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North Westwood Ho, Manchester
Manchester
M2 1HN
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Reviews of North Westwood Ho (Average Rating: 7 of 10) see review guidelines
Brainy Pool left this review about North Westwood Ho
Inconspicuous place and very easy to miss… in fact I did miss it first time around. Once inside it is nicely done out in a traditional style, lots of comfortable banquette seating and dark wood. Very relaxing if a little boring on a midweek afternoon with a scattering of elderly customers and 70s soft rock at a sensible volume. Decent array of Blackjack cask beers on, I wouldn’t bother with their Irish red ale again though.
On 27th March 2024
- rating: 7
[User has posted 1058 recommendations about 1023 pubs]
Real Ale Ray left this review about North Westwood Ho
Formerly a Thai Restaurant, this good sized corner pub had a good vibe to it. The interior had a high standard of finish and I especially liked the curved end of bar counter and a feature stain glass window at the far right hand side. The customer base on our visit was mainly craft beer drinkers, checking out the comprehensive menu of 18 keg lines.
Five handpumps in operation serving 3 Pomona Beers, Dr Worm, Cruffatin and Polzhuber. Plus 2 guest Cloudwater Brown Bitter and Red Willow Nelson & Citra. A pint of cask in here was around the £4.50 mark.
On 25th February 2024
- rating: 7
[User has posted 3382 recommendations about 3381 pubs]
Blue Scrumpy left this review about North Westwood Ho
With the appalling state of Northern Rail thwarting our attempts to try a few new Manchester pubs, we settled on just the one, which didn't disappoint.
Run by the local Pomona Island Brewery, it's a large pub located in a former restaurant. The interior feels quite spacious, with a long bar in front of you as you arrive and a slightly more secluded area for drinking at the far right end.
5 handpulls dispensed 4 Pomona Island beers - Cruffatin, Tarquell, Horngus & Eclipse, along with a guest beer (North Shadow Play). There is a much larger selection of craft beers alongside two banks of fonts either side of the handpulls. Clipboards on tables and on the bar have beer lists, but I'm not sure how up-to-date these were. From just looking at the pumps, there appeared to be Burning Sky Provision 2023, Pomona Island Bubblegum Rock on Plastic Transitions, I Can't Get Behind That, Put On An Iron Shirt, Does It All Stop At The Tree, Solitaire Til Dawn, Phaedra, Factotum, Bernadette Nere, The Best In Me, Kissing Sexing Casio Poke You Me, Liege, Lief Barrel Aged Barley Wine & My Pink Half of the Drainpipe, Baron Blank Canvas, Laurent Cazotte's Narcotte Bland & Soon Jester King. The cider was Pomona Island Table Cider.
I echo the previous reviewer. As a new pub, it felt a bit like the first of the Craft Beer Co. chain when that opened in the Hatton Garden area of London, in that it attempts to be a traditional pub but perhaps still feels a little sterile to succeed in that regard.
Nevertheless, as I did with the Craft when it first opened, I took a liking to this pub. The beers we tried, both cask and keg were good and there was plenty of space in which to drink in on our Saturday evening visit, despite a bouncer at the door suggesting that it could often get much busier. It sounds like our visit one week later than Ian Mapp was a much more sedate experience.
On 21st December 2023
- rating: 7
[User has posted 2454 recommendations about 2453 pubs]
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- Accommodation : No last updated 25 February 2024 by Tris C
- Micropub : No last updated 25 February 2024 by Tris C
- Real Ale : Yes last updated 21 December 2023 by Blue Scrumpy
- Real Cider : No last updated 21 December 2023 by Blue Scrumpy
