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
The Stables Tavern is an olde style pub in the St John’s neighbourhood of Manchester, where the Rovers Return once stood.
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. It’s the latest venture from El Gato Negro’s Simon Shaw.
Exotic dishes meet British classics at this magnificent venue.
Cafe Beermoth is the very definition of a modern Manchester pub – relaxed, friendly and with a wide range of carefully curated booze options.
Lennox is chef Nico Simeone’s new restaurant, serving dishes similar to his Six By Nico restaurant but with bigger, more ambitious ideas.
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.
Music leads We Invented the Weekend, with ENO’s mass Nessun Dorma and Afriquoi’s kora-fuelled electronic sound.
Free entry
Internet blackout fantasies, displaced mermaids and a filmmaker turning wolf. This all dayer explores experimental fiction filmmaking from three continents.
From £5.00
The UK’s biggest celebration of African music and culture returns to Sefton Park this summer with a line-up including Malian singer and guitarist Fatoumata Diawara.
From £6.00
From drone metal to art pop, free festivals to gigs in museums, here's one of our more eclectic music updates.
There’s been lamb, there’s been champagne, there’s been okra. Look at what you could have eaten, then plan the next few weeks accordingly.
Dark comedy, visceral dance theatre, Fringe hits and open-air performances on a railway viaduct - try something new this season.
From post-it-sized art to commissions that fill entire gallery walls, five exhibitions ask what the overlooked reveals.
Whether you’re after storybook theatre, museum wanderings or illusion-bending play spaces, there’s plenty to keep curiosity ticking through winter and beyond.
There's no shortage of great films out at the moment, whether you're looking for the latest blockbuster, that hot arthouse flick fresh from Cannes or a cosy classic.
Step away from the usual. Tours and activities that spark curiosity, inspire creativity and offer something refreshingly different.
