Hadn’t been to Tonbridge Wetherspoons in a while so went in the other day and oh.. my.. word.. the dirtiness of the place… I don’t think their glass washer was working properly as I ordered a bottled drink with a pint glass on the side (it was that grimy I dare not ask for a draft beer) and the glass was COVERED in dirt! Pint glasses have to be completely clean and crystal clear in order to get a good head of foam on the top otherwise the beer will taste gross! I asked for a cleaner glass so the barman looked around and handed me a less dirty pint glass saying “that cleanest we got.”… still dirty… I drank my drink from the bottle.

The tables were all sticky to the touch and the Wetherspoons newsletters were all over the place in a messy heap. It was clear no one had come to clean these tables in a long while and it wasn’t exactly a busy day either. Tbh I don’t think it had been cleaned in a few weeks or even a few months…

My girlfriend ordered the garlic bread as she was craving it and this circular cardboard turned up… dry as the Sahara she said and I’ll be honest I didn’t try it. Kept thinking how disgusting the pub was so didn’t want anything coming out of the kitchen and into my stomach. No thank you. Tried to tell her not to eat it but she was hungry… I’m shocked she’s not sick as a dog right now, honestly, she’s always been lucky like that to be fair.

Then you had the citizens of Tonbridge come in who are mostly very nice people, but there was one group who sat near us who were very loudly celebrating the fact that they spiked so many drinks the night before. This naturally made my girlfriend and I very uncomfortable and I’m surprised they were even let inside in the first place.

I know people will say it a Wetherspoons, you pay what you get which I understand but I also care about safety standards and hygiene. If the place is left dirty, cockroaches come in and those groups of lads were definitely cockroaches. The chain bosses need to send in a secret shopper to see for themselves what a state it’s in and the poor quality they’re putting out. If the bar is that dirty then I dare not think what state the kitchen is in… gross! Come on Wetherspoons, get your act together! Won’t come back again for some time till glasses are clean and staff pick up the antibacterial multisurface spray and clean their pub!