Howdy’s, in Longsight, lays on its theme with a trowel. Actually, what’s bigger than a trowel? A spade. It shovels it on with a spade. It buries you in Wild West nicknacks and cowboy slang everywhere from the neon signs all over the walls to the stuff on the menu.
It was at one time The Huntington pub, a place more likely to be the site of a saloon-style brawl like in the actual Wild West than not, with bottles flying and bar stools being turned into matchwood. Back then - how to put it politely? - it lacked curbside appeal.
