The Woodstock, Didsbury - pub details
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Address: 139 Barlow Moor Road, Didsbury, Manchester, M20 2DY [map] [gmap]
Tel: 0161 448 7951
Burnage (1.3 miles), East Didsbury (1.5 miles), Mauldeth Road (1.8 miles)
Pub facilities/features:
- Fruit machines, Quiz machines
- Food served, Sunday roast
- Outside seating, Car park
Pub added by Nige. Last visited on 10th Jul 2005. Suggested by Nige on 2 Apr 2002.
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> Current user rating: 6.1/10 (rated by 7 users)
> Local guide: Manchester pub guide
other pubs nearby:
Barleycorn, Didsbury (0.1 miles), Four In Hand, Didsbury (0.3 miles), Assembly, Didsbury (0.4 miles), Metropolitan, Didsbury (0.4 miles), Railway, Didsbury (0.5 miles) - see more nearby pubs
user reviews of the Woodstock, Didsbury
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| Good for beers only, and even then don't expect to be waiting anything less than 10 minutes on a quiet day. Beer garden is the only redeeming feature really, which is a shame as has so much potential. gin_chick - 9 Apr 2007 18:31 |
| I'm ashamed to admit that this pub is my local. Overall I still prefer it to the barleycorn or the metropolitan but it's just badly run and managed. There is a huge upstairs seating area with a bar that is usually closed off by a few bar stools (presumably because staff can't be bothered taking food orders up some stairs). If you do manage to visit on a day when the upstairs seating area is open you'll have to walk all the way downstairs again to get served as they only seem to open the upstairs bar on a Saturday night (if they have been nagged by enough punters!) So having trecked downstairs to get a round in, expect to be stood waiting at the bar for a LONG time. No matter what time of day or night the staff make poor service an art form. Draught lager is regularly off, the wait for food is always 45 minutes even if you are their only customer, and you never get served in the order that you arrived at the bar. So you have been served (eventually) and you have your seats upstairs. You're chatting away quite happily and then a crowd of people come and sit at the table 5 yeards away from you. Neither group of people feels particularly comfiortable to talk because of the uncomfortable seating, the layout of the seats, and the lack of music. So you make a dash for the one and only comfy private seat... a sofa on the landing. You settle down and order some food... a rare steak. It arrives frozen in the middle and the guy on the bar presents you with your receipt and says 'we won't refund you because you did ask for it rare'. Then you get out to your car and discover that the cctv cameras are fakes and your rear windscreeen has been smashed. I kid you not... all this in the life of a week of the woodstock. But as I'm a grumpy old man that likes beer, I think I might just carry on going there :) Pete262 - 18 Feb 2005 14:30 |
| I have used this pub on a few occasions in the past but not anymore after I received a £60 fine for parking my car in the car park. After complaining to the manager she refused to do anything about it. If you do decide to use this pub and take your car, make sure that you get a receipt and can prove that you really are a patron. Personally I would recommend you go to the Metropolitan on Burton Rd which is a much better pub anyway. powellaj - 4 Dec 2004 21:14 |
| Since the refurb and re-branding things have really gone downhill here. The staff have very little interest in serving people at the bar and certainly not in the order in which they arrived. There are invariably at least two beers off and occassional inexplicable shortages of staples like crisps. There used to be a packed quiz night ran by an enthusiastic and entertaining bloke which seems to have been replaced by a member of the pub staff reading questions in an almost comically dull and uninterested monotone to a few die hards on a Sunday evening. The beer garden kept us going in the Summer despite constant frustrations with the service...I suspect over Winter the new manager will really notice a drop in takings. Jon Noble - 7 Oct 2004 15:08 |
| i used to adore this pub but since the refurbishment it has been ruined. the staff who worked there and some still do although i have heard the last of the team of 'old woodstock' are in fact also leaving. what a shame, that was the only thing keeping this pub alive. anyway a brand new bunch of staff have started and they are useless. i think i will be drinking wherever the 2003-august2004 staff have gone!!!!!!!!! good luck jacks-jess-cath-hayley-pete-james-sam-ben-louise-anna-cat and where is keith? Izzy - 22 Aug 2004 20:12 |
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