 4 guest ales but they all seemed to be from far-flung places rather than local brews. I have to say that the pricing has changed since the last review and it is now one of the cheapest in the area.

This is situated a short way down a turning off Gosforth High Street. Inside the whole area seems to be wrapped around the central courtyard with the bar area further back to the left. It certainly gets brownie points for the ground floor toilets. It was fairly busy on my early Thursday afternoon visit, mostly with people eating. The bar has two sets of five hand pumps with I thought a slightly disappointing choice for a GBG listed Spoons. The JDW Trio of Doom had the GK beers doubled up and a cider left just Allendale Wolf, Marston Revisionist India Pale Ale, Caledonian Ithaca Nut Brown and Hambleton Nightmare Porter. I went for the Allendale Wolf (£2.60) which was in good nick but expensive for a JDW up here. The standard guest ale price is £2.45 making it the most expensive Spoons visited in Tyne & Wear but despite all that it's still a decent one.

Today i went out with my family and had a lovely meal, the meal was lovely and so were staff... then the dessert came and it was totally unacceptable. I ordered a caramel cheescake and the portion was extremely small, the cheescake was lovely but I would have liked a bigger portion.

Typical Post Office architecture, with an operational telephone exchange in the attached buildings to the rear. Quite dark inside the 'L'-shaped bar, except for the two small side seating areas at each end of an enclosed patio courtyard towards the back. 10 handpumps on the bar counter, with a reasonable range of local beers and guests from further afield (e.g. Cairngorm Black Gold stout, £2.30).

Modern styled spoons in a former post office . Beers from breweries including bath, beartown, jennings, lymestone, mordue & titanic.