The Waterhouse in Manchester

A pretty good Weather spoons, fast service with the app, I didn't eat there but the missing fifth star is because the food being eaten by my neighbouring customers did not look appealing and one said it was not tasty.

Popped in for a pint and a quick bite to eat, quick service, food was OK typical spoons. The pub had a good atmosphere , quiet and relaxed. The first time in here, and I will be back again.

Great place really relaxing atmosphere

Standard wetherspoons with helpful friendly staff. Quick service Plenty of tables in different rooms, slightly on the drab side like most 'spoons. We ate here for our evening meal then also breakfast next morning. Everything was perfectly cooked. Clean toilets

Its spoons, standard fayre all round

My last visit here was when it was managed by the best manager I've ever come across - Kevin - who ran this place like clockwork. My visit today was with surly staff (one other customer complained about the staff in my 30 minute stay, seeing fit to ask for the manager), unevenly cooked food, a cloudy pint that should not have been cloudy and a table that had not been cleaned since it's last occupancy. Standards here have dropped markedly, which is a shame for one of the better placed Wetherspoons in the city and would not have happened when Kevin was in charge. I'd say that having a load of facetious wannabe snobs in might have played a factor, but it shouldn't. Do better.

Great Manchester experience very friendly

Probably the dingiest spoons in Manchester, I'd go to another one if you can

Quiet place, good beer in the center of Manchester.

Food was good but the sauce bottles need a good wipe down. The lids are so sticky.

What a revelation a great old fashioned pub where you can drink and chat in peace 🤗

Great selection and great value for money

Great place to eat and drink beer. We order at the bar and give our table number. Delicious fish and chips. Toilets on the 1st floor.

Gets really packed on Saturday match day's

Friendly service, unusual building even for a Spoons gives it a cosy atmosphere with all the small rooms.

Of the 5 Spoons in the city centre the Waterhouse consistently has the best choice of cask ales available. Multi roomed so can be difficult finding somewhere to sit.

The sirloin steak was very well seasoned, cooked to perfection and very tasty (Tuesday Steak night)

Great Wetherspoons you must visit

Typical Spoon's cheap and cheerful, nice friendly staff.

15 minutes waited for a Guinness when asked a manager he said we our busy dosent take 15 minutes to poor a Guinness

Usual good quality food and drink

Booked a different pub in the same city. However, they managed my mistake very well and served the whole drinks and food quickly.

Over filled - food, atmosphere, bar and the place Some feels amazing but feels fine! Love the food and staff - a definitive can do better on Atmosphere

Not really clean, friendly staff. My second and last Wetherspoon. Then it's better to go to a real pub. You can stop here without hesitation.

A typical Weatherspoons Good cheap wine!

Food good. Quick and friendly service

Conveniently located cosy pub. Great value and clean.

This is by far my favourite wetherspoons in town. It has separate rooms which means it can keep the noise contained to each room. The food is as good as you would expect in another other wetherspoons. The staff are friendly. The bathroom for the womens is this strange waiting room with a sofa and then a bathroom. Very strange! I love it.

OMG the Sticky Korean Fried Chicken Bowl was amazing, just the right amount of spice. Will definitely be going again.

I loved all my meal which was a chicken Rogan josh, rice, naan, onion bhaji, poppadoms & pakora. The cocktails were amazing & I loved the little added touch of a slice of orange with the orange juice. Only thing was that my friend who had a jacket potato said it was a tad dry as there wasn't enough filling but the food tasted lovely on her meal. If you go upstairs you will see the historic landing & books they have & the female bathroom is amazing - proper 5 stars.

Sort the WiFi out. No signal and WiFi never works making it impossible to order on the app.

This is a good pub to spend time with friends. I really like there.

I think this place could do with sprucing up bit out of date. Staff could be more friendly. Food was okay but Luke warm think the chips have been standing round keeping warm under a light they were not fresh and hot I should have sent it back didn't have time because we going to the opera house.

A good fish'n' chips with a beer, for a really decent price. I would come back if I ever go to Manchester again !

Smallest portion of chips I think I've ever seen.

Lovely building. Great service.

Very convenient. Friendly staff

Good value as usual at Wetherspoon.

