Quarter House Beer & BBQ — Restaurant in Manchester

Meh.

I've been wanting to try here for ages as the food and selection of beers looked great.

Firstly the good; -great location, especially on a nice day to be able to sit outside in the sunshine. -food is generally good. We had sharer nachos with pulled pork, Tex mex brisket tray, brisket loaded fries, pitta and houmous, and some pit beans. The pulled pork, pit beans, Cajun hot link and house-made houmous were all excellent. -great selection of beers.

The bad; -they appear to be understaffed and those that are working are miserable. We visited early on a Friday afternoon, it wasn't busy, yet there were large queues for the bar, with only one staff member serving and no table ordering system. I ordered two drinks and the bartender didn't utter a single word to me. No "hello" or "yes please", just stared at me when he wanted to take my order, no "thanks", didn't tell me how much I was paying, just thrust the card machine at me. -its all well and good serving great beer, it's another thing serving great beer in plastic glasses. I'll go with the benefit of the doubt and presume it's a licensing reason, perhaps to do with the outdoor area. But there are bars nearby that will serve you decent beer in a proper glass. -the food. The brisket was horrendously salty (and I'm someone who considers most pork scratchings undersalted). The nachos had melted cheese that, once cooled, were welded together such you'd need a hammer and chisel to part them. -the tables were filthy outside, we didn't see anyone come out to wipe them down after the previous customers had left.

I was disappointed as I'd heard good things about Quarter House. I've not been put off, I will give it another try at some point, but for now I can't recommend it to anyone else. If you want decent BBQ food and decent beer, go to Reds...

Utter chaos We turned up about 5.30pm attracted by the large sunny terrace. I understand the extended outdoor seating has become a permanent arrangement since Covid. But honestly the queue and the organising seating customers was terrible, there were customers nursing empty glasses and hogging tables to take the last rays of sun, when we request an intervention from the guy in charge he tells us to feel free to challenge those customers.

We stand for 15 mins waiting for a vacated table and told we are next only to watch 2 walk ups request a table and bypass the queue and be seated.

We challenged further and get the table. We order on the app.

We order a yard bird platter and a bottle of prosseco..

£36 for this ‘bottle’ of prosseco served in a plastic carafe - warm! And two absolutely filthy plastic tumblers to drink from. 40 mins later we ask about the yard bird platter … we had paid for,

one staff tells us, “ yes we are busy- it’s a normal wait’ A second staff admits no record of the order … Then we are served the wrong platter but assured the missing chicken tenders are coming. They came. 3 scrappy bit of chicken in 2 inches of crumb coating.

Used the washroom before we left and there are 2 female toilets up the stairs inside and one male and the acrid smell off urine half way up the flight of stairs is still lingering in my nostrils ..

Again appreciate the building wasn’t designed for the absolute volume of patron that the outside terrace now generates but the management should be ashamed of their greed and poor organisation.

You need more staff, more training, better...

Well worth a visit! My partner found this place via Instagram so we thought we’d give it a try and it didn’t disappoint. We went on a vey hot day and unlike everyone else there, we decided to sit inside out of the heat. We sat in a corner between the kitchen and bar area so we got to enjoy the banter between the two areas, but sitting there, I got a sudden appreciation of how hard the staff in a busy Northern Quarter bar/eatery do work. One person didn’t realise we were there though and used some, let’s say, choice words to raise morale with the team inside, but hey, no offence was taken, a little swear word here and there doesn’t harm! Some great tunes were being played in the background as well, just loud enough to hear and not overpowering like it can be in some places. All the staff were very cheerful, helpful and polite, a credit to the establishment! The food was good, very good, but a bit too chilli forward for our personal taste, but at the end of the day, it’s sliced chilli, so It can be removed to your own taste, which is what we did. We had between us the bbq pulled brisket Mac and cheese, Korean chicken tacos, shawarma loaded fries and grilled corn with garlic butter. All very much recommended, the brisket was especially good. Good beer and cocktails too, all easily ordered via the appointed app and delivered quite quickly and always with a smile. Definitely give this place a go if you’re in the area,...