Tim Martin on his favorite Wetherspoon meals, what he drinks and why the bizarre carpets

EXCLUSIVE: Sir Tim also lifts lid on the famous Wetherspoon carpets and reveals why they are different in every pub and how he hopes they ‘pull in the history of the area’

Sir Tim Martin has revealed his dream Wetherspoon meals that he would eat at breakfast, lunch and dinner.

The bargain boozer mogul sat down with the Daily Star at the Moon Under Water pub where he revealed some interesting choices about he likes to eat.

“If I’m having a pint in the evening it would be a pint of Abbot Ale, or two, and if I’m having a pint in the day I’m sad to say I’d have a Pepsi Max or a coffee,” the 69-year-old admitted.

“For breakfast, I’d have a small breakfast – the breakfast of the gods. For lunch I’d have a southern fried chicken wrap with a salad, and in the evening I’d have fish and chips – if I’m allowed – if not I’d have steak and kidney pie, which is less calorific.”

It wasn’t just food that he chatted about with the Star though. Sir Tim also commented on the famous Wetherspoon carpets, which are different in every branch of the chain, noting how they, along with the wider design of each pub tries to pull in the history of the place and building they are set in.

He said: “In design, we’ve tried to build pubs with individuality and from a design point of view, something that links to the area and links to building historically, makes a good carpet, if you can fit into the carpet, bit complicated with the carpet, but that’s our overall design objective.”

Sir Tim also offered up his two pence why he thought Guinness was so popular in British pubs at the moment.

“I think every few years a product becomes very fashionable and I think before Guinness, and our Guinness sales are up 80 or 90% compared with five years ago, it was gin,” he said.

“So gin came from being a modest seller to becoming the number seller overtaking vodka. And a few years before that, it was Smirnoff Ice and a few years before that it was Magners cider over ice –who could have predicted that?

“So there seems to be things that catch on and threats where Guinness is at the money – Guinness will be trying to sustain that forever, but there’s always a trendy product that people attach to – it’s not just bell bottom trousers or dyed blond hair or whatever hell the latest fashion is, it also applies to beer and drinks.”

Despite the popularity, and nationwide shortage of the Black Stuff over Christmas, he said that ‘Spoons had managed to largely avoid running dry, like so many other pubs had.

“My old man worked for Guinness for 31 years and they paid for my education, so I have to be nice, but we were ok and there were a couple of temporary shortfalls, but nothing much,” he said.

“I don’t think it was regional, it was companies whose Guinness was delivered through wholesalers, so there might have been some wholesalers who ran out – ours is more direct negotiation.”