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The Kings Head Inn (JD Wetherspoon), Salisbury
Salisbury
SP1 2ND
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Strongers . left this review about The Kings Head Inn (JD Wetherspoon)
In a prominent building on Bridge Street adjacent to the bridge over the Avon, the Kings Head is a Wetherspoons with a central L-shaped serving counter that supports nine hand pumps that were drawing the usual three plus GK Old Speckled Hen, Flack’s Black Jack, Rye River Brewing’s Brogue Irish Red Ale, London Pride, Oakham’s JHB, and Sambrook’s Pump House. There’s a mix of seating up the left and in the front right corner is a coffee and tea station adjacent to seating that sits under a mezzanine with more seating. This is a good location with passing trade from the train station into the city centre, so it wasn’t surprising to see it filling up at a great rate during my short stay not long after 11:00. Thankfully I beat the rush so was served promptly by a very friendly barman. Much like almost every Spoons in the land I wouldn’t go out of my way to revisit, but I had a perfectly acceptable experience on this occasion.
On 2nd April 2026
- rating: 6
[User has posted 6626 recommendations about 6588 pubs]
Steve of N21 left this review about The Kings Head Inn (JD Wetherspoon)
On approach this is a very impressive building and if approaching from the North also has the famous spire of the Cathedral as a backdrop. But the experience inside doesn’t live up to the exterior.
The first challenge is to enter the building, as there are several doors but only one which is used round by the riverside. You enter onto a small section of the bar which has three handpumps supporting the usual Trilogy of Doom, and you have to walk round the other side of the bar to find a more interesting 6 pumps, which had
Fullers London Pride and Old Speckled Hen, being joined by Oakham JHB, Sambrook Pumphouse, Rye River Brogue Red ale and Flack Manor Black Jack Porter.
The interior is the usual formulaic ‘spoons set up with several separate areas on the ground floor and then a staircase to a mezzanine level that also housed the toilets. There’s no standout features here, or anything I could see that gives it any local feel. But that wasn’t putting off the locals and at 11.30am on a Friday it was already packet out and I had to go up onto the mezzanine floor to find an empty table that wasn’t covered in the previous occupant’s detritus of plates and glasses. But it did give me a good view of the long section of the bar so that I could watch the queues form behind the one member of bar staff who was actually serving anybody who had the nerve to try and get served at the bar. Fortunately, all the ales were on the Wetherspoons App so I could order my all-day breakfast and chosen half without having to move. And in fairness the wait was minimal from the kitchen, despite how busy the place was.
On 31st March 2026
- rating: 6
[User has posted 2340 recommendations about 2186 pubs]
Just a quick pint, then I'm off left this review about The Kings Head Inn (JD Wetherspoon)
A old-looking building, although it was built as the County Hotel in two parts between the 1880s and 1908. Various seating / dining areas with a traditional look, including a mezzanine located up a grand staircase opposite the bar (and its ornate decorative features above). Riverside patio. On this first revisit since 2012, I found many more (albeit not very exciting) cask ales on handpump, with London Pride, Old Speckled Hen, Oakham JHB, Sambrook's Pumphouse, Exmoor Gold and DBC Jurassic (£3.32) in addition to the standard Ruddles, Doom Bar and Abbot.
On 30th March 2026
- rating: 6
[User has posted 9119 recommendations about 9119 pubs]
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- WiFi : Yes - The Cloud - last updated 30 January 2024 by Quinno _
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