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Gets busy on a Friday night but there's usually space upstairs. Service at the bar can be a bit slow and always has been in this place. Enough real ale to choose from on my recent visits and very enjoyable it was too. Seems like the kind of place that can get a bit chavvy but to be fair I'm normally only in for a pint or two before moving on, and haven't seen any trouble.
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Today March 18, I went with three friends for lunch, everything seemed fine, the food was quick, and the service was not bad, just when we ordered a coffee, the problems started, my friend ordered a coffee, but it had no spoon ... she asked in a good way ( because she es a waiter) if she could bring a spoon but she brought it, time after I went to order it, and she said that would bring, which was not true, she was laughing with a workmate, waited and waited until an educated client who had seen as we were grounded, asked the teaspoon for us, then we brought her partner. We do not know if it was because we are from another country, or was otherwise, but we just wanted to have a coffee with some sugar, felt very bad because we left before tip, and felt quite insulted to see that a person British had to ask for us to be atended as we deserved.
We don't know ithe name of the bartender, but she have a distinct red hair painted and a bang whit the hair scrambled.
Say apologise because my eanglish, and say thanks to the costumer who help us...
Thanks
R
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Superb Beartown beers enjoyed. Food fine , attentive service on a quiet Thursday night.
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Doesn't look big from the outside but once you walk through the front door it does open up, you can tell it's an old theatre. once past the bar it opens up a bit and there is more room upstairs. Quite quiet for a daytime so can't comment on how busy it gets but judging by the location they must be doing well. Prices aren't bad for a city centre pub (even a 'spoons) but edven in a pub this size, 3 (so i'm told) bars might be a tad excessive! over all, not bad beer and fairly quick service made this a pleasent visit!
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Doesn't look big from the outside but once you walk through the front door it does open up, you can tell it's an old theatre. once past the bar it opens up a bit and there is more room upstairs. Quite quiet for a daytime so can't comment on how busy it gets but judging by the location they must be doing well. Prices aren't bad for a city centre pub (even a 'spoons) but edven in a pub this size, 3 (so i'm told) bars might be a tad excessive! over all, not bad beer and fairly quick service made this a pleasent visit!
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You can't help but think with an interior this lavish (an old cinema if I'm not mistaken) this place deserves to be more than a lloyds bar. The food was in decent nick when I was there but really its nothing special.
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Good pub, friendly staff, standard Wetherspoons food and beer, good value, not for the posers though.
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Well it was very busy!
Served by a helpful young barman.
Drinks OK and the food arrived as promised and was also OK.
Noisy but good natured feel about the place.
Worth another visit.
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Went in on a sunday night when it was quiet, the bar as you enter was shut so had to go upstairs or the far downstairs bar, considering the lack of people got fed up waiting to be served totally hopeless left to find another pub.
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FYI , 7thEarlLordLucan, the guest ales often run out because they are so popular and if you are such an expert you would know that to maintain high standards of ale the beer lines should be cleaned on the guest ales every time the barrel goes. Sometimes it takes a while to get served because the pubs capacity is upto 1500. The staff work extremely hard and deserve a gold medal for what they have to put up with. I've been there when staff have been unjustifiably swore and shouted at and they have handled it brilliantly. At the end of the day the top notch staff who work at this pub deserve a round of applause and a lot of respect because theire job sure isn't easy at times. On the other hand this pub has good food, good beer, a great atmosphere and once again amazing staff!!!!
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At the end of the day its a wetherspoons. We all like wetherspoons for not pretending to be something they aint. At least u get a decent pint in a clean glass, food is cheap and good. If u want to pay 4 quid a pint for some poncey place then go down castleford basin.
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Awful
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Pretty crap pub.
At weekends it takes ages to get served
Wanting some real ale on a Friday night, almost everything was 'off' - they don't even turn round the pump clips.
JW Lees off, Three Rivers off, - why don't the staff just change the barrels - typical Wethers crap service.
