The Wild Boar Houghton le spring in Sunderland

Great food, good prices. Very busy and tables not cleared quick enough

Nice little boozer. Good prices.

Good atmosphere on match days and selection of drinks. The quiz nights are good.

Lovely little place, no freaks about.

What you expect from a Weatherspoons

Miserable manager, rest of the staff are great

Service from management is appalling

One of the best Wetherspoons I've been to. Easy access, totally disabled friendly. Good service from friendly staff. This time around the food wasn't as good, lack of some main items on the menu, steak was under cooked(It was a nice piece of meat), chips were typically plastic, but the baked potato was good. Service was excellent. Atmosphere was pretty good for a damp Wednesday night.

Inept bar staff who struggled to pull a pint, dirty tables, and a generally grotty pub. Worst wetherspoons i have visited, and i visit alot of them.

My local. Good food, good drinks, and good service.

We went to have a typical English breakfast with eggs, bacon, sausages and beans with 2 pieces of bread and I really loved it Table service was fast The pub wasn't very clean but it was cozy I was surprised to see people drinking pints at 10 in the morning By the way, the price of that breakfast was approximately £7.

It's a wetherspoons, you know what you're getting, this particular place has wonderful staff who are very diligent and the local clientele are always chatty and friendly

An unexpected stop off but enjoyed the daytime atmosphere

Came here for breakfast yesterday. Friendly staff as always and food and drinks arrived promptly and with no fuss. Recommended.

Manageress biased towards her favourites,Deputy managers fine especially Tony LP

Very good speedy service and enjoyable food/beer

Same as all the wetherspoons but food is still good 🤠

cheap as chips very friendly and efficient staff

One of the better wetherspoons in the north east

Met up with friends but won't be rushing back anytime soon

Came in on the morning of (1/7/24) @ 09:30 for 2 drinks, to be served by a lady behind the bar. Very unprofessional and a rude personality. No please or thank you, and definitely take my custom elsewhere where they will appreciate the customers. Disgusting.

Love this bar. The breakfast is fantastic

Lovely as always. A reliably calm environment at the back dining area for eating. Thank you. We will be back again when in the area.

Probably the best spoons in the north east , always quick friendly service , especially from the dude Jed who deserves recognition and praise for generally always being on the ball , what a guy

Clean, quiet and lovely, helpful staff. Staff always used to ask if everything was alright in Spoonies, but don’t these days, except here. Food was served quickly and was well presented and tasty. We will come again!

After finding out I'm prediabetic I'm sad to learn they don't sell a low calory sugar lager to drink so I've had to find elsewhere to drink so no good for diabetics unless you can stomach wine like I cant. Shame you do nothing for diabetics lager wise some foods hopefully you do soon and I can return to my local!

Staff was friendly and efficient. A lovely meal satisfied by everyone of us. We all ate different food. So that tells me the standards are great. Clean tables to choose from and those away from the bar allowed semi-privacy to discuss family matters. Food was very tasty infact more tasty than from other wetherspoons. I use many wetherspoons in London and near the South coast of England but now mainly the North-East too. Reliable food but not every wetherspoons pub has it's food presented or cooked so well. Thank you. I will call again and will tell everyone of my lovely meal.

Chair has crippled my arthritic hips, can barely walk, food was nice good service and nice n chilled in there

Typical Wetherspoons. Good food and great choice of beers etc

Great place. food is really good . Extremely busy at all times but a dab place to eat.

Such miserable staff in this wetherspoons, no smile or thank you! The place itself is cozy, but prices are getting to high and now need to be capped!

This has to be one of the best weatherspoons around the staff are very friendly and the atmosphere is very friendly it always seems to be busy we have a plant based diet and they are always happy to adjust and accommodate our diet if you are passing call in you are assured of a warm friendly welcome

It was pleasant enough, a bit tight fir space. So a little uncomfortable because of this. Looked as if it could be a bit rough at times though as the staff all wore body cameras.

Family get together for 36. Mix of adults and children. Staff were fantastic nothing was to much trouble. All food great. Thanks to Sarah for organising tables and massive thanks to kitchen, bar and waiting staff for all their help and hard work in making our night a great success. See you all soon.

