Harlequin

What a fantastic pub! The staff are excellent - warm and friendly. The people are wonderful. The bands are top notch! Great atmosphere.

Bang across the River Don is a huge expanse of apartments. Now here is my message to the folks who live there - get over the bridge and in this pub!

Friendly staff, nice range of beers, lagers, and especially ciders. Add this to well-prepared and innovative food and you have a near-perfect public house.

I would particularly recommend the Bhaji Butty.

This pub has a fabulous atmosphere, good wine, excellent range of beers and good live music.

On the downside, since the new owners took over, the pub is cold! No heating on throughout the night. You have to keep your coat on and hope it warms up as it fills up.

We go in on Saturdays and for the last few weeks have heard many customers commenting on how cold it is. Even the youngsters are putting their coats back on!

I was interested to see the Harlequin voted as pub of the week.

Since the Brew Co took charge the Harlequin isn't quite the excellent pub it used to be.

Gone are Happy Mondays (pints £1.50 and £2). Acorn Barnsley Bitter has been replaced by the Brew Co's Harlequin Bitter (not bad but not as nice as Acorn and the 10p per pint price increase didn't help), but the real deterioration is in the range and price of food. Only a couple of hot choices (gone are the excellent £3 meals) and sandwiches piled on the bar with a 50p price increase.

Still a good pub. Nice atmosphere. Good beer range. But visits leave me feeling a bit cheated when I remember how it used to be.

Visited the Harlequin for the first time last Saturday, after a work colleague recommended it.

My main reason for going was that my husband is a big fan of Frank White (guitarist) who was playing live on the Saturday night.

I was pleasantly surprised, it's a real ale pub, the bar staff were real friendly and although the pub was very busy we got served quite quickly.

The atmosphere was friendly and the age group ranged from people in their twenties upwards.

Apparently there is a live turn on most Saturday nights.

Towards the end of the night the landlady brought out some hot nibbles and sandwiches for the customers, what a lovely end to the night.

Frank white was excellent along with the young lad on the keyboards.

I will definitely recommend the Harlequin to all my friends, and hopefully will be going back soon.

The pub formerly known as the Manchester Hotel on Nursery Street has reopened as the Harlequin.