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Head, Manchester
Stretford
Postal town: Manchester
M32 9BH
Reviews (Current Rating Average: 7½ of 10) see review guidelines
Steve C left this review about Head
Head has the feel of a student bar, in fact there is a games room with a gaming console and table football in a small room to the right. The main bar area is split in two by a double sided bar counter that runs from left to right creating front and rear seating areas. The décor is retro 1970’s and the background music, and barman’s clothes, are from the same period. In the front left is a small stage with a keyboard and music equipment, and in the right rear is a pool table. Standard and premium keg was available and the two hand pumps were drawing TT Landlord and Cloudwater Brewing’s Piccadilly Gold. This place won’t be to everyone’s taste, but I found it to be welcoming and I loved the 1970s vibe so I’d pop back in of passing.
On 19th October 2023
- rating: 7
[User has posted 5249 recommendations about 5217 pubs]
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Rob Hunter left this review about Head
Visited last night (Tuesday). At the bar are two hand pulls for cask ale plus 12 keg taps split across two T-bar fonts of five and a separate tall pair of taps towards the centre of the bar. The keg options ranged from Guinness to Saltaire and some foreign beers, possibly Belgian. Both cask options were beers by Torrside - Strategic Reveries (porter) and Paper Lanterns (pale ale). Both were decent and in good nick.
The place is geared up for live music with a small stage area set up ready to go. There is also a piano. The bar is central with space in front of it, a room off to the side with a games table, there is a small partially enclosed room to the side of the bar with room for just one table and two sofas (one each side), and there is a further area behind the bar. Furniture is basic and rustic but perfectly adequate.
Toilets are upstairs, where things start to get a bit more basic, and still looks like a "staff only" section of whatever used to occupy this unit before it became a bar. However the place has only opened recently and this may still be work in progress.
This could have been a let down, but I was quite impressed with the place, very different to the Longford Tap round the corner, a totally different vibe, but a decent beer selection and that's the main thing for me.
On 27th November 2019
- rating: 8
[User has posted 750 recommendations about 598 pubs]