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one of the best pubs still in manchester to visit if your in the area..or should i say salford..now with the oxford and the kings arms its worth the bus ride up and the walk down again.does a good selection of cider and all is written on the blackboard on both sides...excellent juke box and good service..the bus stops are right out side the pub...
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This is a pub I always read rave reviews for and thought I would never visit, but this year we made it and what a great place. Excellent choice of well kept beers.
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Echo yamato's comments - a great range of good quality beers in a friendly, atmospheric pub. Might not look much from the outside but well worth a visit.
About 5 mins walk from Salford Crescent station (along A6 toward Manchester).
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The Crescent lives on! This tremendous pub is back to
the top of its game. All the elements are there, great
beer, friendly staff and authentic surroundings that
create a lively atmosphere. This is the type of pub
that all others should aspire to. Keep up the good work.
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Interesting choice of beers, decent, real food and a welcoming coal fire. Well worth a visit.
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Nothing since the end of July... Has everybody stopped caring?
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Good News
It appears that the pub is to be kept as a pub with new owners from mid August. If it is,it hopefully still be one of the best pubs in the country for beer and atmospher in the whole country.
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I can't comment on the 2007 Crescent, not having seen the pub for well over a decade, but I do have many memories of all sorts. Being the 'Colin' mentioned in a previous review, I wouldn't mind a pound for every pint that I pulled during more than two years behind the Crescent's bars.
Almost opposite the University... an end-of-shift stroll from the main police station... surrounded by all manner of workplaces... close to the heart of working-class Salford... From tax inspectors to taxi drivers - literally, in both cases - the clientele probably represented the most mixed bunch one could ever want to find.
The bill of fare, equally eclectic, drew custom from throughout Lancashire; I recall one pair of young couples who travelled every Saturday evening from Preston, Bolton or somewhere equally remote (and well-served with pubs), simply for the ever-changing delights chalked upon the blackboard. I still remember vividly the ladies' ire at my allowing their beaux to round off one visit with the over-potent Enoch's Hammer, rendering them useless for their traditional end to a Saturday night out...
How long ago was this? Well, our Joseph Holt's bitter was considered expensive by some, at 74p per pint. Today, my 'local' (in, admittedly, the outskirts of pricey Croydon) charges more than three times that for its cheapest beer. The times, they have a-changed.
I suspect that most of my '87-89 regulars will have moved on; one or two, I know, have passed on. Some were friends, more were acquaintances, a very few were merely tolerated. I miss them all, of course, because I miss the Colin that was. To borrow a line, I was a barman, once, and young...
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R.I.P. !!!!!!
I went in last Friday 06.07.07 and it was looking worrying - You can tell the guys have left! Then went in earlier this week and it's heart breaking..........
I really hope this can be turned around!
I fear it won't though!
At least one staff member has moved to The Marble Arch - A very fine pub and all the better for quality staff from the Crescent!
A very sad time at the moment!
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The pubs present tenants Idy and Sal are leaving this weekend. The new tenant takes over from Monday next. Hopefully the pub will continue to flourish under the new management although only time will tell.
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I really hope this pub survives. The sheer range and quality of the ales on offer make it well worth the detour from Central Manchester.
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I lived in an apartment at the old hospital (The Royal) very near to The Crescent for a number of years and fell in love with this place!
Don't be put of by the scruffy looking exterior, or interior for that matter....
This is a very friendly pub with a fantastic atmosphere.
In fact next week I will be visiting my very most favourite pub with the most beautiful girl in Manchester, who just over a year ago I went to said pub with and spent the night drinking and soaking up the atmosphere. We finally staggered up the crescent and made it to Peel park where in the early hours we played on the swings.
Smiling now writing this!
If I had the £750,000 it is for sale for - It would be mine!
I dare a developer buy this!
SAVE THE CRESCENT!
Andrew.
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Fantastic place, will be a disaster if it goes down the pan! A real classic with great beers, friendly staff and patrons and reasonably priced. Looks awful from teh outside, but worth many a return visit. The beer festivals they run are great too!
Legend has it that Karl Marx used to drink here...
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Can't believe they want to re-develop this pub(ruin), selling our heritage down the pan. Despite its forbidding exterior a wonderful pub, friendly and great beer.
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Excellent range of well-kept ales and selection of mainland European beers. Efficient service. Excellent value, home-cooked food. A gem! My second home while a student at the nearby university.
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The most honest boozer I've been in for a long while, proper drinkers pub.
Big range of lesser known ales which were very good. Clearly not been decorated in years and all the better for it - beer 'garden' is also quality.
Food looked excellent, though I didn't have more than a couple of the excellent sandwiches on the bar.
