The Hay Stook

Wetherspoons pubs are usually reliably average but this one fell a bit below the usual standard when I visited a fortnight ago. The tables and menus were sticky and staff made no effort to clean the tables, they were clearing the dirty plates and glasses from tables but not returning to wipe them down. I would’ve gone elsewhere but didn’t want to trouble my parents suggesting we leave and look for somewhere else for a late lunch, especially since they’d suggested coming here. Eventually my mum spotted a bottle of sanitiser and cloth so we just gave the table a good scrub ourselves.
I ordered a Drygate Apple Ale from their guest ales list but instead they served up a Gladeye IPA as they didn’t know what the apple ale was and don’t have it… Nevermind, Gladeye was fine, just a bit pointless having a list on the table of drinks they don’t actually have!
Our food arrived fairly quickly after ordering — I had the veggie burger with chips, and added avocado and it was fine, good portion size and budget-​friendly.

So I decided to revisit this place after a truly shocking first visit which was a couple of weeks after their first opening.
I avoided ordering food this time and guess what — nothing went wrong!
As before they only had half of the ales available, but the one I got was lovely and well priced so I can’t complain. They have a really good selection of bottled craft beers. The place is nice and new and well kept.
It will still take a while before I try out the food again though.