The Pilcrow is now Sadler’s Cat, a contemporary community pub at the heart of the NOMA neighbourhood. Overlooking Sadler’s Yard, it boasts one of the best beer gardens in the city, providing a calm, welcoming space where you can kick back and relax while enjoying a selection of top-class beer from Cloudwater and friends, outstanding natural wine, perfectly-balanced mixed drinks and non-alcoholic serves.

Our newly-installed ventilation system will also ensure a constant clean-air environment within the pub, keeping you safe, even while indoors. Plus, all of this is just a stone’s throw from Victoria Station and Manchester Arena.

We can’t wait to welcome you to ‘the pub that Manchester built’.

“For 10 months, swarms of enthusiastic volunteers flooded each and every workshop held to help build the pub; led by professional craftspeople, Mancunians made bar-stools, beer pump handles, willow-woven flower baskets, tables, tiles much more. Their skills and ideas helped dictate the direction of the build. “If me and you would’ve been left to design it, it wouldn’t look like this,” says Project Manager Ben Young to Head-Maker Joe Hartley on the night that The Pilcrow finally opened as a proper, functioning pub.”

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