The Black Boy Jd Wetherspoon

For a few years the Black Boy was a reliable Wetherspoons pub for food and service. Nothing amazing but good, basic food and drink. Fast forward to 2022 and whoever was cooking the food and more importantly whoever was responsible for the reliable standards have obviously had gone elsewhere. After 3 visits where the food was atrocious i felt it was time to complain. The assistant manageress seemed to be genuine and apologised for the state of the shoe leather I had just been offered as a medium rare steak. She gave us a £20 voucher. But it turned out that she had been lying and the voucher was just blank. So we went back and complained. She apologised again this time I saw through her false smile and gave us another voucher. This second voucher was also not valid so she had obviously lied again. So to conclude ... I know its only a Wetherspoons but this one WAS a good, reliable one. Something has gone wrong and a small, blondish, dumpy manageress who finds it so easy to lie and falsely apologise has made it a place to avoid. Needs a visit from head office to get the standards back and sack incapable staff.

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Great to see a busy pub and cheap prices but when you consider portion size, I would have been better going over the road to the chippy. The size of this steak and kidney pudding is tiny (no I dont have a massive finger : , a token attempt at a good for nothing mash potato, extremely sad looking dehydrated peas and gravy from last Christmas's special. My wife went for the steak which clearly stated 1 mushroom which well was I guess a mushroom or had been at some time in its sad little life plus the 3 onion rings were forgotten so had to remind them.. When you only have 20 things (including chips on a plate, I'm sure that you could ensure that you can remember 3 cold, tasteless and uninteresting onion rings too. Very disappointed but on a positive note though, a good long walk to the toilets to walk off my food : The staff that served behind the bar and delivering the the table were perfectly lovely though.

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Can't quite believe how bad the service was, tried to get served 3 times, none at the bar x 2 just about to serve me and someone who must work the asked for a key so if she went. Gave a dirty plate on our table to the waitress? She looked at me like I was an inconvenience and put it on the next table, then walked down the length of the room into the kitchen

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Just needs a good clean, ive told them and shown them before as cleaners are missing to clean things. Its grubby everyday. Sack the cleaners or show them what needs doing.

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3 small plates for 13.50 x2 for 2 people is moooooooore than enough. cant complain really with the food, it was nice and the plates are not small haha a

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