The Piccadilly

This place is warm and inviting, with great cheap and cheerful food, with lots of choice!
But then you get to the bar… and the rating goes down.
I have been in and out of this pub more often than a rabbit in a magic top hat. and every time I have been greeted with the same non enthusiastic grumpy behavior.
When people i. d me I become flattered but to then further decline my card because the signature is smudged on the back. yet recommend I use their internal card machine baffles me… considering they have just seen my ID for proof of age, and did not take note of my name to compare it with the debit card…
Anyway .this is slightly above Wetherspoon food quality and offer a okay variety of beer. I love the cosy corner seats with wooden tables… It has everything going for it apart from the staff,
Overall an ideal place for a quick cheap tasty meal or drink en route to to/​from the train station…

I’m a bit disappointed with this pub went to the toilet there dirty no toilet roll in any of the toilets and no lock on the door

It seems this must be one my favorite pubs in Manchester as I always end up in here lol.
Never ate here but the beer is CHEAP CHEAP CHEAP! Large boozer but very hard to get a seat and as soon as someone leaves someone else grabs the table in 2seconds. People seem to table hop to better seats all the time all in all tho a great busy pub toilets downstairs tho.
Clean pub with friendly staff!

A fab atmosphere with some awesome locally produced ales and bitters…
The scrumpy is super tasty too… one of my personal faves.
The place has been known to be roudy at times, but ⁹⁄₁₀ visits (when there isnt a local footy match on), its quite plesant with a fab atmosphere

Very central location. Comfy interior. Good atmosphere and cheap food compared to those Wetherspoon-​esque pubs/​restaurants in the vicinity. I personally prefer this one due to the friendly bar staff, good quality food for a cheaper price and vast amount of seating available throughout the large place. Perfectly adequate after just disappearing from the bustle of Piccadilly Gardens or Piccadilly station.

Standard type bar but has a bad atmosphere. Its fairly intimidating to get in with the bouncers during the day. I’ve eaten in here a couple of times and the food is ok but the service is shocking and comes with attitude. It is however cheap and I find it good to meet friends there if they come into the train stations. Its ok for a bar but I wouldn’t go out my way to visit nor would i really recommend. Also of note, I wouldn’t go in if theres any football on unless thats what your there for.

When I told my host in m/​cr that I was at this place he was afraid for me. I honestly didn’t find it so horrible. I’m from NYC. Read my reviews on Mars Bar and Lit and you’d see that I am a bit of a dive bar connoisseur.
I was here on a Monday at around 5 after touring the city and buying cheesy but awesome Manchester mugs and other souvenirs. I stopped by for a drink and just sat myself at a table nearby. There was a sketchy homeless guy, or just typical poor drunk, that asked me for change but I just shook my head. I learned in London that once crazy people knew I was visiting they’d either assume that I had money or that I wanted to speak to them.
So I mean, didn’t seem like a bad place at all. I had a couple of drinks, spoke to the bartender who corrected me on the proper way to say Salford and yea, wasn’t so bad. It reminded me of a chain type of restaurant. Like Applebee’s or TGI Friday’s.

If you’re heading up to the station and fancy getting your head kicked in before you catch your train, pop into The Piccadilly. A fairly bog-​standard pub, The Piccadilly feels really out of place in this part of town where you have big chains (Pizza Express) and quirky one-​offs (Kro Piccadilly) dominating the landscape.
This could the prime place for a lovely British pub. Perhaps with real ales and a roaring fire, but sadly The Piccadilly fails to cut the mustard here. The bar itself is fine, they sell all the drinks you might expect and reasonable city centre prices. They have slot machines and sports on screen. There are comfy sofas and plenty of places to lean. But unfortunately there is no atmosphere to speak of, except a creeping sense that something is just about to kick off the entire time.
The staff are perfectly friendly but seem to have grown accustomed to their punters squaring up to each other on an hourly basis. This makes for uncomfortable (or perhaps entertaining) drinking, depending on what mood you’re in. I’d find another watering hole if you’re in the centre and looking for a pint.

