The Connaught Bar @ The Grand Hotel

Reviewed by Al Bundy on 12 July 2016

To the left as you enter the hotel. It is what it is, which is a hotel lounge bar with the usual sofas and chairs dotted around a rather bland room. You can, however, sit on the balconies outside which overlook the pier below and the bay out yonder.

The Palladium (JD Wetherspoon)

Reviewed by Aqualung . on 21 April 2016

I had overheard someone in a pub in the Midlands claim that this was the best Spoons they had been to so I was looking forward to this visit. The old theatre is certainly a grand building but that was the only good thing about it. The ten hand pumps ... [more>]