The Salt Cot in North Ayrshire

The weather was awful, really grim and we were passing through Saltcoats. The Salt Cot would have to do for a coffee to escape the wind and rain. Bad call. The pub was as tired as we were. The staff were doing their best in very trying circumstances but they were facing an uphill task. The furniture has seen better days, the carpet hadn't had a clean since, well, it looked like forever. If a pub has ever fallen through a net, then The Salt Cot is that pub. The Wetherspoons franchise really needs to invest a few quid in the pub to bring it up to standard. We quickly drank our coffees and headed back into the monsoon. It was the sensible option.

Good place to have some drinks and food. Enjoy their gourmet steak meal and the fish and chips.

Great place, nice beer food etc

Very pleasantly surprised by this place. Not usually drawn to this kind of place but, as I said, pleasantly impressed. Very quick to bring our order to the table and very pleasant and courteous too. Prices are quite reasonable. Quite busy but not problematic - indeed quite a nice ambience. We both had fish 'n' chips which were quite satisfactory.

Standard weather spoons cheap and cheerful

First time eating from here & really enjoyed it, it was cosy inside with the burning fire & it was really clean, I had the chicken strips & they were really good, had the cookie dough sandwich & it was brilliant, the little lady with the specs is a credit to the establishment, she was so polite & courteous, it's so refreshing to see customer service like that.

Staff need to get a grip they're at work not on a night out & treat customers with a little more respect!If not send them home to Mummy & Daddy to deal with their tantrums!

Good food. Excellent service, staff were chatty. Will be going back.

Nice cosy pub with open fire in cornner

Does what it says on the tin. Not too big a place like some, not to noisy and main meal and drink was good value for money. Nice old pictures and information of the town which was interesting to read

Food was cold . Didn't enjoy it 😕

Weatherspoon it good place to have nice meal in good atmosphere

Great prices,food is lovely, coffee really nice,pay £1.50 fill cup all day,got egg Benedict £5 and is delicious:), cheep and cheerful,busy place,nice atmosphere,staff are great :)

Nipped in for some dinner on a quiet mid week evening and the food was delicious and great value, the staff were friendly and helpful. My only criticism is maybe tidy the tables in between customers as a few sat messy. However I can not fault the food. It’s also always regularly busy.

Good stuff. Food service atmosphere all good. Theme nights are a nice touch.

Worked here and came to the Salt Cots. Fantastic staff and service and would recommend this place to anyone

Food in here is always good. I particularly like the steak which you can have done however you like.Great place for families or eating alone. Beautiful building & always a friendly face inside. Staff very friendly, nothing is too much trouble as it's on the high street it's extremely easy to access with buses nearby Specials on during the week

Typical Wetherspoons, but lovely staff

Great place to stop for a bite to eat in the morning. Great service.

Great! Always meet up with friends here!

Had breakfast here two mornings running whilst on holiday. I had a vegan breakfast, not that I'm vegan. It was very enjoyable and plenty. The other breakfast I had was the Scottish breakfast. All good, came out nice and hot. No long wait for service.

Nice spoons cleaner than most food was nice

Great service and has outdoor space so not to warm when needed you can sit outside and order food and drink to the take though the app and wait time not bad usually drinks inside 10min and food inside 20min and so beer the smoking area if your a smoker so great place all round

Best wetherspoon breakfast yet. Definitely recommend. Very attentive staff

Had the vegetarian brunch wrap, would recommend. Staff friendly. Excellent prices, welcoming for families.

Great to see somebody clean tables

Cheap, basic place value for money

Very busy for a Monday lunch! The drinks came out extremely quickly after ordering in the Wetherspoons app. Food was quick too. We ordered the bbq chicken melt which my son enjoyed, and the Beyond Burger with chips, and an extra onion rings and side of roasted vegetables. I should say I ordered an extra beyond Burger patty as the single patty is not nearly as thick as the ones I buy in the supermarket. Burger was tasty, chips were great too. Loved the onion rings and the side of veg was decent. I'm surprised the plate doesn't have some salad on it, as it seems to be pretty bare. Unlimited coffee was appreciated, and I also bought a pint of lime cordial and soda which is a bargain at 78p. :) This is a well supported pub in the centre of Saltcoats, always busy and the staff are great.

Typical friendly spoons. Good "local" pub.

We had breakfast this morning which was fine. I noticed that the underside of both plates were cover in egg yoke and bean sauce. I bought it to the attention of a member of staff, her response was err that's not very pretty and walked away with the plates. No I'm sorry or I'll speak to the manager.

