Bars in Northern Quarter or Ancoats before game for this Saturday?

[aka blue jambo]

If you want something different couple of local microbrewery places in industrial units off Ancoats, Track Brewery Taproom and Cloudwater Brewery Taproom are good specially for real ale lovers

Good shout but more craft beer than real ale imho

 

[Johnny Mars Bar]

Like there and Cask
Plus Rudys is nearby

Rudy's used to be awesome, I went when they first opened in 2015. Gone massively downhill since they got bought out and turned into a chain a few years ago IMO. Obvious they're cheaping out on ingredients and have made the sizes smaller.

 

[aka blue jambo]

Rudy's used to be awesome, I went when they first opened in 2015. Gone massively downhill since they got bought out and turned into a chain a few years ago IMO. Obvious they're cheaping out on ingredients and have made the sizes smaller.

I get that but still a decent pre match nosebag

 

[Giovinco]

The Monk

 

[billfromthehill]

A lot of these places aren’t in the NQ.

Cutting Room Square in in Ancoats
Swan St is in New Cross/Smithfield depending on what side of the road you’re on
The New Cross, Fringe and Crown&Kettle are in New Cross
Pelican and Port Street Beerhouse are in Piccadilly Basin.

Am I taking the thread title too literally here?

Are you a postman (lol)

 

[bennyboy]

Any deceent pubs open late for an oldie on a Saturday evening near Shudehill.

 

[billfromthehill]

Any deceent pubs open late for an oldie on a Saturday evening near Shudehill.

Steven Charles snooker

 

[mike1923]

We watched the Palace match when Haaland scored the late penalty in the upstairs bar in the Sawyers on Deansgate

I accidentally boycotted that place for years because I got it mixed up with the Nags Head whose owner saw his arse and shut when we had a parade haha

 

[cityutopia]

Party in ancoats square again

 

[bobbyowenquiff]

Rudy's used to be awesome, I went when they first opened in 2015. Gone massively downhill since they got bought out and turned into a chain a few years ago IMO. Obvious they're cheaping out on ingredients and have made the sizes smaller.

Noi Quattros in NQ is much better than Rudys and cheaper. Family-run from Naples.

 

[Johnny Mars Bar]

Noi Quattros in NQ is much better than Rudys and cheaper. Family-run from Naples.

Now here's a man who knows.

 

[bobbyowenquiff]

I accidentally boycotted that place for years because I got it mixed up with the Nags Head whose owner saw his arse and shut when we had a parade haha

Sawyers also very red though not as bad as the Nags Head.

 

[Brightwell Bros.]

I often think another City fan boozer on the edge of Ancoats would be amazing. Probably not a better time culturally for a pub like that to be a success, but probably not a worse time economically to open a pub full stop.

 

[kippax_blueboy]

Whats

Good shout but more craft beer than real ale imho

The difference in your opinion?

 

[chesterbells]

Think it’ll be more Geordie’s than anything. They tend to go in there when playing us

A few Geordie mates of mine also go in Hetheringtons on Pollard St before games against us (and yes, before PC gets involved, I do realise it’s not in Ancoats or NQ).

 

[Corky]

Whats

The difference in your opinion?

The ones marketed as Craft tend to be flavoured keg ales in the main, where as Real Ale is always cask conditioned (except for when the technology allowed the same process to happen in a bottle in the last 30 years or so).

Keg ales are the antithesis of real ale.

 

[Johnny Mars Bar]

I accidentally boycotted that place for years because I got it mixed up with the Nags Head whose owner saw his arse and shut when we had a parade haha

The old rag’s dead is a fucking hell hole.

Sooner they turn it into a Tescos the better.

 

[Mad Eyed Screamer]

Ancoats square was great before the chelsea game (last home game of the season in May).

Loads of Blues were there

Ancoats Square?
I've been gone too long....

 

[1961_vintage]

Noi Quattros in NQ is much better than Rudys and cheaper. Family-run from Naples.

Best pizza by far, and with a huge slab of tiramusu to follow.

 

[bernard o'silver]

Noi Quattros in NQ is much better than Rudys and cheaper. Family-run from Naples.

Fire up the Quattro