Whiskey Down Manchester
Creative Tourist
Spread across two levels beneath Lloyd Street, enter Whiskey Down Manchester through a sunken iconic purple door into the Cabaret Lounge, where over 100 Whiskeys from all over the world are served.
Spread across two levels beneath Lloyd Street, enter Whiskey Down Manchester through a sunken iconic purple door into the Cabaret Lounge, where over 100 Whiskeys from all over the world are served.
Every Wednesday at Ape & Apple, Manchester’s official underground comedy club, Comedy Balloon’s friendly and warm comedy night takes place.
free entryExplore the ways in which Manchester helped shape and reinforce the ideas of the fathers of communism, Friedrich Engels and Karl Marx.
from £20.00Scranchester have teamed up with Manchester Union Lager to curate a foodie walking tour with a craft lager twist.
from £70.00Hop on your bike for this guided cycling tour, exploring fascinating corners of Manchester you may never have seen before.
from £25.00The fifth Festival Of Libraries is a five-day multi-venue celebration of Greater Manchester’s libraries happening 4 to 8 June.
free entryExplore the Suffragettes’ epic fight for equal rights on this guided tour around significant buildings and landmarks.
from £20.00Various independent publishing houses set out their stalls at the Northern Publishers’ Fair at Manchester Central Library.
free entryStagger across three hundred years of Manchester’s drinking history in one of the city’s most fun-loving walking tours.
from £25.00The Allotment Vegan Restaurant is an award-winning vegan restaurant, formerly based in Stockport and now in the heart of Manchester’s city centre.
Highly-regarded Chinese restaurant with a peerless range of dim sum and other Chinese dishes. Louis Van Gaal’s (remember him?) favourite restaurant in Manchester, by all accounts.
A range of meeting rooms and conferencing facilities for hire – from an intimate space for a city centre meeting, to a conference facility in a hall that can seat 400 people with a suite of break out rooms.
Grand steakhouse in the centre of Manchester. High-end cuts of meat in elegant but dynamic venue.
Rudy’s Neapolitan Pizza serve up pizza which has received worldwide acclaim and now have six branches across the UK including this on Peter Street.
Test your skills and logical thinking with Breakout Manchester’s wide selection of themed rooms for you to escape from.
Forty-Seven is a luxury boutique hotel on Peter Street in Manchester city centre, above the high-end Indian restaurant Asha’s.
This acclaimed Middle-Eastern restaurant leans into Dry January and Veganuary, all at the same time.
Ditto Coffee has opened a branch on Albert Square, teaming great coffee with a passion for independent music.
Built as a Methodist chapel in 1910, Albert Hall is now one of Manchester’s most iconic and most stunning music venues.
Fancy your Sunday roast with a hint of the Germanic? Head to Albert’s Schloss.
Deansgate bar and barbecue restaurant
Vintage Alfred Hitchcock and a family friendly film festival are amongst our highlights this May.
Dynamic dance, party-performance, high-energy stand-up and a site-specific show set in a pub. All this and more in our newest theatre guide.
Make the most of the springtime sun with some of the North's best bars and restaurants.
The outsiders, the oddities and the outrageous – we’re keeping it weird with a hot new batch of underground gigs about to hit Manchester, Leeds, and Liverpool.
From precarious ceramics to photography festivals, spring is here and brings with it a breath of fresh air in visual art and exhibitions.
It's like the Woolies pick'n'mix counter this month in live literature land – so much choice, we're not sure where to start digging in.
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.
Dragon quests, coconut pyramids and topsy-turvy Wonderland adventures... curious?