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Mr Thomas's Chop House, Manchester

Pub added by elizabeth mcgraw
52 Cross Street
Manchester
M2 7AR

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ROB Camra left this review about Mr Thomas's Chop House

As I mentioned below we've given this place a rest for a while, about 9 years, due to the rip off prices.

For some reason we decided to call in for one on Thursday. Pint of Landlord £5.75, medium glass of dry Rose wine £9.25.

We queried the £15 price of the round and was informed of the prices above. Still a total rip off.

Not particularly looking forward to our next visit in 2032!

There was only 1 other person in, I wonder why?

15/04/2014

Historic old pub, but the prices are getting ridiculous. Called in last night and was charged £3.95 for a pint of Black Sheep Bitter.

A total rip off even in the city centre. We'll give it a rest for a while again now.

29/04/2010
Historic old pub with a fine interior in the back bar and restaurant. Great tiling and a floor to ceiling wine bottle store. Real ale is usually Black Sheep and Boddingtons with Lees bitter making an appearance at times. Beer is kept OK but not top class. Very pricey even for the city centre (same policy as Sams Chop House across the road). We often call in for one on the way back to Victoria Station. Well worth a visit for the fine interior but take extra money out of the A & L cash machine next door if buying a round.

On 14th August 2023 - rating: 2
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Steve C left this review about Mr Thomas's Chop House

During a recent Tuesday evening visit I entered Mr Thomas’s Chop House through the Cross Street entrance that gains access to a small bar with a black and white tiled floor and beer shelves with stools around the walls. The bar supports three hand pumps which were drawing Mr Tom’s Pale Ale and Black Sheep’s Best. The third pump was unused. A short corridor leads to a long and thin area that is more of a café bar. The bar counter in here supports standard and premium keg along with another three hand pumps that were drawing TT Landlord and Boltmaker alongside Bradfield Brewery’s Farmers Blonde. This is a corner pub, so windows run the length of one side, although they are leaded and distorted and face onto an alley so they offer little to no light. Green and white tiled walls run up through a couple of arches to the other end of the pub that is accessed via St Anne’s Churchyard. The walls are adorned with pictures of people whom I assumed to be famous and may or may not have visited here at some point. No TV spotted, but there was background music playing. Like any self-respecting old city centre pub, the downstairs toilet stinks and has a film of piss on the floor. I was glad to visit this historic place and have a nose around, but I don’t plan to revisit.

On 26th December 2022 - rating: 5
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Will Larter left this review about Mr Thomas's Chop House

This is a long and narrow cafe-bar style pub, with entrances both from Cross Street and from the church square behind. The front door had "exit only" signs, but they were not visible until after entering, so I exited and went round to the back, where a member of staff was perplexed to see me coming through the back door, and directed me to the front of the pub where the bar counter is situated - it's diners only at the back. I asked the barman about the signing-in process, and he sent me to the back, where I was once again told to go to the bar. Was this Covid-restrictions gone mad? The barman and I ended up shrugging at each other.

My visit here was one of my first trips outside Sheffield after last year's lockdown ended. I had become used to the improved standard of beers in my local pubs as they gradually returned to normal. I observed many pubs serving fewer beers than before Covid as there were fewer people out and about to drink them, and better quality beer was a side-effect. Not so here, where my pint of Timothy Taylor Boltmaker, costing £4.50, was served to me in a warm glass and was well below standard. The more of it I drank, the worse it seemed to get, being not just warm and tired but borderline sour. In the end I left half of it. My only reason for coming here was because of the Camra heritage interior, but even that was not terribly impressive. Or at least, so it seems now, after suffering my first poor drink of 2021.

Date of visit: 23rd June 2021

On 4th September 2022 - rating: 3
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Graham Coombs left this review about Mr Thomas's Chop House

A long narrow historic pub with tiled floor and much ceramic work around the walls. the chop house restaurant part is at the rear, with a small standee bar at the front and an outdoor area at the back. A fair range of draught beers included Timothy Taylor's Landlord and Double Spring, Black Sheep, Robinsons Dizzy Blonde and Dartmoor Darkness, as well as a house-badged ale.

On 19th October 2018 - rating: 7
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Brainy Pool left this review about Mr Thomas's Chop House

although it's impressive inside I couldn't get comfortable here. it's corporate, calls its outdoor area a 'gin garden' and is mostly set out in fine dining style. oh and it's bloody expensive too. interestingly its official description on Google refers to it as a 'former pub'. i can't disagree really.

On 10th July 2018 - rating: 5
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Ian Mapp left this review about Mr Thomas's Chop House

A place to seek out in Manchester. All original Victorian features are in place. TT Landlord and Black Sheep were on - which makes this a holy grail type pub for me. I would settle on either.

Good food and service in the restaurant. Famous for their corned beef hash.

On 20th June 2016 - rating: 9
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Real Ale Ray left this review about Mr Thomas's Chop House

This was our first pub to visit after getting off the free bus from Manchester Piccadilly. If you're looking to visit a heritage pub, then this does tick all the boxes. The pub was built in 1867 and both interior and exterior are very impressive. Five ales on offer, I went for Robinsons Unicorn. Prices for drinks are steep.

On 8th June 2013 - rating: 8
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Peter Rydings left this review about Mr Thomas's Chop House

Called in after going to sams just like there very busy had to wait prats paying on cards cash machines every hundred yards why dont they just draw a few bob out but its always worth a visit

On 20th December 2012 - rating: 7
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Steve of N21 left this review about Mr Thomas's Chop House

When in Manchester it’s definitely worth a visit to the Chop House for the architecture alone. However the overall feeling I got was that this place is not really a pub, more a restaurant serving real ale. But I would concur with the comments already made that it will probably be one of the most expensive ales you buy whilst in Manchester , so best visited for a quick half on a quiet Sunday afternoon (like I did) and move on after having a good look at the inside.
The impressive Victorian Gothic brick and Terracotta coloured exterior seems out of place bolted onto the corner of a non descript office block, and the pub itself is an interesting design of interconnecting rooms. The interior consists of four spaces, one behind the other, the middle two being defined by a wide, green-tiled arch. As previously mentioned these two areas are characterised by an impressive display of tile work, with a green dado running round the walls and cream tiling above extending to ceiling. Period lamps then add further to the character of the place. The smallish front room is set up for drinking but then the rest of the space seemed to be reserved for the Chop House restaurant as far as I could see.
Glad I visited though, but after a small Black sheep I was off to find a more welcoming pub set up, with a better beer choice

On 12th February 2011 - rating: 6
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Just a quick pint, then I'm off left this review about Mr Thomas's Chop House

The front part of this narrow building is divided into two small bars, with the back one opening out into the 'chop house' dining room. All three areas have the same pattern of black and white floor tiles plus decorative green tiling part way up the walls. The back part of the building also seems to have plain cream-coloured tiles on the upper parts of the walls, many of which are also decorated with large black & white portrait photographs. Three handpumps available in each bar, with a selection that includes Holts (£2.85), Lees Bitter and Flowers IPA. Interesting place - well worth a look.

On 18th November 2010 - rating: 7
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