The Narrows - Wetherspoons

My local spoons - good interior design for a Whetherspoons and similar quality service as expected (if not better as the establishment is less busy than city alternatives). Staff has changed over the years but has been usually very nice and friendly. Food is as standard for a Wetherspoons establishment, but the venue is great for an evening with some friends and some great value drinks. At the time of writing a Carlsberg has hovered at £2.66 for years, making it one of the cheapest largers you can find. Wish we could have drinks outside for a bit longer as currently we are not allowed outside with glasses from 10pm.

It's a Wetherspoons.. but it's a good one! Food arrived very quickly, the staff were friendly and happy to help - it's not ideal for parking, being on the main drag, but there is free parking after 6pm very close by. Inside, the pub was tidy, modern and looked good with the choice of finishes on the walls. It's surprisingly bigger than it looks from the outside that's for sure! Overall, genuinely impressed with this one, from the staff to the decor! It's done up nicely.

A very decent place. Has wheelchair access. Suitable for a person with autism. This place has wheelchair access to both levels of the ground floor and an accessible toilet. I've been here several times. I think it's fairly good for a wheelchair user but I will list potential issues later. The atmosphere was suitable for someone with autism because the pub has several levels and areas so the sounds dissipate fairly well. This is not an overly noisey pub even when busy. If you need a quiet area you will probably be able to find something as you have 4 areas on the ground floor, a garden and an upstairs. There is no music here so particularly good for someone with autism or hearing difficulties. The food is the usual standard of the Weatherspoons pub and they have several options so you will find something to suit you. It's cheap, which is why people use them. It's family friendly during the day and if you are using it at night then the drinks are cheap and so are food and snacks. You can stay there a long time. No one will throw you out. Dinner is served till 11pm. My son wore his sunflower lanyard and clumsily dealt with the orders. The staff were nice enough. They accepted both kids autism which is fairly visible. Having said that the bar tender had a disability - so that probably helped. Admittedly on the date I am writing this review the wheelchair accessible doors weren't open and the bell to alert the staff wasn't working. However, the locals let me in and alerted a staff member to the broken lift. As it goes the alarm system to alert the staff member that the lift was broken was also broken! The staff member called seemed entirely unaware of these issues and then seemed angry with me for bringing them up. This was entirely offset by the friendlies of the locals who seemed to be apologising on the pubs behalf. There is an issue with using the small lift to the upper level of the lower floor (only 3 steps up) and that is that you chair can easily be longer than the actual space needed to load the chair in!!!! I've used my daughter's Rollz Motion to illustrate the issue. Even worse is if you have a family sitting there when you need to use the loo as they will have to move! In all my time coming here though - this has only happened to me once. However, in order to use that corner seat with my Q200r (which is a very small chair) I had to actually park my chair partly on the ramp in order to eat at the table! Otherwise I can't really complain about this pub.