The William Dampier in South Somerset

Thanks to James and his team. Great banter, always a pleasure to visit.

I must commend this particular 'Spoons' for it's friendly,warm staff. Great service and value for money. I went there this morning and had a breakfast whilst my car was having some minor work done in a garage nearby. I received a warm welcome on arrival, the food was of a surprisingly good quality and the price was astounding. No wonder it got very busy.

Popped in for a late breakfast on Saturday 30th November. Had the big breakfast, the one piece of bacon was disappointing but generally good value and plentiful. No sugar's by the coffee machine and the table desperately needed cleaning. Still it's spoons and can't really complain 👍 ps if you've never visited Yeovil, the toilets are easy to find and not far away

Mediocre food with a very long wait time. Staff did not seem bothered when we asked why we had been waiting 40 minutes, then said it will likely be longer with no apology.

Friendly staff and super super fast service

Great for family good prices too.

It was busy in here at 10am Saturday, compared to the ghost town outside! Fine inside, but, the exterior of this late 60's/early 70's building, could just be the shabbiest I've ever seen.

Had the worst experience yesterday Was sat on table 7 with my fiancé and my daughter and a bloke had the audacity to start screaming at my 2 year old daughter because she was hyper active it’s made myself and my fiancé feel very embarrassed and uncomfortable but if it wasn’t for some of the lovely locals helping us out the raging would of been much worse

It’s the standard mad full on Wetherspoons boozer with cheap beer and food. Totally packed out for Halloween when I was in there about five deep at the bar. So you needed to load up on drinks to avoid waiting ages for every round. Lots of young people out dressing to impress in their costumes. It was great people watching but not sure I would be a regular if I lived in the town.

We love Spoons. It's nice to see it busy on a Saturday night. Fancy dress going on and everyone enjoying their night. Food and drink is always good for the price! 😀. Service guys are always great, welcoming and friendly even though they are clearly rushed off their feet and should be commended. 😍. Keep up the good work guys.

The place is normally quite good, however the gents toilets are getting worse. They don't flush properly, so endup unusable and dirty.

It's a Weatherspoon. As good as any, I'd say, but the bathroom could use a little more cleaning.

Plenty of lovely hot choc and coffee of your choice

We watch a bold headed bloke who works behind the bar who obviously had an issue with being bold scold an elderly couple for no reason we could see ,then a banning of another couple who dared ask to take their bottle of wine home, shocking.

I come with my elderly dad once a week and the staff are lovely. Helped me put with my car parking issues no problem.

Usual great food and service at reasonable prices. Breakfast was tasty served with a smile very promptly. Staff happy and friendly.

Decent pub on the inside.little rough on the outside,food and drink is what you would expect from a weatherspoons

Impressive service from the oft derided ‘spoons. I made a bit of a mixup when ordering which was resolved in under 30 seconds rather simply by the bar staff - what more can you ask when you fear that these matters will be drawn in to long protracted disputes. Food arrived quickly and hot, when you’re paying under a tenner for a pint and a burger it pays not to get drawn in to detail. It’s great for what it is - Tim would be proud. Clean Wetherspoons with attentive staff and clean tables - toilets don’t involve mountaineering and some odd riddle to solve to find them like my local one. Recommended.

Jared and his team provide a consistently high standard of hospitality, service and great food. We visit on almost a weekly basis and are never disappointed. Well done 👏

Good food good Service and Good Atmosphere.

There is a guy going around who looks exactly like me and he was seen on cctv going into the toilets with another guy and the manager thought it was me but that is simply impossible as I'm not gay. But very friendly manager and said sorry u can't be served here. and I like to drink ciders and smoking cigarettes very nice

Cheap prices, good food, good vibes. It's my go to spot in the middle of the month when funds are low and when it's payday and wanna be balling 😂 I love me some wetherspoons

Needed a quick lunch before train. Cheap and cheerful Very full Sunday 1pm. Lots of families having lunch. Decent choice on menu. Not long to wait for food. Fitted out needs on the day.

This is an amazing place to enjoy with loved ones family and friends. The food and service is great with lots if different offers in place. So make sure to utilise these offers to your advantage. It is great for kids too along with their parents or guardians. There is a parking lot available in a distance should you need one. The town was a disappointment but this place just cheers you up. Definitely recommended for anyone who wants good food and drinks at reasonable prices. Thank you and have a great day 🙏

Great pub food at very reasonable price. Would recommend for a cheap meal out.

