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The Aneurin Bevan (JD Wetherspoon), Heath, Cardiff
Cardiff
CF14 4AD
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J D WetherspoonReviews (Current Rating Average: 6 of 10) see review guidelines
David Walton left this review about The Aneurin Bevan (JD Wetherspoon)
Visited 06/08/24
Large venue on a traffic island with large outside garden and ample parking. Bar area has pictures of the man himself plus fruit machines and TV's. Carpeted with some lino along length of bar which is to left from entrance. Large dining room off to the right of the entrance. And some tables behind the wall of the bar on the way out to the garden. Truth be told this has easily been the best beer place of the crawl (not hard that) but the venue itself feels a bit flat, a bit drab.
As you would expect for a Spoons, a decent cask offering and, on my visit comprising Sharp's Atlantic Pale Ale, Kirkstall Brewery’s Dissolution IPA, Keltek Brewery’s Miner’s Gold and Beartown’s Bear Ass as well as the usual Doom Bar, Abbot and Ruddles. Usual array of keg beers, comprising lagers (Bud Light, Carling, Stella, Coors, Corona, San Miguel, Budweiser & Carlsberg), ciders (Strongbow – regular and dark fruits, Stowford Press, Kopparberg strawberry and lime) with Guinness, Leffe Blonde, BrewDog Punk IPA, Shipyard Pale Ale and Worthington Creamflow. There were also some craft ciders for pouring half-pints or pints in the fridges, plus a vast array of bottled beers and cans of all varieties!
In spite of passing this JDW many times in the car, never visited this one previously. Worth a stop off but likely to be arriving by car or public transport as not really a walk from anywhere you are likely to be around here. I would generally have most Spoons as above average because of the cask beer choices available. I am just about talked into this place as a 6 but it only just about got there, I really had to twist my arm to do it as the venue itself really is a bit dull and it definitely would have been a 5 only if I had to sit in the big room with the masses of families there purely to get Spoons meals.
On 19th August 2024
- rating: 6
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Quinno _ left this review about The Aneurin Bevan (JD Wetherspoon)
Out in the ‘burbs, oddly located in an island of an awful traffic junction, is the quietest Spoons I've ever been in during ‘normal’ drinking hours - a bit of a funereal atmosphere on my Sunday lunchtime visit. Fortunately the interior layout is a bit different to normal with three separate rooms which makes it an interesting place to have a nose round. I presume this must be a student haunt during the week? Else I can’t quite see how this one has survived the recent Timbo cull. The cask was good; three guests, my Peerless Dark was a solid pint (NBSS 3.5) as befits its GBG status. Only a GBG or JDW completist need schlep out this far. 5.5
On 15th May 2024
- rating: 6
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Blue Scrumpy left this review about The Aneurin Bevan (JD Wetherspoon)
A branch of Wetherspoon's named after the man credited with setting up the NHS. I really should have visited this pub when I tried the Three Horseshoes just over the road the last time I was in Cardiff just over a year ago. However, I put things to right on this visit.
This branch of Wetherspoon's looks much more traditional than most from the outside, despite being surrounded by a very busy traffic interchange. Inside, it is much more recognisable as a 'spoon's, but does at least two clearly defined rooms.
Service was typical Wetherspoon's. With just one barman serving, I gave up after a few minutes, as I needed the toilet! I returned to find a few more bar staff, but many more thirsty punters. So, getting a beer took much longer than it should have. The usual ales were on - Greene King Abbot, Ruddles Best & Sharp's Doom Bar. Guests were Nottingham Centurion Porter, Thornbridge Jaipur, Woodforde's Nelson's & Cairngorm Nessie's Monster Mash, the latter being a feature of the chain's Burns Night celebrations and widely available across the country.
Unusually for Wetherspoon's, this one does have its own large car park with entrances/exits on either side of the roundabout. However, they do have those signs warning of large fines and prosecution that I'm always wary about. So, be careful if driving here. There is a large outdoor drinking patio nestled between the pub and the car park where you could probably inhale plenty of traffic fumes, should you desire to do so. However, large bushes do screen you from the passing vehicles.
As 'spoon's go, this one is ok. But I wouldn't rush back.
On 1st February 2024
- rating: 6
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Aqualung . left this review about The Aneurin Bevan (JD Wetherspoon)
This one seems to have been an original pub called the Cross Inn, in fact the bus stop over the road is still called the Cross Inn. Unlike the previous reviewer I wasn't dodging traffic to get here but the weather in the form of hailstones and torrential rain.
Being an original suburban pub it has its own car park and fairly large paved patio.
Inside there is a fairly small L shaped room where the bar is with further areas at the back for food. It was quiet on my Thursday afternoon visit, hardly surprising given the weather.
The bar has just eight hand pumps where the JDW Trio Of Doom was doubled up leaving just the International Shepherd Neame Todd the Axeman and Greene King Fireside. I went for Todd the Axeman (£2.65) which was in great nick.
Admittedly I didn't come here on the best of days but it's quite a pleasant Spoons although the limited beer choice is a problem for me.
On 25th November 2016
- rating: 6
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William Purnell left this review about The Aneurin Bevan (JD Wetherspoon)
Travelled out to this pub from the centre of Cardiff by bus and was dropped off at a stop just after the pub. This was truely a stange site for a pub - it operates as a traffic island, as can be seen on the pictures which have been uploaded. There is an underpass towards the front of the pub, or you can play dodgems, as I did, with the traffic travelling in and out of Cardiff.
The pub itself is a very clean, almost unblemished, establishment where I enjoyed a pleasant pint of Sadlers Stumbling Badger.
On the way out and being under the influence I decided the underpass was the safest way off the island.
On 12th July 2010
- no rating submitted
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