The Draper's Arms (JD Wetherspoon), Peterborough

Old skool dark varnished wood panelled Spoons, long and narrow with three distinct areas and booth seating, converted in 2005 with a further expansion in 2020. The display cabinet with inlaid at the front of the pub is nice, as is the stained glass in the front window uppers. Six (!) guest ales of mainly fighting strength. The place is regularly GBG listed and my pint of Plum Porter was excellent (NBSS 4). I really enjoyed myself in here, feels like a proper well-run drinkers pub rather than a generic Spoons-U-Like. It was my pub of the day in Peterborough, taking-in all the GBG 2024 entries. 8.5

The Draper’s Arms is a long and thin Wetherspoons with high tables and beer shelves with stools around thick pillars at the front of the pub. Booth seating runs down the left wall opposite the bar that runs down the right and at the rear is open plan seating. A couple of televisions were showing muted World Cup football build up, expect rolling news any other time. The bar supports standard and premium keg as well as 12 hand pumps that were drawing Titanic’s Plum Porter, Bateman’s Rosey Nosey, Greene King Fireside, Nethergate’s Growler, Frome Brewing’s Gulp IPA, Grainstore’s Ten Fifty and Brewster’s Hophead plus the usual mainstream suspects. I found the service to be efficient and thought this to easily be the better of the two Spoons in town.

A long, narrow Spoons with lots of dark woodwork and a nice buzz of conversation. Six guest ales on, including 3 Christmas brews. It felt generally better run and had more character than many - I quite liked this one.

Official site of The Draper's Arms (JD Wetherspoon) - www.jdwetherspoon.com

Official site of The Draper's Arms (JD Wetherspoon) - www.jdwetherspoon.com

Long thin spoons with a snaking counter. A bit dark and crammed like many spoons conversions although better quality all round than the College Arms. It is probably the more popular of the two in Peterborough with good reason, and is GBG 2019 listed.