Wetherspoons Oxford Road - Wigan

This isn't a place we visit much, but when we do, we enjoy it. It is very centrally located near Oxford Road and that means it gets extremely busy. It is to the great credit of the Pub that you never have to wait long to get served though as this plenty of staff.they have the usual range of well priced drinks and some excellent guest beers. It is a big place, but the best seats without doubt of the stools over by the windows. From here you can enjoy having a drink or two whilst watching the madness of Manchester go by.

We, three friends who work for the ambulance service and work shifts, finally managed to get a date together to meet and have a dinner/drink date. We came here for a cheap and cheerful change. We ordered food, we had three rounds of drinks plus a shot each (we had two years of making up for-when you work different shifts it’s difficult to organise a get together! We were polite to staff who served us, we were no problem generally, yet when we came to order our fourth round of drinks, we were told we weren’t going to be served because we’d “had enough”. We questioned if we’d upset anybody: staff or other customers…..we were told no, there were no complaints, they just deemed we’d had enough because we were “a bit loud!” Now, we are a trio of cacklers, we like a laugh, but not at any point in my 39yrs on earth have I been refused a drink for being “too loud”. I’ve been out with these two ladies for the last 8yrs in different Spoons and never once have we been refused to be served alcohol.. It was a bizarre power trip, which was potentially triggered by two of us in the group being gay. There was no other reason for the complete refusal to serve us alcohol when we did nothing wrong and we’re just enjoying an overdue catch up. I wouldn’t step foot in this dump again if it was the last bar on earth, I’d rather die of thirst than pay their staffs wages, when they have the disgusting attitudes they displayed today. Avoid at all costs, especially if you’re LGBT and just looking for a cheap bev with your mates. Pay a bit extra at somewhere more inclusive. Thanks for unnecessarily spoiling an overdue reunion between me and my two friends for the sake of some weird power trip. The set of 8 men at the table next to us that were playing cards were loud AF, but that was obviously ok. You’re a bunch of absolute cranks!

Honestly wouldn’t bother coming here for any kind of occasion been here multiple times but the most recent one was my best friends birthday! All outside we were polite and understanding of staff as we were told we couldn’t be outside with glass so had them changed to plastic. Was no hassle. Wasn’t until later when they closed the outside that my group was told a few of the males there were acting suspicious in the toilets, we had only just found our table, and are very much a anti-drug use group as they implied. The staff were rude woman ruined the night had no real reasoning behind kicking us out besides assuming we were doing some form of drugs!!! Very unprofessional won’t be returning and hope the woman who almost made one of the girls in the group cry gets sacked!

When in Manchester this is one of my favourite places. One of the better Spoons in my opinion. However, I do not understand why customers form a queue to get served. A leftover from the stupid Covid rules maybe? It's the only pub I visit that does this-there are no signs saying you should. It's a long bar, normally with several staff serving and so I go straight to the bar and get served quickly, no problem. Yes I get told to queue by punters sometimes and I respond appropriately!

Good breakfast and very quickly served despite being very busy, one of the better spoons around. Will be back.