The City Arms, Manchester

Revisited on a Saturday evening back in May, to find the City Arms as reliable as ever. Unchanged for many years and a traditional interior, already well described, with an interesting selection of real ales available covering a decent range of styles. Of course, the above makes the City Arms is popular, but if there is no seating left in the cosy back room, there is plenty of standing space in the front room. Can't fault the place.

Visited this 2022 Good Beer Guide pub on 11.8.22 and found a fantastic choice of cask ales. There were a few from Neptune brewery, and we chose Neptune Sea of Dreams and Wander Beyond Wolfsbane, both well kept. Certainly one to have on your to do list when visiting the city.

A corridor runs from the entrance past a serving hatch on the right to a room at the rear. This room has banquette seating around the walls with tables and stools. Up on the wall is a chalkboard that lists seven cask ales and two craft keg. These are available from the bar located up a couple of steps towards the front of the pub. An eighth hand pump was unused and there were some premium keg products available. I went for the Jaipur that was on good form. There is a small TV in each of the rooms, but these were off in favour of some background music from the likes of The Doors and The Beatles. There were only two other customers, which I found surprising as this pub is vastly better than the busier Spoons next door.