Places like The Piccadilly exist, I imagine, to contain all of the undesirables that would otherwise filter out into the wider bar/​pub community. Entering places like this, then, when you are not one of the undesirables is usually a bloody stupid idea.
However, the drinks are cheap and the location is reasonable which means you can get away with a quick foray. Staying longer than absolutely necessary though is pure folly, and if you look back once you leave I understand you turn into a pillar of salt.

As far as Spoonses go, this one is pretty nahhhhsty. The carpet is sticky. The seats are sticky. The toilets are stinky. And there’s a sort of general fel like fog in the air. Even since the ban, it’s stil a bit… fuggy in there. Still, it’s a spoons, and it’s not ashamed.
If you’re in the city centre and you want a drink, and you don’t mind lairy lads and mouthy footy fans, the Picc shall serve you well. You want anything other than footy, food and drinks, steer clear…

It has no real atmosphere (unless you count verbal and physical abuse of the bouncers as creating atmosphere) and as Elliot says, the only real reason one would drink here is its convenient location. There are no real decent pubs in this area of town and you could certainly do worse than this for a quick cheap drink. As in, you could go to the Wetherspoons a few doors down, where you are almost guaranteed to see a fight (at the very least of the verbal variety, which can make for entertaining viewing when walking from Piccadilly Station to Piccadilly Gardens and back).
Although it is not a Wetherspoons, the Piccadilly certainly conforms to the Wetherspoons formula: cheap drinks + cheap burgers = room full of old men and skint unemployed people.
However, if you’re willing to walk for ten minutes or so, you could find so many better places for a cheap drink such as The Waterhouse or Sinclair’s Oyster Bar.

The Piccadilly is the pub near Piccadilly station (geddit?) that looks like a Wetherspoons but isn’t but probably is. Basically it’s a bit nicer than the Wetherspoons a few doors down, but just as cheap.
You can get value breakfasts here as well as cheap main meals and multideals. Costing just a few quid, the English breakfast is basic but does what it says on the tin. I’ve had the chicken pie and that’s great too.
The service is quick and the bar staff are pleasant. The back of the pub is quite big, meaning there is always space to sit or push a few tables together if you’re a big group.
The Piccadilly is a perfectly good budget pub, but as with all of them you’re always likely to be sharing the bar with a bunch of lads from a visiting football team.

The Piccadilly is situated on the street leading down from Manchester Piccadilly train station to Piccadilly Gardens (that’s a lot of Piccadilly’s in one sentence! lol). Very central location, making it an ideal place to pop into if you’re shopping in Manchester. It is a pub which does food too — like a Wetherspoons type of place, but cheaper :) I don’t know what it’s like in the evening, but my mum and I popped in last month during a weekday lunchtime and were very impressed! We just wanted a quick lunch, a sandwich and chips or something along those lines. The Piccadilly stood out for us, as it has a bright red sign outside advertising food for £3.99 — and I’m really glad we tried it! It’s a large pub with lots of tables and a restaurant-​type seating area — we sat at one of the big tables at the back, next to a window and with a lovely comfy sofa to sit on! The food was typical pub food, cheap and cheerful — nothing too exciting, but the sort of thing you want when you’re just after a quick lunch. We both had the BBQ chicken — chicken, bacon, cheese and BBQ sauce with chips and salad. As mentioned before, their meals are a fantastic-​value £3.99 during the day, which we thought was brilliant considering Wetherspoons do exactly same thing for £7 or £8. The food was well-​cooked, and arrived quickly obviously it’s nothing spectacular for that price but it was nice, and filled us up! 2 meals, a coffee and a J20 came to £10.20 which I thought was very reasonable.
Definitely take some ID with youI got asked for ID as soon as I walked in, and I’m nearly 22 (although admittedly a young-​looking 22 — but bearing in mind that this was the middle of the day and we weren’t even ordering alcohol, and I still got askedso I can imagine they’d be quite strict of an evening!). The barman was very friendly when he asked though, and in fact all staff were lovely to us throughout our visit. All in all, the perfect place to take a break from shopping in Manc and get some lunch — well worth a try.