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The Horse Shoe Inn (JD Wetherspoon), Crook
Crook
DL15 9BG
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J D WetherspoonReviews (Current Rating Average: 7 of 10) see review guidelines
Blue Scrumpy left this review about The Horse Shoe Inn (JD Wetherspoon)
A Wetherspoon's with the look and feel of a traditional pub, from the outside at least. Inside, whilst it's not a cavernous barn-type place, it is unmistakably a 'spoon's. Apparently this used to be a butchers. It's certainly quite a large premises for a butchers, but with its low ceilings and different sections, it's a bit more cosy than a standard branch of the chain. The bar is on the right-hand side as you enter.
Regular beers here are Greene King Abbot, Ruddles Best & Maxim Double Maxim. Guests were Morland Old Speckled Hen, Bradfield Farmer's Brown Cow, Wychwood Hobgoblin Ruby, Nottingham Citra, Lymestone Ein Stein & Moorhouses Pendle Witches Brew. At £1.69 a pint, the Citra was good value. However, there was no real cider and the usual wait at the bar whilst bar staff tried to sort out incorrect prices on the tills with the manager.
There is a small outdoor patio. But it wasn't the weather for outdoor drinking. Inside, TVs were showing the Paralympics without sound, whilst there was the usual messy tables with food everywhere, which seems to be an issue in most branches. Although, to give him his due, the manager did come round and clear some of it up.
Crook seems to be a strange place to have a Wetherspoon's, but the place was fairly busy and with few other real ale options in town, it is a good option and Crook's only pub currently in the Good Beer Guide.
On 11th September 2024
- rating: 6
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Aqualung . left this review about The Horseshoe Inn (JD Wetherspoon)
This is an original pub and so makes a smaller Spoons than most. Inside the bar is on the right and the open plan room is divided into various areas. The interior seems to be genuinely old and hasn't been ruined. I also noticed that there was little or no JDW ID on the outside. There is a patio to the left.
I got here before midday on a Thursday when there were a number of women in for coffees, some with toddlers.
Being a small Spoons there are only eight hand pumps which had one unused, the JDW Trio Of Doom, High House Farm Nel's Best & Farmers Pale, Allendale Pennine Pale and Maxim Double Maxim. I went for the Pennine Pale (£1.99) which was excellent and washed down the cheaper than average breakfast well.
I thought this was a really good little Spoons. It's deservedly GBG 2018 listed.
On 3rd December 2017
- rating: 8
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john mcgraw left this review about Ye Olde Horse Shoe
From 12th February this will be a JD Wetherspoon pub with the new name of The Horseshoe Inn (JD Wetherspoon)
www.jdwetherspoon.co.uk
On 28th December 2012
- no rating submitted
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