The Marble Arch Inn is a Grade II listed pub on Rochdale Road that has been brewing beer on site since 1997. The building dates from 1888 and the interior – sloping mosaic floor, barrel-vaulted ceiling, original bar fittings – is one of the most intact Victorian pub interiors in Manchester. Marble Brewery is one of the better-known names in Manchester craft beer, and drinking their beers at the source, in the room where they’ve been making them for nearly thirty years, is a different experience to getting a can from a supermarket.
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The tap list covers the full Marble range alongside a rotating selection of guests, all kept and served properly. There’s food – mainly straightforward pub fare that pairs well with whatever’s on the pumps. It sits at the northern edge of the NQ, which makes it slightly less likely to be packed full of stag parties than some of the pubs closer to the city centre. A genuine Manchester pub institution that hasn’t been smoothed out or rebranded into irrelevance.