I was emptying the bins so ...not inside but staff so friendly

Went for large breakfast and tea was very good nice. hot plates very impressed and it’s not my first time there. consistent every time i highly recommend it . Il be back

Early arrival in Ardrossan for the ferry to Islay. Thank goodness for google maps saw weatherspoons salt cot opened at 8am , so diverted to here for a bit of breakfast. Service was great, nice and dry inside as weather wet outside. Food was delicious. Coffee tasted great. Prices reasonable. Thank goodness this was open at 8am😀

Same as all other Wetherspoons . Good food.

Used to luv this whetherspoons. 1 manager was great, J knew me understood me and was fine with my going there. Then 1 day he was not working and another 2 managers i had not seen were, i got accused by 1 member of staff V to have touched her bum. I never did the bar was packed and i had to force my way to the toilet from where i was sat. NOTHING SAID ON THE NIGHT Next i went in i got one pint and a manager comes up to me and says i was barred due to the supposed incident a few days before. This manager asked me to come back on my next visit(which as i am english and own a holiday home was a few months) but i did go in, only to be told by the staff the girl who accused me was the only one to allow me back in! so i walked out. The mangers had moved pubs and as of this it was down to someone who stated i touched her in a busy bar to allow me back in, thats just wrong, by any standard even blinkered ceo mentality.. How many people in a really busy bar can pass someone with out accidentally touching someone. Its impossible unless your intangible! As i said this bar had 1 good manager and i liked it but my experience has tainted my enjoyment of this bar

Friendly staff and quick table service even though it was busy. Food average, but for the price you can't complain.

Went for lunch, place looked very run down on the outside, it was a busy lunchtime, & tables weren't cleared. Food not great steak & kidney pudding was dry & hard & chips looked like they'd been cooked to an inch of their life.

Canny go wrong, decent price, food and drinks and that Sean is a good wee boy

Warm and friendly atmosphere. I've given it 4 stars, because it can get really, really hot inside. That's perhaps a personal issue though. Loos on the same floor. Major plus. The food is always great as is the service. Staff are very helpful! There's a community feel to the place and it's frequented by people of all ages.

Had a pepperoni pizza here, it was nice

Another very good Wetherspoons bar and worth a visit

Food is very good for what you pay. Excellent presentation. Staff are very helpful. But bar staff needs training to pour pints sometimes we get 34 of a pint most days .really should be training for the bar staff. We have been drinking in the salt cot for years we have always complained for years but still no change. After approximately 10 years. 3/4 pints and no flakes

One of the few Wetherspoons pubs where the toilets are on the same level as the bar.

Visited for curry day. Meals were excellent and generous portions. Restaurant was busy but we didn't wait long for service

What else can I say, it's a wetherspoons.

Food good and budget friendly. Portions good size, perfect size actually.

Good food friendly staff what more can you say at least it not 3 flight of stairs for the toilet like other spoons lol

Always quick and friendly service when visiting here. Good for any kind of meal or for drinks. Like most Whetherspoons the food can be a hit or a miss but it is good 9/10 times. Staff seem hardworking and are always friendly and helpful. Child friendly too even when visiting 6/7pm on weekends. Can't fault the place, typical Whetherspoons with decent people working hard.

Like it in here but could be doing with a wee revamp inside

Quite a small wetherspoons,but friendly staff. Toilets on same level as restaurant.

Got fish and chips it was really nice .batter on fish was really nice too

Excellent food and staff... My wife and I got stalked by a crazy cross dresser! The creature watch us with every mouthful, it was very off putting, then the cross dresser was taking food and drink from tables, PLEASE WATCH OUT FOR THIS DEVIANT - called Being D on YouTube video 52

Fantastic Pub with absolutely great staff. Food served quickly and cooked to a good standard. Tables reasonably spaced apart so can move. Tables cleaned quickly after people leaving. Also very cheap being Weatherspoons, twice the food for less than a McDonalds.

The problem with this place is everything is variable, depends on what day and what time you turn up as to whether your food is going to be reasonable or checkable! It is about time these places, were brought up to 30 year old standards where everyone was taught how to do it properly!!!

Good pub great service great lassie behind the bar. Nice pint too

Nice pub with decent food and quick service, typical spoons, good pub grub and nice surroundings.

Good place for a meal and to sit in

Excellent breakfast friendly staff

Took my support individual here very accommodating and food nice

It's a Wetherspoons, so you know what to expect. The tables were clean, the food arrived quickly and there was a nice friendly atmosphere.

