The Kingfisher - JD Wetherspoon in Cheshire East

Called in for a drink, as we like a Wetherspoons pub, and they always get a good review from me,but for once, we were disappointed. Normally, the staff are fast and efficient and generally well trained, however, we were left standing at the bar for several minutes before being served, and the bar wasn't even that busy. The young lad who was serving attended to people around us and seemed to almost not see us,despite calling him over when he asked who was next. All in all, it wasn't a quick drink, and he ended up overcharging us, too. We won't be returning anytime soon.

Popped in at teatime on bank holiday Monday, extremely busy but we still found parking and a table for two. Lovely clean, bright interior. Ordered food and drink on the app, so easy. Great service and extremely helpful and efficient staff. Highly recommended and this will be our go to Wetherspoons from now on. We’re in Stockport but it’s worth the extra drive as a really nice Wetherspoons!

As I was coming back from the duck pond with my son I realised that his nappy was soiled so decided to pop in to change his bum and have a quick breakfast ( the wife says I shouldn't but I like to sneak one in every now and then ) . I ordered my large breakfast and proceeded to go to the disabled toilets where the baby be changing facilities are located I saw there was a cleaner in the toilet as she saw me she said can you give me 5 minutes please to witch I looked in disbelief... I believe she saw the look on my face an said ok ok just give me 2 minutes to witch I said ok an proceeded to wait .. A few minutes later what I believe to be her boss came up to me in a rude manner an said ” if he's that desperate why don't you go upstairs! ” I told the gentleman that I have my 2 year old son an large pushchair an 2 full bags of shopping an not only how I was going to go upstairs but there isn't even baby changing facilities upstairs?! To witch he said in a more rude an aggressive manner ” you can take the child upstairs if he's desperate ” I told him firmly ”thank you but no thank you ” to witch he walked off mumbling something under his breath to a near by table he than proceeded to just stare at me while pretending to play on his iPad . Unacceptable in my opinion I called the manager over I then explained everything that had happened she immediately told me I was free to use the baby changing facilities now ( witch was still being cleaned ) if I required them an said she would be having words with the cleaners as this was unacceptable behaviour on there part also gave me a full refund as I had most definitely lost my appetite after my encounter. The manager was well mannered an professional about the whole thing kinda think I should of gone to her first when I was refused access but unfortunately I didn't.. I had to go across the road to the local Aldi to used there baby changing facilities to witch they were most helpful even though I wasn't purchasing anything .... Staff training needed on the cleaners part Or maybe pay a little extra an get a proper professional cleaning company in that not only can clean but also be aware of the surroundings ?? An show a bit of empathy ?!

Just passing through the area and stopped for quick pint outside and was very impressed by the pub - possibly one of the best Weatherspoons I've been to! WILL definitely return.

Me and my mother had both popped in to the Poynton Weather Spoons today for lunch. We both had a large mixed grill. We were both very disappointed with them. We should’ve made a complaint at the time. But since we had waited already for an hour for are food to come out and we both had an appointment to get too. We both couldn’t wait for a new one. But the food on both plates were really shocking. The steak and gammon were extremely over cooked and very dry. It was very hard to cut into it. My mother couldn’t eat hers. The egg on both plates were hard and over cooked. The steak and gammon portions wasn’t really big. It was nothing like what we normally do have in there. It was tiny like a small piece of overcooked charcoal robber leather. You couldn’t call it a proper steak really on the size. All you could taste was charcoal when trying to eat it. You actually needed a chainsaw to cut the steak. Since it was that hard. The worst mixed grill we both ever had in there. Nothing was really eatable!

Another 5* spoons . Lovely seating area outside.

Decent wetherspoons. Went on a busy sunny friday and aside from drinks coming after the food everything was fantastic and the staff were friendly. Thanks

Seatings set out like a restaurant. Not your typical spoons .I only had drinks .nice area outside

Met friends for lunch on Monday. Very busy but quick efficient service. Good value for money.

Wetherspoons does posh! All ways busy at lunchtime with a more upmarket clientele. Staff service is excellent although they could do with more staff serving behind bar.

Perfect meal out for a quick lunch!

Great place to meet up, normal spoons value for money, bit different to the norm, this one has a bright modern feel. One point, outside the infra red heat lamps haven't been disconnected like many pubs.

