I have found somewhere in manchester i actually like

[Pingu]

i dont like cities.. i hate london and dont really like manchester either. Mainly cos when i am there I am there to work.

however...

the common in the northen bit is really quite nice and has a fine selection of liquids designed to get you tiddly and for some reason put me in mind that it was a place that would fit in with here

 

[geminisnake]

Is the Common a pub then or actually an area of grass/trees etc?

 

[Cribynkle]

Common in the Northern Quarter?

 

[farmerbarleymow]

Common in the Northern Quarter?

There isn't one as far as I'm aware. I wonder if he means the hideous Piccadilly Gardens?

 

[farmerbarleymow]

Perhaps he's pissed and this is why he isn't making much sense.

 

[Cribynkle]

Perhaps he's pissed and this is why he isn't making much sense.

Common bar - the one on Edge Street, it does indeed have good liquids!

 

[cyberfairy]

I like it there very much- there is (or was) tampon art in the ladies loos. Cute ones with faces. Well, I hope there were anyway.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

Common bar - the one on Edge Street, it does indeed have good liquids!

Ah right. It is described as a 'cool hipster café bar' though, so maybe that's why our Pingu feels at home?

 

[Pingu]

wouldnt say it was hipsterish tbh. a bit wanky yeah but it has a good feel to it

 

[farmerbarleymow]

And look at their fucking awful website:

http://www.aplacecalledcommon.co.uk/

 

[farmerbarleymow]

Are you in the hipster bar right now Pingu?

 

[Cribynkle]

And look at their fucking awful website:

http://www.aplacecalledcommon.co.uk/

Ew

 

[farmerbarleymow]

Ew

A hipster website indeed.

 

[killer b]

For some reason I've never been there, despite hammering all the other hipster joints in the NQ. Friends rate it though, I may drop in next time I'm in town.

 

[Cribynkle]

For some reason I've never been there, despite hammering all the other hipster joints in the NQ. Friends rate it though, I may drop in next time I'm in town.

It's definitely worth a visit just don't check out the website before you go!

 

[killer b]

I just did. The language they use in the copy on it is proper cringe.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

It's definitely worth a visit just don't check out the website before you go!

Not least because the website makes no fucking sense!

 

[binka]

I drink in the northern quarter quite a lot and had never heard of common. just google mapped it and I think I might have been in there. lets be honest all the abrs in the northern quarter are pretty much the exact same. i seem to go to troff a lot even though it's always heaving with arseholes. tv21 is quite good now they've refurbished it and it doesn't have the feel of a school canteen any more. crown and kettle the best pub in that part of town.

 

[killer b]

I like the soup kitchen, the castle and the port street beerhouse best, and that little marble bar that used to be a shop.

 

[friedaweed]

I had a poo in there last time I was out with me lezzer sisters. It's a bit too shiptster for me

 

[The Boy]

Common is OK. Better place in NQ though.

 

[The Boy]

And out of NQ if we're being honest. Then again, the only drink I went for in the northern quarter when I was down last month was Mr scruff's tea place. Awesome cake too.

 

[The39thStep]

I drink in the northern quarter quite a lot and had never heard of common. just google mapped it and I think I might have been in there. lets be honest all the abrs in the northern quarter are pretty much the exact same. i seem to go to troff a lot even though it's always heaving with arseholes. tv21 is quite good now they've refurbished it and it doesn't have the feel of a school canteen any more. crown and kettle the best pub in that part of town.

Hipster. I thought you had moved to Wimslow?

 

[The39thStep]

I like the soup kitchen, the castle and the port street beerhouse best, and that little marble bar that used to be a shop.

Castle is brill.beer in the Marble outlet is fine but it's full of students doing jigsaw puzzles , or pretending to play chess and things like Jenga and that. Might be alright in student halls on singles night but not in pubs.We had to ask them to move last time we went in as they were taking up too much room and being irritating.

 

[Part 2]

Kestrel Suite - 'working mens club style'. Yea, sounds ace.

The Millstone
The Northern
Gullivers

 

[binka]

Hipster. I thought you had moved to Wimslow?

Oh you'd like that wouldn't you? I've been to Wilmslow once. For a friends wedding. Got in a taxi at the station and asked him to take me to the Premier Inn and the cunt refused because it was 'just round the corner' ie thirty minutes walk with luggage!! Fuck Wilmslow frankly

No I live in Hulme near Moss Side Leisure Centre and work in Timperley.

 

[lazythursday]

Common just too far gone down the hipster-wanker axis for me. Just about the only place that doesn't make me feel all killy these days is the Castle, as a lot of the hipster crowd seem to have moved on and it's started to return to being a proper boozer again. Don't get me started on the Port Street Brewhouse, how much I would like to waterboard the staff with overpriced craft ale.

I used to love the NQ too. I can't really work out whether it's really changed or whether it's just becoming middle aged.

 

[binka]

for a proper night out id rather go gay village or somewhere around oxford road station than northern quarter. got a friend who loves troff in nq but you go in past 8pm and it's cheek to jowl arsehole. oh yeah i nearly forgot the actual best place to drink in the city centre is the liars club on back bridge street

 

[Frances Lengel]

And look at their fucking awful website:

http://www.aplacecalledcommon.co.uk/

Good christ.

 

[bmd]

Kestrel Suite - 'working mens club style'. Yea, sounds ace.

Fuck off! It doesn't say that! cba to look but that's a classic.

That's got to become the standard review for hipster bars. "Have you checked out the Trout & Rocket? Pure WMC style."

eta: fuck it, I had a look. "Complete with tuck shop." I take my hat off to whoever had the massive brass balls to put that on the website.