Yussef Dayes at YES

Long-established Manchester bar and nightclub, Joshua Brooks is just off student hotspot Oxford Road. Open until 4am on the weekends with regular DJ-led club nights.

Refined steakhouse with smart, low-lit decor, boasting some of the finest cuts of meat in the city.

Beer, cocktails and Asian street food at one of Manchester’s friendliest bars.

A tip for affordable, consistently good food is Middle Kingdom, just outside Chinatown on Princess Street. It offers the full hot pot experience, where you and your friends order a bunch of ingredients and cook it yourselves at the table.

Manchester Wine Tours is a relaxed, fun wine tour, taking in four or five venues across three hours, plus six high-quality glasses of wine.

PINK is a discursive curatorial project and exhibition space based in Manchester city centre. 

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.

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

Cornerhouse on Oxford Street was an independent cinema, gallery, restaurant, bookshop – oh yes, and also a Manchester institution. It has now closed it’s doors, relocated and reinvented itself as HOME.

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

Street food takeaway, this venue is now closed.

Peru Perdu has an all-new food and drink menu, with some of the best-looking dishes in the city.