The Admiral Byng in Hertsmere

Standard wetherspoons pub. Great value compared to usual pub prices

Nice spoons. Always clean with no empty glasses left out and tables always wiped, Unlike most Wetherspoons. Good beer and staff nice.

Manger was so rude can’t believe she is the manager she should be sacked how she speaks to people outrageous will not be going there again shame really because the rest of the staff was lovely. If you don’t want to loose customers I suggest you get rid of her !!!!

A very pleasant Sunday brunch sitting in the sun round a table outside. Vegetarian breakfasts were great value

Average experience, however great for breakfast

Cheap booze. Nothing more really. Dark inside even when the sun is out 🤣 It's a spoons

A 'Spoons, does what it says on the tin but slightly above average

Went 09/10/2024 evening around 3.30pm Managers was very rude. Not helping at all. Feel like very racist. Need to be polite and nice for the customers. He doing this many time for me. Next time take a picture and will upload it. Drink was made wrong. Asked about it from the Manager. Surprise , he doesn’t no about as well. Food was disgusting. Missing food as well.

It's the 🥄 spoons nice food cheap as chips

For the first time - ever - the staff are sectioning-off areas of the Admiral Byng pub! We attempted to sit by the window, only to find chairs had been placed to obstruct the whole area. When we asked the guy behind the bar why we weren't 'allowed' to sit where we've been sitting for years, he said it was a new rule, to save the wait-staff from walking. Are they that lazy? I would really love to know...

Bit dry bit slow bit depressing

Family get together in a spacious pub. Very good service and very inexpensive compared to other pubs. Food was good

Felt like an old fashioned pub atmosphere. Everyone knew everyone else, all walks of life mingling together Food was very decent and dirt cheap, as where the drinks.. Cannot fault the place

Worst food l ever had here friends didn't get what was described on menu with thier burgers had to ask person who server the table. also everybody's food was cold and coffee milk wasn't hot enough l always had no problem with this restaurant but to day was a bit of a let down

Try this location and you are not gonna regret it! Fully satisfied!

Great experience. Best steak I've ever had in a pub. Friendly service from all staff except a member who could have been management or owner, who for some reason thought it smart to waltz in and out of the kitchen without washing hands or at covering shoes etc. Rest of the team: amazing job all around.

Typical wetherspoons. Cheap drink and food.

Nice weatherspoons. Quiet eating section with tasteful decor like an admiral's library. Interesting historical information, photos and exhibits.

Went for a birthday lunch but got turned away by a new manager as we had our family dog with us. There was no one sitting outside but we were told it was their policy that dogs were not allowed inside or out. We have previously been before with our dog and have never been refused. We are supposed to be a dog friendly society and i cannot see any problem with a dog sitting outside. Instead of worrying about dogs they should perhaps clean up their outside areas where a dog, if they were allowed, would sit. Shame on you Wetherspoons.

Went for a breakfast today and whilst I appreciate the pub was busy, the service was awful. Food was cold and came out haphazardly or was missing. Heard other customers complaining about the same issue too. Waitress did her best but was run off her feet, and seemed to have no support and appeared to be working on her own. When we spoke to the manager he clearly wasn't interested in what we had to say, and again I appreciate that he was busy but his attitude was not acceptable. We will not return to this particular Wetherspoons again.

Typical Wetherspoon. Medium sized. Fantastic value.

Great atmosphere and friendly helpful staff. Nice selection of food and drinks. Great place to meet up with friends.

Fairly run of the mill Wetherspoons.

Great food and drink at a great price.

The food is hit and miss..sometimes it's great..sometimes it's terrible either overcooked or undercooked

We eat here quite often when we can’t be bothered to cook at home. The service is always good and the food never takes long to come out, the food itself is perfectly nice for what you are spending. If your looking for a nice quick meal than your be happy with this place.

Very busy weatherspoons, cheap beer, didn't eat. Paul

Friendly service. Food was really lovely. Great value for your money💰

Typical high street Spoons, with friendly staff, lots of tables, no garden or car park. There is parking near by.

