City centre Wetherspoon pub set to reopen
The William Jameson pub in Sunderland city centre is set to reopen for the first time since lockdown restrictions eased.
The William Jameson pub on Fawcett Street is set to open its patio beer garden on Monday.
It follows lockdown restrictions easing on Monday, April 12 and will will mark the first time this year that the pub will reopen to customers.
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The Wetherspoon pub will be open from 9am to 10pm, Sunday to Thursday, and 9am to 11pm on Friday and Saturday.
Food will be available from 9am to 9pm seven days a week, with a reduced menu offering breakfast, burgers, pizza, deli deals and traditional British classics.
Customers will not need to book a table and will be able to order and pay through the Wetherspoon app – with staff on hand to take orders and payment at the table from those who do not have it.
Test and trace will be in operation and members of the public will only have access to the pub to enter the outside area and to use the toilet.
Pub manager Wayne Davis commented: “We are looking forward to welcoming our customers and staff back after a long time away.”
Sunderland’s other city centre Wetherspoon pub, the Cooper Rose, reopened on the day that lockdown restrictions eased .
Customers were seen queuing outside the pub on Albion Place after the council granted permission for the temporary closure of a short section of Derwent Street between the Cooper Rose and Chaplins to allow the venue to open a beer garden.