The Hippodrome (JD Wetherspoon), Market Drayton

A fairly generic Wethers and in keeping with the disappointing real ales available in the town, this also has a poor selection. It is, however, cheap. The interior is described elsewhere and seeing its next to the bus station its worth a visit.

This was the town cinema although it had other guises before JDW got it. It is recognisable as a cinema with a foyer entrance, a high ceiling and the bar on the right. There is a raised area to the left and some huge red lamp shades and the fact that the toilets are at ground floor level is a plus. There are two sets of five hand pumps one of which had two unused and was advertising three festival ciders. The other set had the JDW Trio Of Doom, Slater's Special and Lymestone Stone The Crows. The standard guest price here was £2.05 but the Lymestone beer was only £1.49. I went for a festival cider (£2.39) which was the joint lowest festival price I'd seen. I thought this was a reasonable Spoons but it was let down by a poor beer choice.

As Alan points out this is a large one roomed JDW pub with plenty of space and very high ceilings.Called in on a Tuesday lunchtime before my bus was due and was a little disappointed at the very poor range of cask beers on the bar.

The Hippodrome is a fairly big Spoons that is the closest pub to Market Draytons small bus station. Once inside there is a very large oblong shaped room,there is a seatoing area to the front with normal tables and chairs,once in the main room the bar is to the right,there were tall tables and stools near the bar and a raised area opposite it with more comfortable seating. The beer choice was very poor for a Spoons with only four differernt beers being on,i had a drink of Three Tuns 1642 which was ok,the other beers were Woodlands mild,GK Abbot x2 and Ruddles best x2. The pub was fairly busy on my morning visit. This Spoons was ok for a quick drink but not much more. Pub visited 15/6/2013

very friendly pub, staff polite and good beer at right prices.