The Exchange, Bradford

Visited Weds evening 27 August around 7pm. First visit for over a year and they've made some changes. Atmosphere was terrific and a good mix of young and old. 4 cask on and in good condition, had a half of each. Marble Bitter top notch, Nightjar Porter rich and smooth. Seems to be doing really well, good to see after this COVID too. Nice friendly staff. Would highly recommend, certainly one of the best in Bradford City centre

Atmospheric cellar bar with arched ceilings and quirky drawings on the walls. There are some booths to the right and a real mix of other tables and chairs. Friendly barmaid and customers. 5 handpumps on the go with a decent selection of styles. My pint was in very good nick and a CAMRA discount of 20p per pint is offered. I'll be back here soon.

not much change internally from previous incarnations as it’s surely listed, but the range of beers is a good well balanced choice and fairly locally sourced on the cask front with an interesting selection as regards keggy stuff. Well worth dropping in and having a pint or two.

Now reopened as the Exchange Craft Beer House, under new ownership after the Bradford Brewery bit the dust. There are still five hand pulls at the bar, and at the time of my visit offering a few Nightjar ales and a couple of others I didn't make a note of. Google says it opens at 5pm but it was definitely open at 3pm on my Tuesday visit, and in fact the doors were open earlier than this when I walked by - so don't let Google put you off an afternoon visit. Service was friendly and the Cosmonaut by Nightjar that I had (£1.75 for a half) was in good nick. There is a 'craft' beer board but I didn't notice any keg taps other than the font on the bar (which was not big enough to accommodate everything listed) so either I wasn't looking hard enough or these could be available in the forms of bottles or cans. However I was happy enough with cask so didn't have cause to investigate further. It wasn't too busy, as expected for 3pm on a Tuesday afternoon, but there was a couple sat at the bar already when I got there, and another gent appeared not long after, so not completely dead. I stand by my previous score of 8/10, and again I would be happy to pay a return visit.