Music lousy & volume blasting at weekends
Definately not up to Lloyds No1 standards.
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Surprised by the low rating for this pub...you get served quickly,the beer is normally available & of very good quality....(a lot of the other Wethers in Manchester have problems getting these basics right!)...The main entrance on Deansgate can look quite depressing...but if you find a seat round the back-in between the stairs & near the stained glass window-its a cheery enough place.
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beer hangar--depresing!!
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**TYPO!!! - MEANT TO SAY WE AREN'T CRAP - WE'RE FAB!!!!
OH DEAR
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There are some very unfair comments here. I have worked there for nearly 2 years and have never seen a proper fight. At a push i've seen 2 guys kick off with the doormen who have been promptly ejected from the pub. All us staff that work there are great considering that we have to put up with a lot of rude and/or impatient customers at busy periods. It is extremely busy at times but we do work very hard even though we are often short staffed. The pub has recently been converted into a low key Lloyds. Basically Lloyds No.1 without the dancefloor and still with a pub feel. We rarely get any major complaints so im surpised that the rating isn't higher. A comment for David - the staff are crap. We're FAB!!!!!
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I work there, and although you still get a bad element in there, it's not as bad as it was.
Tony - 23 Sep 2004 13:12 |
Talking of 'chatroom lunches' me and a few others will once again make this our chosen daytime venue for our annual summer meeting........ lets hope its as lively on mardi gras parade day as it was last year!
Debs & Crew - 13 Jul 2004 14:34 |
Nice annd cheap but all you would expect from wetherspoons.
Austin - 3 Jul 2004 08:33 |
full of morons,some staff are crap,but beer is cheap,visit but dont stay it can get a bit rough at the end of the night!
david - 20 Jun 2004 18:37 |
A converted cinema, the Moon Under Water was once the second largest pub in Europe. Part of the wetherspoons chain
very suprised to see you did't have it listed as it is probably the biggest pub in manchester
BArry - 29 Apr 2004 01:47 |
A great place to hold all your chat room lunches. Friendly atmosphere and low cost food and drink.Central location for all trains and busses and tram network being only a 15min walk from any.
Keith - 8 Jan 2004 06:16 |
Top banana for students. Cheap beer, often great guest ales and big cocktails for the ladies. Good pre-night out pub
dave - 31 Oct 2003 11:12 |
The biggest pub in the history of the world. Cheap beer. Usually full of pricks. Standard Wetherspoons blandness.
Nick - 8 Oct 2003 12:46 |
awful, avoid like the plague, typical wetherspoons (apart form the one near central library which is suprisingly ok)
you offer cheap beer and what do you egt? Ruff arse townie scum who enjoy nothing better than staring at you or bouncing some poor saps head off the kerb at kicking out time. lovely
tone - 3 Jul 2003 17:14 |
It's like drinking, and eating for that matter, at a train station.
Rowster - 10 Jun 2003 14:30 |
But on the other hand it is really cheap......
Andrew - 12 May 2003 17:44 |
Afaik the largest pub in Europe but bland as hell, typical Weatherspoons, to be avoided if at all possible. Trading on the newly found trendyness of the Living Room next door. Full of pissed up townies at the weekend out to either fight or pull.
echo - 9 May 2003 17:56 |
They refused to let me in once because I was wearing trainers. It's a bloody Wetherspoons, FFS! High class pubs they ain't.
Chris - 28 Jan 2003 23:51 |
Hey, it's not that bad. The beer is average, the food is standard Wetherspoons stuff, therefore fine and the pub itself is absolutely huge!
Nige - 28 Jan 2003 20:57 |
Because of its location (Deansgate) this otherwise bland and not-particularly-great chain pub has acquired ideas some way above its station, and has only lost out in the process. Imagine your worst chain-pub nightmares made real (bad beer, badly kept, average food), and then add a fascist dress code in the evenings and fill with arrogantly drunk wannabe-nouveau-riche.
Chris - 28 Jan 2003 19:32 |
