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The Hudson Bay (JD Wetherspoon), Forest Gate, E7
E7
E7 9PA
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J D WetherspoonReviews (Current Rating Average: 4½ of 10) see review guidelines
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Blue Scrumpy left this review about The Hudson Bay (JD Wetherspoon)
Fairly ugly looking branch of Wetherspoon's in an area not particularly known for its real ale. The pubs entry into the Good Beer Guide brought me here.
Inside is fairly dark and there was the usual Spoon's range of Greene King Abbot, Ruddles Best & Sharp's Doom Bar with 3 guest ales - Oakham JHB, Brain's SA & Exmoor Gold. In addition, there were 2 real ciders - Weston's Old Rosie & Gwynt y Ddraig Black Dragon.
Having just been to the New Fairlop Oak in Barkingside, I didn't take to this 'spoon's quite as much. Although at least it did have a couple of ciders.
On 23rd January 2023
- rating: 5
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Rex Rattus left this review about The Hudson Bay (JD Wetherspoon)
It’s a ‘spoons, so expect no surprises. The ale selection wasn’t brilliant by ‘spoons standards, with the usual suspects being overly prominent. But they did have four guest ales on – Mansfield Original, Sambrook’s Wandle, Banks Mild, and Jennings Pie in the Sky. Obviously the usual pub grub is available.
This is an oddly, geometry defying, shaped pub, seemingly born from the merging of two or three buildings. But it’s as comfortable inside as any ‘spoons pub, and has a fairly nice garden at the back. I spotted some Hudson Bay cartography around the place, as well as some information about Henry Hudson, who I suppose must hail from these parts. It did its job when I needed a bite to eat with something to wash it down.
On 18th November 2017
- rating: 4
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hondo . left this review about The Hudson Bay (JD Wetherspoon)
Standard spoons does what it says on the tin
On 22nd March 2014
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Aqualung . left this review about The Hudson Bay (JD Wetherspoon)
I'm prepared to accept that I may have visited this Spoons on an off day, but to be honest it's one of the worst I have ever been to. It's another shop conversion and fairly ugly in my opinion.
My major gripe with it was that on the final Friday of the Spoon's festival, of the eight pumps there were four allocated to the two usual GK suspects, two allocated to that well known Spoons guest "available soon" (in this case it was two non-festival offerings from the Marston's stable). This left two festival pumps, one with a cider and the other with the 4%
Cambridge Brewing Heather ale.
I'll give it a mark of two simply for the fact that the Heather Ale was in good form, but to be honest I'm not used to drinking beers in pubs lower than 4.5%. If the beer quality had been poor then it would have got a big fat zero.
On 9th November 2012
- rating: 2
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john mcgraw left this review about The Hudson Bay (Wetherspoons)
Fairly large Wetherspoon's catering for a large diverse cliental.(On my return 2 hours later one of them was laying across the juction of Upton lane and Romford road.You would have thought J D Wetherspoon's would have provided a B&B for him !!!)Apart from that the beer was good,What more can you really say?.
Quiet outside drinking area out the back which was a haven from the police sirens screeching up and down Romford road.
On 7th May 2008
- rating: 6
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