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Cornfield Garage (JD Wetherspoon), Eastbourne
Eastbourne
BN21 4QD
Reviews of Cornfield Garage (JD Wetherspoon) (Average Rating: 5 of 10) see review guidelines
Rex Rattus left this review about Cornfield Garage (JD Wetherspoon)
As previous reviewers have observed, once inside you could be in any 'spoons in the country. It was typical of the brand - cheap food and beer. Interestingly the guest beers were more expensive than in my New Malden local, and the food quality (based on just the fish 'n' chips) was not as good either. When I was in there earlier this month London was enjoying one the 30c+ heatwave days, and although it wasn't quite as hot in Eastbourne the sun shining through the enormous central skylight certainly boosted the temperature in here somewhat.
An unusual experience - when I presented my CAMRA voucher to the young barmaid it was evident she had never seen one before, so she consulted a more senior colleague who also confessed that it was a new one on her and thus had to summon the manager from his back of house duties to show them how they worked. Says something about Eastbourne I guess.
On 26th July 2025
- rating: 5
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Blue Scrumpy left this review about Cornfield Garage (JD Wetherspoon)
One of a couple of branches of Wetherspoon's in Eastbourne, I'd visited the other one (the London & County) on my last visit to the town in 2019. This one is a little further away from the station, although still quite close. The London & County looks a bit of a dive from the outside, but I recall it having some nice features inside. The Cornfield Garage is the other way round. It looks fairly inviting from the outside, but once inside, you could be in any other branch of the chain up and down the land.
The two main positive takeaways I had from this pub were the presence of some very convenient ground floor toilets and probably the best selection of real ales in Eastbourne. Although, this was undoubtedly aided by the current Wetherspoon's real ale festival. According to the pumpclips on display, the selection was Greene King Abbot, Ruddles Best, Sharp's Doom Bar, Steel & Oak Easy Stout, Acorn 2 Decades, Wychwood Kinggoblin, Robinson's Trooper Fear of the Dark, Black Sheep Finisher, Daleside Monkey Wrench, Rudgate Vanilla Mild & Sambrook's Powerhouse Porter. However, I'm not convinced that all of these beers were actually available. Wetherspoon's have a habit of displaying pumpclips for beers that aren't actually on. Their app showed a much more limited selection. Once again, this is an Eastbourne pub with no real cider.
I opted for the Vanilla Mild, which was fairly uninspiring and was consumed in a noisy and boisterous drinking environment. In summary, I think the London & County is the better branch of 'spoon's in town and I can see why it is that one that consistently makes the Good Beer Guide, whilst this one has never featured.
On 10th October 2023
- rating: 5
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Aqualung . left this review about Cornfield Garage (JD Wetherspoon)
This is a fairly uninspiring Spoons altogether. It has no interesting features at all and despite having 15 handpumps it sports a pretty dire selection of beers. Despite this on my 11:00 visit there were lots of older folk in and not really the same Daytime Spoons Brigade you see in London.
There were just three "interesting" beers, Long Man American Pale Ale, Adnams / Stone Double IPA (which currently seems to be on sale at every single Spoons) and Arundel Gold. The Long Man beer was clipped on three pumps then GK Abbot, GK Ruddles, Adnam's Broadside and Young's Special were all doubled up. The remaining two had London Pride and Doombore.
I went for the Long Man beer (£2.55) which was in reasonable nick but not up to the standard of the beers in the London and County which is a five minute walk away. It's also expensive compared to most London suburb Spoons, but 30p less than the Long Man Old Man tried minutes earlier in the London and County.
On 1st February 2014
- rating: 5
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Hampden Park (Sussex), 2.81 miles, 54 min walk (show)
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