The Dragon Inn - JD Wetherspoon Reviews Summary

Category: Pub Birmingham

Address: Hurst St, Birmingham, B5 4TD, United Kingdom

Phone: +441216227850

Rating: 4.0
based on 298 reviews.

Food Quality

Pros:

  • "The food came out quickly and was fresh, tasty and plenty full."
  • "We have eaten here on 3 or 5 occasions and have had good food, good prices and a nice atmosphere."
  • "Service was fast and food was pretty delicious. 9 pounds for this set of ribs wings fries and onion rings."
  • "Had a large mixed grill with a few sides and couldn't fault any of it."
  • "Meal was good - hot and as it was fish and chip club day - it was more than adequate."
  • "Very Nice chicken korma, lovely staff, very spacious area."
  • "Food was tasty, good atmosphere but avoid any steak dishes as they dont have a clue on what cooking it rare means."

Cons:

  • "Serves freezing cold food."
  • "Prepare for over an hour waiting for an english breakfast plate."
  • "Meals were OK. They did miss a side order from my friends meal."
  • "Worst mixed grill I have ever tried to eat. Hardly any meat on plate and ALL Burnt."
  • "Ordered the Chicken Melt, sadly the only thing cooked was the chicken (precooked)."
  • "Food wasn't up to much either. Not hot just lukewarm."
  • "FREEZING cold bacon, sausage & beans, 2 rubbish eggs (1 didn't have a yolk)."

Staff Service

Pros:

  • "The staff are quite helpful & sort out any issues that come up attempting to order through the limitations of the app."
  • "He was so happy and polite and gave us all the best experience while here."
  • "Staff were friendly and polite."
  • "Fantastic Wetherspoon, great staff. Matt is amazing."
  • "The team are always bubbly and happy to see every customer."
  • "Staff were extremely helpful accommodating a group of 10 of us."
  • "The staff were very friendly, helpful and efficient during our visit."

Cons:

  • "Service is slow, very slow! Look at the picture, massive queue and nobody serving...."
  • "Staff are lax can't be arsed to serve."
  • "Staff are rude and not welcoming."
  • "Rude staff (even for a spoons), would recommend going to Tesco, grabbing yourself a sweet bottle of JD and popping on I'm a Celeb instead."
  • "The new manager has absolutely destroyed the place...doesn't get cleaned, rude bar staff, dirty toilets, drug dealing in cubicles, fights being out of control from drunken customers."
  • "Staff couldn't give a toss."
  • "Absolutely awful. I don't normally write reviews or complain or get personal but the lady who served us with brown hair in a bun had terrible attitude."

Accessibility

Pros:

  • "All on one level (including both sets of toilets) there's ramp access from Hurst Street so suitable for wheelchairs and buggies."
  • "Wheelchair accessible and disabled toilets large building with plenty of seating good food and decent drinks."
  • "Disabled accessible for food, drinks and toilets although the bar is high and I didn't spot a lowered area for wheelchair users to approach."
  • "There are two entries and reasonable for wheelchairs."

Cons:

  • "Used the womens bathroom before leaving which was soaked all over the floor, looked like a leak from the toilet that hadn't been fixed maybe."
  • "Toilets were a state though."
  • "The whole pub could do with the deep clean; this is especially the case in the woefully disgusting toilets which were a health hazard."
  • "You have to disclose any disability to the bar staff before you can use their disabled toilets."

Atmosphere

Pros:

  • "A nice large pub which has loads of seating as well as standing areas for people who just want a drink."
  • "It's a typical Weatherspoons but is so spacious that you don't feel claustrophobic inside."
  • "I loved this place, great atmosphere, great service, great location."
  • "Food is fantastic, the way they handled the place during pride was incredible."
  • "Lovely pub, had great outside spaces at front and back with umbrellas for the typical British Summer."
  • "Nice atmosphere and it's lovely inside."
  • "The atmosphere was amazing."

Cons:

  • "It's alright isn't it, again a Wetherspoons pretty standard just you can stagger down to missing bar after gay or not and listen to a guy in a dress bang out I will survive with your friends who are into that kinda thing."
  • "It's quite loud & hard to have a conversation."
  • "Noisy due to lack of dividers."
  • "The table next to us were clearly pretty drunk, screaming and shouting and blasting music from their phones."
  • "Grim place to be. Staff were non engaging. No background music."
  • "Classic dingey spoons."
  • "Sat here and I've been in many wetherspoons pubs, but I have to say avoid this one. It's nothing more than a playground for drunken students."

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