Proudly independent since we first opened our doors in early April 1996, back when the Hacienda was still open and Grosvenor Street was an out-of-the-way forgotten part of Manchester. Sandbar partly occupies one of Manchester's few remaining industrial revolution era mills and started out as a German and Belgian beer bar. Back then no one was importing the beers and we were importing all the beer ourselves. These days we are more focused on local breweries and we are certainly spoilt for choice. In 2019 we are proud to have been voted by you the best pub / craft beer bar at the Manchester Food and Drink Festival awards.

Payments

We are a cashless bar and only accept card payments.

Opening Times

• Monday12:00-00:00
• Tuesday12:00-00:00
• Wednesday12:00-00:00
• Thursday12:00-01:00
• Friday12:00-02:00
• Saturday12:00-02:00
• Sunday12:00-00:00

• Monday bank holidays17:00-00:00
• Friday bank holidays17:00-02:00

Vegan Beers

Most of the beers on draught are vegan. Please ask the staff at the bar for more information.

Environmental Responsibility

We genuinely care about the health of our environment and community and we regularly review our environmental impact with the aim of improving it.
We know there is a long way to go, but:

• our electricity 100% renewable from Pozitive Energy. They also supply us with green gas for our central heating.
• we have reduced our use of plastic incuding straws.
• our urinals are waterless.
• our beer pumps run on O2 from a compressor instead of CO2
• we use low impact chemicals like ecover washing up liquids, floor soaps, etc.
• our milkman delivers our milk in returnable bottles
• we have significantly reduced the miles travelled by many of the products we buy
• where possible we buy organic and fairtrade and are particularly proud to be serving fairtrade cola on draught from Think Drinks in Bristol
• we encourage our staff to cycle to work, most of them do, and we support the maintenance of their bicycles
• we recycle where we can and reduce what we can't

Our Whisky

We have a real passion for whisky and have been collecting for over 10 years. Whisky to us is not just a call to a supplier to place an order. Great whiskies are often way beyond our budget so we have to work hard to source them before they win awards, or become impossible to find. We are always very sad when we sell out of something we will never have the opportunity to have again. We currently just about manage to fit over 200 whiskies on the bar and we try to maintain a selection of some of the best releases we can find. Some of them end up becoming more valuable than the price we sell them for.

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