Service has been better in the past. Staff seem very rushed and busy whenever needing help. Food seemed to take quite a while to come out too

Food arrived after half an hour under the heat lamps in the kitchen as the waiter couldn't read the table numbers. The food was dried out and Luke warm by then. Absolutely ridiculous.

Fab place, well organised. Best wetherspoons i have used Top marks

Food was great, as was tge price. We ordered on the app but it was a while before the drinks came, with an apology "sorry for the wait, they had been forgotten". Wasn't too bothered about that but what did annoy me was that the majority of disabled parking spaces (in fact all but 2 near the entrance) were covered by tables and chairs. Necessitating a considerable (for a person with 1 leg) trek all the way around the building. I don't think we will return for that reason. A pity as it was ok otherwise.

James the manager service is just fantastic no one can compare to him if I can give 10⭐ I would, well done James 🎉🎉🎉

Spacious with a great atmosphere, good grub and friendly staff

food is average - which you'd expect just your typical spoons- its OK

Excellent Vue for money... well cooked food and attentive staff... far better than many more expensive pubs

Lovely atmosphere, attentive staff, food served hot and excellent value for money. Will visit again.

Great pub restaurant. Yummy food. Brilliant prices and lovely friendly staff. Shout out to Clare - so refreshing to see someone clearly loving her job and being genuinely friendly to customers. Thank you!

Really nice pub - can pass for a regular posh restaurant, I even brought my parents and they didn't realise it was Wetherspoon. Love coming here!

This is the best weatherspoons I've been in.

Seems to be short staffed in the kitchen

Worked here years ago and been in all it's different versions. Beer cheap and cold and food cheap and hot. I like it

Called in for some breakfast 4/3/25 as we were on our way to Macclesfield, the place looked very nice and not like a typical Wetherspoons!....Small car park was full, even though The Kingfisher wasn't!....So we parked in the car park nearby, Beer garden was lovely and the place inside very tidy. Our food and drink was served quickly by friendly staff as we ordered off the App. Would certainly go back here and probably the nicest 'Spoons' I've visited, and probably gets a lot busier at times.

Brilliant staff and service will return 👍

It's possibly the slowest service I've received in any spoons. However, the waitress was lovely, food up to the usual standard, and it was extremely busy so understandable.

Usually it's okay, I had just three bad experiences: They were probably short of staff and nobody was taking the dishes out and they were accumulating on the tables, taking away seating space. Another shortage of staff - food arrived very late and poorly made. As I'm never checked for my age and we ordered a 0% beer, I didn't take my ID. Apparently next to our table there was a manager having a meal and he called a waiter to check my ID. I had a particularly stressful day and came here to relax and enjoy my meal, but I was stressed out by him and questioned about my age (27), thay didn't accept a photo of my passport and eventually they took away our non-alcoholic drink. I would understand if that was alcohol (but still don't understand questioning my age if I'm clearly an adult), but it was a 0% beer. So it was quite an unpleasant experience.

Walked in on a busy Saturday, found a table, and ordered on the app—food arrived in 6 minutes! My beer took a little longer, but given how packed they were, fair enough. Went to the bar, and despite the queue, the two guys there spotted I had a query and sorted my drink quickly. Well done to the team for keeping things running smoothly under pressure!

Visited yesterday with my partner. Although it was fairly busy, all staff remained so lovely and accommodating and made the experience great! Will definitely be back!!

20/02/25 I don't know what went off but we went in for dinner 20 plus tables empty but full of dirty plates, food all over the floor, the bar was full of dirty glasses and one poor lad trying to clean up, I've sent the video to head office, it was like a chimp's tea party had gone in on speed Very poor

Low cost but poor service when a few customers are in

Easily one of the cosier and better decorated spoons. Lots of tables, some in booths or slightly screened off. Nice to see the working beer room exposed and a nice open fire. Usual beer and food.