Always worth stopping off for a pint when I'm in town. Good service at the bar. Great prices 👍

Nice pub just across from St. Peters Square in Manchester with the usual distinctive Wetherspoons design. Good beer and menu selection as usual. Had our breakfast here and one of the courses was completely screwed up by the kitchen staff, but the girl serving us sorted it out straight away and the manager gave us a full refund on that course, which was excellent customer service. I'd definitely visit again if in the area.

As all spoons cheap cheerful busy

Strange layout but everything else was a you would expect.

Not a bad place spot on for breakfast

A great stop off Portland road. A very quirky Wetherspoons, but very well presented. Recommended.

We had 2 lunches, 2 drinks and 2 coffees and it was only £21. It was really excellent value. 3.69 for a pint of dark fruits when you can pay 5.50 in some places. The food was okay too. Speedy service and piping hot. Definitely be visiting again. We'll done Weatherspoons. Keep it going.

Typical spoons, great food and great beers.

Lovely pub good food great service and nice atmosphere

I recently visited The Waterhouse (Wetherspoons) in Manchester, and it was a major letdown. I ordered a full English breakfast, and it was served cold—eggs, bacon, beans, everything. To make matters worse, the toast was burnt to a crisp. It’s clear there was little care put into the preparation of the food. The service wasn’t much better; the staff didn’t seem bothered when I raised the issue. I get that Wetherspoons is a budget-friendly chain, but that shouldn’t mean sacrificing quality or basic standards. Overall, a disappointing experience I wouldn’t recommend.

Nice service. Even though the food was a little bit on the cool side, the price was good enough. I would definitely go back.

I ordered 6 gravy’s and the last 3 were smaller pots and the very last one was so lumpy I thought I was drinking unmixed porridge

Regular haunt. Good food, great ale (including Phoenix Wobbly Bob - the best beer in England), good service, nice interior, great location, fantastic value. The only problem is that this all makes it very popular and getting a table at busy times can be difficult.

Fab 'spoons in a really good location. Loads of small rooms so it feels more intimate than your average 'spoons.

I had beans on toast, beans were cold and toast wasn’t toasted properly, my husband had a breakfast and his beans were cold too and the rest of the breakfast was Luke warm

Nice food wonderful atmosphere and good beer 👍

Place that has a soul. Beautiful oldstyle pub with many different kind of beers and more than affordable prices. Staff is very kind and helpful. Definitely place to visit.

Decent food, decent pub. Was busy and the staff was run off their feet bless them.

Once I got inside and found my party through the ridiculous labyrinth of small rooms, the beer was nice, and the food was OK. The entry into the pub was extremely difficult for me, I have severe arthritis in both knees and ankles. There are three very tall steps in with no grab rail to help you up or down. Honestly, if I hadn't agreed to meet people there, I would have walked past. It actually hurt my legs getting in the place.

Went for breakfast one of our party stuggled to enter due to high steps and a disability found there was an alternative entrance just needs sign posting from outside

18th Nov 2024: Let down by 15 minute wait for my coffee mug after ordering via app, and eventually having to search for a member of staff to ask for it. 11am and pub was almost empty. Much much quicker just to order at the bar like in the past. Breakfast was not as good an experience as I've had from other Wetherspoons. Barely warm and looked like it had stood about.

Ordered breakfast and seen a mouse running round Hope kitchens clean

Just happened upon this Spoon's and 2 pints for less than a fiver on a Monday a good session was had.

Great vegetarian breakfast for £3.99 (+93p for a second egg). Friendly staff, spacious building with lots of seats and fancy toilets!

Great location lovely place to sit and eat

Dad's favourite pub,where ever we are,wetherspoons will be on the list each time. Nice pub , decent menu

Decent Wetherspoons. Sometimes hard to get a seats Always busy

Always full in here. One of the best buildings for a spoons. Glad they put the sofa back in the women's toilet

I visited the Waterhouse for lunch and my sister and we both ordered the small fish and chips. One of the portions was a fraction of the size of the other with very little fish inside inedible batter. See photos. Would not recommend and won't be going back.

The front door is broken, and making the most awful screeching sound, I had to leave early.

Lacks atmosphere with dining tables squeezed in everywhere. Cost of drinks excellent. Really good offers, we paid £4.38 for 2 pints!!

Nice to enjoy a coffee outside and watch the world go by without spending 💰 on bespoke style coffee house prices. Many types of ground coffees, and tea for less than £1.60 with free refills.

