Squirrels Bar

Brilliant student bar in the heart of the student land in Owen’s Park. Very popular for the football games with a great atmosphere for big international/​European/​Premiership games and also very popular for a late night drink with its cheap prices and large pool room available.

Itg has everything, atmosphere, cheap drinks, great people. It is an ultimate student bar when you cannot be bothered to go into town or you find town too expensive

Climb a floor above, or if you’re lucky enough enter through the fire exit. Squirrels bar, as the name suggests, is a student bar with fairly priced drinks and crisps. Other than the obvious bar, there are n number of plasma TV’s, so which ever way you look, you’re sure to catch the attention of the effervescent TV’s present there. It is always busy over the weekends majorly due to the premier league, so there is a massive drink fest going on. The bar also has a foyer where there is a large screen with the matches being projected on it. Squirrels has an unexpectedly huge seating capacity as well.
Other than just watching a match and enjoying the occasional drink or two, squirrels also has 2 squash courts, 4 pool tables and a foosball table. The squash courts can be accessed without spending a single penny, but the pool tables and foosball table are chargeable.
All in all it’s the centre of Owens Park where one can interact with various students.
Thumbs up and a definite pad for a good chat with friends.

Squirrels is the only University of Manchester bar that can rival Owens Park Bar, not just in Fallowfield but over all Manchester. Fallowfield really is the locus for Manchester University fun. Its union, unlike Manchester Met’s version, just isn’t a focus point for its students at all.
Owens Park is no doubt the top dog, but Squirrels is a close second, and it responds well to OP Bar by setting itself up as a different alternative, thus not entering into competition with its sister bar, but rather filling those gaps left open.
Thus whilst OP is busy and good for pre-​drinks or even a night out, Squirrels is for quieter chats and gatherings with mates. The first room has small tables and is the closest a student bar could really get to a traditional pub. Additionally, in the second room, which is overlooked by the first like a balcony, it has a huge projector TV and loads of seats set up in cinema style to get the maximum number of people in for the football. It is definitely the best atmosphere for sports in Fallowfield, rivalled only by Queen of Hearts.
Also, they have a third room with a large number of pool tables, and another area where students can play squash for free.
Basically if you fancy a cheap student drink but cant quite face OP, Squirrels is the place for you.

You can’t go too wrong as a student with student bars. It’s an easy rule of thumb that is usually only broken by a few exceptions. Luckily, Squirrels Bar is not one of them.
Finding it is unlikely unless you know where you are going; it’s buried inside the Owen’s Park Campus within the Oak House area, being, as it is, the Oak House bar. Upstairs you have the bar and seating, downstairs some more seating. There’s a few screens scattered around for sport, pool tables and a jukebox. A very basic set-​up, but it covers the bare necessities of a good student bar.
Of course, like any good student bar, it offers cheap drinks. Very cheap drinks. Unfortunately, the selection is not as good as at others, but as a simple night in, or a stop off on a pub crawl it does the job. The quality of said drinks will be up and down, but that generally comes to be expected with these sorts of places.
The atmosphere is relaxed usually, but since it is in OP it can easily escalate alongside the usual inanity that plagues the place on a regular basis. Since the clientèle is going to be pretty much student-​only though, it’s not like it really matters.
If you live nearby, or are simply passing through on a night out, then drop in for a cheap drink, just for the hell of it.

Cheap, cheap, cheap and then some. If you want to go out on a fover, or even less then this is the place to go. However, you do get what you pay for! There is a juke box and pool room downstairs which is good for a cheap few hours, and the bar upstairs serves pint after pint of cheap watery beer and snake bite and blacks. Also the occasional green monster which seems to be a local delicacy.
Good venue if you want to watch a sporting event as they have a few small screens with sofa booths and a larger screen if you are really dedicated to just watching the game and not talking to anybody. Student clientelle are friendly if not a bit childish, watch yourself at the end of the night when things might get a little too silly and you end up with the original road sign in your bedroom.

Cheap watery beer, old crappy jukebox, knackered old pool tables, sticky floors, the perfect place for any self-​respecting student!
I spent many an evening spent in here in first year, you can’t really go wrong for the first few months when it’s still the place to be. Goes downhill a bit after people realise there’s more to do outside of the campus but it’s still good for watching sport and the cheeky night in.

Great cheap bar in the Oak House campus. Get drunk, pull, play on Cluedo machine. All while your washing is being done in the crap machines in another room.

what’s your name? where do come from? how many have you done? safe as **. undoubtedly the highlight of my djing career, squirrels bar could help see your name in lights too. props to fil for the review, and the nus crew for keeping it casual

Superb drum n’ bass venue back in the day, when resident DJ nirius* was spinning a few tunez. Yeah, the beer is ropey, there’s no bitter, it’s full of students — but it’s incredibly cheap, you don’t need any ID, and you’re pretty much guaranteed a top night. Especially when nirius is manning the booth…