The Shoulder of Mutton - JD Wetherspoon in North West Leicestershire

Nice pub bit of a wait to be served

Lovely pub great beer garden with smoking and non smoking areas it is extremely busy which is where all the problem with this pub come from, they definitely needed more staff on (feel sorry for the staff who are at work on busy time ) every table was full of dirty plates and glasses inside and out, the toilets are disgusting and not checked by the looks of it, they serve the people they know over people who have been waiting longer if you go to the bar but table service is very quick when the app works overall the pub is nice enough just be prepared to have to sit at a dirty table

Overall a very nice spoons in a great location. Friendly staff.

Went for work, looks a good place

Very nice pub good food great beer garden

Had a early evening drink that turned into a late night booze. Used the ap for ordering. Considering how busy it was, the service was very good, the staff worked really hard. Ordered a pizza and chips etc which for pub grub was fine. Recommended.

Toilets are a bit inaccessible. Food was quick and tasty.

Food was lovely warm welcoming staff and fast service

One of the best weatherspoons I've ever been to, fabulous garden area too.

Good quick service, the app works really well

As always you know that the food is consistent and prices fair this pub has a nice outdoor space and it's a pleasant experience

Not bad , we don’t go to ‘spoons very often as we have a dog and they don’t allow them even outside, no complaints really decent but definitely not dog friendly.

Always good value for money, food was quality.

Only had a beer but service good. Pricing and range of beers good also. Beer garden a bonus also.

Great pub clean and fresh great outdoor area cheap as chips well done tim

Nice and modern spoons. We only had drinks, good value

Worse wetherspoons ever, took an hour to receive our breakfast after being told there was a 20 min wait on food and there was items missing

Food cold had to clear my own table and full of school kids who are clearly under 16 they are in uniform and all in all very poor food...

Went for breakfast, ordered large English, came out cold, sent it back and was supposed to have been a fresh one, barely warm, eggs inedible as they were hard and looked like they had been sat there for hours. I know weather spoons is cheap and cheerful and I have had good breakfasts in a few, but the majority of times the breakfasts have always been sent back as cold, this is not just Ashby, Leicester cornexchange is the same.

Having just popped in for a quick bite to eat, I can highly recommend the fish and chips

service is horrible, was waiting 2 hours for my food just for them to cancel it. absolutely ridiculous. staff are rude, its rare to find a member of staff thats actually nice.

Excellent venue usual Wetherspoons decor and value for money had an excellent breakfast Saturday morning. Ashby is a lovely town.

Love the waiters here, they're always so nice 👍🙂

Great service good food nice place can't fault it 👍

Good pub in good spot but obviously had serious issues today with gents toilets, buckets and flooded floors , wouldn't put us off returning as staff were working on it, had breakfast and lunch today, our 1st. Visit service was good.

Great full English, and you can get refills on your hot drinks

Lovely place with really good prices. Quick service, easy order via the app. And really tasty food.

Food was lower than average very disappointed,

Nice sized Wetherspoons, cosy private side booths, decent prices, free coffee refills ⭐⭐⭐⭐

Good is OK but, portions seem to have shrunk over the years like everywhere else in the UK. Some good draft beers.

Great meal, hot and tasty with really quick service. Will definitely come again.

Lovely pub plenty of choice of beers and snacks

Called & had a breakfast & coffee this morning, all very nice & quick service, only one "niggle", two pieces of my four slices of bacon were cremated, juat keep an eye out , or other wise ,very nice,very reasonable & filled a very nice gap..

Lovely food and served with a smile. Nicely decorated and cheery. Only drawback for me is the ladies is up 2 flights of stairs .

Tables full of empty plates of left food and empty glasses. Bar staff just stood talking to each other and not clearing up. Shall not be going back complete mess and my friends beer which was Worthingtons flat and no head on it . Disgusting. Bar staff need training and sorting out .

Been to location several times before during the day without issue. Went last Saturday evening 22/3/24 and found a totally different atmosphere. Full of young men drinking and as we found out some were using drugs. My son needed to use the toilet and went into a cubicle. Before he finished a group of young men started kicking and banging on the door. When my son came out several of the men went into the cubicle together and my son saw them snorting what I suspect is coke. My son returned to our table quite shaken up especially as sat nearby was the same group of men. We left at this point. Not what we expected or have experienced before!

