Always double check opening hours with the venue before making a special visit.
Catch the lion’s hourly dance display as this colourful Chinese New Year tradition plays out on Market Street near Boots.
Times: 1pm, 2pm, 3pm
Manchester International Festival 2025 kicks off with an awe-inspiring outdoor spectacle as THE HERDS take to the streets of Manchester, Rochdale, and Wigan.
Free entry
Gordon Ramsey brings his fine-dining Asian-style restaurant Lucky Cat to Manchester in April 2023.
Hotel Gotham is a luxurious hotel in Manchester’s city centre.
Jamie’s Italian is located in Edwin Lutyens’ soaringly elegant Midland Bank, one of the city’s treasures. The menu’s full of crowd-pleasing choices, with a huge selection of pastas, mains and bruschettas, and an appealing kids menu.The drinks range is broad and deep, with wine, beer and cocktails for all tastes and budgets.
Darts and drinks, all in one stylish venue with equally stylish and upbeat staff.
Playing a powerful role in the community, this venue functions as a bookshop, café and place to meet and chat with likeminded individuals.
Burger & Lobster is a King Street restaurant in the old Ship Canal offices. With an enormous bar and food that’s high on quality but low on choice, it’s a popular choice with Manchester’s young and stylish.
Habas is a modern Middle Eastern-influenced restaurant in the very centre of Manchester and the latest venture from El Gato Negro’s Simon Shaw.
Exotic dishes meet British classics at this magnificent venue.
Home-X is the online spin-off of renowned Scottish-Italian chef Nico Simeone’s Six By Nico restaurant. This is geared around kit meals to cook at home.
Six By Nico has launched the Nostalgia Menu: trips down culinary memory lane, repurposed into unforgettable fine dining dishes.
Kala is the latest restaurant from acclaimed chef-restaurateur Gary Usher, who also owns Sticky Walnut and Hispi. It’s a welcome addition to the ever-growing and improving King Street food scene.
Mash Tun is a craft beer and live music venue at the former Grafene site on Manchester’s King Street.
Take a trip back into the world of Wes Anderson this May as HOME present a series of the acclaimed auteur’s most beloved films alongside The Phoenician Scheme.
From £7.95
What happens when one of the North’s most beloved DIY festivals takes over Manchester’s biggest, shiniest arts space?
From £10.00
GASP! Horror Film Festival returns with three days of screenings dedicated to championing diversity in genre cinema.
From £5.00
Manchester International Festival 2025 kicks off with an awe-inspiring outdoor spectacle as THE HERDS take to the streets of Manchester, Rochdale, and Wigan.
Free entry
Festival Square is the beating heart of Manchester International Festival 2025, returning to its riverside location once again.
Free entry
Liverpool Arab Arts Festival (LAAF), the longest running annual festival of Arab arts and culture in the UK, returns this July.
From £10.00
Explore art in the moorlands, soundscapes through the glen and appreciate how the city has become totally transformed when you get outside with Bradford 2025.
From £0.00
Experimental performance, thought-provoking new writing and our picks of Manchester International Festival - here’s what’s taking centre stage this summer.
Outdoor cinema announcements, a major retrospective at HOME, and the best of indie cinema.
There's a lot of experimentation going on in our Literature guide, from poets playing with form to short story writers looking long.
Gigs are coming in hot this spring – from long-awaited returns to one-off happenings you’ll blink and miss if you're not careful.
The sun is shining in the North, so use our guide to get out there and eat, drink and be merry in it.
From city-wide art festivals to open-air sculptural installations, we have exhibitions from all around the North, both indoors and out.
With these lighter, brighter days and warmer temperatures, it's really starting to feel like summer here in the North West!
Books, beer and burlesque. Dive into a glorious tangle of joyful happenings.
