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The story of Motherwell and steel began with David Colville, often referred to as the founding father of British Steel. His decision to convert the Dalzell Iron Works to open-hearth steel production laid the foundations for Motherwell’s period of industrial greatness. Others, such as the Brandon Iron Works, followed Colville’s lead. The Brandon Works (renamed Etna in 1887) opened in 1884 and covered a wide area immediately behind this pub. This whole area was redeveloped in the late 1960s/early 1970s and this had previously been Baird’s department store until the early 90s, but is now named after the iron works immediately to the rear of this site.
Service and staff were excellent. We were a party of 3 each of us having a different item of food from the menu. I had the chicken with bacon and cheese. Chicken was dry and tasteless and was rock solid at one end. Overcooked then reheated in a microwave. The cheese slice was also rock hard and failed to melt over the chicken. One of my friends had the steak cooked medium rare. It was tough and chewy albeit cooked perfectly. My other friend had the pepperoni pizza which she said was delicious.
Good Scottish breakfast, however I was expecting a square sausage and would off preferred hash broons to tattie scone which looked like it had been dunked in grease. Otherwise a very good breakfast. Note my pops loved the tattie scone, so it's a personal choice.
Good tasty food fast service and friendly staff
Spoons #147 just off the precinct and shopping centre Had the skinny chicken burger to eat on this occasion Quite little pub all on the ground floor Pleasant surroundings, clean A short walk of maybe 5 minutes from the public car park
First time visiting and not too busy and easy to find a table. Friendly staff. App wouldn’t work to confirm final step of food order unless on their wifi, odd but at least was able to get onto wifi free so no big issue. Good choice of alcohol free beers for dry January (!) although I am never a big fan of such I stuck with it lol. My son’s American style cheese burger depressing with one gerkin and the “red onion and ketchup” was a smear under the bottom burger. He was quite disappointed. Fish and chips good , batter nice and crispy but fish was lukewarm, seems like it maybe had been cooked then sitting in warming shelf. A pity as otherwise would have given 4 star. Gents toilets could have done with a clean as a bit fragrant (!) and it was only 7.30pm on Saturday so can’t blame overuse. Overall no major complaints and with a bit of tweaking could be a 4star pub experience. I’ll be back again though, when dry January has finished as fine selection of real ales to sample!
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Opening Times
Mon | 08:00 – 00:00 | |
Tue | 08:00 – 00:00 | |
Wed | 08:00 – 00:00 | |
Thur | 08:00 – 00:00 | |
Fri | 08:00 – 01:00 | |
Sat | 08:00 – 01:00 | |
Sun | 08:00 – 00:00 |
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