Lovely atmosphere, very helpful and friendly staff. :)

Clean, comfortable and a typical JD Wetherspoon with cheap prices and lots of choice. Several power points which were handy.

Just popped in for a quick drink. Decent enough pub, standard spoons kind of pub but a good location.

Prompt and friendly service, the food comes out quick and hot

Typical wetherspoon experience good prices and good food.

Great prices , great atmosphere and hood service 👏

Pretty good! Don't be late on Friday nights.

Unbeatable in terms of price and the selection of food and drinks. You remember the table number and order everything at the bar. Pay attention to the offers: e.g. fish and chips with a pint of beer for under 13 pounds. Lots of good beers...

It was my first time in England, I was offered to try English breakfast, so we went to this place. I really liked it! We went for dinner one more time, everything was great too

Better than average wetherspoons

It's a wetherspoons. It's fine, bit of a different vibe to other spoons in manchester because it's in an old house. Cheap drinks and decent food.

A very elegant historical grand building which almost gives the impression it could have appeared in a film or television period drama. This very busy pub is rather curious with small dining rooms all over the place on the ground floor and a large open dining area upstairs. The beer was generally quite a bit more expensive than Wetherspoon pubs round here in Lancashire but my beer of choice was a top notch pint and enhanced by it being chilled and that is the first time I have enjoyed a chilled pint in a Wetherspoons pub and I have visited many of them in recent times. If the Waterhouse had an attractive open plan lower floor I would have awarded five stars.

Now I love the spoons but this place has terrible grumpy staff obviously doing this as a part time job whilst at Uni. The grumpy miss behind the bar was awful and the prices hiked higher as you are in Manchester ! Nah we won’t be back awful place waste of a great historical building

Breakfast was cold on arrival and took over half an hour to arrive. Staff seemed more interested in chatting than serving people. Run down and dirty.

As expected. Could have been more helpful when there was no milk jug at the coffee station.

Cheap and cheerful good selection of food and drink

Whetherspoons as you expect, variety of rooms and tables but not the typical city centre prices

Very reasonable prices for drinks. Sometimes noisy but it is a pub!

Always like a wetherspoons you know what your getting is value for money, still great value even though it's all gone up

Our breakfast everyday in Manchester

Very nice wetherspoons friendly staff loads of areas to sit food was well cooked and tasty not hectic like most

We use this pub quite a lot and it is our favourite Wetherspoons in Manchester. Handily located on Princess Street it is a big place with lots of anti-rooms for you to find a table and enjoy the food and drinks offered. Ideally, try and get a table by the window where you can see the city going about its business which is always entertaining. on this occasion, the service was slow even though the pub was quite quiet but there was only one lady serving. She soon called the others through who seem to be enjoying a bit of a rest but it isn't normally like that. Of course, the drinks are great value for money even if the wine is fairly awful. I'd recommend sticking to that great price bitters and IPAs.

Wetherspoons pub with a slightly more up market feel, good choice of real ales.

Typical spoons pub but I like it here, food is reasonable and well priced and staff are friendly. Toilets are not the best but it's a city center pub so I imagine it's difficult to stay on top of it here.

The second best spoons in the area.

This is a smaller wetherspoons with small intermat rooms but still the usual food and drinks and a little snug, 🥰

Great pub, quick service, spotless toilets

Had a disappointing start by going to The Moon Under the Water. But then went to The Waterhouse, ordered food and coffee refills, unfortunately the food we ordered and paid for was also not in stock. Evie the manager, apologised offered us an alternative with desserts and drinks. She couldn't do enough for us for all the inconvenience. She also waited on us personally, to ensure the service was at the highest standard. Evie, really made it up to us from the disappointment of both pubs, she is absolute credit to the company. I also recognised how hard she works, zipping around the pub, taking care of the customers needs. Will be definitely going there again!

Nice wetherspoons pub in centre of manchester. It can be busy and finding a seat can be a challenge. Great selection of cask ales. Worth a visit.

We like just about all the Wetherspoons in the city centre but this is probably our favourite. It is handedly located for Chinatown and other interesting locations. It does get very busy but they seem to keep a lot of stuff on and you usually get served quite quickly. it is no surprise that they have a fantastic range of drinks at fabulous prices for the city centre. It was a sunny day on this occasion so we got our drinks in plastic glasses and went out to the street at the back and enjoyed the sunshine.