The Lister Arms - JD Wetherspoon Reviews Summary

Category: Pub Ilkley

Address: 14, The Moors Shopping Centre, S Hawksworth St, Ilkley LS29 9LB, United Kingdom

Phone: +441943811240

Rating: 4.1
based on 151 reviews.

Service

Pros:

  • "Polite and thoughtfully."
  • "Fast, friendly service and reasonable food and drink deals."
  • "Staff were good with service."
  • "Meals arrived quickly, polite and helpful staff at bar."
  • "Staff helpful and friendly."
  • "The staff are prompt from the time of order until delivered to your designated table."
  • "Great service and all nice and clean."

Cons:

  • "We also had to ask the lazy, ignorant waiter for cutlery."
  • "The manager with the specs was absolutely useless."
  • "Service at the bar could have been friendlier."
  • "Very unfriendly bar staff and was being very patronising."
  • "The staff don't acknowledge customers."
  • "Unfriendly staff."
  • "The staff aren't very customer focussed and one was quite rude."

Food Quality

Pros:

  • "When the food arrived it was hot and tasty."
  • "Cod & Chips absolutely the Best I've had for a very long long."
  • "The chicken and saag (spinach) was beautiful as the chicken fell apart with a touch."
  • "Food is tasty and the portion sizes are large."
  • "Had the fish and chips this time and they were spot on, the fish batter was lovely and crispy!"
  • "The food is of exceptional quality for its price and is usually served in under 10 minutes."
  • "I had the Quorn nugget wrap and chips and my husband had the Quorn katsu curry we both enjoyed our food."

Cons:

  • "The meat was mainly fat and tasted as though it had been boiled."
  • "Tasteless food... the grill chicken burger felt like a boiled chicken burger."
  • "Not good at all my 8 year old son had burger very fatty."
  • "Food this time was not very good at all...most of the 7 meals were not to standard."
  • "The lamb was just a piece of grilled fat."
  • "The quality was poor and tasteless."
  • "Absolutely disgusting food."

Atmosphere & Cleanliness

Pros:

  • "It was good to see a sign that said 'Groups and meetings welcome' it helped take the edge off."
  • "Such a nice Wetherspoons, friendly staff, very quick food, super tasty, lovely place will be back."
  • "Great pub with Witherspoon prices great value for money both food and drinks."
  • "Lovely venue, polite staff and a very large seating area and availability."
  • "Decent WeatherSpoons in Ilkley. Clean and tidy throughout."
  • "Clean well presented with good quality food."
  • "Big space and nice local pictures references."

Cons:

  • "Lacks atmosphere, but this is made up for by fast, friendly service and reasonable food and drink deals."
  • "Tables covered in uncollected dirty food utensils,cutlery,plates and glasses. No one collecting."
  • "The toilets were a shambles. So dirty."
  • "All the tables were dirty and very sticky."
  • "The cutlery was dirty and so were the tables."
  • "The tables were filthy."
  • "The staff also need to clean more, and I mean CLEAN, not just brush crumbs on the floor."

Accessibility & Convenience

Pros:

  • "Me and my friend found making our way around this restaurant relatively easy due to it being very spacious."
  • "Close to the main car park in the centre of Ilkley."
  • "We were able to park quite easily in the Ilkley centre car park."
  • "Set in Ilkley so is in beautiful scenary nearby and opposite a car park."
  • "Once inside I was able to move along to the bar and a table selected for us."

Cons:

  • "Not a very good experience. 6 of us all over 60+ were taken to the furthest part of the bar and seated with a load of young very loud kids."
  • "One thing to note is there are at least two other floor areas that I couldn’t access due to having steps up."
  • "The disabled toilets were away from the main conveniences."
  • "Only complaint toilets very small and a little messy."

Value for Money

Pros:

  • "As with all wetherspoons pubs, the prices are spot on."
  • "It's so much cheaper than anywhere else."
  • "Cheap drinks and average food."
  • "The Best Weatherspoons I have been in for a long time."
  • "Where else can you get a decent pizza and a pint for less than a tenner?!"
  • "Can't go wrong with spoons, a decent meal and a drink at a good priceπŸ‘Œ"
  • "Go here on a weekly basis and would either order a burger or pizza with a pint and for less than Β£8, it's not a bad deal at all."

Cons:

  • "Usually gets 5 stars, but today, apparently due to a late delivery, they didn't have the Gordon's gin that was included in the meal deal, so we had to pay more for the Bombay Saphire."
  • "Plus the bar had run out of ice so a warm gin & tonic not nice at all."
  • "They had no stout and had run out of coffee too."
  • "No point in having the W app if the signal inside the premises isn’t strong enough!!"
  • "Ordered 2 meals, overcharged as they were on the specials menu."
  • "The usual Curry menu was let down by the nan bread which I couldn't cut and had a job to tear."
  • "I wasn’t expecting filet mignot, however, joking aside, was expecting a decently presented and edible meal in exchange for the Β£11.50 I paid."

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