Flanagans

Longstanding Italian restaurant in the snazzy bit of Manchester.

Bustling basement tiki bar with the emphasis on rum cocktails

Portfolio is a Champagne boutique on Manchester’s Bridge Street, offering a set menu of fine-dining small bites.

The King Street area isn’t short of popular Italian restaurants, but none strike quite the same note as Capri’s, where you’ll be greeted like family and served some of the most authentic Neapolitan food in Manchester.

Rocking, rolling, rum bar on Manchester’s Bridge Street

San Carlo Cicchetti in Manchester does Italian small plates with aplomb.

Manchester’s only high-end seafood restaurant and oyster bar. The follow-up to the hugely successful original Soho venture.

Tokyo meets Manchester in a series of awe-inspiring dishes and drinks at KAJI.

The small plates at Stow are more impressive than most fine dining dishes, minus the fussiness. Powerful, fire-based cooking on Bridge Street.

This burger joint focuses on high-quality burgers and sides, homemade using local produce. After a series of pop-ups they’ve found a permanent home on Bridge Street in the centre of Manchester.

Bite-size basement dive alternating techno-house and indie nights, this stalwart of the Manchester music scene can be found just off Deansgate, next door to St Ann’s Square.

Sharp coffee house on Manchester’s Deansgate which switches into a cocktail bar in the evening.