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The Central Bar (JD Wetherspoon), Shepherds Bush, W12
Shepherds Bush Green
W12
W12 8PH
Pub Type
J D WetherspoonReviews (Current Rating Average: 5 of 10) see review guidelines
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Ian Mapp left this review about The Central Bar (JD Wetherspoon)
I've started to warm to Spoons but this place has sent me crashing back to earth.
This is housed in a shopping centre - so has no architectural merit.
The usual JDW complaints about filthy tables are present in abundance. The positives - quick ordering from the app and keen pricing are also present.
But how can you have a Good Beer Guide Pub serving pints in plastic glasses by default?
Maybe I can trade vouchers for glassware.
On 20th September 2022
- rating: 2
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Just a quick pint, then I'm off left this review about The Central Bar (JD Wetherspoon)
Fairly typical Wetherspoons, with its most notable feature being the particularly uninspired name. However, as you would expect, there is the usual good-value food and you can usually get a reasonable choice of beer from the two banks of five handpumps Central, although there was a modest selection on this visit, but the Liberation Colney Hatch festival ale (£2.39, and in decent shape) filled a post-gig gap. If you can get one, the window seats also offer an interesting view out over Shepherds Bush Green from first-floor level.
On 8th November 2019
- rating: 6
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Graham Coombs left this review about The Central Bar (JD Wetherspoon)
Located on the first floor of the W12 shopping centre and opposite the tube station, this is a handy large modern bar. Not a lot of character, as you might expect from a new building, but perfectly adequate for purpose. The long glass frontage is an ideal place to watch the world and the traffic go by. A moderate selection of beers were available on this visit, although sadly nothing dark.
On 30th October 2019
- rating: 7
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Rex Rattus left this review about The Central Bar (JD Wetherspoon)
This 'spoons is situated on the first floor of the West 12 shopping centre. It's as ordinary a 'spoons as I've been in, with all the usual sort of furnishings crammed in. I doubt whether you would visit here just for the quality of the pub - I was in here because a couple of my companions were after a quick bite to eat, and thus it performs a vital service for anyone who may be required to visit the shopping centre.
It's a 'spoons - the beer was as good and cheap as I expect from a 'spoons.
On 6th March 2016
- rating: 5
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Peter Rydings left this review about The Central Bar (JD Wetherspoon)
One of the better spoon,s and being a none smoker was easy to get into not the army of smoker,s to fight your way threw at the door hole
On 1st April 2015
- rating: 7
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john gray left this review about The Central Bar (JD Wetherspoon)
Decent Wetherspoons with a good selection of guest ales.Nice to sit and watch the street below from the large windows.Crap for smokers as you have to leave the shopping centre to have a drag.Its a drag.
On 3rd May 2014
- rating: 6
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Aqualung . left this review about The Central Bar (JD Wetherspoon)
This Spoons is situated above an Argos and Poundland on the first floor of a ghastly shopping centre called W12. The shopping centre didn't seem to be very successful from my brief perusal of it, possibly because the massive Westfield Centre across the road is in direct competition.
I assume the pub dates from the opening of the W12 in 2002.
It's a long narrow room with windows overlooking the hustle and bustle of Shepherds Bush on the right and the bar on the left. The pub had a mix of customers on my morning visit ranging from the lager swilling daytime Spoons Sun readers to young mothers with their offspring.
There are two banks of five pumps. On the nearest as you enter there was GK IPA and Abbot, Hobgoblin. Adnam's Gunhill and the American / Adnam's Jack D'Or IPA available soon. On the second bank there was GK IPA and Abbot, Adnam's Old and Broadside and Sambrook's Junction Avaliable (sic) soon.
I went for the Adnam's Old (£2.29) whiich is a beer I have not tried for quite some time. I found it remarkable that it tasted exactly like Broadside!
I have to say that Shopping Centre pubs do not appeal to me but at least this place was cheaper than I expected it to be. I can't see a return visit happening.
On 15th November 2013
- rating: 5
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Pub SignMan left this review about The Central Bar (JD Wetherspoon)
This Wetherspoons pub, opposite Shepherd’s Bush tube station, is located on the first floor of the West 12 shopping centre which unfortunately leaves it feeling like one of their airport or train station bars. The interior comprises a single, roughly rectangular room with the bar counter running along most of the length of the left hand wall. On the right hand side, large windows give you a decent view out over the street and station below, making it imperative that you bag a table on that side of the room. Three rows of standard tables and chairs fill the space between servery and windows, although the room is a little wider at the front and extra seating is available here. Two very well screened, almost private, booths can be found at the rear of the room, but otherwise it’s all rather drab and clinical. TV screens were on showing the French Open tennis and the place was packed on a Friday evening, with lots of people eating from the standard ‘Spoons menu.
I counted twelve hand pumps at the bar, with five guest ales, one cider, one ‘Coming Soon’ clip and five ‘Spoons regulars. I tried a pint of Lee’s Game On, which unfortunately was more Game Off than on. The staff were very quick but had absolutely no idea who had been waiting the longest at the bar, so several customers were able to turn up at the bar and get served straight away whilst others stood there unattended to.
Shepherd’s Bush isn’t blessed with the greatest selection of pubs, so you would hope that a Wetherspoons would be a good failsafe for a decent pint. However, I found this to be a fairly depressing place to have a pint and will probably venture a little further afield in search of good beer the next time I’m round this way.
On 20th June 2012
- rating: 5
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Philip Carter left this review about The Central Bar (JD Wetherspoon)
Usual Wetherspoons stuff. Sorry picture is a bit dark, didn't use flash as place was crowded and it might have upset someone. Anyway, I liked the place, nice big windows on the world. Not sure if there is disabled access as it is on the 1st floor of a shopping centre and didn't notice any lifts.
On 9th January 2009
- rating: 6
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Quinno _ left this review about The Central Bar (JD Wetherspoon)
Wetherspoons in a shopping centre - a vision of the UK's future urban hell? Maybe.
To be fair, this one isn't as bad as it could be. There's a decent view from the large, panoramic windows and the punters didn't seem too bad. The interior is a bit bland, but more kempt than many other Spoons and cleaner too.
Three guest ales were on, varying in quality from 'on the turn' to 'very good', with a distinctly 'average' inbetween. But what to do? Olga from the Volga rarely has a clue or cares, in my experience. Still, it's only 99p for a half, so it could be worse if you need a couple of beers before a gig at the Empire...
On 4th August 2008
- rating: 5
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