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Another pub on my visit list and I too love to look round the interior tile work. We had a superb meal too on our last visit, and the ale choice and quality is brilliant. Some good strong brews too.
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i love this pub..always busy and the food..if a tad pricey always looks and smells gorgeous as its wafted under ya beaks while sampling the many flavoured beers...the ginger marble is second to none..even beating glasgows clockwork beer co...the sloping floor can be a bit hazardous if your a bit tipsy on the way in...they do a good cider from the barrel on the back o bar...anyone visiting manchester should include this on there stagger..short bus ride from shudehill interchange and the bus stops right outside the marble arch..always a warm atmosphere in here..worth a damn good visit.
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If there is a better pub/pint anywhere, let me know. Good luck.
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Incredible piece of "living Victoriana". Fantastic tiled walls and ceiling and mosaic floors, fireplace, mirror, hanging lamps etc. Manchester bitter a good session ale. Great atmosphere on a Sat night without being overcrowded. Returned on a Sunday for food:-fish and chips, good honest pub food, nicely presented, good value. A wonderful pub.
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Words fail me. We visited last night and tried the Manchester Bitter, (1st class) and the other half tried the Ginger 6 (1st class). Enough said.
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Best Pub in Manchester by a long mile
Superb beer choice - their own Marble beer range on tap and in bottles, plus several guests.
Gorgeous old tiled interior. Friendly staff and punters create a convivial atmosphere
If you come to Manchester and love pubs, this should be first on your list
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Great place, full of character, great selection of beers on good form. Will be back!
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Best beer is GSB for me it's like old Boddies with Knobs on!
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A first class pub with superb beer, highly motivated and inteligent staff and a wonderful interior. I shall definitely be back when next in Manchester!
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What can I say. Paid my first visit there on Saturday during the winter ales festival. What a place! Cannot recommend it high enough. The beer was fabulous, the atmosphere brilliant. A really friendly crowd of beer enthusiasts, students and locals. A must visit place when you come to Manchester. The interior is unique and historic, and yes the pub slopes from front to back, something to watch out for if you've had 'one over the eight'
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How I wish there were pubs like this in my town. Unreconstructed, superb beer & a good atmosphere. The Manchester Bitter I tried was excellent. Will return without doubt.
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Used to find this place hit and miss but is a great old pub. I love Marble beers and really commend their efforts. Beats Sam Smiths and most if not all city micro brewers!
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One of the Best Real Ale Pubs in Manchester, If not The Best
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Traditional home-brewer pub reasonably close to Manchester Victoria B R. This is a large single bar pub with a fine ceiling and a deceptive floor that slopes down noticeably to the bar at the far end.
There's a old Harpurhey Brewery mirror ( don't know much about them )
Brewing takes place at the back of the pub and the equipment is visible from a small lounge at the back
As regards the various beers, the Lagonda IPA was a nice pale citrussy IPA, worth sampling. As well as the half dozen or so home-brewed beers, there were a couple of micro guests on when I visited
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Brilliant place, always a port of call when in Manchester. Beers always on top form, food is always worth the wait. Decent jukebox
Can get very busy.
Love the slight slant of the place, especially after a few sherberts!
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Truly remarkable and unique pub.
Anyone visiting Manchester should check it out.
Great beer,great food,great ambiance....nuff said..
anonymous - 27 Oct 2007 18:39 |
I much preferred the Marble before it became a micro brewery. As a genuine free house its choice of guest was always inspired. Still a great experience to visit one of the finest pubs you'll ever visit but it's a shame their own produce will never be able to match what they used to bring in.
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10 handpumps, including 4 beers brewed on the premises. Even some decent imported draught lager for those so inclined (but why not try the real stuff?). Great tiled interior. A good 'local' atmosphere, but any visitor to Manchester ought to seek this place out.
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Pretty good pub with some decent beer. Try to get there before it's taken over by unMancunians going on and on on and on and on about their over-priced "lofts" (flats)in the Northern (ironic) Quarter and the merits of Arsenal's latest signing.
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Just moved to the area and am delighted that Marble Arch is now my local. Good range of both draught and bottled beers (including the top notch Schneider Weisse). Friendly bar staff and relaxed atmosphere to boot. Highly recommended!