Good old Wetherspoons, never let you down

Its a typical weatherspoon it's clean and staff helpful the food is good too

Probably the nicest wetherspoons I've been in

Standard Wetherspoon's fare,service not bad,good beer garden,good range of beers,wines and spirits, food has gone downhill lately, beans cold , bacon uncooked, crossed off my breakfast list ugh!

Another excellent Wetherspoons venue. Excellent value and food served at just the right temperature.

I love the look of this spoons its stylish and cozy, busy as always but I managed to find a quieter spot.

Typical Wetherspoons pub with food. Great value for basic fodder. Looks like it might have had bit of a makeover since my last visit. Not a lot of elbow room but service at bar and table was excellent.

Nice pub, typical Wetherspoons, excellent covid precautions but a bit slow on the app beer drlivery. Can't complain as a busy Saturday. Updating to add: staff are totally lovely here, food is some of the best spoons I've had. There's a nice outside area for summer and paid parking is behind the supermarket next door.

Just a eating place, bar staff are totally useless 😑

For Wetherspoons it's lovely. No-one smoking at the doors when you enter or leave. Not too dark and dingy Food was surprisingly good, fat and grease free. Not high end cuisine, but good pub grub at very good value for money. Do not expect all Wetherspoons pubs to be the same. This one's worth visit

Usual Wetherspoons food and drink. All perfectly OK especially when the amount paid is taken into account. It's a shame that there are always so many uncleared filthy tables. Nothing has been learnt from Covid.

I ordered a steak asked for it rare and it was very chewy. It came very late also.

All as you would expect from a Wetherspoons. I keep using them! Unbeatable value for money.

This place would benifit from hiring more staff.

A warm welcome, quick and cheap food. Went as a family of four for a quick bite after being in the wet and windy weather. Good bar staff, food arrived quickly and was nice - great value for money.

We visited The Shoulder of Mutton in May 2023. The pub is huge, combining the old buildings of the historic pub with modern extensions. Inside the pub is open, with a wonderful bar well-lit by a skylight and small, more secluded seating areas to the side. At the rear is a huge beer garden, decorated beautifully with planters and flower boxes. Check out our website or visit our socials (@wethowanderers) to read our full review of the pub!

Really nice pub, atmosphere and food great

A brief visit between destinations. All we needed was a nice hot meal and a quick drink. Pub was busy but service was quick. Food was simple but tasty and just what we needed. We were served promptly with a smile from a very pleasant member of staff. Will definitely stop here if in the area again. Sometimes the type of food served in these establishments is just what you need, tasty, reasonably priced and unpretentious.

Usual good service and quality, quite busy as Xmas market was on but all ran smoothly.

When arrived within 10 minutes (very quick) food was lukewarm & double checked order as was convinced I'd received a child's plate. Ordered desserts 2 came wrong & got told we received what was ordered. Gone down hill drastically since last visit.

One of the best Witherspoon's I've been in.

Needs more attention for cleaning

rude staff. bug eyed and coke eyed manager looked like he was about to cry, incompetent and couldn’t give an answer when a request for a refund was issued due to staffs in capability of asking for a challenge 25 BEFORE

It's fine. It's a Wetherspoons so just as expected.

Lot better than a lot of weatherspoons. My wife had small fish and chips and I had a large fish and chips the only difference was the fish ,we both had the same amount of chips

Ordered a pint of Sambrooks London Porter but received a pint of vinegar instead.

Great ambience, clean and neat. Friendly professional staff. Quick service and lovely hot breakfast. Great bottomless cappuccino. Great value compared to Costa for example with greatly inflated prices 😊👍

It's a spoons! Does what it says on the tin.

Only popped in for a drink, been here before. Great value as always. Loved the building

Breakfast was Discussing and cold. Never again.

