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The Dragon Inn (JD Wetherspoon), Birmingham

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The Arcadian, 70 Hurst Street
Birmingham
B5 4TD

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J D Wetherspoon

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Birmingham Central

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Ian Mapp left this review about The Dragon Inn (JD Wetherspoon)

I'm knocking off all the city centre ones doing a Geocaching Adventure Lab Cache. Dont ask me why. This is the worst by a county mile.

Dark and dingy inside. Two bars but one unmanned. I ordered a Black Pheasant, one of the guest ales, but after paying was told it was off. So were all the other guest ales. Upsold myself a Leffe - I am sure a more tolerant bar member would have let me off the difference. Oh no - much to the chargrin of my fellow spoonsters, she caculated the difference and made me pay twice.

Avoid.

On 27^th February 2023 - rating: 1
[User has posted 1563 recommendations about 1543 pubs]

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Just a quick pint, then I'm off left this review about The Dragon Inn (JD Wetherspoon)

Distinctly unremarkable 'spoons comprising a large, irregular 'L'-shaped space with various different seating areas and a few patio tables out front. Dimly lit, with two separate bar counters. Ten handpumps in total, but always has lots of duplicates and mostly the usual Ruddles / Doom Bar / Abbot suspects, with Stonehenge Great Bustard being the most interesting thing on offer on my latest visit. Always a disappointment, but I get drawn back occasionally as somewhere to eat if arriving on a late train before stopping overnight in one of the nearby hotels.

On 6^th July 2019 - rating: 5
[User has posted 8679 recommendations about 8678 pubs]

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Rob Hunter left this review about The Dragon Inn (JD Wetherspoon)

Not the best Spoons in the world, it has to be said. There is a bit of a bizarre layout with two separate bars despite the fact that the place is pretty much open plan. There was a set of hand pulls at each bar but these were duplicates, including Doom Bar, Ruddles, Oakham JHB and another guest that I can't remember.

It was particularly busy on Sunday evening and there was a group of 9 of us but we managed to pounce on a table when one cleared so we could all sit together. We ordered food and some of the options weren't available due to a problem with the grill (so basically beefburgers were out) and we got a rather funny look of the barman when we tried to order pizza off the kids' menu and he said rather sarcastically "this is Wetherspoons mate, we don't do pizza" - I pointed it out to him on the menu and he explained they use the same menus nationally and some pubs may have a pizza oven but they don't. I didn't much care for his attitude though.

Nobody seemed to be in any kind of rush to clear dirty plates or glasses off the tables and they were stacked up all over the place.

Overall a dark gloomy Spoons with service to match. Its one saving grace is that there is no upstairs area so the toilets are on the ground floor.

On 14^th November 2018 - rating: 6
[User has posted 830 recommendations about 657 pubs]

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