London’s Trocadero has had a truly tumultuous history over the years. What started as a restaurant has gone through a number of guises, ranging from a video game arcade to a hotel, a prayer space, and more. And now, it’s set to become an enormous watering hole in the heart of the city’s West End, as it transforms into a huge Wetherspoon pub.
It’s yet another new lease on life for the building, which topped our list of places that Londoners can’t help but miss. The new pub opening will take over a portion of the building, which currently houses the likes of a Picturehouse cinema, a hotel, The Crystal Maze LIVE Experience, a US-born hot chicken venue, and a ‘Bavarian Bier Palace‘.
The Trocadero Wetherspoon pub
The Trocadero Wetherspoon will take over the site of the now-closed Coyote Ugly bar in Piccadilly. The pub will span over 3,600 square feet, and will be open from 7am to midnight, every day. With room for 280 covers, when it opens it will be one of the largest Wetherspoon pubs in the city.
The new venue will be named Piccadilly Hall, after the historic Piccadilly Hall – a mansion built in the area by Robert Baker, who made his fortune making and selling ‘piccadils’. Piccadilly Hall once occupied part of the same land, and was in fact where the name Piccadilly Circus came from. (It had previously been known as Portugal Street until the 17th century1.)
Purportedly, it will be the “first-ever Wetherspoon pub in London’s Theatreland.”2 Although one could make the argument that The Montagu Pyke (Charing Cross Road) and The Moon Under Water (Leicester Square) are firmly enscoced within London’s West End…
You can expect the typical Wetherspoon fare from the chain, including the usual food and drink menu. Whether prices will be quite as low as other Spoons’ in the city is yet to be soon, since it’s opening up in one of London’s most expensive real estate areas.
