Cafe Beermoth

Pubs have certainly changed since the smelly, smoke-ridden days of yester-century. Cafe Beermoth, in Manchester’s Spring Gardens, is a fine example of a modern city centre pub. It has all the trappings of ye olde traditional inns: plentiful kegs, lots of mahogany, and a reassuringly friendly atmosphere, minus the edgy grot. 

We’re talking less fruit machine, more board game. Earnest debates rather a ruck out back. In a nutshell, you’re more likely to bump into a D&D dungeon master than a roof-based German Shepherd. 

Thankfully, it’s also a world away from the Tory-in-punk clothing feel of the city’s more corporate beer chains. The team behind Beermoth are inspired by beer shops in Holland, rather than LinkedIn maxims and reality TV stars, and all the better for it.

The Beermoth project began back in 2015, in a little shop-led venue on Tib Street in the Northern Quarter. However, as of January 2026, that venue is no more and the bigger, better, beefier Cafe Beermoth is the main focus. The behemoth, if you will. 

Booze is at the heart of it all. At last count, there was a revolving cast of seventeen draft lines – seven cask and ten keg – alongside an extensive bottle menu stacked with sours, wild fermentations, and imperial stouts. There’s even a house beer made specifically for the venue – Stone’s Throw, brewed by Stockport’s Runaway Brewery. 

And we love it. It’s a spacious place with a wide range of quality drinks, with relaxed, welcoming staff. If you work nearby, you’ll want to pencil it in for a post-work drink, but you could easily imagine spending an entire Friday or Saturday night, sinking pints, getting merry. (Responsibly, of course.)

Spring Gardens isn’t historically known as a hotspot for first-rate drinking holes, but with this and the recently-launched Posie, it looks like we might have another destination district on our hands. Just don’t call it a quarter.