The Grove Inn, Manchester

The Grove Inn has a central bar that serves the lounge bar to the right and vault bar to the left. My visit was on a recent Saturday afternoon not long after the FA Cup final had finished, so I was surprised to find the pub so quiet. There was nobody in the carpeted lounge bar where banquettes run along the front and right walls. On the rear wall is a dartboard and the television was switched off. There were a handful of locals in the vault where the L-shaped bar counter faces banquettes across the front windows and up the left. At the rear is a pool table with seating around and the television was airing post-match commentary via BBC. Sky Sports and BT Sport are both advertised. This is a Holts pub so their usual keg was available and the five hand pumps across the two bars were either unused or drawing their Bitter. The service was polite, but the out of town location means that I’ll not be visiting again any time soon.

The Grove Inn is a proper old pub that is set on a corner. Once inside there were a few rooms and i had a drink in the bar which was a nice room to have a drink in,the lounge also looked quite nice. This pub is a Joseph Holt tied house and there were two real ales on the bar i had a drink of Holts bitter and this was a really nice drink the other beer was Holts mild. I quite liked this pub and was very content having a drink in here. Pub visited 21/4/1992