All the things that is on the menu at new Spanish Spoons – and the way it compares to the UK

UK excessive avenue pub large is trying to interrupt into Europe with its first Continental European Spoons, in Alicante Airport

Two people eating food

There are many British classics on provide (Picture: Tim Merry)

Anybody who has ever been to Benidorm is aware of that it is the British meals capital of Continental Europe.

Stroll down the strip, and you will find extra Full Englishes and roast dinners than you could possibly probably eat by in per week’s vacation. The nice potato and gravy-based type is sustained at Alicante Airport, the place the primary Wetherspoons exterior of the UK and Eire opened on Monday morning.

I used to be there to witness the primary prospects come by the door and the primary paying buyer, Daz Sunderland, take pleasure in a pint of lager. Named Castell de Santa Bàrbera after a close-by mountain fort, the pub has a number of nods in the direction of its Spanish hosts, similar to a menu printed in each Spanish and English, a ‘Spanish tortilla’ dish, and workers that flit simply between the 2 languages.

However, general, it’s overwhelmingly a British outfit. The majority of the menu is traditional British grub, served up alongside pints of Stella and tins of Previous Speckled Hen. This is a variety (in euros) of what you will get.

Drinks menu

Cheers (Picture: Wetherspoons)

Beer

There are 5 beers on faucet. As Spoons is a bit of smaller than those you’d usually discover on the UK excessive avenue, it’s restricted to what number of faucets it may have. Which means no ale, solely lager. Which is sensible, given how heat it usually is in Alicante. The draft choices are:

In what different airport are you able to get a glass of wine for only a contact over £3? I would wager that you simply’d be exhausting pressed to discover a cheaper 125ml of the grapey stuff wherever else in Europe:

In the case of spirits and mixers, Spanish Spoons has a fixed-price system (except for a number of fancier choices). It expenses €6.95 for 25ml and a mixer, €9.95 for a double measure:

Beverly peach liqueur
Disaronno amaretto
Malibu
Southern Consolation
Gordon’s
Gordon’s Pink Gin
Tanqueray
Tanqueray Flor de Sevilla
Bacardi Carta Blanca
Captain Morgan Authentic Spiced Gold

In the case of drinks, there’s one obtrusive omission. The bar will not give punters free glasses of water; as an alternative, workers instruct them to order bottles.

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The food menu

The meals menu is similar to a British Spoons (Picture: Wetherspoon)

Meals

In case you love Spoons’ meals, then you definately’re in luck. The menu has a number of Spanish additions, however principally, it is recognisable British meals classics. This is a collection of what you may order.

Breakfast

Conventional breakfast: Fried egg, bacon, Lincolnshire sausage, baked beans, two hash browns, slice of toast 10.25
Small breakfast: Fried egg, bacon, Lincolnshire sausage, baked beans, hash brown 8.25
Massive vegetarian breakfast; Two fried eggs, three vegan sausages, baked beans, three hash browns, portobello mushrooms, tomato, two slices of toast 12.95
Vegetarian breakfast: Fried egg, two vegan sausages, baked beans, two hash browns, portobello mushrooms, tomato, slice of toast
Small vegetarian breakfast: Fried egg, vegan sausage, baked beans, hash brown, tomato 10.25
Scrambled egg on toast 5.95
Beans on toast 4.95
Vegan beans on toast 4.95
Vegan unfold, white bloomer toast
Two slices of toast with butter and jam 450 kcal 3.95
Contemporary fruit and yoghurt 7.95