Delicious food at an affordable price

This is a great place to enjoy with loved ones family and friends. The service is amazing and friendly. The prices were very good with amazing offers to have. There is no parking onsite but there is parking nearby. There is toilet facilities for everyone. There is great bargains on foods and drinks for every budget. Definitely recommended for anyone who wants to enjoy a bite with friends families and loved ones. Thank you and have a great day 👍

Nice motherdays meal with my family Went here today for breakfast. We had a vegetarian breakfast and Eggs Benedict. The Eggs Benedict was cooked to perfection, as was the vegetarian breakfast. But I do find the plates quite cold, so food cools down very quickly. Free refills on hot drinks a great bonus.

Really friendly, lovely food and came out really quick. Staff were very good

Had breakfast here many times and it’s usually okay. Today was different. Wasn’t informed there were no mushrooms, but they did appear to have given me an extra hash brown. I’d have rather had the shrooms, but that’s fine. However, beans, cold. Egg, hard and cold, toast, soggy and cold. Sausages were okay …… coffee was nice …..

The chef is incapable of cooking medium rare steaks even after three attempts. Staff are unreasonable, unhelpful and rude. Fat was left stringy, after this was raised with staff they were unable to produce one toothpick even though they unnecessarily stick them in the top of burgers just to be binned. I wouldn’t even give these one star given the choice; absolute dive. Worst atmosphere of any spoons I’ve even been in. As a manager I would sack all the staff on the spot. Kitchen and front of house.

Ive never had a problem with this spoons before. Went in today and my partner ordered a meal on the app that come with a drink but he accidentally selected “no drink” we only realised this after he paid. The lady who served us was very kind and polite and she corrected this and got us a drink. The staff are lovely.

We just had the best ever gourmet steak, that's why we coming to weatherspoons, big compliments to the chef, at Yeovil branch, the meat was perfectly cooked exactly for what we're after, we know what we can expect, and we are going to be they customers for longer

Great pub and restaurant. Excellent value food and very good selection of drinks. Highly recommended

Great place at the bottom of town. Always good value for money. Plenty of paid parking nearby. Staff are friendly. With all Wetherspoons what you see it what you get.

Waited 40 minutes on a lukewarm breakfast and a hair in one of the eggs. Not impressed as I've seen bussier places with better food. Won't be back.

We were let down by a local Hotel for dinner both nights of our stay. We popped in to Weatherspoons for a meal. We had a drink and food on both nights we stayed in Yeovil. What a team, food and service was great. I have worked in catering for over 50years on and off, that's the team I would have loved working with. Weatherspoons are lucky to have you.

A busy town centre Wetherspoons establishment that serves good food and has a huge range of drinks. I highly recommend the fish and chips.

The staff gave a good service Food was good. Knocked off 1 star As tables needed clearing and tables wiping down Lots of bits on floor!

Always a good night with great people.

Great place for a cold beer at a reasonable price

This place truly embraces the concept of 'what you see is what you get'—not much, to be honest. But hey, kudos to them for placing the toilets at ground level! It's like they're saying, 'We'll bring you down to earth, both literally and figuratively.' Now, let's talk about the guacamole situation. While it still showed a striking resemblance to its original form -an intact avocado- I must confess that the lack of proper mashing and the presence of the sizeable chunks left a rather disheartening impression alongside my Nacho's. Alas, the lively presence of the local crackheads, engaging in their spirited antics just outside, undeniably added a unique flair to the ambiance of the establishment. As for the staff, while the majority performed adequately, there was one individual who exhibited a remarkable talent for selective obliviousness, leading us to resort to increasingly desperate attempts to capture their attention. A truly unforgettable experience!

I had lunch here on Sunday. Chicken topped with cheese and bacon; coleslaw, chips and nachos. It was all very tasty, but the tomato sauce on the nachos was very hot. I liked the new Millionaires Shortbread dessert, too, with added strawberries for a mere 62 pence. Service was prompt and pleasant even though the restaurant was busy.

Was dissatisfied with service Used app, ordering, and they didn't receive it

Noisy but decent cooked food. Overcharged slightly on mealdeal

Great breakfast Really helpful staff

We love this place for cheap and cheerful food and drinks. If you're expecting anything other than fast food style food it's not the place for you.

Good food as always here visit this pub quite often and always enjoy the time there.

Love it, great value, good food what more could you ask 👍

It was fine for what we wanted.

Firstly the prices here are unbeaten, the food was prepared quickly and the service was excellent. The quality of the food was exactly how I expected, good British food. Why go anywhere else.

