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 Tapas and live jazz |
1 Campfield Avenue Arcade (Tonman Street, Castlefield) Manchester M3 4FN United Kingdom +44 161 839 3319 |
This well-regarded restaurant and bar is popular with jazz lovers for its late licence and live music at weekends. Sit outside or wander in and soak up the authentic rustic atmosphere, the walls painted in earthy tones complementing the predominantly candlelit rooms. Based around a theme of Mediterranean tapas with a Greek emphasis, the food is well-priced and of good quality. Various tapas from tortilla chips to octopus are available or alternatively you could order a choice of meze platters at between £9 and £16 per person. Main course favourites include vegetable moussaka and swordfish steaks averaging out at around £11. House Chardonnay is £10.95 a bottle and there is a range of beers on offer including draught Red Stripe. Review © 2007, Wcities |
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Where it Started |
28-30 Oldham Street Manchester M1 1JN United Kingdom +44 161 236 9840 |
This bar has carved a niche in Manchester folklore. It was originally opened by the owners of the legendary Hacienda Club and is widely recognized as being the birthplace of the city's now thriving cafe-bar culture. The original bar has spawned many imitators, but it still remains one of the best. Modern in a minimalist sense, the decor is sweeping lines, brushed metal surfaces and wooden floors. Always busy, with an emphasis on the music, there are regular live band nights and DJ sessions on the weekends. Draft beers include Stella Artois and Boddingtons along with a wide range of bottled beers. A basic food menu, including burgers and a small range of tapas, is served all day. Review © 2007, Wcities |
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A combination of rock memorabilia and fast food |
The Printworks Corporation Street Manchester M4 1VV United Kingdom +44 161 831 6700 |
With its enormous 80 foot high neon electric guitar outside, its hard to ignore the Hard Rock Cafe in the new Printworks leisure complex. This worldwide chain of cafes is famous for the rock memorabilia that adorns its walls and the no-nonsense Tex-Mex food it serves. Burgers, grills and fried chicken dominate the menu, while the wine list is predominantly Californian and the draught and bottled beers American classics like Budweiser and Miller. There is also a Hard Rock store where you can buy a huge range of branded merchandise from pin badges to baseball caps and jackets. Review © 2007, Wcities |
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 International ambience and all vegetarian |
115-117 Manchester Road Chorlton Manchester M21 9PG United Kingdom +44 161 881 9338 |
Formerly a Greek restaurant, this colorful bar aims to provide quality music, food and free entertainment with a global focus, such as themed Brazilian and American nights—to appeal to its much-traveled clientèle. Inside, the walls are white and the chairs are steel, while the low lighting adds to the intimate Mediterranean ambience—with the exception of the large screens showing MTV. There is an extensive all-vegetarian menu that includes a wide selection of salads, pasta and Greek-style dishes. Review © 2007, Wcities |
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 Fashionable drinking with live music and comedy |
23 Peter Street Manchester M2 5QR United Kingdom +44 (0)161 833 3000 |
Peter Street is fast becoming yet another hub for Manchester's ever-growing cafe-bar scene with Bar 38, Breeze and The Square all close by. Life offers something of an alternative by offering the Late Room - a basement club with regular live music and comedy. Aimed perhaps more at the thirty-something age group, it has nevertheless proved extremely popular. If you are feeling hungry, there is also a pleasantly intimate restaurant serving the usual contemporary fusion cuisine. Starters mix and match from the French moules mariniere to Thai chicken and coconut soup. Mains include salads, pizzas or noisette of lamb. If you have a sweet tooth watch out for desserts such as molten chocolate fondue. Review © 2007, Wcities |
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Edwardian country house sophistication |
80 Deansgate Manchester M3 2ER United Kingdom +44 161 832 0083 |
Imagine you are in an Edwardian country house, complete with mahogany panelling, aspidistras and a jazz pianist playing in the background. You are breakfasting on eggs benedict over a copy of The Times, with champagne cocktails promised at 5pm, accompanied by your favourite cigars. All this is possible at The Living Room.The menu is mainly English, with a touch of the colonial. Fish cakes sit alongside Rangoon chicken satay amongst the starters. Review © 2007, Wcities |
 Irish jigs and good beer are on offer |
