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The Regal Moon (JD Wetherspoon), Rochdale
Rochdale
OL16 1HB
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J D WetherspoonReviews (Current Rating Average: 7½ of 10) see review guidelines
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Just a quick pint, then I'm off left this review about The Regal Moon (JD Wetherspoon)
Grand cinema conversion overlooking The Butts, although the slightly split-level interior hasn't retained as many original features as some of this ilk. Older (i.e. darker and more traditional furniture)and mostly movie-themed decorative features. Excellent selection from the two banks of six handpumps, with six pre-festival beers (including my Peerless Sup, £2.31, but perhaps a bit 'end of the barrel') and three other guests in addition to the trio of Ruddles, Doom Bar and Abbot.
On 22nd March 2023
- rating: 6
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Quinno _ left this review about The Regal Moon (JD Wetherspoon)
Bit of a beauty, a converted 1930’s cinema. Inside has lovely dark wood curved walls with prints of old stars from the big screen everywhere, ornate pillars and a real jazz-era feel. As mentioned below, it’s quite sprawling, but in a good way. The bar is against the right wall and has Art Deco stylings (love the raised lit box) and a mannequin playing a Wurlitzer above, which can give you a startle if you don’t notice it straight off. A plethora of guest cask, my Phoenix Porter was in good shape (NBSS 3.5). I really liked it here and could have easily stayed longer, next time I will. A really good Spoons and it really should be in the GBG. 8.5
On 18th March 2023
- rating: 9
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Steve C left this review about The Regal Moon (JD Wetherspoon)
The Regal Moon is a huge sprawling Wetherspoons pub housed in an old cinema. The long bar stretching down the right-hand wall faces a sea of open plan seating. At the rear is a raised seating area that leads to a split-level patio area out the back. Back inside the pub there are a couple of plasma screens that were showing muted horse racing, which is surprising for a Spoons. As was the presence of a large projector screen, which was unused.
The bar is stocked with standard draught and the twelve hand pumps in two banks of six were all drawing different ales. The usual JDW cheap food menu is available and I found the service to be very quick, even though the pub was quite busy, especially for early on a Monday evening. I would return here as this is one of the better Spoons I have visited.
On 4th September 2019
- rating: 7
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Real Ale Ray left this review about The Regal Moon (JD Wetherspoon)
The interior in here is quite vast and a lot larger than I had imagined. They have now refurbished the rear patio garden, which gives this pub even more space. The pub was busy on our Friday afternoon visit and in spite of this, service at the bar was fast and efficient. There was a good selection of cask ales on handpump on our visit, so we went for the Beartown Atlas and the Ilkley Summer. The prices in here were also excellent at £2.15 a pint for our beers.
On 30th July 2019
- rating: 8
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Aqualung . left this review about The Regal Moon (JD Wetherspoon)
As noted below this cinema conversion has not retained much of the old cinema inside so it's basically a JDW barn. Most people seemed to be drinking in here late on a Wednesday afternoon. A drop down screen was showing Wimblebore which put me off but was forgotten when I realised they appeared to have all 20 festival ciders.
The 12 hand pumps had a good choice with the two GK beers, Naylor's Citradelic & Toffee Mild, Acorn Old Moor Porter doubled, Elland 1872, Moorhouse Pendle, Ilkley Pale, Saltaire New World Red, Phoenix Wobbly Bob and Hawkshead Windermere Pale. I went for the strongest cider I hadn't tried (£2.95) which was called Somerset Redstreak.
I thought this was a very good Spoons.
On 24th July 2017
- rating: 9
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Colin Haslam left this review about The Regal Moon (JD Wetherspoon)
Just decided to visit this wether's boozer as its only a short tram ride from where i live in Oldham. The atmosphere and overall layout of the place is standard wether's but the choice of ales more than met my expectations. Well worth a visit just for the excellent real ales on offer.Will be calling in again over Christmas.
On 28th June 2017
- rating: 8
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Al Bundy left this review about The Regal Moon (JD Wetherspoon)
From the inside you'd never know it used to be a picture house. Outside, however, it does. A large cavernous place and quite acceptable.
On 13th August 2015
- rating: 7
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Thuck Phat left this review about The Regal Moon (JD Wetherspoon)
I didn't realise that The Regal Moon was a converted cinema until I was told after our visit which is an indication as to how many features have been retained. To me it felt like a standard, fairly soulless 'spoons.
Nonetheless, the beer range was very good although the only one which I managed to note was the Elland 1872 Porter which was excellent and gives a clue as to the quality of ale offered.
It's well worth a visit for the interesting ale selection but it is, ultimately, still a standard 'spoons.
On 21st July 2014
- rating: 7
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Bucking Fastard left this review about The Regal Moon (JD Wetherspoon)
Converted from an old cinema,there are two entrances to this large 'spoons.The interior does not contain as much cinema decor or internal structure as some other cinema conversions I have been to ,but the ale range and quality mark this out as one not to miss.One rank of handpumps have pump clips all marked "coming soon" but I felt this was a genuine attempt to keep local drinkers informed rather than a bit of beer teasing.The two ranks of operational handpumps had a varied and interesting selection of real ale besides the usual suspects.My Elland 1872 Porter was in top condition,and the rest of the crew were pleased with their selection .Just a shame my notetaking ability had been overwhelmed by beer consumption on our last drink of the evening visit.I would most definitely return,it's a very good 'spoons indeed.
On 18th July 2014
- rating: 8
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ROB Camra left this review about The Regal Moon (JD Wetherspoon)
I visit this pub almost every week, so I thought it was about time I did an update. The beer is always in good condition, but the range is beginning to get a bit limited. There's always a good array of guest beers on, but they tend to have the same ones coming back again and again. Last Friday the Dunscar Bridge Northern Storm was in great nick as were the other beers we tried, but it was the only beer that hadn't been on before. Come on guys, let's have a bit of a change.
16/03/2010
This pub has been going from strength to strength since Chris the manager took over last year. He used to run the JDW in Huddersfield so he knows what it's all about. He was also one of the judges at the Champion Winter Beer Of Britain in Manchester. A couple of weeks ago they installed another 6 handpumps, that makes 18 in total !! It's one of our regular stops on our Rochdale real ale crawl, so we're in here at some point almost every week, often more than once. It's a huge place converted from a cinema (The Regal) and has lots of cinema memorabilia around the walls. Despite it's size it can get busy at times but you can still get served fairly easily most of the time, yes, really, in a JDW. It's now one of the best JDWs around in my opinion with a wide range of constantly changing beers, all well kept.
On 23rd May 2014
- rating: 8
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