Great value for money. Great drinks choices and prices.1

One of the most bizarre experiences I've ever had at a restaurant. We ordered two breakfasts, it was very busy so we were not too bothered about the wait. We were sat close to the pass and could see plates of food piling up on it and two young serving staff looking at it and then looking at a screen. We assumed they were new and familiarising themselves with table locations but food wasn't coming out. Every now and then a couple of plates were taken to a table but mostly they were just stood there watching! After 25 minutes we could see what we thought were our breakfasts amongst all the other plates of food on the two shelves of the pass. At one point, one of the servers took one plate off, looked confused at it then put it back at the end! It was almost comical to watch, like a scene from Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares. Another 15 minutes passed and, sure enough, the two breakfasts we saw earlier were indeed ours. Needless to say, we weren't able to enjoy two piping hot platefuls of full English with sumptuous runny fried eggs to dip our warm toast in. What we got was two tepid plates of food which were soon stone cold and fried eggs that resembled the rubber ones in my granddaughter's play kitchen. "Why didn't you complain?" I hear you cry. Well as you probably know, not only are us Brits terrible at customer service, we're equally inept at complaining about it. I was waiting for one of the servers to ask us if everything was OK to take the opportunity to explain that it wasn't, but they were far too busy staring gormlessly at the mounting piles of food and the little screen. Besides which, what would complaining have achieved? Would they have slung our food the microwave for a minute to well and truly finish those poor fried eggs off, or spend another 40 minutes dishing up two more luke warm offerings? By now I was so hungry I would have happily squirted some ketchup on the menu and chowed down on that. I daresay it was warmer and more moist than my egg. Clearly the two young servers needed a manager or at least someone with more experience working alongside them. Lesson learned I suppose, next time I wake up on a Saturday with a hunger for a nice slap up brekkers, I'll save myself the aggro and do it myself.

Ordered mi ed grill, I got a 5 inch steak over cooked, 2× 5 inch gammin dry overcooked and hard, no lamb and slimy mushroom.

A different type of building than the normal Wetherspoon in that it's a built for purpose pub. When I walked in I thought it looked like a café. The other comparison that I would say is that it's a lot brighter than the norm. An enjoyable pint and natter with the barstaff who were very helpful with my choosing of a beer 🍺.

A very nice and popular local Whetherspoons.

Lovely busy pub, visited with Children in the holidays - food and service was great. Plenty of car parking too - very convenient!

It's a spoons, food and beer as expected

Absolutely fabulous evening we had a series of starters and drinks the atmosphere was fabulous staff very helpful

One of the better Wetherspoons in terms of building, cleanliness,food.

Excellent experience as always!!

Lovely food, great service. Always polite and courteous servers.

It was a great experience. We (party of 5 adults and 4 kids) all loved our foods. Great choices of drinks. Staff were very friendly. Highly recommended.

The best Wetherspoons ever. Amazing staff. Clean. Very Cheap. And good food too.

Staff very friendly and courteous. Been in lots of wetherspoon's but this is the nicest one all round

This John who comes in every Monday with my elderly parents for breakfast. This is the best J D Wetherspoons I’ve ever been to. We stopped going other branches in different area around Cheshire and Trafford. The staff here are all very accommodating. The service is second to none. The hygiene and cleanliness is exceptional. I’m not one for leaving reviews but in this case I feel like I need to say something.

Eggs benedict was lukewarm so sent it back. The second was colder than the first. There always seems to be a problem with the food here.

We love it our local is Stalybridge wish we love but we like to come hear for a change

Really nice cosy place. Food is lovely as always and the staff are very pleasant and helpful.

Nicest Wehherspoins I've been to! Beautiful decorations for Christmas and well finished design. Really stands out. Delicious breakfast.

Excellent value food and drinks, great service and a clean and tidy venue

29/11/2024 Lovely outside seating area Free parking is not the biggest of car parks Clean Premises Clean Restrooms up stairs Disabled Parking Disabled Clean downstairs Restrooms Disabled Friendly Entrance Friendly & Polite Staff Food tasted absolutely spot on Atmosphere a 3 star as I felt un welcomed by the regulars & the tables are all too close together we kept having to move our chairs closer to the table so others could get passed.

Very good establishment, great atmosphere, staff all working hard. Really nice hot food served very quickly. Greta place to eat and drink. Would recommend to a friend.

Nice food Reasonable price. Breakfast always good

Good food. Exceptional Value. Recommended

We come here quite often and all the staff are very welcoming, decent food and cheap drink, what more could you want? One of the best looking Wetherspoons I've ever been in. The staff soon become more like friends, the manager James is great and the staff Rohan, Lucy, Emma, Lucas, Sam, Mal, Adam, Nick, Chloe and Brad (I'm probably missing a few) will all make your visit worthwhile 😊

Best Wetherspoons I’ve ever been too

Called in for breakfast, well prepared. Friendly staff.

Unfortunately this pub doesn’t allow dogs on the premises or even in the large garden area. A bit of an outdated policy so won’t be visiting too often.

