The Back of Beyond(Wetherspoons)

This large Wetherspoons provides an array of doors as a front entrance to open out onto the less-than-clean streets of reading at night but in the winter provides safe shelter and warm couches by the window with a hearty ale. The layout of the venue is set into 3 basic columns of booths on the far left, small tables in the middle and the bar to the right. Heading directly for the bar I happened upon a nasty flaw- it took 2 and a half hours to get served. Okay perhaps I am exaggerating but in a busy pub of this calibre more than two barmen can be a good selling point. Ale in hand i notice entrances front and back and despite easy access it is not rammed with students which is good.

Overall I found the place to be clean and comfortable and not overcrowded. Had the bar persons been more plentiful this Wetherspoons would have been considerably better but it still slips away with a generous 5/10.

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