The Smithfield Market Tavern
📍 2.7 miles from The Peninsula Stadium
About this Pub
Why it's great for Matchdays
Handy Northern Quarter spot for a pre-match pint with a strong cask and keg line-up (Blackjack tap with rotating guests). It’s a short walk to city-centre transport hubs — Shudehill Interchange and Manchester Victoria — making it easy to hop on Metrolink or trains. From the city centre, trams run frequently to the Etihad Campus on matchdays, so it works well as a staging point before heading to Manchester City home games.
Recent Fan Reviews
Every so often you come across a pub that has the full package, perfect cask and keg beers, great ciders, a perfect landlord and a buzzing atmosphere, this was one of those pubs. On entry of the pub you could just feel that we had come somewhere special, laughter and joy, friends talking etc. I went to the bar but didn't know the brewery, Blackjack, so the landlord asked what beers i liked which to be fair is most styles apart from reds so without asking he passed me about five tasters, outstanding. This place was so good we stayed all evening drinking and chatting to new friends. Because of these extra special places im introducing a new system, a gold crown which means very highly recommended and should definitely be visited, this is the first 👑
Very good pub about fifteen minutes walk from Manchester Piccadilly. Six cask beers - and one cider - on handpump when I visited including a porter and a milk stout. Outdoor seating in the beer garden to the rear. The pub has a bar billiard table and a dart board although both were unavailable when I was there before the Manchester United game against Spurs at Old Trafford.
A good venue to sample the range of Blackjack cask ales. Do note the fine collection of potted plants!
Popular pub in Manchester's Northern Quarter. Well-kept beer from the Blackjack Brewery and some guest beers.
20/01/24: Yonder Brewery: Bakewell Sour and Black Jack Brewery: Brown Bitter 31/08/23: the beer tasted on the turn. It wasn't great. I had the Blackjack Brewery no. 21: Brew by Numbers pale ale 4% and Turning Point Brewery: Astral Voyage session NEIPA 3.4% (the Astral Voyage was ok) 21/08/23: Blackjack x Runaway Breweries: The Mangolorian mango sour with chilli & lime and Blackjack x Fell Breweries: Pub Piano pale ale 29/10/22: love it here. Such a great atmosphere and choice of craft ales! A Blackjack Brewery Taphouse