The White Swan (JD Wetherspoon), N1

Standard Spoons with usual ales. Not a Spoons I'll be rushing back to I'm afraid.

A rather bland and featurless spoons,a rather spartan interior apart from some booth seating along one wall, the rest was a normal canteen style layout, Iwas going to say it all appeared a bit sterile, but that would have been untrue looking at some of the uncleaned tables, getting served in order was a hit or miss affair although the bar wasn't overly busy.Ten hand pumps with only six, not particularly inpiring beers were available,Abbot,Adnams Broadside,Trumans Runner,Doombar,Hackney New Zealand Pale Ale and an International beer I didn,t note the name of, the Hackney beer which cost me £3.45 was lacking in character. One note of interest was a blackboard informing us 1117 Real ales were sold last week along with 530 Craft beers and 304 hot drinks,no mention of normal keg stuff which I imagine would dwarf those figures,as a quick glance around the other 30 or so people sharing the room were all drinking Lager or Guinness as far as I could see leaving me as the only Real Ale statistic at that time.I only came in here to kill half an hour before my targeted pubs opened,I won't make the same mistake twice.

This seemed to be as standard a 'spoons as you can get. I didn't get the round in here so can't comment on the beer prices, but the staple traditional breakfast was £3.49, which is a bit more expensive than the 'spoons I regularly use in Raynes Park and Kingston. It's still good value at £3.49 though. The front of the main room is furnished with tall tables/tall stools, with a large area at the back crammed with standard tables and chairs. All quite usual for a 'spoons. This one's main plus point is its proximity to Highbury & Islington station.

2 floor spoons that does what it says on the tin.

The ‘handy for Highbury & Islington tube’ JDW, housed in a building of little note. Inside is fairly well decorated (if perhaps a little brown and orange heavy) and has a mezzanine level. Some interesting wavy wood-block finishing on the bar front and mezzanine protrusion. Clean and tidy, despite having presumably seen heavy trade throughout the Saturday. My haziness by this point meant I accidentally ended up with a super-strong US collaboration ale that JDW are currently pushing (Stone, I think) which was rather tasty, in fairness. As far as Spoons go I quite liked this place and wouldn’t be averse to a revisit.