New Wetherspoon pub in Wetherby to open in time for Christmas after £2.9m development
Pub operator JD Wetherspoon is to open its new pub in Wetherby next week - with the creation of 60 new jobs.
The thriving pub chain has spent £2.9 million developing the pub, located in the former Sant’ Angelo Italian restaurant on Wetherby High Street.
Opening next Tuesday (December 23), the new venue will be called The Angel Inn and managed by Aysha Reevell. The well-known grade-II-listed building occupies a prominent town-centre location. Closed since 2022, it had been a restaurant and ice cream parlour for 13 years.
Photos from c1900 show that it was previously known as The Angel Hotel. In older drawings and on the 1824 map of Wetherby, it is The Angel Inn. During 1760–1840, it was the town’s leading coaching inn, where passengers stopped for refreshment and stagecoaches harnessed fresh teams of horses.
Pub manager Aysha Reevell said: “Myself and my team are looking forward to welcoming customers into The Angel Inn and we are confident that the pub will be a great addition to the local social scene.”
The Angel Inn will be open from 8am until 12midnight seven days a week. Food will be served throughout the day, from opening until 11pm every day.
The new pub will specialise in real ales and traditional ciders, as well as craft and world beers, serving a wide range of different draught ales, as well as bottled beers, including those from local and regional brewers.
It will be open for family dining, with children, accompanied by an adult, welcome in the pub up until 9pm, throughout the week. The pub will be wheelchair accessible and have a specially adapted toilet for people with disabilities.
The design of the new pub is inspired by the rich architectural and cultural heritage of Wetherby while breathing new life into an historic landmark building. The redevelopment pays careful respect to the building’s historic fabric, preserving original features, including stone fireplaces and sash windows.
The interior scheme incorporates traditional timber ceiling beams, flagstone-inspired flooring and heritage-inspired panelling, as well as feature tiling. Historical photos and details of local history, as well as artwork and images of local scenes and characters of the area, are also displayed in the pub.
A landscaped beer garden provides outdoor seating in a setting designed to complement the historic building.