Wetherspoon’s to open first pub in Spain – offering garlic prawns and beer from 6am

Wetherspoon’s is to open its first pub outside the UK and Ireland, serving alcohol from 6am every day to sun-seeking Britons waiting for their plane in the departure lounge at Alicante airport.

The opening in Spain, scheduled for January, will be the first foray on to continental European soil for the pub chain, which said it expects to pursue more footholds on the continent in the coming years.

The expansion into mainland Europe comes nearly a decade after the outspoken Wetherspoon’s founder and chair, Tim Martin , celebrated Britain’s vote to leave the EU, a policy he vocally backed. Pizza Hut to close 68 UK restaurants, putting up to 1,200 jobs at risk Read more

The airport pub, named Castell de Santa Bàrbera after a culturally significant medieval coastal fortress in Alicante,