Wetherspoons (Piccadilly, Manchester)

Wetherspoons offer a cheap & cheerful place to eat & drink with numerous outlets throughout the UK, nearly every major town or city contains one. This review is particualry concerned with the one located in Picadilly Gardens in Manchester. It's located right bang in the heart of Manchester City Centre, almost opposite the city centre's main bus stops and about a 10 minute walk from Manchester Picadilly train station. Due to it's central location, it's almost always busy whether it be with the lunchtime crowd or the evening drinkers. Manchester has a lot of competition in terms of bars & clubs but this place does well because of it's ...  Read the complete review

Last night I met my friend in our local Wetherspoons for tea. This wouldn't usually be my first choice of place to eat, however the big sign in the window advertising Tuesdays steak night - steak and a drink for £5.59! I ordered gammon and my friend the rump steak. They were brought out to us in a reasonable time and were piping hot. The food was nice, nothing special but I didn't expect it to be for the price. On the menu there is a wide variety of foods from simple jacket spuds to carbanara. People around us had an assortment of dishes that all looked very nice. The menu clearly marks which dishes are less than 5%, very helpful if you are ...  Read the complete review

I love Wetherspoons! It's a great place to go for a cheap meal as the food and drink is very cheap, making it excellent value. Wetherespoons is more like a pub than a restaurant, with many branches conveniently located in town centres - usually close to the main shopping areas. I've been to Wetherspoons in Sheffield, Chesterfield, Leeds and London and they'll all pretty much the same - mainly geared towards serving meals, but also set-up to allow for people who just want a drink. Most of the Wetherspoons I've been to have a pretty good selection of beers - usually with Kronenbourg, Stella and Foster's on tap, with many more available by the bottle. ...  Read the complete review

****PLEASE READ BEFORE READING REVIEW**** I was a bit confused as to how to write this review. You see, with my previous restaurant type reviews I have been getting some mixed feedback, and members opinions vary greatly. I admit, most of the ratings I have been recieving recently are E's and I am very pleased with this, however some members feel my reviews include too much unneccessary information resulting in lower ratings such as Helpfuls. So for this particular review, I decided to shorten my review a bit. Before you read my review, please decide wheather you only want to read about MY experience or if you want to learn about MY experience AND a bit more about ...  Read the complete review

My experiences mentioned here refer to both the Chelmsford and Colchester Wetherspoons pubs: I noticed on the Dooyoo reviews that Wetherspoons recieved a lot of tepid and unfavourable reviews from users. As a student, and therefore someone who is a) poor and b) probably has lower students about pretty much everything money and health related, I find Spoons to be something of a safe haven in a town (Chelmsford) that is chock full of expensive bars where a bottle of beer is £3-4. Spoons have the best prices around on alcohol and frequently perform price checks with the other bars in the area. Generally a pint isn't much more than £2, and shots with ...  Read the complete review