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. If you get bored with cooking you can stare in awe at the manga-inspired mural covering one wall. Epic.
Visit the two-night exhibition at PINK which asks how the climate crisis affects our perception of time through the work of three artists.
Free entry
Friday night at Manchester Classical opens with a minimalist masterclass as the Hallé are joined by Radiohead’s Jonny Greenwood on electric bass.
From £15.00
Sean Chandler leads a live Musical Storyland performance of Three Billy Goats Gruff with BBC Philharmonic.
Free entry
Manchester Collective present a performance about the power of the soloist – and what happens when they go rogue.
From £9.00
Manchester Classical festival closes with a city-wide crescendo: all major ensembles joining forces for Respighi’s Pines of Rome.
From £9.00
Quentin Blake’s Box of Treasures bursts open with the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra as they play live accompaniment to two wonderfully animated adventures.
From £5.00
Part of Manchester Classical, the BBC Philharmonic returns with a cinematic, jazz-tinged blockbuster featuring Rhapsody in Blue.
From £9.00
Manchester Classical returns to The Bridgewater Hall with a vibrant weekend of music that reaffirms the city’s reputation as a hive of world-class classical activity.
From £0.00
SEESAW is a co-working space, events venue and café.
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.
The apple in Now Wave’s eye, YES boasts four floors of live music and DJs, and offers food via two outlets. It also has a huge outdoor roof terrace!
A budget hotel in central Manchester
Glass House is the place to go for floral themed workshops, with expert and innovative florists in an idyllic building.
This residency restaurant opened in summer 2019, at Locke Hotels’ Whitworth Locke. The first residency comes courtesy of Mexican specialists El Camino.
Peru Perdu has an all-new food and drink menu, with some of the best-looking dishes in the city.
Winsome delivers modern British food, cooked beautifully by chef-owner Shaun Moffat and his team.
Beer, cocktails and Asian street food at one of Manchester’s friendliest bars.
Manchester Wine Tours is a relaxed, fun wine tour, full of the city’s best food and drink, led by an effortlessly engaging host.
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.
Summer signals theatre festivals, world premieres and open-air spectacle - from MIF25 to comedy, outdoor circus and beyond, here’s what we’re looking forward to.
From environmental to experimental, our poetry and prose picks from around the North are focused on the unusual and the fun.
Captivating, urgent and intimate - we bring you our top exhibition picks, with even more art festivals, artist-led shows and new venues.
Shape-shifting bands, scorched-earth techno, and off-grid festivals. Our latest music picks catch the live scene at its most urgent, inventive and alive.
Go forth with wild abandon to dance the pavements, dabble with the paint and down the pints in this month's tours and activities guide.
This month's guide is truly eclectic - from free family festivals, to food events, circus school and more!
Read our latest highlights from the live classical music offer in Manchester and the North, taking in a number of the region's most cherished orchestral forces and venues.
Outdoor cinema announcements, a major retrospective at HOME, and the best of indie cinema.
