The Albert & The Lion - JD Wetherspoon — Restaurant in England

What can you say really – it’s a ‘Spoons! Expect typical ‘Spoons fayre here.

BAD POINTS: It’s pretty much always busy (we went in the summer holidays, so to be expected) -and it was difficult to get a table. When we did, it was a tiny table which the 5 of us struggled to sit around comfortably.

The place is extremely noisy, so don’t visit if you’re after a quiet drink or meal.

The tables are too close together, plus they were often left laden with previous customers’ dirty plates, glasses and crockery and the tables themselves had a dirty surface.

The menus are filthy, coated in a sticky substance that I don’t dare guess at. Take wipes and anti-bac hand gel!

The food is reheated, low-quality rubbish so it’s ok if you just want something naff to fill up on, not a great quality restaurant meal.

GOOD POINTS: If you have noisy kids of your own, you’ll fit right in here. I’m not saying this to be mean about kids – it’s a definite bonus to our family as we have an autistic 9yo who could shriek or have a meltdown at any moment. He does need his ear defenders on though due to the overall noise levels.

We love ordering via the app as it means we can order as soon as we get a table (after cleaning it and removing any sticky menus, of course) -and the food/drinks were brought in good time.

The food is cheap (in price but also in quality!)

Drinks were better than the food, and glasses of wine very cheap compared to other places – pretty sure it’s wine on draught though which is unusual.

There are loos just down the central stairs which were clean and stocked with loo roll (yay).

Staff were friendly and patient despite being extremely busy and probably not paid well for their efforts.

We visited several times during our week’s family holiday to Blackpool during...

Did we pick the wrong pub or the wrong weekend to visit? We went to Blackpool 10th Aug, the weekend of the air show. We had to queue for a table yet others, who when challenged by doormen, they said they'd stand at the bar, and were let in ahead of us, for you to see them cradling their pints at a table once we were seated. Finally got a table and ordered off the app. Food arrived and we queried where our drink were, the young waitress said 'its not my department' and walked away. Beckoned a manger who was walking the floor and he said 'yes, it looks like the bar app bar person is a little behind!' And 8 minutes into eating our food the drinks finally arrived. Now here the thing, Whetherspoons aren't known for being selective on their patrons but when a very unkept, slight snelly elderly lady, wearing a head scarf and clutching a 1/2 lager tired her best to sit with us !!! 😳wtf !!! I found myself having to be rude to her. Add that too the 3 fellas who were drinking against the slots, oh and blocking the walk way (we were at table 66) making it so there was alot of pushing by other patrons, getting closer and closer to us. One of these lovely fellas had a BB (builders bum) which just further improved the eating experience for us. We're were eating chips that were nearly cold and a the long chips were only partly cooked. My partner had scampi that was luke warm and soggy. The place was far too busy to question or complain. We've eaten in plenty Whetherspoons and this was the worst ever. Not a place we'd hurry to...

It's a 'spoons quite busy as can be expected. We sat out side, don't use the app to order anything, it's pointless. We arrived at the same time as 2 guys we'd spoken to on the tram. Found a table outside, ordered drinks off the App. Went to the toilet as I was walking in the 2 guys were walking out with drinks, and they sat at a table next to us. We sat there, people watching and chatting, 2 women at the other table at the side of us meals arrived, one being a pizza. One of the guys finished his pint the other halfway. The pizza was eaten, and the empty pint man went back to the bar and bought another drink, the ladies left. We tried to stop the seagulls from wreaking the glasses as it stole left chips off the stacked plates, eventually thinking, why should we. Bored, and now man was one and a half pints deep his mate three quarts, I headed to the bar. I saw our drinks sat waiting to be delivered, stood at the bar luckily the manager was the person who came to serve me so i ordered my drinks. I showed him my app receipt on my phone. "Any idea how long I've been waiting? " he looked down the bar seeing my drinks, "do you want a refund? "No, I want my drinks, thanks," So I walked back to our table, with our drinks beating...