Outstanding place to eat, I was blown away that I could swap my chips for coleslaw!!! What a great Idea! It's the most fantastic coleslaw I've ever had in my entire life.... Much better that chips, especially when your watching the carbs! Staff and management are great, always a clean pub and the service is A1. Keep up the good work! Best Wetherspoon pub by far!

Large seating area. The usual menu. And very reasonable price for drinks. This pub is in the lovely town of Poynton. I'm not sure what happened with the car park when we visited, but we had to reverse out.

Food OK, eggs overdone and yolk hard. Had fiesta brunch, salsa not great very thin and quite tart.

Exceptional value for good quality food and drinks, busy but excellent service.

It's wetherspoons , good value drinks and food

Went for breakfast which is served until 12 . Had the freedom breakfast which cost £2.99. Had hot chocolate which means you can have as much tea or coffee as you want. I take the choc packet home. Nothing to complain about here.

A better Wetherspoons, decent atmosphere and cheap drinks.

We often stop off at the restaurant sometimes for just a hot drink and other occasions for a full dinner and drinks. It’s a lovely pub but can get very busy at certain times of the week.

It's a spoons so great value. 👍

Very pleasant modern building. Light and airy

Had Breakfast with a group from Chuch. Very good. Just popped in for a quick meal. Had Breakfast with a friend - seating area Not cleaned! Served on stone cold plate. Food not hot enough !

Poached eggs were solid😢 Only negative about the food.

Bargain breakfast and a pint before heading off to Manchester Airport

I would like to thank Cleo who went above and beyond helping me sort out a issue with a transaction that went wrong, she help me with the process and found the time to go through it step by step, she was so understanding and so professional and put me at ease and reassured me it would be sorted out which it was, well done again Cleo!

A great Spoons, went here twice for the breakfast when we were staying nearby, ordering through the App was effortless, we sat outside as the weather was nice. Both occasions drinks arrived fast, food was excellent and service was very good. Top Spoons!!

Nice food, delivered quickly, and always had great service here ! 👍, been a few times this year, and will be coming again regularly! 😁

Decent breakfast, reasonably priced

It's a witherspoon. It is what you expect

Very nice venue, staff, parking facilities. Food good at a good price.

I ordered a Brownie and it never came

Posh for a weatherspoon, staff inefficient, ok I suppose Can park opposite shops

Got to be one of the best weatherspoons and when there is ten of you in a round the price makes a big difference food was really good

Breakfast good value, and nice. Service ok.

Basic weatherdpoon food. But the Kingfisher is a very bright upmarket pub in postcode chosen town.

This has to be one of the nicest and well staff locations that I have been to. There was plenty of staff on site and they cleared plates from guests when finished. It is nicely decorated. The food is typical Weatherspoons but still a good value

Very friendly staff. Clean throughout. A bit of delay in receiving your meals as it was fairly busy. On site parking. It was a Wetherspoons

Visited today for breakfast. Really nice staff, so friendly. Food was nice and hot and served with a smile 😃

Massive beer garden, so we've been able to take advantage of the weather as well as cheap drinks. Staff are friendly but what's this one napkin per person thing when you've got a plate of chicken wings?? Anyway great place

Feels fresh inside, parking can be a bit tight, go early.

Had a lovely tasty breakfast. 😋

Great Value Breakfast especially the Freedom Breakfast

Very slow service, had run out of a drink that was available on the app to order. Disappointed

My local, very handy 5 mins walk and I'm there. Yes food is not top notch but for the price, well worth it. Been to many wetherspoons and never seen one as nice as this place. Had family up from Kent a couple of months ago and they all mentioned how much nicer The Kingfisher is compared to other wetherspoons. An added bonus of the different ales they get in to try at a bargain price of £1:29, well it would be rude not to. Lastly not forgetting plenty of outside tables for the days we get when the sun does shine.

Very slow at the bar as only 1 person serving. Food left for ages before brought to the table so quiet cold. Very little content in children bolognese.

Decor was nice, service and food were awful. 4 different dishes and none were tasty. Server tipped chips into a drink, offered no apology, replaced the drink but no replaced chips, and slammed (made a really loud noise and startled us and people on the next table, there was no warning, a drink suddenly arrived with a loud bang) the replacement drink on the table as she walked past, no slowing down and again no apology, just left. We'll never go here again.

Excellent place so clean and huge Maybe a few more bar staff to hand as was standing at the bar for 15 minutes while the barman took a food order but overall a great place

Absolutely lovely spoons.. 100%