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Review: Verso - West Didsbury

Just over one year old, Verso in West Didsbury is a smart, well-run operation towards the Withington end of Burton Road that captures a more laid b... Read More

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CityLife Pub Of The Year - vote here!

Welcome to Pub Of The Year 2010. Do you love your local? Prove it! Over the next 11 weeks, 17 area winners will battle it out for the title. Vote for your local here...

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Dog & Partridge
4.8990 out of 5

221 Church Street Eccles Manchester

The Kings Arms 4.8484 out of 5
Cemetery Hotel 4.8356 out of 5
Crown 4.8156 out of 5
Globe Inn 4.7795 out of 5

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Review: The Nook, Chorlton

By Rachel Esson

As its name suggests, The Nook is a tiny bar nestled between Abode and The Bar along Chorlton’s vibrant Wilbraham Road strip. Through the glass window you can often see groups of friends huddled around the tables, shifting stools to accommodate new drinkers.

Review: Common

By Rachel Esson

Unlike the stylishly cool venues that have sprung up around it in recent times, Common stakes its claim to cool through scruffy simplicity, a casual approach from its staff and customers, and artistic influences.

Review: Barbirolli

By Rachel Esson

When corporate chain bar Pitcher & Piano vacated Barbirolli Square in 2009 in search of the high footfall of Deansgate Locks, the peaceful waterside spot drew the attention of independent operators Barry Hogan and Pete Petrondas.

Review: Bar Wizards Lounge, Littleborough

By Rachel Esson

The country-pub laden landscape of north Manchester’s rural tourism hotspot Littleborough has been given a fresh injection of city-style bar life in the form of Bar Wizards Lounge.

Review: DV8, Congleton

By Rachel Esson

‘DEPART from the established course’, reads the slogan on the drinks menu at DV8 – a fairly apt statement for such a unique cocktail bar. Down a quaint side street in Congleton town centre, it is the bricks and mortar of the Grade II-listed, terraced Tudor building that give it its character.

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Reader Reviews

pub of the year

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pub of the year

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An Institution

Daniel-John Housley wrote: An institution in itself, the whiskey/whisky/bourbon selection, the drama of the difficult monthly quiz, the jam-packed-ness on a Friday after work. Somewhere everyone visiting Manchester should go to, I always take tourists here, and have had far too many Cumberland (Jennings) myself on more than one... Read more…

THE LEGH ARMS

paul naylor wrote: THE LEGH IS A FAMILY ORIENTATED locals pub with a great bowling green to the rear a real hidden gem a trouble free venue a great quiz night kareoke and live music on sturday nights Read more…

Great Pub, Great Beer !!!

Matthew Hovington wrote: Oddies till I Die !!! Read more…

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Beers of the year 2009

Richard wrote:

Re: Millstone Ye Olde Vic beer. I guess brewed for the pub of the same name in Edgeley that looks so frightening that I know of certain people that have not been all that keen on going in. And t...

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