Panchos Burritos restaurant

Manchester has more than one top-tier Indian restaurant, but Zouk is right up there with the best, and counts Drake as a fan.

The bricks and mortar The Modernist shop opened in May 2019 in the Northern Quarter and is the only bookshop in Manchester specialising in architecture and design.

Bakchich does excellent, reasonably priced Lebanese food – including sharwarma, pickles, meshawi grills and baklawa – in a beautifully tiled, high-ceilinged space.

Independent Leeds-based brewery North has opened its first Manchester taproom, in Oxford Road’s Circle Square neighbourhood.

Formerly the Sir Kenneth Green Library, All Saints Library is part of Manchester Metropolitan University.

From its charming Art Deco interiors to a quirky, highly original creative arts output, our theatre is firmly established within the city’s famously vibrant cultural scene.

Friendly pub under a railway arch serving vegetarian and vegan pub food, as well as hosting regular live music.

A nano brewery and keg bar, Ol is a meeting of minds between Takk and Byrne The Cake brewery.

Top class Filipino cuisine currently based at pop-up central, Hatch.

They claim to sell the ‘best chicken and vegan chicken sandwich in Manchester’ and they’re absolutely right.

Manchester Wine Tours is a relaxed, fun wine tour, full of the city’s best food and drink, led by an effortlessly engaging host.