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The Great Western (JD Wetherspoon), Cardiff
Cardiff
CF10 1FA
Reviews of The Great Western (JD Wetherspoon) (Average Rating: 5 of 10) see review guidelines
Mild Drinker left this review about The Great Western (JD Wetherspoon)
Beautiful building located handily next to Cardiff Central Station. Barely a spare table on my Saturday morning visit. Quite a small bar for the size of the building. There is an outside seating area next to the road. There is also a couple of floors inside this pub. Can imagine on an evening this place would be difficult to get a seat.
On 12th April 2025
- rating: 6
[User has posted 103 recommendations about 103 pubs]
Quinno _ left this review about The Great Western (JD Wetherspoon)
Notes sparse by this stage. Verbatim; “App ale was off. Replace of Rhymney Export didn't clear 2. Thudding music, fairly bland décor where I am, Lloyds No1 not dead yet. It is what it is, station fodder.”
October 2014
A JDW Lloyds variant housed in a lovely imposing building (as PSM notes below, originally built for GWR in the 1870’s). Not a huge amount of original features remain in large opened-out interior which is also curiously devoid of seating. Three guest ales with one off. My Rhymney Export was in decent form. Very busy given it was mid-Saturday afternoon and there were no sporting fixtures on nearby. Not a Spoons I’d make much effort to return to, I’ll leave it to the St Marys hoards next time. Rated 5
On 5th December 2024
- rating: 5
[User has posted 5552 recommendations about 5533 pubs]
David Walton left this review about The Great Western (JD Wetherspoon)
Echo everything Blackthorn says in their Xmas Eve 2023 review. Jumped in here just off the train from Paddington and a convenient venue for a quick cask beer ahead of moving onto other venues you would rather spend your evening in! I thought I had ticked this venue off during period of ticking off pubs but I couldn’t find any record of a previous visit over that time. Nice little bonus there!
Astride the cask ever presents (Doom Bar now safely restored) were Thunder Bird, an IPA from Glamorgan Brewing, Brains SA (!), Rhymney Export and my choice of the Gower Gold from the Gower Brewery. The usual vast array of keg beers also.
Venue was already heaving at 5.30pm with bouncers on the door to surely appear at some point. Plenty of screens, fruit machines and over loud music. Welcome to a JDW of this day and age!
On 16th May 2024
- rating: 5
[User has posted 631 recommendations about 631 pubs]
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Cardiff Queen Street, 0.57 miles, 11 min walk (show)
Cardiff Bay, 0.92 miles, 17 min walk (show)
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