The Slug and Lettuce in Albert Square is a branch of the pub chain located in Manchester city centre, as I recall from memory it is one of three alongside branches in Spinningfields, and one also on Deansgate. This branch is located in a great central location, also really close to the Town Hall in Albert Square, it is more of a pub, hence the high presence of gin bottles everywhere and the offer where you can get 241 on Gin and Tonic's on Thursday's. I came in here while looking for something to eat, I was told the gluten free menu was on a tablet, and the selection overall was quite small. One thing I didn't like was that the menu was confusing, for example, the tablet mentioned I could have chips and garlic mayo, only to find out when it was served that I couldn't have the Garlic Mayo. The same applied for the spicy ketchup with the omelette bites, however, the server made up for this by bringing me a squeezy bottle of both Heinz Ketchup and the new Heinz premium "Seriously Good" Mayo. The service was a little slow for food, but the presentation of the food was quite impressive considering this is more of a pub chain than a restaurant, the waitress spoke very softly and she seemed a little unenergetic and uninspiring but she did have a decent knowledge of coeliac disease and gluten-free, as she went on to tell me that the chef's son who was working on my visit, suffers from Coeliac disease. Due to the limited selection for gluten free, I ordered three small plates for £12 and a portion of chips for £2.50, the chips came in a huge portion and were satisfactory quality. For my main, I ordered the three small plates for £12 in the offer, I ordered two portions of the BBQ chicken and one set of omelette soldiers, the omelette soldiers were strange, innovative yet decent quality, putting an omelette in a rather rare, cool concept, however the chicken was just okay, and perhaps it was a little bit too sticky due to putting too much sauce on them. The menu selection for drinks other than alcohol was quite poor, for example, they had Bailey's Iced Coffee, despite being at a high price compared to the prices of the cans in Tesco for example, but no iced tea. This place is decent, my food was satisfactory, in some parts above average and in some parts below average, the service also met that description and was good in parts and frankly terrible and confusing and even frustrating in others, yet mainly down to the fact they were careful with my allergy to try and not make me ill, the fact the food was satisfactory and they did try to replace things (such as the mayo and ketchup) with similar varieties, I feel this place deserves a slightly generous three-star rating. read more

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Awesome fish and chips, wasn't to greasy and nice size portions good service would recommend

I haven't been here for years... Probably 10 years and counting. It was never really 'the place to go', but last week one of my friends working in town made the suggestion for after works drinks. This turned out much better than I thought. The whole place had had a facelift and it looks much more modern and welcoming. There is lots of choice at the bar at pretty reasonable prices. Cocktails are great on happy hour too so don't miss out! Quiet reluctant to eat here at first but again was swayed by the majority... Very surprised how good the food was in fact. The menu is new, with more dishes catering for sharers. The asian platter (again not something I would normally get) turned out to be the buy of the night. Lots of samples and plenty to share. Burgers were also of a massive size. All in all this really has gotten so much better since the 00's, but being in town there is also so much else out there. If you're having second thoughts or feeling nostalgic, give it another chance! 3.5 stars for me, but I'm rounding down today! read more

The Slug & Lettuce - Pubs Near Me - Manchester, XGM

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Bandying a cooky name and original cuisine around like it was unheard of is the slug and lettuce. This smallish restaurant benefits from one of the best locations in Manchester straight across from the town hall and facing out to albert square. During the hot summer days this is one of the spots where you can really tune into the vibe of the city centre and sit sipping your cider and watching the people and traffic for hours. Slug and lettuce deals with the food you come to expect of an upmarket weatherspoons of sorts, the bangers and mash I had there was top notch and I can recommend to anyone. This aside they do all sorts from thai curries, sandwiches and salads, however it must be noted this is all bar produced food, why exactly you would spend money here for food when you've got power players such as tampopo next door is beyond me.... Especially when considering most dishes are going to cost you an equivalent 7 or 8 pounds. So in summary an up market watering hole for the office creatures of the city centre with a great location. read more

The Slug & Lettuce - Pubs Near Me - Manchester, XGM

Located on Albert Square opposite the town square, this Slug is the perfect Slug and Lettuce to dine in. I've been here a couple of times for food and it's been amazing. I recommend the butternut squash, spinach and goat's cheese lasagne. Magical. The Slug and Lettuce offers good value, great meals. So yes it's an inbetween pub bar, basically a pub trying to fancy itself up but what's wrong with that? It does better than the average pub grub, with a not so rowdy clientele. I often don't take to these gastropub types but I like Slug and Lettuce muchly with a bit of everything on the food and drink menu and a great building and location to consume in. read more

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This place was refurbished a couple of months ago and it has made a major difference, it has a lot of light and looks very modern. There is a large sheltered outside seating area as it was good evening we decided to sit outside and have drinks. There cocktails are Buy one get one free - all day every day. read more

