{"id":3637,"date":"2021-04-14T10:08:45","date_gmt":"2021-04-14T10:08:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eatmcr.co.uk\/?p=3637"},"modified":"2021-05-13T13:21:26","modified_gmt":"2021-05-13T13:21:26","slug":"the-lesser-known-manchester-beer-gardens-to-hit-up-after-reopening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eatmcr.co.uk\/guides\/the-lesser-known-manchester-beer-gardens-to-hit-up-after-reopening\/","title":{"rendered":"The Lesser Known Manchester Beer Gardens to Hit up After Reopening"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
July 4th, 2020 – We descend en masse to pubs, bars and restaurants, promising to never take them for granted again, following three-and-a-half pintless months, where freshly poured bevs had been replaced by the hernia inducing horrors of Joe Wickes’ home workouts. Jesus H Christ, we thought, let us never speak of March-June 2020 ever again.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Then everything promptly closed back down a few months later and we didn’t even have boozers available for the usual festive debauchery that is so gloriously synonymous with December. There wasn’t even a takeaway pint to be glugged desperately on a Northern Quarter street corner. End times territory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n This Monday, however, to paraphrase one of Baltimore’s smoothest Kingpins, Stringer Bell, the word is out there………. that we back up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Condensation is going to trickle down glasses, puddling on picnic benches and curiously balanced patio furniture once again. Day sessions will evolve into all nighters under the sunshine and heat lamps, lagers gradually making way for shorter measures of stronger units. So many bags of crisps are going to be opened so, so flatly on so many tables. And naturally, some of those big umbrellas are going to be sent careering through the streets by rogue North Western winds, like an obscenely pissed up level of Total Wipeout. It’s going to be fucking glorious.<\/p>\n\n\n\n But where should your outdoor reunions take place from April 12th and beyond? Unsurprisingly, reservations are being snapped up quicker than a portion of birria tacos at the moment, while walk up jobs may be a fraught, face masked free-for-all as eager boozers pile into the city centre on Monday morning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Naturally, all eyes will be cast towards the triumphant, pedestrianised stretch of outdoor amenities at our disposal through Thomas Street, Stevenson Square and Edge Street, basking in all their communal, European City vibes. Then there’s the Aperol spritzed gloss of the Corn Exchange and Spinningfields and, of course, the Sam Smiths soaked sun trap of Sinclair’s Oyster Bar. Not to mention Cutting Room Square in Ancoats, tempting you Eastwards of the city with the promise of al fresco bevving and Rudy’s pizza.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Yet these heavy hitters are all a bit obvious, aren’t they? That’s not a dismissal. Far from it. But it just means they’re likely to be utterly chocker come reopening time. So where should you look to away from the queues and the chaos? What corners of the city centre are going to be that bit easier to negotiate for a Guinness and a packet of Scampi Fries? Let’s take a little tour, shall we?<\/p>\n\n\n\n Old Mr. Thomas not only knows his way round classic pub staples like corned beef hash and steak and kidney pudding, he’s also knocked out one of the finest beer gardens in the city centre, tucked cosily behind his Chop House on Cross Street, backing onto St. Ann’s Square.<\/p>\n\n\n\nTom’s Chop House<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n