Very friendly staff and reasonably priced

Just been for a drink to catch up with an old friend. Loved it

New local, wish there were more out of the way seats like table 1

Drinks only great place drink vfm

Very nice pub and I always enjoy coming here for a catch up with a friend for food and drinks! Used to do the quizzes here years ago which was a lot of fun too. Probably one of the better pubs in the area as I can sit there for hours drinking with a mate and there's always never no issues and it just has a nice atmosphere no bother at all.

This is a decent pub and one of only a few in the centre of houghton. I've been in a few times lately for drinks, breakfast, lunch or dinner. The drinks are always good and food is ok, your normal wetherspoon fayre. Unfortunately it's the cleanliness of the pub that is a concern at the moment. Plates are left piled up for a long time without being collected after customers have eaten. Often if you find a free table it's got the remnants of other customers meals still on the table. Sometimes the table tops are wiped but there's a lot of debris under the table. I understand its harder to get staff nowadays in hospitality but there needs to be a lot more cleaning done in this bar. Also the coffee machine frequently runs out of milk and you have to search for staff to replenish it . Lastly the toilets frequently run out of toilet roll and aren't replaced

THERE WAS NO CHOCLATE SAUCE ON MY BROWNIE I am not okay this is not okay I’m on the verge of tears this isn’t acceptable at all

Nice food, cheap, with a drink, you get what you pay for basically, lovely staff, all good 👌

Very clean very polite and food good

Don't get me wrong it a great pub all of the staff are great except one thick doesn't come close twice in the last three month she has served me and twice she has getting it wrong trying to push doubles when ordering singles then putting wrong mixer in won't be letting her serve me again she is a liability to wetherspoons

We love the wild boar. Staff are soo lovely . This afternoon we enjoyed a cple of drinks before ordering an afternoon meal deal. We have enjoyed the fish and chips numerous times but this afternoon we were served a plate of batter with a miniscule amount of fish. Come on wetherspoons if fish is so xpensive take it off the menu

Good food, good prices, helpful staff.

Didn't have food but what was coming out looked hot and well presented

As spoons go its one of the best.

Busy pub with friendly staff who work very hard

Lovely establishment, clean bright, friendly staff. Good service, food looks great, haven't tried.

Steak a little chewy, burger was nice though and the fact that the plates were hot shows some good customer service also where were the mushrooms but the pepper sauce and blue cheese sauce were lovely will definitely be back

If you are too bored to cook they are ok. The service, quality and portions will be reflected in the price. Me personally I will not visit again, I prefer paying maybe a bit more but have a decent cup of coffe and food.

Had missed cheese on burger, when i disputed order was told I didn't order it, only when my guest and I were adamant we had paid for it, he went to ask kitchen and returned with cheese slice on ANOTHER plate. Within 5 minutes off eating was asked if we would leave at a certain time as he wanted our table for reserve, and again interrupted our meal to lay reserve cards out. I was meeting with a friend for lunch which is rare, and the whole scenario ruined our meal and experience.

Absolutely fantastic food great place to be for emmerdale nostalgia.!!

Fabulous service and fabulous staff we go at least 2 times a week .

Nice visit, food... well its Spoons ain't it, you know what you're getting. Staff friendly.

Prices were lot higher than other weatherspoons

Regularly visit to meet up with family for catch up and always food

Had a birthday lunch for a friend 75

Easy to get to - just off A690. Variety of food on offer. Easy to use app to order table service. Prices very reasonable and plenty of healthy eating options available.

Very good value for money. Excellent service.

Food was really good I have been before And we'll go again

Great people, we took a baby here who was quiet the whole time and when the workers and other people saw her they were all very friendly.

It's a witherspoon venue, so cheap drinks and food however very pleasant. Service was good.

It's has pleasant staff and great prices.

The final branch we visited this weekend. Definitely takes on a different demographic after around 19:00 on weekends (i.e. gets much louder!) We left soon after to drive back to Stockport. Nothing much to say other than it was very busy!

Staff friendly good food and nice atmosphere x

Nice pub with all the stuff you would like 👍

Food was fantastic love the real ale

Not a bad place to be fair but the toilets are out of this world. Can hear people sniffing and having full conversations with themselves 🤣

A fantastic night had by all. Food was good, service was good.

Pleasant service at the bar and putt food was fresh, particularly my salad. No wilt. Very well priced.

Nice food, cheap prices, nice atmosphere :)

Good atmosphere and decent food for cost...