12 Southgate Off Bridge Street Manchester M2 2RB United Kingdom +44 161 288 0006 |
A poster bearing a selection of celebrities from the Emerald Isle alerts you that this is an Irish-run pub, which, like several others in the Manchester area, boasts the best pint of Guinness in town. The decor of bare-brick walls and lots of leaded-glass snugs and booths also help give the place an authentic, cosy feel. A well-known Irish band livens up proceedings every Tuesday and Sunday night, with plenty of drinking and dancing. If you can't find the place, then go down the side street between Kendals and Daisy & Tom and turn left, you'll hear the laughter. Review © 2007, Wcities |
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Part of the Manchester music scene |
26 Oldham Street Manchester M1 1JN United Kingdom +44 161 236 4597 |
A fixture of the live music scene in central Manchester for over eight years now, Night and Day manages to juggle the concept of relaxed, jazzy café bar with full blown, small to medium-sized music venue surprisingly successfully. The feel is resolutely bohemian, with wooden benches, plenty of dark corners and a smoky ambience adding to the effect.Evenings see a wide variety of different musical styles with nights ranging from experimental events to local band showcases, from NME endorsed indie and rock bands to dance acts. The bar only serves bottled and canned beers or soft drinks during the evenings but there is a basic, good quality food menu including full breakfasts, burgers and sandwiches plus filter coffee in the noon. Review © 2007, Wcities |
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Historic tiled haven for drinkers |
127 Great Bridgewater Street Castlefield Manchester M1 5JQ United Kingdom +44 161 236 6364 |
This historic old pub is distinctive for its green Victorian tilework on the outside walls (making it resemble a bathroom) but in all other ways it is traditional in every sense of the word. It offers a games room with darts and snooker, comfortable nooks and crannies and even puts on live Irish folk music every Tuesday night.This is a surprisingly popular haunt for media and professional types as well as for a loyal regular clientele. It is located conveniently close to both the G-Mex Centre and Bridgewater Hall. Review © 2007, Wcities |
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Withington's first and best café-bar |
447-449 Wilmlsow Road Withington Manchester M20 4AN United Kingdom +44 161 445 6722 |
This is Withington's first and most famous café-bar. During the day, it's an expensive coffee shop, turning into a bistro at midday. In the evening, it's a bar and restaurant, with live jazz on Fridays. Breakfast, pastries and sandwiches are available from open until 6p. Traditional breakfasts and a range of delicious sandwiches including smoked salmon and mascarpone with a honey and mustard dressing are available in the morning. Main courses include salmon en croute with desserts such as Jamaican rum fudge melt. There is a limited choice of draft beers and a larger range of continental bottled lagers and spirits for the same price. Review © 2007, Wcities |
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Lots of live bands and popular club nights |
18-20 Fairfield Street Manchester M1 2QF United Kingdom +44 161 273 6726 |
This large turn of the century pub has established quite a reputation locally for its live music acts over the last few years. It started by offering free space to any band that could bring its own audience, and recently was the only pub-sized venue in the UK to put on Status Quo during a recent tour. Inside on the ground floor there is a traditional curved bar with a main room festooned with music posters and flyers, while the snug houses a pool table. Upstairs is the venue room with small raised stage, basic sound system and its own separate bar. It has a late licence and also puts on regular clubnights, such as Manchester's longest Indie club night Smile on Saturdays. Review © 2007, Wcities |
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 Live music and quality food |
Sackville Street Manchester M1 3WF United Kingdom +44 161 236 8300 |
A welcome addition to Manchester's Gay Village, Tribeca is a free admission live music café bar with a loyal following from Canal Street and beyond. The surroundings are light, modern and airy during the day but the lighting is low in the evening. There is a long bar and comfy sofas in the centre of the ground-floor room, and a balcony area and small dance area at the far end. Good quality food (such as Thai king prawn green curry at around EUR9 per head) is available all day, every day until 10pm. There is a reasonable wine list and the range of bottled beers and cocktails is huge. Review © 2007, Wcities |
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