The Waterhouse (JD Wetherspoon), Manchester

Peerless Triple Blond, Black Hole Brewery (BHB) Star Gazer, Hawkshead Red, Bradfield Farmers Stout, Moorhouse’s Leaky Roof (‘brewed for Waterhouse’), Phoenix Wobbly Bob (6%), Elland Waterhouse IPA (‘exclusive to JDW’) x2, Ruddles, Abbot. Not been here before but impressive beer line up across 10 handpumps – note that the 2nd bank of 5 pumps is obscured by a pillar toward the ‘coffee shop’ – an area to which, pleasingly, most of the post-work crowd wanting to order food were directed. Unusual for a spoons, the Waterhouse has lots of separate areas & rooms, I was almost tempted to write nooks! Using the Kennedy St entrance I wandered a little before finding the bar, an area which is tiled with the rest carpeted. Not too busy, but very good service, and £1.95pp. Loos are upstairs and are even better than jdw’s usual good standard – stand alone granite(-esque) hand basins & airforce dryers (the only ones worth a fig, after airblade). The landing has a bookcase, and you almost feel as if you’ve been for a leak in a country house. Yes, all round impressed.

Pub has reopened and has an excellent curry night on thursday. They also play a great selection of music and have regular karaoke [edit: actioned 14/10/09]

A quieter Wetherspoons than one normally finds.Disabled access is at the rear of the premises and can be a pain. Inside narrow corridors, small,crowded rooms dont make things easier. This is an old converted building from times when the disabled were less well considered. Otherwise this is a good 'Spoons.

Official page of the Waterhouse - www.jdwetherspoon.co.uk

Official page of the Waterhouse - www.jdwetherspoon.co.uk

Large Multi-roomed Wetherspoon's with at least 5 real ales on. usual Wetherfood. One of their better pubs as it has seperate rooms to sit in