Drinks came within 1 minute of ordering on the app

The staff are fabulous at this wonderful pub nice and polite and food is pretty good to xxx

Been coming here for a few years now. Never had an issue. Food always comes fairly quick and it's tasty.

A member of staff was extremely rude and snapping at us, other customers, young members of staff…really spoiled the vibe. Swearing loudly about the customers too. Awful, won’t be back.

Great Spoons, nice and tidy good staff, quick decent food too 👍

I had a Sunday Brunch there with a friend. Food perfectly prepared and hot. Bottomless refill on Hot beverages from machine offering very wide choice coffee. Great surrounds with bookshelf and ancient facts about the Admiral Byng. Lovely place

Had a lunch date with my gorgeous family, the food was good but bloody slow! There was a good selection for my veggie husband but we waited nearly an hour for our food! My darling children didn’t complain and finished their plates, wish they would do that at home lol! I miss the old days when you would speak to an actual person, didn’t enjoy the app ordering. Signal was poor so ended up pressing the button twice and ordering two rounds of drinks, silly cow I am! Overall wasn’t a bad experience, would recommend ordering at the bar!

Really good atmosphere and food for a Friday night

Nice and spacious inside, nice vibe. Bot liking the almost permanent scaffolding on its exterior. My first visit there September '23, and it's still erected, with what seems to alude to very little progress of improvements/ repairs, if that were the original intentions for the building.

This place is amazing you can go and get a decent meal pizze burger salad breakfast literally anything with a drink of you choice ( yes doubles involved) for around a tenna. Place to be in these hard times

Burger and chips I enjoyed though a little on the small side. Service was good and for the price not bad.

Like a Weatherspoons, friendly staff. Food was ample and hot also the beer was lovely.

Actually the nicest pub in area. Best Wetherspoons I’ve ever been in. Spacious, good friendly staff and very clean. Obviously much better value than local competition

Nice local pub but could really do with updating

I come sometimes in the evening after work - it's a boozer, a proper pub....this is a compliment 👍🏻

nice atmosphere and staff ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Went for meal with family the food is absolutely awful, no stars. Why would you serve that food jacket pots were powder I would not recommend going there to eat, manager questioned what we ordered stating not on menu although the meal requested was on there, she was rude in her responses I would give no star. Other staff members were great thou.

Food was lovely and good value for money. Girl serving was very polite and friendly (colourful hair)

Good food, excellent value drinks and friendly staff made for a pleasant lunch. Will visit again

A really nice, clean and inviting pub.

The byng used to be my local and I'd been going there for 20 plus years. They used to offer good value for money on food but nowadays it has gone right downhill. You pay more for food and get less

Delicious Haggis, Neeps and Tatties for Burns week 😋..

The manager is highly disrespectful to paying customers, i did not have a good experience here due to her informal behaviour.

Typical Wetherspoon ordered on the app. Nice pint of Abbot , head a little big. Nothing else to say really, basic.

Pizza was lovely beer good price as well will return soon

Beer selection was good and the service was great The atmosphere was good it's well worth a visit.

The staff were lovely. The booze was cheap. The beyond meat burger was as dry as ghandis flip flop. The owner of wetherspoons is a racist, bigot who treats his staff like dirt. There was a group of middle aged men near us I enjoyed listening to. They were probably low level drug dealers. Took me back to the old days.

JUst had a breakfast at the Byng. Staff were OKish. But nice and friendly. Breakfast was a good standard. Can not really complain as price was decent. Will be back to another Spoons at some point.

The Beer was good. By that I mean well kept the staff were good too making sure the Beer was at the top of the glass when they served.

Great ambience and service, loved the large mixed grill.

Large breakfast & bottomless coffee 🤔... Can't beat it for a meeting 👍

Really nice for the price, great value. Can't fault 5 bellies full of beer and food for £65. Lovely lunch.

Not the best Wetherspoons I've been to but if u r in the area it is probably best pub around Have to say definitely improved and is in the current Good Beer Guide 2024

Good place to have a beer good prices food good service good nice place to relax outside in the summer

Another great breakfast was had

Value for money breakfast and free refills of hot drinks

I popped into this pub for a quick drink did not really enjoy it and popped out again

Quick and efficient service. Excellent real ales

Amazing value for money gutted it's closing down!

