Yates
49 Portland StreetManchester
M1 3LD
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You enter into a large open space with raised alcove area to right leading to outside seating and smoking patio, enclosed by a fence. A long curved bar sits along the back wall. Décor is dark wood panelling and strip flooring with purple carpet in the raised area. There is good range of food from light bites, pastas, main course and grills, burgers, a range of curries and a generous breakfast, all very competitively priced as is the wine. Toilets are a trek up four flights of stairs but there is a disabled toilet and baby change facility on the ground floor. Similar in many ways to a Wetherspoon but not so cluttered with menus, so giving equal balance between wet trade and food. Fairly noisy, low background music and TV. The Yates' House Best Bitter is from an unknown brewery.