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The John Logie Baird (JD Wetherspoon), Hastings
Hastings
TN34 1BE
Reviews of The John Logie Baird (JD Wetherspoon) (Average Rating: 5 of 10) see review guidelines
Blue Scrumpy left this review about The John Logie Baird (JD Wetherspoon)
The Hastings branch of Wetherspoon's appears to be one of very few pubs offering cask ales in the area around the railway station in Hastings.
The interior is fairly non-descript with the bar on the right-hand side and a raised area to the left, complete with a projector screen, presumably for sports. Tables were full of dirty glasses. Toilets were the usual trek upstairs.
Service was dinsinterested. The usual 'spoon's beers were all on - Greene King Abbot, Ruddles Best, Sharp's Doom Bar & Thornbridge Jaipur. I'd spotted a guest I fancied on their app, only to arrive and find the handpull in an almost horizontal position. What I'd planned to order was off. Guests were in fact Ringwood Forty Niner, Kirkstall Dissolution, Brightside Time Bandit, Black Sheep Ale & Wimbledon Quartermaine. In hindsight, I should have gone for the Quartermaine. Instead I chose the Black Sheep which was insipid. The cider was Gwynt y Ddraig Black Dragon.
The pub was fairly busy with a typical set of Wetherspoon's customers. I prefer branches of Wetherspoon's that stick out from the rest. This was a bog standard place and pretty disappointing by Hastings standards. Even the cask ales were disappointing. A local Sussex beer could have improved the range slightly.
On 3rd September 2025
- rating: 5
[User has posted 3232 recommendations about 3230 pubs]
Pub SignMan left this review about The John Logie Baird (JD Wetherspoon)
This is a relatively small High Street branch of the Wetherspoons chain, handily located for the seafront and station. The pub comprises a very basic, single rectangular room laid out across a couple of levels. You enter into the main seating area, with the usual 'Spoons carpeting, loads of tables and chairs in the front section under large windows, and the servery down the right-hand wall with a few high tables and stools opposite. The bar has a very basic tongue and groove panelled counter with a polished stone top and a mirrored bar back of the sort that you can find in countless other 'Spoons up and down the country. To the left is a pleasant, raised seating area with tongue and groove panels screening it from the main bar area. It's full of tables and chairs and has a simple fireplace on the end wall which acts as a focal point of sorts. Further back, a small seating area hidden behind a structural support post can be found to the left and some steps lead down to a compact, lower-level space with a few more seats at the rear. The walls are painted in a neutral, two-tone colour scheme and have been decorated with the usual local history boards and a few bits of modern art.
The ale ratio here was pretty good, with the three regulars supplemented by seven guests, mostly Christmas themed beers. I avoided these and tried the Goffs White Knight instead, which was in good shape. Sadly, the staff did the bare minimum in terms of friendliness and struggled to keep tables clear during the peak Saturday lunch period in which I visited. It was admittedly a packed house, and I found it very hard to find a free table.
I think the wider ale range, seemingly maintained in good order, was the high point of this visit, as I found the pub itself to be pretty unremarkable and the service to be rather off-putting. I might’ve benefitted from attending at a slightly less busy time, as it wasn’t ideal having to deal with such a packed pub, but whilst it’s a reliable option, I can’t say I’d be inclined to visit again given the town’s many superior pubs.
Date of visit - 21st December 2024
On 28th March 2025
- rating: 6
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Real Ale Ray left this review about The John Logie Baird (JD Wetherspoon)
Quite a decent Spoons this one and looks to have had a recent make over from the freshly painted cream and grey finished walls. The pub was busy on our Thursday eve visit, mostly probably as it was curry night. There was a decent selection of ales across ten handpumps, so we went for the Firebird Parody. We also had a laugh with some of the local characters near the front of the pub. One particular Hungarian chap had us intrigued as he was trying to work out how much he had spent on beer in there, frequenting the pub every day over the last twenty years. There were Halloween decorations up and near the front door, was a display for Christmas and a Christmas menu.
On 8th November 2019
- rating: 6
[User has posted 3716 recommendations about 3716 pubs]
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