J.J. Moon's (JD Wetherspoon), Wembley

This is a large Wetherspoons that was very busy with a mix of students and pensioners on my Thursday afternoon visit. Along with the large standard draught selection there are six hand pumps drawing three usual spoons ales and only one guest as one pump had a ‘coming soon’ tag attached to it. I found the staff to be polite and I didn’t have to wait long for my well poured Guinness to arrive in my hand. The typical Wetherspoons décor is present here along with the numerous drinks and food promotions advertised on the walls and every table. I counted two plasma screens which were unsurprisingly showing muted BBC news and there is also a projector screen at the rear which has probably been put in to show the World Cup which is on terrestrial TV. There are three tables out the front of the pub on the busy Wembley High Road and there is some more seating at the rear in what is advertised as a beer garden, but is in fact an alleyway and stairwell. I thought that this was a below average Wetherspoons and I wouldn’t plan to return.

Quite possibly the worst Wetherspoons I have ever been in and I have notched up several in my time. If you plan to come here when there is an event on at the stadium, forget it. Firstly you won’t get served. I once queued merely out of fascination to see how long it would take. 30 minutes was the answer; 20 minutes to get to the bar and 10 playing the invisible man to the bar staff who were totally oblivious to the art of serving people in turn. Every visit I have made has been met by a batch of reversed clips and on event days the prices of what beers are on are hiked up to exploit the increased customer numbers (I took this matter up with Wetherspoons Head Office without getting any satisfactory answer). The bottom line is you will pay extra to cover “increased staffing” and yet the bar will be woefully undermanned and no-one will be about to clear the tables that will inevitably be piled high with empty glasses and plates. Even the pub itself was lacking any real focus and given the proximity of Wembley Stadium and ‘Spoons usual research into local history, there was very little to catch the eye apart from a superb giant aerial picture of the pre-‘66 Stadium. A small outside covered patio caters for the smokers and sun lovers but overall, I cannot recommend this awful place to even the most fervent ‘Spoons fan, especially when the Stadium is in use.