Friendship Tavern, Manchester

A basic and pretty dire pub. 3 areas to sit in and all as bland as each other. Its all served by a central bar with no real ale. A classic example of a locals pub as unless you live by it you're not going to seek it out as a rule.

There was a funeral wake in the pub on my visit, so it was difficult to assess what it was normally like. There's a big DJ rig in the main room with a pool table, which was covered on my visit and a jukebox. There are two other rooms and a meeting room upstairs that I didn't visit. Sadly there's no real ale here now, although there used to be when it was owned my Marston's. I had a half of Carling for £1.50 and it was even worse than normal with an off taste. How do you manage that from a keg. Clean the lines you lazy sods!

The Friendship Tavern is a basic corner pub that is on the busy hyde road. Once inside there were two rooms there was a smartish lounge which was empty and a more basic bar i had a drink in the bar,this pub was a marstons tied house when i visited it and there was one real ale on the bar this was Marstons bitter which was drinkable but nothing special. Pub visited 12/8/1993