The Picture Palace - JD Wetherspoon
1165 Reviews
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- Friday8 am–1 am
- Saturday8 am–1 am
- Sunday8 am–12 am
- Monday8 am–12 am
- Tuesday8 am–12 am
- Wednesday8 am–12 am
- Thursday8 am–12 am
About the Business
The Picture Palace | Pubs In Braintree - J D Wetherspoon | The Picture Palace is a Wetherspoon pub in Braintree, Essex. Our pub offers a range of real ales, craft beers and freshly ground Lavazza coffee. Breakfast is served until noon, with our full food menu available until 11pm.
Contacts
Call Us
+441376550255
Fairfield Rd, Braintree CM7 3HA
Hours
- Friday8 am–1 am
- Saturday8 am–1 am
- Sunday8 am–12 am
- Monday8 am–12 am
- Tuesday8 am–12 am
- Wednesday8 am–12 am
- Thursday8 am–12 am
Features
- Debit cards
- NFC mobile payments
- Credit cards
- Delivery
- Wheelchair-accessible entrance
- Wheelchair-accessible toilet
- Wheelchair-accessible car park
- Wheelchair-accessible seating
- Dine-in
- Takeaway
- Alcohol
- Beer
- Cocktails
- Spirits
- Wine
- Toilets
- Groups
- Accepts reservations
- Casual
- Great cocktails
- Food
- Food at bar
- Paid parking lot
- Fast service
- Sport
- Great bar food
Recommended Reviews
Rob Healy
21.03.2024
The Picture Palace - JD Wetherspoon
I can see why this pub is in the Good Beer Guide! My first visit tonight, but definitely not my last. Very clean pub with great staff and really good quality beers served just how they should be.
Sahara Mara
07.03.2024
The Picture Palace - JD Wetherspoon
I know it's a wetherspoon and I know it's cheap but the food in this one was really poor. We have eaten in various wetherspoons and have a fairly good gauge on what to expect. We find them generally good for a cheap eat when out and about with a large family. We have on the whole been happy, especially with the veggie stuff, but this was awful. My son's pasta was tiny, like maybe 3 dessert spoons size (he has had it elsewhere and it has been much larger). My veggie sausage and mash was horrendous. The potato had a crispy skin on top and the gravy was like jelly. The peas had tough skin and were chewy! And tbh the building and layout is uninviting and pretty grim. This is the kind of wetherspoons that gives others a bad name.
Faye
04.03.2024
The Picture Palace - JD Wetherspoon
On a Saturday at lunch time, every little independent cafe in town is packed and it's hard to get a seat, yet The Picture Palace is half empty... And it's easy to see why!It used to be an OK place to go and have some cheap food and drinks. Not amazing, but it was fine for a 'Spoons. However, since the pandemic, the place has really taken a nosedive. The food quality has gone down yet the prices have increased. Tables are dirty, often not cleared or cleaned. Was given dirty cutlery that had clearly already been used! No apology from staff when I pointed this out, just a grunt. Can't blame them too much, the whole place would make anyone despondent. Also it absolutely reeks in there. Couldn't wait to leave. Won't be returning!
Benn Healy Photography
13.02.2024
The Picture Palace - JD Wetherspoon
Not particularly busy. Ordered through the app, beer took a while to arrive but when it did barman was nice enough. Ordered ham egg and chips, not great ham, eggs were good, meagre portion of chips, server just set it down on table and walked off. Gather it's a wetherspoons but service was poor in my opinion, food just about matched description, but the beer was great.
Olaf Taylor
23.01.2024
The Picture Palace - JD Wetherspoon
a really well converted cinema into a great wetherspoons restarant, neatly laid out. original character maintained
MJS Michael Buczek
19.01.2024
The Picture Palace - JD Wetherspoon
Stuff amazing really kind and helpful, but...I do remember 2 years ago ordering there fish and chips and having 2x Stella's easily.Big fish and plenty of chips.Now you need to drink Stella quite quickly because your fish and chips are half what you got some time ago.If you want to experience proper fish and chips go to Manor Place and order extra large code, massive difference for roughly same price
Paul Devivo
10.01.2024
The Picture Palace - JD Wetherspoon
Really good Wetherspoons, a cinema conversion. Welcoming and very comfortable. Nice breakfast here. Friendly staff, talkative and pleasant to all customers, a nice surprise. Enjoyed the brief visit.
Daniel Kelly
03.01.2024
The Picture Palace - JD Wetherspoon
Had a stop over in the Travelodge across the road and was happy to see a Weatherspoons across the road. The picture palace is dark and dingy from the outside, so much so it almost look closed. Then we entered and not many people in there at all, apart from the usual looking suspects you see that live in the spoons full time. This was Sunday (6pm) so normally it's busy period with people eating. Anyway another family were in so we wasn't the only family in there. Ordered food and a few drinks, they came in good time and food was good. It was chilly also so we didn't stay for long. Strange place, no atmosphere at all. 2.5/5 gave 3 stars as 2 would have been a bit harse.
Aaron G
22.12.2023
The Picture Palace - JD Wetherspoon
Lovely food! Service was ok one or two issues but very minor. We really enjoyed our time food come so fast, waiting for a bottle of wine and 2 glasses for over 15 minutes to find out the barman chucked away the ticket so we would of been waiting a long time if didn't go up. Probably quicker here to order from the bar rather than the app. It was my only time I have been here though so might be a one off but it was so loud in there people just acting a little childish. Can barley have a conversation.
Julie Ocallaghan
18.12.2023
The Picture Palace - JD Wetherspoon
This was our 1st time in this weatherspoons and will not returning, 1st of all I ordered a coffee with our meal , one machine wasn't working and the only one working run out of milk , I kindly asked a gentleman collecting the glass to refill it , I was told to wait , the poor oap lady was making a cup of tea and the milk in the jug has also run out so she asked him nicely for more milk he snatched the jug away from her and slammed it on the counter , she waited about 15 minutes for the milk ,My hubby ordered the double American burger which came to the table black so burnt it was un edable also the chips seemed to have been warmed up, I had the sirloin steak cooked medium which was full of grizzl and the onion rings were so burnt I couldn't bite into them and the chips were also heated up , I know its a cheap meal but that was unreal disgusting
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Fairfield Rd, Braintree CM7 3HA
The Picture Palace - JD Wetherspoon