The Kingfisher - JD Wetherspoon — Restaurant in England

The Weatherspoons, the most optimistic your night is going to get in poynton, to start, it's a great pub, typical wetherspoons beers and food, although the food exceeded my expectations of a spoons. A large variety of beer and other drinks, lots of Gin and cheap shots and drinks in general, you can get a pint of Hop House for £1.99 which is definitely the cheapest it's getting in the area, and you cant complain at that.

The Pub is always full of faces, however you will almost always be able to find a table to suit your needs, they have a large amount of seating, some decent parking although their is a rather aggressive speed bump in the car park but should be much of a problem for anyone. There is out door seating, lots of it, a sheltered are with heat lamps, for the people who want to be outside when it's cold and raining, their is also double doors out to the beer garden and shelter. On the other side of the car park their is also a dedicated NO smokers area with picnic benches which is nice, great for anyone with kids or dogs or both in the summer.

The pub is relatively up to date, some annoyingly low lamp shades that both myself and even the staff have to duck under.. not sure who's idea that was, surely low hanging anything from the ceiling and drunk people are a bad combo. But the pub has good seating some bar style seating near the entrance, like alot of pubs the bench seating is comfy but far too low for the tables and chairs, but manageable none the less. Their is also a large mens, and womens bathrooms respectively up the stairs at the back of the pub, the toilets are nice but nothing special lots of the door locks seem to be broken, although this does get fixed it only gets broken again, and the bathroom (mens) is what you would expect after several hours of being open and not noticeably cleaned until closing time. Their is also a downstairs toilet on the ground floor, this is a disabled toilet and I believe requires a Radar key to gain entry or by request at the bar, sadly I cannot speak as for how equipped this bathroom is, there is no mention of any kind of adapted equipment on the website or in the pub so one could assume you wont find a hoist in their, or some other pieces of kit that are necessary for some, which is sad but unsurprising from a pub.

Like all spoons you can order food from the app, or via the bar, this will arrive at your table but there is no waiter service, the staff are polite and keep out of the way really, the bar staff are reasonably fast, and the service is okay on the whole, sometimes I've had things been messed up either food or drinks but rarely and is always corrected. Their are far nicer pubs, eaterys and places to be in poynton, but but for a spoons its brilliant and much nicer than the average, and it's by far the cheapest option with the most accommodating space and range of food/drink, and for that it's a great pub to have in poynton and shall forever stay the backup plan that gets used all to often for me...

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...

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...