The City Arms, Manchester

Still a great city centre pub. Back for the first time in 5 years and it hasn't changed. Still doing Moorhouses Pride of Pendle, in great nick. One of my favourites in the City. Visit blogged at http://bit.ly/2InlthU

Busy and lively on an early Wednesday evening, you enter to a small area with the bar to one side and a dartboard on another wall, down a step to a slightly larger rear room where most of the seating is situated, simple and traditional in style being button backed banquettes and small round tables facing each other across the room. Boarded floor, green painted ceiling, leaded windows with some stained glass, a fireplace on the end wall has a walnut surround and a large mirror above. B&W prints of old local scenes, many featuring trams. On the window shelf were a selection of traditional games, dominoes, chequers boards, cards plus a range of back issues of the GBG. A good range of beers on, no mainstreams, Slightly Foxed Howling Fox, Millstone Vale Mill, Mobberley Brewhouse Red Vienna, Moorhouse Pride of Pendle plus Premier Bitter, Titanic Plum Porter and the rather good Mobberley Fine Ales Maori. Stacks of pump clips over the bar show the rotation policy, deservedly popular, this is a fine pub indeed.