Dinner for 4 on a Wednesday night, was awesome tbh. The good was way tasty ( VEGAN ) and the prices are way accessible. Customer service of this waitress Conor was amazing. Good cocktails. The atmosphere is really cozy. 100% recommended read more

I've never really been into slugs. Or lettuces, for that matter. Both can be a bit slimy and dull, much like the clientele of chain bars such as this. The people behind Slug and Lettuce can make their bars look as glitzy as they want but we all know it's just another cattle market-style venue, a la Wetherspoons, where people go for their 2-4-1 cocktails, chat up equally as classy folk then spew on the sofas. On my recent visit here, I could barely hear myself think - and this was in a sparsely populated area of the bar, so I have no idea how people could engage in conversation in the busy part. Mind you, they're probably so out of their tiny minds on 'Jagerbombs' they're not talking to each other all, just making grunting noises and pointing at their empty shot glasses for a refill. Animals. The music's ****, the staff are gormless and I don't ever want to go there again. PLEASE don't make me go back! PLEASE! read more

Rude staff, loud and overpriced We couldn't sit outside cos he had a pint we went to sit an empty area, we got told off again but the rude staff, said we couldn't either , my mate got his bag checked and because he had biscuits they asked us to leave them out, we just wanted to have a taste of the place abs all you get is silly politics , rude staff expensive drinks, AVOID read more

The Slug & Lettuce - Classy and tacky - Pubs Near Me - Manchester, XGM

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Location is probably the strongest point of this place, next to the Town hall you're fairly central to pretty much everything in the city, so makes a great starting block for a long afternoon and/or which exactly what we used it for. Beers a standard affair as is the slugs choice, so it's not gonna wow you if that's what you're after. Food again is standard slug affair, I'm perfectly happy with Slug food it's tasty it's not wow, and if you can grab it on one of their offers the values pretty good. read more

It was pissing rain, pissing! And we had this window to see a bit of Manchester. We decided to take a break from the storm and stop for a "coffee" which quickly became two for one cocktails! Despite the weather and despite the chain, it really was nice to sit in the terrace area, being sheltered from the rain, but still watching the city go by, and looking at Albert Square. We got a bite to eat here too and it was pretty reasonable. It really was perfect for afternoon drinking! read more

This place has been refurbished recently and it's made a dramatic difference, it's so light and airy now and it has a very modern feel to it. I am aware that this is a large chain bar/restuarant or whatever you want to call it, however with places like this, people should know what they're getting. Quick service, a good selection of food and cheap drinks. If you want somewhere fancy with excellent service, go elsewhere, this isn't the place for you. I'd basically call it an upmarket Wetherspoons - but there's nothing wrong with that. There is a large, sheltered outside seating area, so as it was a nice evening we sat outside and enjoyed our drinks. Buy one get one free on cocktails - all day every day. That's better than most places around here who only offer this deal between 5pm and 7pm on weekdays! read more

Another solid experience at the Slug in Albert Square. After huge deliberation as to where we should go to eat, cutting NQ out due to its general pricing structure, the boyf and I wandered over to our old haunt, lured in by the promise of an empty table and Wine-Down Wednesdays (a personal favourite.) Choosing where you sit in a restaurant always gives you a sense of power and it's something I really appreciate, seating myself facing the majority of people so I can have a good nose. [Note: I am not the only woman to do this and I'm starting to think that it's a biological thing - we just HAVE to know what's going on with the couple next to us; "is this a first date? second maybe? has he done something wrong? will she eat his chips even though she's already professed to not wanting any?" All are perfectly acceptable questions and ones which I know the woman on that table is thinking about us.] Ahem. Wine-Down Wednesdays, where you can get any bottle of wine, other than the usual restrictions of bubbly etc., for £10.95 saw us partaking in a lovely bottle of Chablis, priced at £19.95. The food here is pretty much always the same - tasty, but quite average. I ate a thai green curry which, although tasty, wasn't quite the same as any other thai I've had before. They've jumped the creamy coconutty thai and gone for more of an Indian style curry, with spinach and green peppers. Also, oddly enough, it was served with a tomato salsa-y garnish, which was completely out of place and did make me question whether they'd though through what they were cooking. The service was great on this occassion and the waitress never seemed to get annoyed at the fact we took ages deciding what to eat, simply coming back to us at regular intervals to check up and make sure that we were okay. When ordering dessert she convinced us to have 2-for-1 desserts (and when I say convinced I mean she mentioned it and I jumped on it), making our meal even better value. I think people should stop being so hard on the Slug and simply accept it for what it is - good food, great offers, and generally lovely service. Makes a change from the sandals and shorts of the NQ. read more

