The Midland — Restaurant in Stockport

Perhaps the most unfriendly experience that I’ve ever had in a Stockport pub that I’ve visited for the first time — but that doesn’t involve all of the patrons by any means. Just a bit of a pointless place to have as a pub if you don’t want the public in there. Anyway, the smoking area had a couple of interesting things in it — that was worth my pint in there… which was difficult enough to order. “Do you do Guinness”? — “No, we don’t do anything like that here” — “Well, do you do stout?” — “Yes, we do this” — “Well, can I have a taster of that, please?” — “We don’t do tasters here”....

One of the key pubs on the 'Stockport Slope', this together with nearby Hope, Railway, and Magnet provide a huge number of excellent cask ales. The Midland dates from 1833, and was recently saved from demolition to make way for a road scheme. This has allowed pub owner, Mark to begin a sympathetic and tasteful refurbishment of the pub. It consists of three rooms: bar to the left, a large comfortable lounge to the right, and a games room behind that. A small beer garden lies to the side. Four cask ales usually on, with very good value of £2.50 pint across the board. Highly...

The Midlands takes a bit of effort from the punters point of view if you want to make it a regular haunt. At least three excellent cask ales are on offer at anyone time, but requests for tasters will be turned down, not so subtly. You can trust me that the quality of the beers is up with the best of them. This is a no nonsense, no frills trad boozer that the adventurous, open minded and courteous boozer will find enough charm by being itself to make it a regular haunt. Give...