Nice pub prices great. Only issue couldn’t find a clear table had to pick a table that had not much on it. Eventually after we got drinks it was cleared

Nice pint and very reasonable prices

Been quite a few times and always enjoyed our meals until today I would never give back, oumrdered 2 burger meals for myself and husband and curry rice and chips for my grandson.i must say the place was buzzy but no excuse the meals came what was a dry bun with a grain and 2 greesy tasteless burgers in and blob of tomato sauce with a dozen half cooked frozen chips slung on plate, grandsons curry rice and chips with nann bread and poppadoms he said was just the worst, rice was clumped together curry had a skin on it poppadoms you could bend chips raw inside everything was left, terrible won't ever return and all the people I have told to visit this place will be warned not to bother,we left there and won't return. Forgot to mention I had to get bottle of mayonnaise as food was that dry and bottle was empty a managed to get one squeeze out of it.i wish I took more photos but my grandson just wanted to leave

Good food and drink. Looking forward to real ale festival from the 22nd March.

Just a regular Wetherspoons,,, but loads of seating & always clean & welcoming

Excellent, as always. Super fast service and hot hot food.

cheap drinks and food free coffee refills. worth a visit

Went here for lunch, 1st time we had been in the Wild Boar. Not a great experience. Lots of local history displayed which i found interesting at the start, and the loos were looked after.. however it went downhill from there. We noticed the seating area was generally unkempt with dirty plates lying about, stains on the seating and not a very clean feeling, but we were hungry and wanted to give the place a chance so we ordered food. Problems at the bar: asked for a coke and a small wine, got given two wines, so a refund was needed as alcoholic drinks are a higher cost with the meals. 2nd problems, i requested two orders of garden peas with our meal, when it arrived it was with one mushy peas and one garden. When we informes the server of this we were met with quite a patronising and annoyed attitude, even being asked "well what would you like me to do?" We decided to keep the order as we were very hungry by this point, but when we opened the cutlery from the napkins they looked very unclean and one fork even looked like it had dried gravy on it. So we asked for a clean set at the bar. The server came over to apologise for all of the issues and we thought that was the end of it..... The food itself was ok but as i went to take a drink from my coca cola i noticed red lipstick around the rim of the glass so at this point I left the drink and we quickly finished our meal and left. Wouldn't return, far too much went wrong unfortunately.

Good Spoons pub , very busy , as usual great selection of beers, which you can't fault, food was good , hardly any waiting time.

Great service nice breakfast, would recommend it.

Came here yesterday. Me and the partner Fast service / friendly staff and beautiful hot food! And deserts are gorgeous!! Cant beat it I can never complain ❤️

Cheap and good. It’s a spoons what do you expect.

Been a few months since ive been in here. Last time with the family there was a problem with a meal. Well its never changed. Aeven of use including children all had a neal with a drink. My daughters drink consisted of gin and lemonade which shehadto leave as it wasnt drinkable. Complained to staff but it was not exchanged. She then bought a jug cocktail with gin in and most of that got left. My wife had gammon and ja cket potato. However when it arrived the potato was cold. After informing same member of staff it was taken away and brought back later after been warmed up. I cannot see us going back in near future if this is the standard. Wetherspoons need to address issues like this or risk going under. We have had many ¹issues like t his in other of their resteraunts . Normally i would recomnend Wetherspoons brand but not on this showing.

Wasn't in there just parked beside it

Great place. The breakfasts are well worth it. The staff are helpful and professional.

Great clean and friendly, always a good atmosphere with an excellent selection of drinks along with decent pub grub, always good deals to be had 👍

The food order was wrong and when I asked them to put it right the peas still never arrived! The chicken was awful and gave me horrendous indigestion. 😢

An excellent experience. Welcoming staff and well prepared and presented food and drinks.

My 1st visit and not the last.. Golf was off at Copt Hill so had I had a Large Breakfast with my playing partner.. This is one of the best 'Spoons I've visited and like all Wetherspoons offers great value for money. What gives this a 5* plus is the service from the staff and clean tables..First among equals for "Spoons" for great service & a delicious breakfast... Regards

Food is nice, staff are always busy

Great food and a friendly atmosphere

Friendly staff, good food, still value for money.

Horrible. Dirty tables. Slow service. Dark and grotty. Poor excuse for a spoons

A very chilled pub staff are friendly

Absolutely fabulous breakfast and service

Good food good friendly smiling staff.nice atmosphere. Xx