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The Narrows (JD Wetherspoon), Abingdon
Abingdon
OX14 5AA
The Narrows Abingdon
It's last day of ale and cider festival!!! Come get them before they gone for good!!! Only £2.15 pint!!!
1:00 PM Mar 25th 2018 from Facebook
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Steve C left this review about The Narrows (JD Wetherspoon)
The Narrows is a very long and thin L-shaped Wetherspoons with high tables at the front before steps midway along that lead up to standard tables and chairs. Some stairs at the front wrap around an old red telephone box, but I didn’t venture up. The bar along the front right wall supports standard and premium keg as well as two banks of five handpumps. All the usual suspects were available alongside Theakston’s Old Peculiar and Prescott’s Hill Climb.
On 18th November 2022
- rating: 6
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Pub SignMan left this review about The Narrows (JD Wetherspoon)
This centrally positioned branch of the Wetherspoons chain has a fairly modest facade that gives way to a deceptively large pub in a long, but somewhat narrow, building. You enter into a front seating area in a space that feels like a typical High Street ‘Spoons, with the usual carpeting, decor and furniture. The servery runs down the right-hand wall and as usual, there is a row of high tables and stools opposite, with basic tables and chairs beyond, finally giving way to a bare boarded rear room with a very large pillar in the middle, an ugly eye-level fireplace to the right and an open kitchen at the rear. A few smaller tables fill this area, including some that run down a narrow strip to the rear left, whilst over to the right, a door leads out to a beer garden, which I didn’t explore on a cold Winter’s evening. The pub is apparently a former post office, and much of the decor throughout reflects its former use, including some old black and white photos, a bunch of framed letters and postcards and at least one stamp collection. There are also quite a few bits and bobs dotted around that imply the building may have once been the town’s telephone exchange, including old photos of the switchboard operators and perhaps most tellingly of all, a doorless red phone box in the front seating area, now put to use as a fancy display cabinet.
Two banks of handpulls had the three ‘Spoons regular ales available alongside five guest beers, from which I opted for a pint of the local White Horse Runner - a pleasant enough pint in acceptable condition. We ordered our food and drinks from the app and found the service to be prompt and friendly, with the grub of the usual cheap and cheerful variety. Our visit was early evening on New Years Eve and there was a decent crowd in, mainly of younger drinkers and diners.
This is a pretty standard branch of the ubiquitous chain that had it’s good and bad points, the front space is a bit ‘seen it all before’, whilst the rear area lacked a bit of character and felt like an afterthought. The decent ale selection, good service and quirky decor linked to the building’s history compensated for this to a degree and the pub would make a solid, if unspectacular, addition to any crawl around Abingdon.
On 29th January 2022
- rating: 6
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Blue Scrumpy left this review about The Narrows (JD Wetherspoon)
This branch of Wetherspoon's is located in the former Post Office. It's quite a spacious place with steps which lead up to the kitchens and seating which goes back a long way. I chose to sit near the bar. Toilets were advertised as being upstairs. So, I assumed they were at the rear. But I could only find the disabled toilet. I'd missed the main stairs near the front. The gents themselves have red urinals and red cubicles in the style of telephone boxes.
The usual Wetherspoon's beers were on offer - Greene King Abbot, Ruddles Best & Sharp's Doom Bar, in addition to 3 guests - White Horse Village Idiot, Shepherd Neame Spitfire & Box Steam Soul Train. Ciders were Weston's Old Rosie & Gwynt y Ddraig Black Dragon.
As usual, my attempts to use the 'spoon's app were futile and I ended up having to attract the attention of one of the friendly members of staff, who duly took my order.
A bright and welcoming pub that is better than the average branch from this chain.
On 13th October 2020
- rating: 6
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- Accommodation : No last updated 14 February 2019 by Quinno _
- Bar Billiards : No last updated 14 February 2019 by Quinno _
- Beer Festivals : Yes last updated 14 February 2019 by Quinno _
- Beer Garden : No - Patio and yard - last updated 11 October 2016 by Aqualung .
- CAMRA Discount : No - JDW vouchers only - last updated 14 February 2019 by Quinno _
- Car Park : No last updated 14 February 2019 by Quinno _
- Child Friendly : Yes last updated 14 February 2019 by Quinno _
- Darts : No last updated 14 February 2019 by Quinno _
- Dog Friendly : No last updated 14 February 2019 by Quinno _
- Function Room : No last updated 14 February 2019 by Quinno _
- Hot Food : Yes last updated 14 February 2019 by Quinno _
- Jukebox : No last updated 14 February 2019 by Quinno _
- Karaoke : No last updated 14 February 2019 by Quinno _
- Live Music : No last updated 14 February 2019 by Quinno _
- Live TV Sports : No last updated 14 February 2019 by Quinno _
- Micropub : No last updated 14 February 2019 by Quinno _
- Pinball : No last updated 14 February 2019 by Quinno _
- Pool Table : No last updated 14 February 2019 by Quinno _
- Quiz Night : No last updated 11 October 2016 by Aqualung .
- Real Ale : Yes last updated 14 February 2019 by Quinno _
- Real Cider : Yes last updated 14 February 2019 by Quinno _
- Wheelchair Access : Yes last updated 14 February 2019 by Quinno _
- WiFi : Yes last updated 14 February 2019 by Quinno _