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Fantastic traditional boozer,great beer,love the interior,love the atmosphere.I live in Brisbane now but someday I am determind to return!
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Manchester Bitter superb as ever - even my lager drinking friend loved it. Food has gone more upmarket - good quality but more expensive than before. Great jukebox too!
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One of the very best!
The Marble pie is absolutely fab!!!!!!!!!
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Beer (esp Ginger Marble), Food, decor and ambiance - superlative, best pub in Manchester bar none.
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still is a rough pub, still have not got rid of the rabble that go in there!
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still fantastic. Consistently the best in every resepct.
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Superb in every respect. Fabulous interior, stunning range of beers brewed on the premises as well as five guests. Laid-back and very chatty atmosphere, impossible not to drop into conversation with your neighbours. In a city where there are many stunning pubs to visit (as well as some of the direst to avoid at all costs), this stands out amongst the very best. A pity the Beer House a few yards down the road has closed as they were the perfect double act.
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Whilst all other traditional pubs around the Marble Arch fall, the Marble Arch provides the one good reason to take a trip up Rochdale Road.
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Fantastic pub! Had a day out in Manchester city centre. Of the 5 pubs we tried this was our fav. The ales were top rate (according to my partner)and said it was one of the best pubs he has been into. We absolutely ADORED the food, the mushroom and avocado filled ciabata with chips was oustanding, gastro pub food in a very traditional pub. Top marks
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My favourite Manchester pub. Classic interior, fairly laid-back bohemian atmoshphere, great range of beers both from the Marble brewery and other local brewers. Pictish Porter was particularly splendid.
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Cracking pub and locals are always friendly, especially the posties! but bar always seems to be swimming in ale! Not good especially as they use those plastic backed "towels" that soak nowt up! Often visited over many years (from 1986 onwards) when in the hands of different landlords. Changed a lot over the years but tiled interior is excellent
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Fantastic. Good atmosphere, great range of ales, good food.
Could be described as heaven! Close!
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Superb pub and beers.
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This is top hole. I'm a sucker for that whole Victorian tile thing, which this place does in spades.
The back bar/eatery is a bit odd mind - puts me in mind of a 1950s fish and chip restaurant.
Not necessarily a bad thing, just saying.
And the beer and the food were all good, Fefinitely worth a visit.
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Beers are home produced and exceptional - No sign of this pub disappearing in the medium term as it is a listed building. Make sure you try the Marble Ginger and the Lagonda.
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Now this is a proper pub!
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This is a seriously good pub. I thoroughly enjoyed the Ginger Marble and one called Lagonda. They were having a Celtic theme to their ales, with one from Cornwall, one from Wales (I think) and 3 from Scotland including a prize-winning one from Cairngorm. Food first class (portions legendary), staff hard-working and friendly. The high spot of a crawl round Manchester.
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Cracking pub, best time to go is early Friday evening - great atmosphere with all the posties in from the sorting office round the corner. The micro-brewed beers can be hit & miss - but the new tawny ale is a tasty one.
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This is a great pub - yep, one of the best in Manchester. The interior is pretty much unchanged from the last century and the building drips with character. Unfortunately, the beers, brewed in house, don't. The Marble Arch is a microbrewery, and also a vegan one, if memory serves me right. The range of home produced beers is somewhat lacking in character and taste - they're OK, but if you've just staggered back from a beer festival, you'd probably ask yourself what all the fuss is about. Nonetheless, recommended.
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This is a truly marvellous establishment.Has its own brewery which produces high quality ale (Ginger marble is a must!) and theres also a selection of european beers.Theres a very distinctive sloping mosaic floor which really adds to the character of the place and ive always found the clientele to be very varied.Probably the best pub in Manchester
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Excellent range of beers including own brewed and bottle continental. The food also deserves a mention - good quality and reasonable price. A little gem of a place.
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Fantastic pub. One of the best in Manchester. Always has large variety of beer inc. marble beers which are always well kept.
Tony Blair would probably disapprove.
Everytime I go to this pub I get bladdered!
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Probably the finest pub in Manchester.
They always have a wide selection of beers as well as a couple from their own brewery. The Ginger Marble being my own favourite.
It's a little bit out of the way, but well worth the 5 minute walk from Swan street.
