The Beagle - Manchester

No breakfast But lovely pizza i came for breakfast So i was disapointed But if you are looking for pizza it is good

Yo Beagle! If I wanted to be ignored all night, cleaned up after the previous customers and wiped my own table I'd have got a dominos and stayed at home with the wife. I'd have saved £45 too.

I’m not sure whether I had dinner in a bar that serves pizza or a pizzeria where you don’t have to eat and can just get a drink. The lines blur. The company that runs the Beagle, and two other sites in Manchester, also produces the pizza Nell’s Pizza. There’s good ethics here – an interest in the local and sustainable. So, the flour for the pizza dough is organic. The meat comes from the excellent Heaton Chapel butchers, Littlewoods. Unlike most British pizza, which is based on the Neapolitan style, Nell’s says its pizza is in the New York style. Now, I confess to not knowing what difference that might be and, having eaten there, still don’t know for sure. The difference I noted is the pizza is very thin – so thin that it doesn’t retain the heat and the last third of the pizza was effectively eaten cold. And there’s not a sign of crispness to the dough. Maybe that’s how New Yorkers like It but it’s not an improvement on how most places cook their pizza. It’s a shortish pizza menu. Three pizzas use meat, the other eleven suitable for vegetarians or vegans. One takes you back to the interest in “local”, with their “cheese and onion pie” flavoured pizza. As they say, a Northern classic – my partner’s mother used to bake a lovely cheese and onion pie. There’s the sweetness of cooked onions and Lancashire cheese is used alongside mozzarella and parmesan. Roast garlic and chives provide a bit of an "edge” to it. More straightforward was the “Original Cheese” – tomato sauce, mozzarella and parmesan. Flavours were fine. Texture wasn’t. No need to rush back.

I visited here just as a one off and asked the bar staff member, who was pleasant and polite, what non alcoholic, non sparkling, drinks they have. She listed the juices Orange, Pineapple, Cranberry. I chose Pineapple, this was put into a tumbler, and filled up. Charged at £2.50. I was presented with the card machine and I asked if they take cash. The woman said that they don't and apologized. I am not impressed. Especially as a little while later during my drinking I looked up and there were fruit flies on the glass. I was with my girlfriend and after she came back from the toilets. She was pleased with the fact that they have women's toiletries free for use. However they do not have any equivalent items for men or trans-persons. Something that would not of occured to me unless she had pointed it out.

Staff was really friendly and accommodating. Service was quick and efficient so we could enjoy our meal in 90 mins. Do feel for a table of 4 the turn around time should be 2 hours (industry standard) but, overall good experience.