Update 2021: Post Covid19 The Met in W. Didsbury, Manchester is open & accessible

When we decided to make a guide of the best, accessible beer gardens we realised that there were a couple of problems. The first was a kind of ideological issue: is there such a thing as a bad beer garden? They’re all places where you can sit in the sun and drink a pint, how can that experience be ranked? The second problem was the enormity of the task. It’s almost impossible to provide a comprehensive guide to the best or most accessible beer gardens across an entire country of about 52,000 pubs.

Bu we decided to push ahead with it anyway. So we made efforts to take a look around, ask some of our most stylish friends and home in on a selection of recommended beer gardens. We ended up with a list of pub gardens that we know are very popular and the next step was to find out about the disabled access they each have.

We ended up with a very select list of great beer gardens which are all accessible even if, occasionally, the pubs that they are part of might not be quite so wheelchair friendly. They’ve all made the list for different reasons but they all share one thing in common: they’re brilliant places to relax in the sun with a cold beer. By all accounts, that’s something that we’re likely to want to do at some point this summer.

The Metropolitan W. Didsbury Manchester – Accessible Garden. Before Social distancing Obvs.

When the sun comes out in Manchester people head to The Metropolitan. The outside area is hugely popular and can get packed with people enjoying the weather. It’s a real hotspot in West Didsbury, particularly for young professionals.

You can get straight into the garden from the car park, which has disabled spaces. There’s a ramp inside and a disabled toilet. There is one area on the upper terrace which is not easily accessible but there is a way to get around that problem anyway. They told us that this beer garden is “about as good as it gets” since there is a outside bar and the biggest obstacle tends to just be other people. We have to agree that it does sound rather impressive.

We give ‘The Met’ another provisional rating of 2.5 BBS Ticks.

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