The Henry Bell - JD Wetherspoon — Restaurant in Scotland

Welcomed politely at the front and advised to use the app to order food. Which was fine, as I already had the app on my phone. Found our own table, and ordered drinks and food The drinks appeared quickly. However the pint of Carling tasted like it had been mixed with dishwater. When I complained, and said it tasted funny, could I have a pint of fosters instead. The bloke (who looked like a manager) sniffed it and without apology said I might have to pay more to change it. 2 minutes later a 'pint of fosters' appeared. However this tasted the same and was just left. The food was nice, I had Macaroni Cheese with extra cheese. However the chef forgot the chips and this had to be fetched from the kitchen after being asked for. The waitress was very nice and apologised, and was very attentive when we asked for sauces etc. My friend ordered a Burger with Chilli. This came without the Chilli, we think the Jacket Potato had extra chilli on it, as that had loads. However after the pint issue and the chips issue we couldnt be bothered to ask again. Overall not a great experience but the food we did have was edible though we probably wouldn't visit again. The lager however is an issue and as I come from where Carling is brewed and I know what it tastes like at home and that was definitely not how its...

Was a nightmare visit:

Get there and find a table that still has to be cleared, we wait 20 minutes trying to get attention of waitresses until I go to the bar and ask someone to clear it up.

Order food and they are out of dough so we have to order something else. Was also told they might be out of cheese for Natchos but then told they have some. Natchos came without cheese.

Manager/waitress comes up to us to say one of their waitresses complained that we were 'clicking our fingers' at one of them and wanted to tell us off. Explained we did no such thing and we were trying to get some attention to get the table cleared. At most we waved and called out 'excuse me' to a passing waitress to get attention, said waitress never did return.

So Natchos come out as starter, we sit there for about 45 minutes waiting for the main course. We had to go to the bar again to ask about our food and apparently our order did not change on the system to start cooking the main course. They apologise and said we would get a free dessert.

We then wait a further half hour when they said it would be 15 minutes for our food to come out, go to the bar once again to make sure its definitely coming.

Food finally came and was good, got our free dessert.

Dessert did not make up for the list...

Ah the BENRY HELL always wear a full emersion wet suit on before putting your arms on the tables. It beats drinking cyder, hidden in a brown bag, on a park bench. The floor picture is from a more recent visit Feb 2024.

Pictures of gristley steak, sometimes they are good, but it's roulette. Eggs benedict with hard yokes and dry, over-cooked, rubbery scrambled egg. Picture of gourmet steak's mushroom and a 2p coin. Says it all!

Where you go to drink cheap alcohol and food. No other reason springs to mind to me; and as you can see from the pictures, the gristle on the steak (ordered as rare and came as blue) has to have some kind of award. For goodness sake chef, I mean cook, if you see this, substitute it with a decent one and fling the reject back to your supplier.

Incidentally, using the app gives you some idea of how approaching a black hole slows time down. Start using it as an 18yo and by the time the order is completed online, you can draw a state pension to pay for it.

Picture of the glasses were taken after drinks were delivered and the bar man, oblivious to the mess, walked away leaving them? All hail the mighty Wetherspoons staff training programme.

On the upside, the booze is so cheap, I can get drunk and forget the experience...