It was really nice and warm beer was nice and cold to

There are lovely photos of old Saltcotes on the walls. The waiting staff were very attentive to detail in the very busy restaurant. Food arrived promptly, was hot and well cooked. Will return

Good food at reasonable price .

I got the macaroni it was all stuck together definitely heated up in microwave. Plus I had won a voucher worth £20 I had to stand at the bar for 15 minutes before they could accept it as they said about people printing it of so they had to phone a couple of people before they accepted it.

Cosy. An oasis in a run down town

Food was nice and prices are cheap

Asked for brown sauce none second week in a row food still not warm when come to table

Tables were dirty. Food was good.

Good value place. Friendly helpful staff.

I have being coming here for years with my family for lunch/dinner and always enjoy a great meal. The service is quick. I would recommend the salad, it's as fresh as a daisy! The only downside is the mess of the tables at times. Staff need to be quicker at cleaning away plates and glasses for the next people sitting down. Nobody wants to go for a meal and sit for 10/15 mins with a table full of dishes. Worth a visit when in sunny Saltcoats!

Our meal here was good and the service very efficient.

The service was good but the food is awful.

Staff terrible. Asked to clean the table & handed a tissue! Staff chewing gum behind the bar. Certainly won't rush back.

Spoons #150, a milestone in my Spoons quest Interesting little place on the high street On a wet rainy day fancied a bowl of soup was nice All toilets are on the ground floor

We visited on a Saturday afternoon. Very busy, however friendly and found a table. Used the app, didn't have to wait an age for food. This was good, prices are Amazing!! A great little find.

I like the food here, especially the breakfast. Only thing is the toilets are a bit dirty, and they need a clean.

Great staff, Sean is the number 1 guy .very friendly and great person

Run down, and over due for deep clean and new carpets. Seating overdue for reupholstery . Service was the worst of any wetherspoon's I have ever been in. It's a clean your own table kind of place. Was a Sunday so perhaps no manager on site to oversee the ques at the bar, only one staff serving. Its a shame Saltcoats has went the way of this wetherspoon's.

The breakfast is by far the best thing in here, most of the staff seem to walk past dirty tables and leave them for hours on end which is just an eyesore. The breakfast is good value and tasty! The other food I’ve tried many times and seems okay but by this point the place looks a mess!

Fairly gross. In most aspects. Drink was disgusting, floors sticky, atmosphere was sketchy. Only had one drink and moved on.

Wetherspoon always has good prices and the prices here are below average. Food is reasonable and the service is good. I have noticed recently that the cask ale is below par probably because the beer pipes are not cleaned as often as they should. The place is child friendly and there is good parking behind the premises. It is not wheelchair friendly as there are steps at both back and front entrances.

Great breakfast good choice of menu

Great food, staff are very cheerful and friendly 😁

All good...mainly use for going for a couple drinks...but constantly busy says a lot...

Good food and drink served by very nice staff.

Fish chips full of oil fried in oil too hot ,chip no bad. Double burger and chips very pish poor, gammon very disappointed and they couldn't even do a large mixed pish poor

Went in for a drink seemed a bit run down but staff were lovely.

It to small for the volume of customers but if u can get a seat it is nice for a drink and the food is ok

Food and staff was nice lovely pint to

Usual pub grub type of place nice enough

Food delicious, fast friendly service

You know what you are getting when you eat at any Weatherspoons,but the Saltcoat is one of the better ones,the food is always quickly served even when it is busy,the drinks prices are also unbeatable.

Place was jumping,good atmosphere, staff funny, polite and friendly.looked like there was only one lady serving meals to the whole pub.tabkes were filthy.banister sticky.toilets,well never seen a mess like it. Chips were horrible and after a vusit to that toilet was put off.shame if they had more staff it be a great place.never going back.🤮

The place is a tip, tables always filthy and dishes lying everywhere. Always alf a menu as they don't have the correct amount of food ordered. Always short of staff. Seemingly they want to expand into the car park. Need to sort out issues inside first. Customer service, there is none. It's obvious all staff over worked.

Took an hour to get served and then, having bought a gourmet steak, there was no mushrooms or onion rings!

Had a soft drink, was more ice than drink

Very nice place and food was good.

Absolutely lovely food and lovely staff

Its cheap its cheerful you can chat to your mates and the food isnt the worst. Its not haute cuisine but its good enough and portions are decent so no complaints.

Walked in ... dirty table which remained dirty 'i had to eat my meal with dirty crockery beside me .poor service, and tasteless food ....very disappointing See ye in another 10 year