A good place to stop off after a good walk

It's a Wetherspoons. It's like reviewing water. You know what it is. Bar was spacious and service was prompt on a Saturday lunchtime. Can say no more.

The pub is amazing there anything is that they need to get contract cleaners in there again to start cleaning the buildings that's the only thing is to cleaning they used to have contract cleaning in their and the place used to be spotless that's really really the only thing they need to get proper cleaners back in there

As ever reasonably priced food and drinks

Busy with good atmosphere. Excellent service.

Went Saturday night , four of us . 4 main meals and drinks for £40 , you can’t go wrong . Very busy at 6.30 , but service was quick . My spicy chicken and rice was actually lovely , dirty burger and chips looked a bit lost , two curries ok , popadoms not really that edible , should have asked for replacement . All in all very good value for money , let’s face it you know what your getting . Probably one of the better Weather Spoons that I have been in to , better clientele than some .

Its a Spoons.. cheap beer and unhappy people. Service was very slow

Enjoyed the food and visit. Hope to go back in the not too distant future.

Another pretty standard spoons a short walk from the Potters Bar station. The usual seating inside including a raised area to the right and a few tables out the front with everything clean and tidy. The staff were wonderful: very friendly and helpful. The Guinness was excellent

Good place to go for early morning breakfast

Will not be coming back !!! This pub isn’t dog friendly !!!

Just got my first pint went to sit outside to be approached by a guy saying take my number I sell coke and dat init! I was quite shocked at this apart from that the staff seemed friendly and the beer was cheap

You know roughly what you are going to get with a wetherspoons, whilst this is not one of the repurposed buildings it is not a pub that has been around for hundreds of years so it suffers as a retail outlet below flats with only one wall with any natural light which isn't bad in summer as all the windows open to let air in but is dark and dingy in the winter months

Clean and good value Wetherspoons with many locals always eating on deal nights

Wetherspoons is always best place to grab grub and beer

Nice enough Spoons which often has dark real ales, which is why I choose to come here.

Great staff. Warm and friendly atmosphere

Amazing experience. Good food and drinks along with friendly staff.

Visited the pub today, felt very sorry for the boy behind the bar working single handed. It took 15 minutes to get served. The pub had a serious lack of staff on fathers day, not what it should be and was generally untidy with used plates on tables.

Horrific. Over an hour wait for a simple order. Off the scale aggression from the young lady serving. Customers moving plates from one full table to another.

Great budget pub with a fantastic choice of beers and lagers

It’s a very clean and organised pub. Considering the prices of the food and drinks (cheapest pub chain in UK I reckon‼️), it would be petty to grumble that the food isn’t gourmet ‘gastro pub’ standard & style. Great service also when I visited‼️

Service is very good. Guinness is always top notch Clientele varies on the day. Visit every week from St Albans on the 84 bus. 5 mins walk from bus and train station. Return journey on 84 is just across the road. Definitely worth a visit.

Always a great atmosphere, staff are amazing and courteous no matter the state of the clientele!

Food was cold and not very good worst meal I've ever had will never eat there again.😡

I put one star review because I couldn't find -star . My steak was so bad it ended up on the floor the whole steak. By far the worst steak I've ever had.

Nice staff and good atmosphere!

Fantastic J.D.Wetherspoon's. Great friendly staff, cheap prices, and good decor. The range of real ale is very extensive, there always seems to be a new beer here that I've not tried before, which encourages me come again to sample them. The service is fantastic, all the staff make it obvious they want to please, and make you feel welcome. The patrons have always seemed friendly, and well behaved, giving the pub a lovely atmosphere. This is definitely one of my favourite J.D.Wetherspoon's, and I look forward to coming here whenever I'm in the area. I highly recommend this fine public house, pop in if you're in the area, you'll love it!

Paid my way gave my respects then been told I could not have my medication in site. Shame on the knowledge of staff.

Cheap drinks good food. Great to meet people at. Well done the byng.

At last! The loos have been refurbished. Resumes its place as the best pub in the area for real ale.

A big wether spoons looking a bit tired but clean, good service outside seating, usual beer selection at reasonable prices.