Great food friendly service and excellent quality service and value for money

Family friendly Spoons. Feels higher quality interior than most Spoons. Plenty of seating inside and out with some family suited booths and almost Coffee shop seating at the front. Unusual toilets due to age of the building and Ladies have to climb 2nd floors for loos. Good service (although previously Sunday breakfast visit waited nearly 1/2 hour for food!) Variety of Ales well served, good served hot with reasonable portions. Will definitely be revisiting when in the area.

Very nice wetherspoon, really love place to sit especially nest the big windows at the front. Food arrived very hot and it was extremely tasty! Staff were very polite and they asked how our food was and cleared our table up. Ladies toilets were very clean! Coffee machine was easy to use. Really enjoyed it, my favourite meals at a wetherspoons in a long time.

Excellent value for money. We had the fish, chips and mushy peas plus alcoholic drink for about a tenner. Plus a few single Bells whiskies with mixers about £1.80 per shot. The food is always well cooked and the drinks menu is extremely varied at excellent prices.

Spoke to my family horribly poor services and bad attitude

Great outdoors area ! Food smelt lovely but did'nt eat . Hope to go back and eat , still gets very busy and the staff are quick and friendly.

A very good meal served with a smile, they work hard to make you feel welcome.

Even though it was a busy Saturday, service was quick and food was presented well. Everything was cooked perfectly and had nice flavours for the new menu items

Very nice and clean pub. One of the better weather spoons I’ve been too

Great place for a breakfast, especially early on a Sunday morning.

Pay for what you get. Cheap, easy, and fills an hole!

not been for a while after a poor experience last time. so we went today to find nothing had changed. Food warm not hot. Thrown on the plate. Tables not cleaned of previous customers plates etc. i know its a budget friendly place put fell below par tonight.

One of the most beautiful Wetherspoons I've ever had the delight of visiting. The atmosphere was lively and energetic even though it was raining! Service was wonderful albeit the drinks would sometimes take a little while. Toilets nice, big and well maintained. If you're in Ashby I'd recommend going to visit this Wetherspoons. You know what you're getting, but you get it with style.

Very disappointing. This used to be a lovely place and was always worth a visit. Not now though. The food just appeared to be chucked on the plate and it did not taste as good as it used to.

Genuinely lovely staff APART from the one miserable tall(ish) red, short haired woman who always seems to have an attitude

Delicious lunch-steak at wetherspoon.on a day trip to Leeds city.

Came in for breakfast and it was served stone cold. The table next to us also had cold food & received a refund. Shocking service, shocking food!

Pity that the curry on the promoted Curry Club night isn't up to scratch 😞 If Tim does actually read these reviews then please can you make sure that the quality of your food is replicated across all your establishments. Classic chicken tikka masala that my wife had was lacking in chicken, runny in the sauce department and the 'fresh' poppadoms were soft. The 11" pepperoni pizza that my 10 year old had by comparison was extremely good value for money 👍👋 Puddings are a bargain 😁 You need to up your game in certain areas and your reputation will return

The best Wetherspoon's in our area. Excellent selection of drinks and food and good value for money.

Well spaced out ,only called for a drink but the meals look great

What you expect from Wetherspoons. Good food and value for money

Order at table via app, worked really well, great food at great low prices. Excellent.

Fast delivery to table, UK standard for wetherspoons

Good for what it is as a Weatherspoons. Fast, cheap food but cooked well and tasty.

Nice pub with quick table service and friendly staff

Brilliant little place, nice atmosphere and feels safe even on a busy evening.

Excellent service, unlike the nearby brewers fayre who couldn't seat us at any point in the evening.

One of my favourite wethers! Stark contrast to the Coalville one which is literally an old man dive pub. Staff are great

I usually really enjoy Spoons fish and chips but this time it was horrible. The plate was very hot but the food was not. The batter was thick and doughy and most unpleasant. I won't be bothering again.

My chicken tikka masala had the rice still in the plastic rice bag horrible

Was my 1st time in, the place was packed but not uncomfortably so, the staff were all really fast and had a smile on their faces too, would highly recommend, the only down fall, as with all wetherspoons, the toilets are a hike upstairs after a few jars 😉 9.9/10

Rude bar staff female who has no understanding of people with disabilities very ignorant and Rude

Great breakfast and excellent value for money

Nice spicy half chicken. Good price and service