I cannot make up my mind about Wetherspoons pubs.\n\nI don't hate them - they are really cheap, so you can't argue with that. But I don't get totally psyched at the thought of meeting in them either. The lack of music can be grim i(it's eerily quiet), the meals are often microwave chewy, and the pints can be flat.\n\nThis Wetherspoons, like most of them, is massive. There is a lot of floorspace and it's not as rundown inside as its shoddy exterior suggests. The outside looks sadly shabby, like the building is forlorn. And there's nothing that makes me sadder than a beautiful building being wasted. Well, truth be told there's a lot more that you can spend energy on being sad about, but I am regretful that the sign for this establishment was obstructed by a poster for Streetdance 3D when I was here.\n\nThinking it would be a nicer place to visit, it had the lacklustre but functional setting of most pubs from this chain, but an added air of sorrow. I can't explain it and it's a bit dramatic of me to say, but they could do so much more with this building. It is, largely, a bit of a downtrodden part of Leith and although Wetherspoons is the best of a bad bunch it's not particularly enticing. Bless them for trying, but there's something a bit seedy about this place.\n\nAfter Stuart's review I was quite sad I couldn't visit the urinals. Never thought I'd say that sentence but they are incredibly 80s if their website picture is to be taken at face value. I am half expecting George Michael to pop out from behind a partition and start singing \"I want your sex\". Guys, you should be so lucky, eh? \n\nThe whole affair is a wee bit 80s, but maybe that's where the air of misery comes in - it's all a bit Thatcher tainted.
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