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Fab Cafe, Manchester
Manchester
M1 6DN
Served areas
FAB Cafe
Come keep cool at Fab cafe, throw some shapes to 80/90's tunes, we are open till 3am!
5:12 PM Jun 10th 2023 from Twitter Web App
Reviews of Fab Cafe (Average Rating: 4½ of 10) see review guidelines
Strongers . left this review about Fab Cafe
Fab Café is a retro cellar bar with aqua blue and pink décor making it feel like an American diner made from Hubba Bubba. There are Atari game consoles available to play and some table football alongside a movie machine that was new to me so I didn’t really understand what it was. There’s lots of cool 1980s movie stuff such as Pinhead from Hellraiser and lots of Star Wars memorabilia. The serving counter, manned by a friendly barman, runs up the right wall where Premium keg is available alongside Carlsberg and Brooklyn Lager. There’s lots of standing room in the centre of the bar which I suppose if for dancing during the regular live music nights. Live music isn’t really my cup of tea, but I enjoyed my recent midweek evening visit when there was nothing much going on other than some background music.
On 27th December 2024
- rating: 5
[User has posted 6133 recommendations about 6099 pubs]
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ROB Camra left this review about Fab Cafe
A cellar bar that can be quite difficult to spot. Down a few steps and you enter into one large room. The walls are covered with posters for films and various pictures of actors etc. The ceiling has spaceship models hanging from it. There's a Dalek and a Cyberman and a K9 model. There's also a pinball machine which was Indiana Jones on my visit. Sadly there's no real ale no matter what WhatPub says, so I had a half of fizz and went to play on the pinball. It's getting a bit tatty in here now compared to 10 years ago when I used to work just down the road. I'll call in for a game of pinball again if I'm passing by.
On 15th April 2015
- rating: 5
[User has posted 3296 recommendations about 3206 pubs]
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Clive Thompson left this review about Fab Cafe
Bit of a posy bar with a student feel to it. Minimalist décor with psychedelic murals and weird props including a Dalek, or so I'm told as I didn't see it. Rather pretentious door policy. It's probably mostly used for pre-club drinks.
On 14th April 2007
- rating: 4
[User has posted 780 recommendations about 697 pubs]
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Manchester Piccadilly, 0.57 miles, 10 min walk (show)
Deansgate, 0.58 miles, 11 min walk (show)
Pub Details
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- Accommodation : No last updated 15 April 2015 by ROB Camra
- Bar Billiards : No last updated 15 April 2015 by ROB Camra
- Beer Festivals : No last updated 15 April 2015 by ROB Camra
- Beer Garden : No last updated 15 April 2015 by ROB Camra
- CAMRA Discount : No last updated 15 April 2015 by ROB Camra
- Car Park : No last updated 15 April 2015 by ROB Camra
- Child Friendly : No last updated 15 April 2015 by ROB Camra
- Darts : No last updated 15 April 2015 by ROB Camra
- Hot Food : Yes - Evenings only - last updated 15 April 2015 by ROB Camra
- Jukebox : Yes last updated 15 April 2015 by ROB Camra
- Karaoke : No last updated 15 April 2015 by ROB Camra
- Live Music : No last updated 15 April 2015 by ROB Camra
- Live TV Sports : No last updated 15 April 2015 by ROB Camra
- Micropub : No last updated 15 April 2015 by ROB Camra
- Pinball : Yes last updated 15 April 2015 by ROB Camra
- Pool Table : No last updated 15 April 2015 by ROB Camra
- Quiz Night : Yes last updated 15 April 2015 by ROB Camra
- Real Ale : No last updated 15 April 2015 by ROB Camra
- Real Cider : No last updated 15 April 2015 by ROB Camra
- Wheelchair Access : No last updated 15 April 2015 by ROB Camra
- WiFi : Yes last updated 15 April 2015 by ROB Camra
