Vanilla

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Vanilla

39-41 Richmond Street, Manchester, M1 3WB
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This award winning bar is open six nights a week due to popular demand.

Drinks are some of the cheapest on Canal Street and the atmosphere is one of the best.

Described as the ‘mecca of the north’ for the lesbian community, it is no wonder why.

What's on near Vanilla

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ExhibitionsManchester
UN SEEN ME at SEESAW

Dr Shanali Perera’s paintings explore the space between what can be seen and what is experienced when it comes to illness.

Free entry
Until
Food and DrinkManchester
Eat Well, Do Good

Eat Well, Do Good returns this October, bringing Manchester’s hospitality scene together to fund chef-made meals for people in crisis.

Free entry
Rock and Goal
Until
ActivityManchester
Rock and Goal Tour

Join Joe Feeley a Mancunian through and through, who guides you into Manchester’s two pillars of cultural excellence with his Rock and Goal tour.

From £9.99
Wine Tour Climat
Until
TourManchester
Manchester Wine Tour

A fun, ever-changing wine tour through Manchester’s best venues, combining local stories, top-notch pours and expert-led tastings.

From £85.73

Where to go near Vanilla

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Bar or Pub
On Bar

This multifaceted venue is primarily an award winning gay bar in Manchester’s Canal Street area – but that is not all…

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Music venue
G-A-Y

Smack bang in the centre of Manchester’s Canal Street, colourful club on the corner, G-A-Y, is popular with a youngish crowd looking for pop tunes, cheap drinks and a lively atmosphere. And there’s a rooftop terrace for the smokers.

Manchester
Music venue
Bar Pop

Nightclub identifying as an ‘IndieDiscoElectroHomoMadHiphopBritPopFunkyKindaShagtasticQueerThing’, Bar Pop on Manchester’s vibrant Canal Street is known for its friendly atmosphere.

Canal Street
Café or Coffee Shop
Richmond Tea Rooms

An eccentrically decorated place that cunningly offers homemade breakfasts, lunches and high teas alongside some stronger stuff for cocktail hour.

Manchester
Restaurant
MAYA Manchester

MAYA is a stylish new restaurant and bar on the corner of Canal Street and Chorlton Street in central Manchester.

Manchester
Bar or Pub
Tribeca

Large bar/music venue on Sackville Street in Manchester city centre.

Samsi
Manchester
Restaurant
Samsi

Long-standing Japanese restaurant on Whitworth Street in Manchester with a pleasingly affordable menu.

Canal Street
Event venue
Mechanics’ Institute

Now a conference and events venue, the Grade II-listed Mechanics’ Institute was the birth place of the TUC in 1868. It was also the birthplace of the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology (Umist) and the Cooperative Insurance Society.

Manchester One
City Centre
Event venue
Manchester One

Formerly known as Portland Tower and previously St. Andrew’s House, Manchester One is a high-rise building in Manchester owned by Bruntwood and let out as office space.

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