Cafés & Wine Bars (1 of 2)
around Greater Manchester

NOTE
Café and Wine Bars tend to have a short life - many come and go and the following listings may quickly become outdated. Details may change over time and we would appreciate being informed of any changes that you become aware of.

• All Bar One
  73 King Street, Manchester M2 4NG.
  Tel: 0161-830 1811.
  A Mitchells and Butlers pub/bar which tends to be very busy at luchtimes and after work. Standard bar food is on offer, as well as wines and spirits.
  
  
• Ampersand
  Longworth Street, (off St John's Street),
  Deansgate, Manchester M3 4BQ. Tel: 0161-832 3038.
  Hidden on Longworth Street, a tiny backstreet just off St John Street, Ampersand is one of Manchester’s most famous clubs. Once an exclusive members only club it is now open to the general public. With its distinctive décor and deep rich tones, and the somewhat elitest serving of fine champagne in the Crystal Lounge for VIP’s only.
  
  
• Aqua
  Albion Wharf, Albion Street, Manchester M1 5LN.
  Tel: 0161-228 1800.
  Just a few minutes from Deansgate Lock and the Bridgewater Hall, this is a small basement club with a modestly priced drinks, a relaxed atmosphere, music and comfortable sofas overlooking the canal.
  
  
• Baa Bar Deansgate Locks
  Arch 11, Deansgate Locks, Whitworth Street,
  Manchester M1 5LH. Tel: 0161-832 4446.
  A chain of bar created by popular Manchester property company Urban Splash. The Deansgate Locks has remained popular for some time having recently had a refurbishment overhaul, making it a more intimate experience.

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• Baby Grand, The
  47 Peter Street, Manchester M2 3NG. Tel: 0161-839 6263.
  A high class bar, with an extensive range of cocktails and wines. Candlelit mirrored interiors and large relaxing sofas help make this a sumptuous and richbar experience. The music is predominantly funky house, soul and R&B. Very busy at weekends.
  
  
• Bacchanalia
  15-17 Chapel Walks, Manchester M2 1HN. Tel: 0161-819 1997.
  Website: www.bacconline.com.
  Bacchanalia is a restaurant and cocktail wine bar on two floors, specialising in British and Mediterranean dishes, cocktails and an extensive wine list.
  
  
• Bar 38
  Great Northern Warehouse, Peter Street, Manchester M2 5GP.
  Tel: 0161-835 3076.
  Set in a distinctive triangular steel and glass building, this is a great place to go for a dance or to meet up with friends whlst during the day bar food is on offer from a menu that changes fortnightly. They also have a very nice outdoor seating area overlooking the Great Northern Complex square which is great for those summer months.
  
  
• Barça
  Arch 8-9, Catalan Square, Castlefield, Manchester M3 4WD.
  Tel: 0161-839 7099. Fax: 0161-839 7022.
  This pub-bar-café-brasserie, owned by Mick Hucknal of the Manchester born pop group 'Simply Red' is part of the regeneration of Castlefield, and is set in the heart of the Urban Heritage Park, under two railway arches opposite Lock 92 on the Rochdale Canal. Definitively Spanish in character, with alcoholic and non-alcoholic drinks and beverages on sale, as well as an extensive menu of tapas dishes (Spanish for snacks), including paellas, sea foods, and salad dishes. There is a range of wines and sangria, including house wines, Spanish, South African, Chilean and Champagnes. Pleasant bar, with restaurant upstairs, and a carnival atmosphere. Popular and very busy at weekends and especially at Carnival time. Excellent morning coffees made fresh "à la continental".
  
  
• Bar Est
  7-11 Lower Mosley Street, Manchester M2 3DW. Tel: 0161-237 5335.
  Formerly known as Henry's Bar Café, Bar Est is located under Manchester’s Premier Travel Inn. This is a large relaxed bar and restaurant with outside seating looking over at GMEX and the Midland Hotel, near to the Bridgewater Hall.
  
  
• Beluga
  2 Mount Street, Manchester M2 5WQ. Tel: 0161-833 3339.
  Located between Manchester Town Hall and the Midland Hotel Beluga was formerly known as 'Citrus'. Expect a friendly warm atmosphere and stylish clientele, Popular with locals and business workers for its extensive selection of fine wines, champagne and cocktails.
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  Beluga Bramhall
  26 Bramhall Lane South, Bramhall, Stockport SK7 1AF. Tel: 0161-439 8080.
  Website: www.belugaonline.co.uk.
  
  
• Birdcage, The
  Withy Grove, Manchester M4 3QA. Tel: 0161 832 1700.
  Website: www.birdcagelive.com.
  Located opposite the Printworks, the Bridcage target audience is stag and hen parties but it also welcomes other types of group. Exotically costumed dancing girls, dancing boys and drag artists appear regularly through the night.
  
  
• Brannigans
  Albert Hall, Peter Street, Manchester M2 5QR. Tel: 0161-835 9697.
  Open every day from 11.00am until 1.00am. Food available all day. A former Methodist Hall, this large, brash and breezy bar specialises in "drinking, dancing and cavorting". Live cabaret most week nights DJ and disco on Friday and Saturday.
  
  
• Cask
  29 Liverpool Road, Castlefield, Manchester. M3 4NQ.
  Located just five mins walk away from Manchester Opera House this is a very popular European style bar, with arguably the widest range of imported beers in Manchester. There is a patio garden and a jukebox containing Manchester-based music.
  
