The Wishaw Malt (JD Wetherspoon), Wishaw

This is a smaller Spoons in what looked like a smaller town. Inside it's a roughly square room with a lower area to the front on one side and the bar at the rear. This had just six hand pumps which had three available soon, Spitfire, Abbot and Brain's SA. I found this pathetic choice unappealing so asked for a bottle of Green Devil which it transpired they didn't have. By the time it turned out that they had no Devil's Backbone either I was losing the will to live and ended up with a pint of Abbot (£2.09). It was only the fact that it was in good nick that saves this one from the Score Of Shame.

Official site of The Wishaw Malt (JD Wetherspoon) - www.jdwetherspoon.com

Official site of The Wishaw Malt (JD Wetherspoon) - www.jdwetherspoon.com

Rather inconspicuous on the approach, and in neither of the buildings on the opposite side of the road that first catch your eye - a large theatre now a Mecca bingo hall and an oriental-looking former cinema now am Italian restaurant. Anyway, it features a single-storey frontage (with the benefit of large windows) leading back to a taller part of the building housing the bar counter. Light modern decor with some sculpted panels on one wall of the slightly lower side seating / dining area and some interesting local history displays. Four of six handpumps in operation, but a few interesting choices including the Drygate Reflex 4.2% red ale (£2.09).