Regal Moon (JDW)

Walking around the streets of Rochdale early on Friday afternoon, we wondered where all the locals were. We certainly got the answer when entering this large JDW. It was packed with all kinds of people eating and drinking. No wonder this particular place is said to be among the most busy JDW in the UK. One-roomed, former cinema, place, with entrances on both side, one of them close to the tram station in town. 18 hand-pumps with a range of cask ales not as exciting as in near-by pubs like Wellington, Flying Horse Hotel and Medicine Tap. Polite service. (Visited 04.05.2018).

Yet another one of these large Spoons. You know what you get. And sometimes that is ok. Absolutely a decent tap, cask and bottle selection.
Tis one is located right in the heart of the city.

Visited on 29th May 2016. Huge town centre Spoons that used to be a cinema. It’s looking a little shabby now but there’s plenty of room to grab a seat. The beer range on cask was pretty decent with some good local beers, well kept and at low Spoons prices. Also had the usual Spoons craft and bottle range. Not my favourite pub in Rochdale but not a bad place to pick up a good value tick.

Hugh weatherspoons housed in the old cinema in rochdale town centre, decent selection of ales and a good meeting point small terrace on back for rare rain free days in the pennines

Visited in December 2012. Biggest range of beer in Rochdale town centre. Plenty of winners for me. Otherwise it’s a comfortable enough Spoons in an old cinema. Service was quick for a Spoons but it wasn’t very busy. Not much else to say really. Only ignore if you are in the vicinity if you are an ardent Spoonophobe.

A large Wetherspoon’s pub in the old Regal cinema. I remember it well from my youth! It has retained some of its original art deco character and, whilst cavernous, it’s also somehow quite cosy. When we visited in the late afternoon on Christmas Eve it was quiet and relaxed with a very mixed demographic, although I’m told that on normal days it can be like a community centre for older people in the mornings and like a nightclub for the town’s youngsters in the evenings. There are eighteen taps with a good range of beers including several from local breweries and all the beers we tried were in very good condition. (Last visited 24 December 2012).

Extensive traditional Wetherspoon with a small patio out front useful for the warmer months, and one at the back too which the sun hardly hits. There’s no shortage of space on the inside with a bar fully stocked with the usual menu and various guest ales over three sets of pumps, although some repeat. Despite the better than average selection in terms of numbers, there’s a lot of repeat ales from favoured breweries and you’ll find Phoenix, Moorhouses and Ilkley ales here a lot of the time. It was refurbished in 2016 after suffering from the Boxing Day floods the previous year.