Would recommend this place as a top boozer to while away a couple of hours
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A superb range of excellent beers at a good price, a superb pub.
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The Salford Uni lecturers cheated at the pub quiz. (1996).
Unique atmosphere, good beer. Fabolous pub
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A real old fashioned drinkers' boozer, peculiar shaped bar which seems like to separate bars from the entrances but linked around the back. Slightly bohemian feel to the place but friendly and certainly not pretentious or "trendy". Ten (I think) ales on handpump, a good range, the Bazen's Black Pig (which I think is always on) was superb. Prices mostly around £2 a pint depending on strength, filled rolls at around £1.20 each were tasty. Only downside is the traffic thundering past on the A6 immediately outside; it's around halfway between Salford Crescent and Central rail stations on the southern side of a very busy dual carriageway.
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real drinkers pub, very cheap and good range of very well kept beer.
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Delirium, 20 years? More like 150. Before it was called The Crescent, it was The Red Dragon and the favourite haunt of Frederick Engles and Karl Marx. It was also the first pub in the UK to be granted a 24 hour drinking licence; but I don't think it's ever been used.
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Must have been going in the Crescent for nearly 20 years now and it has risen to new heights. Anybody remember the old days with Jo, Andy and Matthew...Debbie, Zippy and Colin behind the bar?
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Excellent pub, a long walk or short train ride from the City centre.
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One of the few reasons why visiting Manc isn't a complete and utter waste of time.
This is a proper drinkers pub; lots of well kept bitters, milds & ales; plus good czech and belgian largers for those who prefer their booze fizzy. The staff are friendly as are the punters, the food is ok but cheap and soaks up the beer well enough.
All in all, a proper old school pub of the like you don't see enough of any more. Definitely worth a visit if you like your beer.
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Went one Saturday, no food on and we were starving. Mate went out and brought chips back. Asked to leave.
Good beer, vast selection of lagers. Bolshie staff.
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This is probably one of the best pubs I've been to. I often wondering in for a quick drink on the way into town for a night out and ended up staying all night.
I haven't tried the food but the selection of ales is excellent and they change every two weeks.
Very smokey, but a good atmosphere and everyone is very friendly and you can talk to pretty much anyone in there.
Very nice jukebox with 70s and 80s rock on it mostly.
I'm currently in London for a year and I am suffering withdrawal symptoms for this pub.
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The Crescent is the best pub for beer, food and atmosphere that i have known in nearly 30 years of visiting pubs.The Monday night "Blue Elephant" quiz is one of the most up to date and topical that I have ever done and goes down well with all the hardened Crescent quizzers.It must be 10/10 for both pub and quiz
William - 21 Oct 2004 22:43 |
easily the best pub i have been in on my trip to pommieland great choice of beers it was great to try the german stuff as we dont get that in aus. this pub is highly recommended. it was good to relax in a pub that wasnt full of galahs and 2 pot screamers like a lot of the pubs in downtown manchester.
james stoker - 30 Aug 2004 17:08 |
a great, great pub, and my local when at college. a great mix of people, great beer, old bar billiards, pork scratchings and used to have a wonderful 60s jukebox.
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Great pub, great beer. All food is good and unpretentious but curries are especially good.
Frances - 13 May 2004 18:37 |
one of the best pubs in the country if you cant find a beer u like in here i would advise you to go teetotal. good draught beers. also good selection of german beers including the excellent krombacher one of the first pubs in manchester to sell german beers.
fat dog - 12 Apr 2004 12:57 |
The Crescent is a brilliant pub. Everyone is made to feel welcome. The curries on a wednesday are fantastic (served 6-8 i think. something like that)i'm going for one tonight (weekly ritual now). It is also reasonable prices for really good beer.
It is most definitely worth a visit. *****
Lisa - 11 Feb 2004 10:57 |
The crescent serves Excelent curries on wensday eve till 8pm approx 3 meat & 3 vege
The beers include roosters Special
and Erdinger on handpump (A german wheat beer )and also a varying berguim beer on draught
Its ther only pub that I rate as my local ...
Id rate it as 11 out of 10 but i am biased (:-0)
Alban Pearce - 17 Jan 2004 11:28 |
Worth seeking out, is well used by students, cask ale lovers and old men alike. Offer a good range of draught beers. Wooden floors, worth positioning yourself on a bar stool and watching the atmosphere.
frank - 26 Dec 2003 13:44 |
The Crescent (on The Crescent, close to Salford University) has now been in the Good Beer Guide for a lot longer than 10 years. It features 10 or 11 cask ales at all times, plus real cider and interesting bottled beers from the Continent. And it has regular mini festivals when over 30 ales can be sampled.
Bill - 2 Oct 2003 15:08 |
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