{"id":330261,"date":"2025-08-09T10:02:21","date_gmt":"2025-08-09T10:02:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/330261\/"},"modified":"2025-08-09T10:02:21","modified_gmt":"2025-08-09T10:02:21","slug":"two-birmingham-wetherspoons-pubs-close-including-the-worst-in-the-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/330261\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Birmingham Wetherspoons pubs close &#8211; including &#8216;the worst in the city&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.expressandstar.com\/news\/business\/2024\/05\/17\/britains-lowest-rated-wetherspoons-revealed-in-region--new-research\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">worst-rated Wetherspoons<\/a> pubs in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.expressandstar.com\/news\/local-hubs\/birmingham\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Birmingham<\/a> has permanently closed, as another is shut temporarily as part of a takeover of all restaurants in the NEC.<\/p>\n<p>The Atrium was ranked as &#8216;the worst in the city&#8217; after receiving an average customer rating of 2.3 out of five stars on the review website TripAdvisor.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/5af4d93a-2876-4872-8899-c640528ec3f1.jpg\"   alt=\"Wetherspoon pub\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"w-full max-w-none\"\/>Wetherspoon pub<a href=\"https:\/\/www.expressandstar.com\/newsletters\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Get the latest headlines delivered straight to your inbox with the Express &amp; Star\u2019s free newsletter<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The reviews complained about &#8216;higher-than-average menu prices&#8217;, as well as the long wait time for food, and the low quality of customer service.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Wetherspoons bosses confirmed that the Atrium site has closed with immediate effect on Wednesday, August 6.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Wetherspoons also announced that the NEC Piazza has closed, with plans confirmed for the pub&#8217;s reopening under new ownership.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Regarding the NEC Piazza Wetherspoons, spokesperson Eddie Gershon, said: &#8220;We can confirm that the pub has now closed and that it will reopen on 1st September 2025 as a Levy franchised Wetherspoon pub, trading under the same name.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There will not be any redundancies with staff being given the opportunity to transfer to the new owners, or offered a job at a Wetherspoon pub in the region.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He added that: &#8220;Wetherspoons has also closed the Atrium site.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The closures come after Levy announced plans to take ownership of all food and beverage operations across the NEC&#8217;s primary venues, including the NEC, ICC, Vox, and the Utilita Arena Birmingham.<\/p>\n<p>The improvement plans include transforming many of the NEC&#8217;s food, catering and hospitality spaces.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One of the worst-rated Wetherspoons pubs in Birmingham has permanently closed, as another is shut temporarily as part&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":330262,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7820],"tags":[855,748,393,77,786,4884,379,12,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-330261","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-birmingham","8":"tag-birmingham","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-entertainment","12":"tag-food-and-drink","13":"tag-great-britain","14":"tag-local-hubs","15":"tag-news","16":"tag-uk","17":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114998237294619500","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=330261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330261\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/330262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=330261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=330261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=330261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}