The manager at the William damper in yeovil is so rude

Really pleasant and attentive staff. Quick service at the bar and the usual great selection of beers, ciders and alcoholic beverages at a Wetherspoons. Light and airy space with plenty of seating. Recommended if you are in the area. Review update. The duty manager on Friday 26/4 was obnoxious. Reported a suspicious bag left unattended at a table without drinks. His manner was poor and positively accusatory.

One of the best Weatherspoons I've been in.

Adjacent to bus station and shopping centre (currently closed but being re- developed) very helpful staff, well worth a visit.

This was a half way meet up to see family. Decided to try this place and found it to be clean and tidy and the service was good. Staff were friendly and polite and as we were there for breakfast the menu was good. I stuck with scrambled eggs on toast and to be honest, the toast looked a little exposed through lack of scrambles eggs! It was nice enough and the eggs were well cooked. Just coukd have been more of it!! My Daughter is a vegan and she did not go withou. The menu catered well for her. Overall it was alright and reasonably priced to be fair.

Very friendly and helpful staff.

This place has really changed, we enjoyed our visit and our veggie breakfast for a change - 😋

Very clean, had breakfast could have been warmer.

We all know it's cheap drinks, that's the reason you go to spoons, nothing else

Well run Spoons, can be busy - better to order at the till than use the app. Great location, handy for the cinema, friendly staff.

Brilliant pub, had a breakfast and a few pints befote we wnt racing and i am more than happy with the service, always makes me wonder how there are so many people in this pub so early in the morning.

It's a weatherspoons the food is good for the price. It's always good service

We’ve eaten at quite a few Wetherspoons across the nation and this one has the best food by far!! Fantastic!!

Was a great place to have food and drinks! Fab service and fantastic value for money!

First of all the staff are great, always happy friendly, We are regular visitors to JD in Yeovil, Running up to later part of last year , the food was only ok, eggs hard from under the light, hash browns over or under cooked, Beans are always just warm and that is still the same as to date. Then the chef was change and the meals where mostly very good, beans still only warm thou, now how hard is it to keep the buggers hot, and eggs sunny side up. We went in this morning to find JDs had put prices up again 2nd time now within a short period of time, and the meal quietly dropped, partners egg was hard, when she got the plate back over 5mins, it was just warm, but the sausages where better. My eggs ok, but they are alway plonk on top of each other and normally the bottom ones are broken. Meals are not swimming in grease like the Bell but you really need to up your game, keep your customer happy with good cooked food after all it is the trade your in, i might add, this was not the only plates to got back to the kitchen. Now I'm not a chef, but i DO know when an egg is hard or under cooked, and hash browns are cold in the middle etc, so you would expect the chef or kitchen staff to know, or am im being picky JD, its not alway about cheap beer. FR

Breakfast not up to par with Broadstone or Wimborne. Egg inedible and cold. Sausages beans and toast fine

Brilliant! As all Spoons Pubs are!

Awful. Simply awful as soon as I walked through the door I was meant by a horrible smell of human semen. I nearly tripped over an abandoned pint of bitter had I not spotted it at the last second. Ridiculous establishment. Unless your waiting for a bus. Don't go here.

Probably not the best Guiness in the world so I am told! So if you don't like Guiness then there is nothing more to say. Have a serious look at Wetherspoon's menu, the choice of drinks is phenominal.

Good local cider. Lovely food in still good price

The toilets need an upgrade. Everything I go in there are broken locks on the doors, unclean toilets, ripped material on the sofas in the toilets. Come on wetherspoons improve this

Food was very inexpensive but also very tasty and drinks at a great price.

Nice place to go cheep plenty of choice, it's a ok establishment.

Take some time to read about their food or discuss the qty so that you don't get disappointed... Use their app for the best service

Great weatherspoons, good food, helpful staff

It was OK, a bit slow with the drinks.

Considering it’s Christmas Eve,I managed to get a pint of cider and ham eggs and chips at 20.30.Everyone was happy and festive provided good service I was very impressed.Keep it up weatherspoons.

A rare find - a Spoons on one floor with toilets at ground level! Nicely spaced tables, good service and like most Spoons, great choice of drinks and food 👍🏻

I called in at eleven this morning whilst waiting for tyres being fitted to my car. I had a warm welcome as I arrived from friendly smiling staff. The place was spotlessly clean and nice and warm. I ordered a large breakfast and coffee for £7.90. The coffee was help yourself from a machine that made each cup freshly and was surprisingly good. The breakfast arrived quickly and was unexpectedly good. In all, I had three mugs of coffee. All in a very good experience and I would definitely go again. Keep up the brilliant work folks.

It's a Witherspoon's....there all the same.

