A tiny new train station pub is set to open at Manchester Oxford Road
The team behind Piccadilly Tap and Victoria Tap have applied to open a new pub at Manchester Oxford Road
A tiny craft beer pub is set to open at Manchester Oxford Road, making all those inevitable train cancellations a little sweeter.
The new boozer will come from the same team behind some of the UK’s best train station pubs, who already have bars at Manchester Piccadilly and Manchester Victoria.
Following a successful licensing application by Bloomsbury Leisure Holdings Limited to take over the former cycle hub at Manchester Oxford Road, an opening date has now been locked in.
The small building is directly opposite the entrance to the busy train station on the southern side of the city centre.
This will be the third site for the pub group in Manchester.
They already operate the Piccadilly Tap, that two-storey beer bar on Piccadilly Approach with a heated rooftop space and outdoor patio.
The team are also responsible for the more recently-opened Victoria Tap, which took over the former bin store at Manchester Victoria.
That particular pub has a heated beer garden constructed just inches away from where the trams tootle past and has a departures board where time is measured by pints (got 10 mins til your train leaves? That’s one pint, sir!)
The Oxford Road Tap have applied to have opening hours through to half-past-midnight Sunday to Thursday, and until 1.30am on Fridays and Saturdays.
They teased a mocked-up photo of posters outside the station with the new pub logo, plus a slogan of ‘Great beer is just a few steps away…’
They later shared ‘Triple threat incoming’ with all three pub brands lined up as a deck of cards.
The Oxford Road Tap pub is set to open in Manchester this December.
Very exciting times ahead.
@OxfordRdTap opening this December in Manchester. #onthepositive pic.twitter.com/htfg8q47yJ
— Euston Tap (@eustontap) November 10, 2024
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