Ape & Apple in Manchester

Great good and friendly service

Nice chilled boozer some good characters in there too. Plenty of TV to watch the results on Saturday, but it does get busy.

Retirement do for a colleague. Great afternoon

Great place but far too warm!! Staff were amazing but were sweating their heads off and my pint did not stay cold for long 🥵 which made us leave sooner than we wanted to 😟

Fantastic day at the Ape and Apple.

Joseph Holt beers on draft. He founded the Holt Radium Institute at Christie pioneering treating cancer.

Great staff and great food all in all great experience and atmosphere

Came here for a few drinks after being stuck at the airport for a couple hours. Definitely worth a visit. Staff are really friendly and it's reasonably priced.

After a visit to the War museum, a tram ride and short walk saw us in the A+A. There were seven of us six pints of holts and one coke, three rounds later saw us heading for the train home. The pub has a good atmosphere and the service was excellent and helpful.

I've been here a few times because a theatre company I follow put events on upstairs. I like the place, overall, and the staff have always been good. My visit today, however, has left me very unhappy. I went in and asked for two gin and tonics, which cost £14.80 in total. Went upstairs and ordered two more after finishing, and they cost £12.60, so I assumed that the first person gave me doubles without checking. I then ordered two more doubles, this time they cost £16.80 in total. I asked the bar man why I had paid three different prices for the same drinks (well, apart from the single), he said MAYBE the downstairs till was still set up on weekday prices, which are cheaper. It was all kind of brushed off in an 'oh well, these things happen' way. It's a shame, because I would be put off going again as I don't know how much I'll end up paying, especially because the drinks prices aren't really displayed prominently anywhere.

City centre pub , with city centre prices

Great beer, great staff great playlist. If I do have a moan, it’d be the price of the beer. I know it’s Manchester, but you can almost get the same in Salford for a pound cheaper

Enjoyed a pleasant afternoon with friends but the meal choices were limited

Traditional Holts pub in Manchester city centre

Just off Deansgate, a pub we always try to visit when in Manchester

Really lovely pub with great service, great beer, great food and to top it all, it's DOG FRIENDLY!!! Fabulous!! We'll be regulars from now on! Thank you for being such lovely people 🥰

Great food at a reasonable price. Friendly staff, lovely decor. Very central just off Deansgate.

Nice pub poped in for a quick pint

A nice enough place — that I mainly like for its wallpaper on the way up to the smoking area lol — also the beer garden tends to be pretty quiet so I appreciate that too — especially in Manchester

A regular private quiz venue upstairs. Always brilliant food and service.

Very nice food and good quality drinks

Good atmosphere and drinks. Visited on 2nd Thursday of the month for the Murder Mystery Inc improv show which is the best thing I've ever seen, highly recommend!

Good atmosphere, nice and busy, very relaxed.

Nice pub friendly.sky sport on TV.good holts 🍺.

Excellent pub with good beer selections and decent City Centre prices. Plenty of big screens for the Saturday sports fans and no shortage of seats and tables. A very nice place with good service.

First time and won't be the last. Pint and a pub meal went down a treat. Zara waited on me and did a great job

Local pub for local people. Bar maid looked like she wanted to be elsewhere. Trailblazer was great as expected.

Nice bar with nice clientele in it, sells crystal lager as well which is a bonus. Has a good enough range of beers and spirits and isn't too far from some busy happening night spots so a good day time or early evening watering hole

Great pint if trailblazer stout and food..

It's fine - good for watching sports, decent selection of drinks. Avoid the loos. Some good events

Great Pub near Deansgate, nice atmosphere for catching up with mates.

Just stopped for lunch on a Tuesday. It was quiet, menu was small so there was not a lot of choice, but the food was fine and well priced.

Nice pub with live sports. Friendly staff. Unfortunately doesn't serve branded beers and lagers only their own brand. Rather expensive for a pint of lager at £5.65 which wasn't great

Nice pub good atmosphere, my dad was happy as they did smooth bitter which most bars we went only had pale ales. Decor is nice.

Bartender very blatantly ignored me in a largely empty pub presumably being on strike? Never mind found great pub next street which wanted customers!

just a very nice pub.. enjoy it here

The service was excellent. The food was very nice. I have never been in this pub before I would definitely recommend it. It is a lovely place. The Staff were very friendly.

Lovely pint of Holt Black good price for Manchester City centre pub nice place to sit down and relax one of the best pubs in the city

Always a nice place to stop for a beer, only holts' brews on tap though.

Excellent service, lovely staff and great atmosphere. Will visit again.

Nice little pub in the centre of town, reasonable prices and sports oriented. Will definitely go back.

Nice city centre pub with reasonable prices. Food service a little slow but the bar staff did warn us and the quality of the all day breakfast could have been better but generally ok Bar staff were very helpful.