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Very interesting drinking establishment. The choice of beverages is varied as is the clientele. Well recommended. Please take care of the sloping floor on your way to the toilets it's a bit of a laugh when you've had a few to many!!!!!
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An excellent pub, try the honey beer it's lovely!
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This pub is one of the hidden gems of the real ale world in Manchester. I meet with friends once a month and enjoy the many different beers and great Victorian interior.There are also 3-4 proper traditional pubs nearby. well worth a visit to this little know part of the city.
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Just came up for the Semi final and thought this pub was superb,great beer .excellent interior and a good ambience,nearly made up for losing!Please dont let any scouser in here ,they will ruin it ,they were a right horrible lot!
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I’ve only been to this place once but it is now on my list of favourite Manchester pubs. The high vaulted ceiling, the sloping mosaic floor and the solid wooden furniture give it a bit of a beer hall feel. The beer was excellent on our visit and had we not been on our third day of drinking, with another three pubs still to find, we would have stayed longer. Will definitely pay another visit next time I am in Manchester.
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a very pubby pub which brews it own beers in distinctive styles.
A 'must' for any trip to the area.
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I think this is the most fantastic pub in the world, 9 real ales (4 brewed on site) very friendly staff, good traditional food, and amazing unique victorian interior...its one of a kind, a gem!! well worth the trip...
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Good beer, nice ambience, nice friendly staff, grotty enough to keep the pretentious out but not grotty enough to attract lager losers.
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A must visit - superb tiled interior, sloping floor, great atmosphere and in house brewed beer.
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I think this may be the best pub I have ever been to. The large windows, the high glazed ceiling, the sloping floor. Or was it the brewed on the premises beer, that were all very good. It may have been the cost of the beers (1.80 to 2.20 per pint). This is a very good pub and I want to go there again. Why doesn't London have these type of pubs?
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Well worth the trip up Rochdale Road. Sadly the nearby Pot of Beer is no more. An architectural wonder with good food, a brewhouse (book your tour at the bar) and quality beers. Bring back the beer garden!
Dr Piffy - 12 Oct 2004 10:37 |
the beer is top notch, visit the other marble beer pubs recommend the marble beer house in cholton
just go!!
m - 17 Sep 2004 15:44 |
Beer very poor on my recent visit
Steve - 30 Aug 2004 21:34 |
If you only have time for one pint in the Northern Quarter make sure it's the Manchester Bitter at The Marble Arch !! Enough said.
bob mason - 15 Aug 2004 02:11 |
under par, good beer and building, but the management couldn't find a pile of hay stacks under a needle
dave - 30 Mar 2004 17:33 |
Ginger Marble is a truly wonderful Ginger Beer, as are all the other house brewed beers. Extended their range of other guest beers in 2003, following the demise of the Beer House down the road.
frank - 26 Dec 2003 13:47 |
cloudy marble fantastic. the chocolate brew is better. caution very busy near christmas due to post office sorting office next door. we all need a christmas do.
jocky - 2 Nov 2003 22:35 |
The "Manchester Bitter" is top notch, N/4 too is v.good. good choice, friendly staff AND locals. GO THERE.
Bill - 2 Oct 2003 14:48 |
The Marble Arch is a fantastic little pub - The usual Barman on Sunday's, Paul, is wonderful, and pulls the best pint of Ginger Marble - which I have fallen in love with
Aussie - 2 Sep 2003 09:55 |
The best pub in Manchester. The Pot of Ale just around the corner is also excellent. Shame that the Beer House just down the road is a shadow of its former self ....
Monty - 13 Aug 2003 12:17 |
This pub is a real find with its selection of beers and unaltered architecture and decoration, staff were also friendly. Recommended to all.
Les Laws - 11 Aug 2003 13:18 |
Brilliant mosaic floor, and the tiles [even the ceiling is tiled!]. Is the mirror real or repro? Ginger Marble most enjoyable
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Superb pub, superb beer, superb decor, friendly bar staff - but watch out for some of the locals!
Andy - 9 Jun 2003 15:53 |
Superb pub! GO there!!!!!
Robin Kerwin - 16 May 2003 16:41 |
Internally tiled walls and sloping mosaic floor,the home of the Marble Brewery and their brilliant 'Ginger Marble Beer'
frank - 15 Nov 2002 09:43 |
