ReviewThis Enfield Wetherspoons was one of the early JDW’s when it opened in Sept 1988 on the site of a former Greek restaurant and milk dairy and at that time, despite being a bit out of town, was a welcome addition to the Enfield drinking scene and reversed the trend of pubs disappearing from Enfield.
JDW’s were rare in those days so the barn like place, ceiling up to the rafters, several separate drinking areas, one done up like a library and a large bar area dispensing several real ales was all new and exciting. Oh to think we were once so young and impressionable.
They even lead the way early with a non smoking area way before anyone started thinking about a smoking ban. It was the seating area at the back of the pub behind the bar serving area and was a completely pointless exercise as it was not enclosed and the fag smoke used to drift in from the rest of the pub. But it got them local publicity and several write ups in the Local Enfield Independent rag.
Nowadays it’s just like any other JDW’s up and down the breadth of this land. A decent place for a relatively quiet reasonably priced pint and usual JDW grub of a lunchtime (except for Sundays when it gets taken over by families) and then the Enfield and surrounds youth move in for the evenings and can resemble more of a zoo than a pub on a Friday and Saturday night.
Usual JDW house ales on the five handpumps on the flat bar area and then usually a couple of the Wetherspoon guests on the island bar section. Like most JDW’s the beer and service fluctuates according to the efforts of the incumbent landlord or lady in residence at any particular time, but on the last couple of lunchtimes I have been in both the beer and service were fine.
So, in conclusion, it’s a ‘Spoons with no differentiating features, e.g. if you shut your eyes and open them again you could be in virtually any other ‘spoons.
Amended to:3 Real Ales
Pool, Darts and Dominoes.
Function Room.