I hate the Slug and Lettuce brand name. It's supposed to conjure up an image I'm sure but I don't know what of. I can only think of a slug and a lettuce leaf. A big bloated slug writhing around on a withered old scrag of vegetation. A salad with a big, fat slimy gastropod in it. Straight away I don't want to eat there. When I get into the place and I see it is full of fnarring, guffawing city boys, many of whom actually look a bit like slugs, I want to eat there even less. The food as it turns out is perfectly acceptable, the chorizo and red pepper tostada was actually pretty tasty. The U2 soundtrack, though, and the din of a thousand Blackberry wielding, pint sloshing Damiens is not so agreeable. The place itself is fine (as the previous yelper noted it's basically just an upmarket Wetherspoons) but it is polluted by obnoxious people with terrible bar etiquette. read more

This is a decent place to enjoy some cocktails in Manchester (2-for-1, by the way!). We popped in one night near closing time for one drink before heading home, and we enjoyed it overall. The place wasn't very busy at all, but the staff were friendly and attentive, and the cocktails tasted good. They weren't particularly strong, but they still went down a treat. Didn't try the food on this occasion, but I'm sure it's on par with other food from this chain across the country. Would drink here again, hopefully on a busier night! read more

Slug and Lettuce is a nice, street front restaurant in downtown Manchester. I had a long layover in Manchester and decided to head into the city rather than spend it rotting at the gate. A quick ride in the Manchester-Piccadilly train later I found myself in beautiful downtown Manchester with a craving for fish and chips. This was my first time in England and I knew I had to try it out. Slug and lettuce was the closest place to my location on yelp that had fish and chips so I headed over. It was largely empty given that it was 11am but the restaurant itself is quite nice and I chose to sit outside and people watch while I waited for my food. The fish and chips came out with a side of boiled peas (I found this to be strange but apparently it's normal.) The fish itself was 2 big pieces of beautifully battered and expertly fried cod and a very generous helping of chips (fries to us Americans.) The fries and the fish both needed salt in a big way but as soon as I salted them myself they were fantastic. Not overly oily and surprisingly airy. The fish tasted fresh, no fishy odor, and it flaked apart quite readily. My only gripe was that the soda didn't come with refills and it was actually quite small. Not many places outside of the good ol US of A do refills however so I wasn't too surprised. I'm no expert on fish and chips but Slug and Lettuce did the job admirably and while I'm sure there are far better places in Manchester, Slug and Lettuce delivered the goods. The restaurant is relatively easy to get to from the airport via train and is in a really nice part of the city. Check it out if you're in Manchester for a couple hours and need a quick taste of an English favorite. read more

The Slug & Lettuce - Fish and chips - Pubs Near Me - Manchester, XGM

So this is the perfect example of one bad meal eradicates any positive experiences gone by. I was, and I stress the was, quite a regular customer to this particular branch of what must surely be ironically named pub chain. Yes it is well located especially in the summer & when the city's European markets are on for people watching.The menu does have a reasonable choice & the bar is nothing extraordinary, however on recent visit the adequate food wasn't enough to make up for the particularly poor service. I was happy to accept the advised 40 minute wait for our food on a busy lunchtime service, after the 10 minute wait at the empty bar to be served, but the subsequent 20 minute wait for drinks which were being brought over "straight away" rather took the proverbial!! After asking AGAIN for our drinks the rather muddled barman, brought small not large glasses of wine. Okay, staying calm........the large glasses that followed had the previous users lipstick still on the rim and although it was a nice shade I didn't feel the need to road test it in such a way. Having resolved the wine issue, my coffee, which I ordered at the same time as food & wine and even attempted to help the guy (who I was by now convinced was hired due to the Equal opportunities policy of the company and not because of his ability to string a sentence together of remember his name) by pointing out I it wanted with the wine, arrived in nio just a slightly chipped cup but in a dirty, chipped, cracked & leaking coffee cup. Had our food not arrived at this time, admittedly looking edible, I would've left at this point, but I saved my story for the manager much to relief of my none complaining friend. The managers response was the nail in the coffin for any hope there may have been I might have returned to this apparent purveyor of food & merriment, "its very busy here at dinner time you know"........need I say more? read more

Good for a drink after work or a pre-drink before dinner. Much nicer than it used to be, the new look certainly suits it! The outdoor seating is really nice when the sunny weather decides to show it's face, although would be nice if there could be a none-smoking area. 2 4 1 cocktails all day every day - works for me!! Not somewhere I'd choose to spend my whole night but fine if you're just looking for a bar as a time filler read more

Mediocre but good value for money if you want food and drinks on the cheap. I usually go on the Monday when it's 50% off or for pre-drinks on a weekend as they have pretty good deals on but it does get busy! fab location, especially in winter when the xmas markets are on :) and you can sit outside in the summer which is nice read more

I was actually quite surprised that overall this only has 2.5 stars. I went in for some drinks and the service was really good, the cocktails tasted amazing and there was a good atmosphere. read more

Mediocre bar for people that think David Dimbleby is a radical.

A very good restaurant l. I went it on Monday and I enjoyed a 50% off. I had a country pie which is made by mesh potato and green been.

Ok while enroute