Kings Arms, Wakefield

A nice looking pub on the outside, inside is a mix of old and newish. An L shaped room with a partly separated part at the rear left which leads into a conservatory. Old wooden tables and chairs with traditional stools and banquettes on a board floor. The right hand end houses a pool table, fruit machine and darts, the other end has a DJ booth. Odd tartan wallpaper plus bookcase wallpaper slightly hidden by a big screen over a rather nice Victorian tiled fireplace. A mix of prints, handbills and postcards as decor. Beer wise there are two T-bars of lower end UK kegs plus a Moretti solo, John Smiths smooth is available, five hand pumps had Hobgoblin Gold and IPA which was dreadful, green and hazy (NBSS 1.5) and a Landlord clip reversed. Somehow it has Cask Marque! Fellow lunchtime customers were two sweary old blokes, the constant music presumably was for the benefit of the barman.

Fully describe by a&h below. All I have to add is that the conservatory was a complete mess with upturned chairs etc on my visit. For some reason all the fruit machines were turned off as well, they can't all be broken. 5 of the 6 handpumps in use, all pulling beers from the extended Marston's stable. My pint of Marston's New World Pale was in excellent nick. I don't think I'd want to settle down for a long session in here, but it's a nice enough place to call in for one.