Sent two large breakfast's back three times. Because the food was cold. Each time they came out, they were cold. Not once was the breakfast cooked fresh. Just kept serving the returned food reheated. But failed to get it hot. Spoke to duty manager and got a refund on our food. Got breakfast elsewhere.

Food is always good, especially love the fish and chips and the jalfreizi. James and the staff are very friendly, nothing is too much trouble 😊

Fantastic place in Yeovil to stop for food and drink plus a good time. We had lunch.

Great breakfast. Very good value and very friendly staff.

A cheap boozer basically and one of the very few left in Yeovil. The rest have all closed down

Music is back 🙌 🎶 😌 Love the table app

Fantastic service from Deputy Manager Ben who went above and beyond when our food was delayed. Excellent customer service.

Good value and service quick and pleasant only thing I would say. They don’t clean tables and cutlery isn’t always clean. I clean my own table with soap and water from gents !

My egg and cheese muffin was the worst I've ever had,the egg was cold and covered with a thick skin. The replacement muffin was lacking in cheese and looked like it was the original but was half scaped off.

Me and my partner really like peas and the whole franchise was so judgemental of our pea pub jumping. My diet is only allowed to be peas as i need more of my 5 a days. They kept giving us less and less while we are paying good money. Thank you to the lovely lady serving them who told us she also likes peas, at least someone understands.

Visited today for lunch ( 27th June 13.15 ish) the place was a little unclean.. tables needed a good wipe.. coffee machine was looking generally sticky. But that can be forgiven because you could also see how little staff were on..the staff we did interact with..were welcoming, polite, friendly.. and clearly. Very hard working people. Because they didnt stop for a second..we ordered our meal. Which came promptly. Was piping hot.. and honestly the best meal we'd had in a spoons.. and we've had our fair share! So I just really wanted to leave the staff a bit of positivity today. As I really think they deserved it. P.s loos were nice n clean.

The plumber working there could have been more respectful (not the pubs fault)

Today I visited with my grandson aged 16. Ordered our meal plus a coffee for me and alcohol free drink for him. The meal took ages even though we were the only ones waiting for food. Manager brought out our meal then took away grandsons drink saying he shldnt be drinking it. The barmaid had walked past numerous times and never questioned him and he had had the drink in many Wetherspoons. I made this clear to manager who suddenly produced a glass of coke. The meal was also microwave within an inch of its life. Told him I was going to put a bad review and complaint. Usually we enjoy visiting this establishment but not today

Petty discrimination is alive and well in this Wetherspoons branch. I am a regular customer of excellent Wetherspoons pubs in London, Portsmouth and Bath and I think this branch in Yeovil is poorly run and by the way it treated my brother, could be seen as a discriminatory establishment. My brother and I and several friends entered on Wednesday evening (26th). Most of us bought soft drinks. The barman refused to serve my brother a canned pepsi because my brother (26, completely sober and impeccably polite) did not have ID. He then failed to ID other similarly aged members of the party when they purchased non alcoholic and alcoholic drinks later in the evening. The Wetherspoons policies on the company website do not lend weight to the decision of this branch not to serve non alcoholic soft drinks like Pepsi to a customer without ID. Neither can I find written evidence in UK licensing legislation to support their decision. If the manager of the William Dampier can provide written grounds, based on clearly signposted policy/legislation for why his staff singled out my brother in this way, I would be most grateful. The manager said the pub were only trying to cover themselves and alluded to policies supporting his decision which simply don't exist. He also made a weird and irrelevant statement about being consistent on this because of under-aged female customers. I could see there was no solid justification for this and he was trying to think up one on the spot. I just wanted my brother to get his soft drink and for that matter, any other paying customer to enjoy theirs regardless of their gender. I suspect he may have been covering for a poorly trained junior staff member who had made the wrong call. I don't know why the bartender in Yeovil chose to treat a group of paying customers (we were a visibly diverse group from different parts of the UK and Ireland) in the way he did, and the defensive attitude did little to reassure. To give the pub some credit, they acknowledged that we were nice people, acknowledged that their behaviour could seem like they were trying to be d**ks, (their choice of words, and sadly I couldn't entirely disagree) and we were allowed to finish the drinks we bought but our experience was far from satisfactory.

Food was ok So was the drink staff helpful

Came here with my family and had some amazing sevice. Was very busy but we were able to be seated and had our food to us in under an hour which was very good. Jared was amazing and very helpful with our questions, so thank you

Good value and food excellent with staff helpful wait was a while but they very busy which is a good sign. Highly recommend

Possibly the only positive thing in an otherwise dire town

Needs more staff to cope with the food and drink and help to clean the tables, the staff they got there are very good and helpful 👍