The Billiard Hall, West Bromwich

A detached Wetherspoon's chain pub and eatery, with patio area. The place was a former billiard hall, built in 1913. The place is a coss between a Methodist Hall and a Music Hall - being in red brick, with garish yellow - but it has some nice moulded stone work and is worth going to see just for being what it is. The interiorhas one long room that bends around the serving bar. The place is in coffee and brown, with a rounded ceiling. The walls have the usual info boards, as well as a Baggies shirt or two, and the silent TVs were around. The was no music. It is foody based at the back and more drinking based at the front. The service was very good, by a guy who knew something about beer. The clientele is the usual Spoons type, and was once of the nicest of the day! Beer; usual tap stuff with Abbot and Ruddles on handpull, other hanpulls included Kelham Island Pale Rider (fine), Derventio's Cleopatra, Byatt's Phoenix Gold and Beowulf Moonshine (decent). Normally critical of Spoons, this one did well for me - by far the best place in the heart of West Bromwich.