Ditto Coffee is a coffee shop specialising in independent music and speciality coffee. This Manchester coffee shop is the second coffee-themed venture from the Liverpool-based Ditto Music company.
The Hallé has a bumper Christmas season in store, decking the (Bridgewater) hall with festive pop, cinematic magic and roaring-twenties glamour.
From £18.50
Celebrating with the kids this Christmas? This family concert is hard to beat, with two festive classics unfolding on the (very) big screen.
From £18.50
Manchester’s famous musical legacy comes to life in this walking tour around the city, which will take you from the 1960s to the present day.
From £25.00
Experience Jonathan Demme’s multi-Oscar-winning thriller with iconic score performed live by the Hallé orchestra.
From £34.50
Manchester’s Bridgewater Hall will be once again putting on their annual New Year’s Eve celebration. The theme this year? Love is in the Air.
From £40.00
The Hallé invites audiences to a year of classical masterpieces, world premieres and appearances by some electrifying artists and composers.
From £17
The Hallé turns back the clock to the roaring twenties with Gatsby and the Jazz Age, with conductor Guy Barker steering a starry line-up.
From £28.00
Sorry return to Manchester with a new album that finally captures the full strangeness and clarity of a band who’ve spent years ducking easy categorisation.
From £23.25
Enjoy a gourmet lunch for whatever price you feel and help fight food waste. Real Junk Food Project Manchester has final found a permanent home, ideally located along Oxford Road, and business is booming.
Bundobust Oxford Road is the latest addition to the ever-growing alt-Indian food chain. Opens spring in the St James Building on Manchester’s Oxford Road.
Nudo Sushi Box on Manchester’s Oxford Road specialises in freshly-prepared boxes of – you guessed it – sushi.
Le français, c’est chic! The Alliance Française de Manchester has a large range of online & onsite French courses.
The Refuge is a restaurant and bar based at Kimpton Clocktower Hotel, specialising in bright, exciting small plates.
Launched in 2021, the Bundobust Brewery makes modern beer with their vegetarian and vegan food menu in mind.
A Manchester landmark for almost 130 years, The Palace Theatre is reopening in early August 2021 with a few small but vital changes to ensure a safe and pleasant experience for all.
Traditional Italian restaurant, serving everything from pizza to steak. All this in a large modern venue with floor-to-ceiling windows.
A cult tv and movie themed bar set below street level on Portland Street in Manchester.
Society Manchester is a glorious indoor and outdoor space in the very heart of the city, with five street food vendors to choose from and a range of high-quality drinks.
Originally called The Temple of Convenience owing to its former life as a public toilet block, this is a tiny bar with some of the finest bathroom graffiti in town.
The second of stylish Anthologist cocktail bar and restaurants has arrived in Manchester’s St Peter’s Square, following the success of the London venue.
Winter brings a huge haul of seasonal shows, as well as productions that resolutely veer away from the fairy lights.
Manchester’s closing out the year – and looking to the new one – with a run of gigs from some of the country’s best underground exports.
This season, exhibitions across the North West feel attuned to the world beneath the world – the forces and stories shaping how we see, feel and imagine.
Step away from the usual. Tours and activities that spark curiosity, inspire creativity and offer something refreshingly different.
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.
Hear ye, hear ye. Take some eating-out tips from our wintertime guide to food and drink in Manchester and the North.
