{"id":102047,"date":"2026-08-12T13:54:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-12T13:54:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/102047\/"},"modified":"2026-08-12T13:54:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-12T13:54:10","slug":"central-london-is-getting-two-major-new-wetherspoons-pubs-this-autumn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/102047\/","title":{"rendered":"Central London is getting two major new Wetherspoons pubs this autumn"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s fair to say London is well served by JD Wetherspoon. ‘Spoons’ low-priced pints and budget full English breakfasts are sold in over 100 spots around the capital, with 37 boozers in central locations.<\/p>\n

By autumn, that number will have risen to 39, thanks to two new pubs set to open later this year.<\/p>\n

If, in bygone days, you spent any time running around Shaftesbury Avenue playing video games and racing go-karts, you may have heard<\/a> that the building once home to the iconic Trocadero indoor theme park is about to be decked out in Spoons’ signature carpets. The new mega-boozer will be over 3,600 square feet in size, fitting 280 covers, and be open daily from 7am to midnight.<\/p>\n

The pub group has now revealed the opening date for its first Piccadilly site, which will swing its doors wide from October 13.<\/p>\n

\"Photograph:<\/p>\n

Photograph: SariMe \/ Shutterstock.comTrocadero, London<\/p>\n

Its second new Big Smoke boozer will open on the Strand a month later on November 24.<\/p>\n

The Benjamin Franklin, as it’ll be called, has been in the works for a while. JD Wetherspoon was eyeing up the central site in 2024<\/a>, when it first applied for permission from Westminster City Council to open a pub. After initially being denied due to concerns around noise and disturbance for local residents, the application eventually got the green light earlier this year.<\/p>\n

When it opens, the new location right next to Charing Cross station is expected to have space for around 320 people across two floors.<\/p>\n

The two pubs are among 12 new Wetherspoons boozers opening around the UK this year, including one in Heathrow T2<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Did you see that a useful London app now shows every pub with a playground in the city<\/a>?<\/p>\n

Plus: London’s top pub in 2026, according to beer experts<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Get the latest and greatest from the Big Smoke \u2013 from news and reviews to events and trends. Just follow our Time Out London WhatsApp channel<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Stay in the loop: sign up to our free Time Out London newsletter<\/a> for the best of the city, straight to your inbox.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It’s fair to say London is well served by JD Wetherspoon. ‘Spoons’ low-priced pints and budget full English…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":102048,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[26],"tags":[42928,27],"class_list":["post-102047","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-london","tag-jd-wetherspoon","tag-london"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@UnitedKingdom\/117082879974484477","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102047","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102047"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102047\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/102048"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}