Good place with good atmosphere like everywhere else prices are creeping up.

Great friendly pub with good choice of drinks well worth a visit.

Decent place, has the sslport on the TV's shame it's the crystal and diamond, but not bad prices

Great Holt's pub. Good beer, decent prices.

Good pub with a really friendly bar man, good selection of beers, comfy seating and plenty of TV's with sky sports news available at the time.

Decent holts pub..drinks competitively priced

I was there again for birthday party. Excelent as always. Very Clean . Nice staff. Loads of TVs where I could enjoy watching football. Excellent food. No need to go outside for snacks. Everything in one place.

A bit dead pub but we found a sitting place to watch the game.Holt bitter is great beer bartender recommendation didnt fall short

Great place for craft beer and large TVs. Regular after the match .

Cheap for the city centre but upstairs bar doesn't have the same stock as downstairs (if you are not at a private event)

Called in for a drink, nice bar ,good selection of beers.

Very friendly staff,good atmosphere The only down site is toilet We had our function room on the top floor and the toilets were in basement,meaning two flights of stairs,on your high heels,every time you want to "powder your nose " Other then that highly recommended

Excellent service. Good friendly atmosphere.

Dog friendly Manchester pub with nice welcoming bar staff.

Great pint, great service, great atmosphere

Excellent holts pub, nice atmosphere and friendly staff. Great place for an ale on way to the Etihad.

First time in here and was busy but nice place and quick service

Really friendly staff and good atmosphere

I had just a glass of wine, but table I sat was dirty.

Typisches Pub mit typischem Pubfood in sehr guter Qualität. Ich liebe das Ape and Apples

Delicious fish and chips and lovely staff, diamond is a great pint too. Will definitely be back

Went at a quiet time but was nice and clean.

Comfortable therapy-style seats

Bar staff friendly. Food only ok. Nothing special. Not sure it's value for money

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Lot of work going on scaffolding everywhere so many places closed , bit we still had fun

Good traditional pub with character.

Lots of seating areas and nice drinks selection.

Asked for advice/deals on shots, received very poor information and a rude response of “proper shots hurry up I finish in a minute”

It's a mint pub. Proper decent prices considering your in town and the atmosphere is a buzz. Love it.

Pretty good pub this. Holt's house so reasonable prices. Very jolly bar staff, chatty and attentive.

Lovely pub, delicious choice of Manchester ales and really friendly staff! Just popped in for a pint on a visit to Manchester and really enjoyed the warm welcome. Thankyou!

Popular pub in town. Been many times for a few swift pints. A proper pub for mates to catch up and enjoy a good laugh and drink.

Pub in the heart of Manchester. Cheaper than most places.

I gave it 4 stars as I don't even remember going in ther lol

Nice pub definitely recommend and will be back

Went here again for the football, great viewing with all the tvs available. Great beer & swift service!

Been going here for 30 years or so. Great pub, great location.

Great bar with friendly staff. Good selection of reasonably priced Ales and lagers .

First time visiting. Nice atmosphere and reasonably priced drinks. Handy for the bus home (just outside). Sat inside with the bus app open and waited.

Nice staff and spacious. is a very convenient location

Friendly brilliant atmosphere is worth a visit

Sports on TV good atmosphere could do with guest ales

Wonderful Joseph Holt pub a short walk from Albert Sq. Had my first Joe Holt's bitter 49 years ago and still love it. Lovely pub with a small roof terrace. Too many TV'S for Madge. Flat Eric loves the ambieance and beer. Holt famiky still run this local brewery and spend their profits on their pubs. Great value food and meal deals..Curry Thursday or Fish Friday. Sunday roast. Well worth a visit.

Great beers great tv's nice selection of ales,ciders bottled beers felt safe with it having doormen nice for a drink as s couple

Brilliant in the middle of Manchester place for food and drink options, with buses and Metrolink just around on the next streets along. Good range of things to have at the bar and a good menu choices available at any time of day that they are open.

Good beer's and a friendly service

Great sports pub, good night out.

Had a lovely lunch here before heading back to Birmingham, nice tasty food friendly staff and good service.

Great pub, proper ale, decent prices great atmosphere.

Atmosphere good, staff extremely helpful and friendly and decent beer

Great pub if in town got two hoots on draught as well as others ...lots Room..couldn't complain

Good cheap food and beer. Makes the more expensive places in town look like the thieving gits they are!

Really nice pub in the centre of Manchester. Great location within easy reach of all public transport. Happy, helpful and polite staff.

City centre Holt's pub. Look at my other reviews to see where I've been!

Great pub a bit more money for drinks and food than I'm used to but then I'm from Derby not Manchester

Great real traditional pub with excellent choice of good quality beers 🍻

another cheese & onion pie, please