Our new favourite café, Nibble provides extensive options for vegan and gluten-free dining and also offers wholesale catering. This includes a local gym where they supply food without refined sugar. So if you work nearby, go to your managers and get them to order the stuff in. You have no excuse.

If you are a sweet treat type of person living in Manchester, I am sure you have heard of Get Baked. Now residing in Stevenson Square, this take-out only café serves up some of the most mouth watering baked goods going. Don’t just take my word for it, head over there and try for yourself.

If you’re an intellectually curious Mancunian with a penchant for coffee and outsider art, take a pew. You have two choices of coffee: black or white, designed to be a home-from-home for crate-digging alternative music-lovers. Go and sit, drink coffee, work, read, write, whatever.

A 100% alcohol-free café/ bar/ restaurant. Hidden under turner street, this little slice of paradise serves everything from coffee and cakes to (alcohol-free) beer and burgers. Hinterland is also an event space. Hinterland Unplugged is a recurring event, showcasing local talent, acoustic style.

Did someone say savoury? The new Viet Deli on Blackfriars street is a quick sandwich-lover’s dream. Serving up the best and most traditional Vietnamese bánh mì in the city. Pair that with the freshly brewed Vietnamese Egg Coffee and you will have yourself a very good day.

Start your day with a taste of Greece, delicious brunch dishes and specialty coffee at Kallos Café & Wine Bar. With the stripped back interior, European style terrace tables out the front and sat opposite the park, it feels like just the place to start a slow Saturday morning.

No alternative purpose here, just good coffee and great food. A North American brunch spot and coffee house that is absolutely swimming in its Americana flavours – and plenty of maple syrup. Their house syrup is imported directly from a specialist in Canada. It’s authentic and goes more than an extra mile to replicate its roots.

Blanconero is a sleek little coffee spot in Salford where espresso is the main event. Inspired by Italian coffee culture, it serves up seriously good brews without the fuss. It’s the kind of place where you pop in for a quick shot and end up staying for a second round.

When Eastern Bloc Records left Oldham Street to reinvent itself as a coffee shop/record shop/event space, we were pretty skeptical. Well, we were wrong! After taking a year or so to truly find their feet, E Bloc is now the nicest space to grab a cup of coffee on Stevenson Square. They’ve still got the most knowledgeable electronic music specialists selling records upstairs too.

Tucked away beneath the beautiful glass roof of Burton’s Arcade is specialist coffee shop Pot Kettle Black – vigilant against over roasting, this place presents its brews in trademark red mugs, served with a glass of water and a Viennese wafer. It’s spacious, cosy, and that little bit off the beaten track. The brunches here are good, too.