46 Shudehill
Manchester
M4 4AA
0161 843 1405
calavinasmarie@hotmail.com
Traditional Town Pub, 3* Heritage Pub
The Hare & Hounds is a Manchester institution, favoured by older customers who start filling the bars soon after 11am opening. Holts Bitter on handpump is always available along with two other changing cask beers.
The pub was expensively remodelled in 1925 and most of the fittings from that period are intact. Outside it has green tiling and leaded windows on the lower floor and a tiled entrance corridor leads to the bars. The first room you get to is a northern style drinking lobby with brown and cream tiling and a large three-bay bar counter. Above the counter are leaded glass panels and behind is the original bar back with mirrors.
Off the lobby at the front is the Vault, with more tiling, access to the counter and interesting old photos of Manchester on the walls. At the back is the third room with original fixed seating, bell pushes and a 1920s wood surround fireplace.