  
• Cloud 23
  The Hilton Hotel, Beetham Tower, 303 Deansgate, Manchester M3 4LQ.
  Tel: 0161-870 1688.
  Cloud 23 is the classy new bar on the 23rd floor of the Beetham Tower. Drinks prices reflect the fact that this is the highest bar in Manchester. Great views of Castlefield, Old Trafford, Salford Quays and the surrounding region. Much in demand and very busy - expect to queue for a place.

  
  
• Cornerhouse (Cigar Store)
  70 Oxford Street, (next to Oxford Road Station), Manchester M1.
  Tel: 0161-228 7621.
  Open Mon-Sat 12noon-11.00pm, Sunday 12noon-3.00pm and 7.00pm-10.30pm. Food served all day until 8.30pm. A small café bar serves traditional and continental dishes of a buffet style. Popular with students, food is cheap, elegant and wholesome. Wide selection of beers from around the world in bottles and on draught.
  
  
• Dimitri's
  1 Campfield Avenue Arcade, Castlefield, Manchester M3 4FN.
  Tel: 0161-839 3319. Website: http://www.dimitris.co.uk.
  Open 9.00am-12midnight on weekdays, and 11.00am-12midnight on Saturdays and Sundays. Food available all day, last orders by 11.15pm. Very much a part of Castlefield regeneration, Dimitri's is a pleasant Greek-style taverna, set in a cool glass arcade in the epicentre of Castlefield. Can also be entered from Liverpool Road. It has been a winner of the City Life Best Restaurant Award. All food freshly prepared - not fast, but definitely worth waiting for. Beers on draught and fresh Greek salads.

  
  
• Generation X Café Bar
  1-13 New Wakefield Street, off Oxford Road, Manchester M1.
  Tel: 0161-236 4899.
  Open from Mon-Thurs 11.00am-11.00pm, Friday 11.00am-11.30pm, Saturday 12noon-11.30pm, Sunday 12noon-10.30pm. Food served from 12noon until about 1 hour before closing (please check). An elite venue with distinct artistic overtones.
  
  
• Grinch, The
  5-7 Chapel Walks, off Cross Street, Manchester M2. Tel: 0161-907 3210.
  Website: http://www.grinch.co.uk.
  An upstairs-downstairs café bar which is popular and successful, and expensively fitted out. This is reflected in bar prices, but their extensive Mediterranean menu and house cocktails produce high quality - you gets what you pay for!
  
  
• Harvey Nichols
  Second Floor Restaurant & Bar, Exchange Square, Manchester M1 1AD.
  Tel: Tel: 0161 828 8898. Fax: 0161 828 8815
  Restaurant, Brasserie and Bar located above the designer fashion store offering 360 degrees of rooftop views of Manchester city centre. Private functions and parties catered for.
  
  
• Loaf
  Arches 3a-5, Deansgate Locks, Manchester M1 5LH. Tel: 0161-819 5858.
  Website: www.loaf-manchester.co.uk.
  Loaf is a the largest club at Deansgate Locks and is located in a converted railway arch. With its two bars, a restaurant and basement nightclub. Still quite trendy with a reputation for being expensive. Spacious interiors with large video screens hanging from the ceiling of this converted railway arch.
  
  
• Lime Bar
  2 Booth Street, Manchester M2 4AT. Tel: 0871 2071691.
  Situated on the back streets between King Street and Albert Square, this is a popular cocktail bar, restaurant and nightclub. The main bar and restaurant are on the ground floor, offering food and drinks throughout the day and evening. There is a basement club space with a large bar area, air conditioned dance floor. Very crowded at weekend.
  
  
• Lounge 10
  10 Tib Lane, Northern Quarter, Manchester M2 4JB. Tel: 0161-834 1331.
  An unassuming building that houses one of Manchester's most luxurious restaurants and bars. Décor has a distinctly "Moulin Rouge" feel atmosphere. There is a wide selection of wines.
  
  
• Lloyds Bar
  The Printworks, Withy Grove, Manchester M4 2BS. Tel: 0161-817 2980.
  A JD Weatherspoon’s bar, offering an inexpensive night out in Manchester with reasonably priced drinksand standard fare pub food.
  
  
• Manchester 235
  Watson Street, The Great Northern, Manchester M3 4LP. Tel: 0161-828 0300.
  Website: www.manchester235.com.
  Manchester 235 is a plush new casino, restaurant, bar and live entertainment complex in Manchester’s Great Northern Warehouse. Its arge and luxurious bar serves, a wide range of cocktails. Because the bar is located in a casino, by law you have to be a member but this can completed at the entrance provided you have ID.
  
  
• Metz
  3 Brazil Street, Manchester M1 3PW. Tel: 0161-237 9852.
  Open Mon-Thurs 12noon-11.00pm, Fri-Sat 12noon-12midnight, Sunday 12noon-11.00pm. Food available from 12noon every day. A stylish café bar owned by Foo Foo Lamar, a Manchester drag queen, and it has a balcony canalside with a curious bridge entrance. Popular with the local gay community.
  
  
• Norwegian Blue
  The Printworks, Withy Grove, Manchester M4 2BS. Tel: 0161-839 1451.
  Two floors of light airy snacking and eating until the early hours. A quiet, comfortable surrounding for your afternoon chill out with a coffee and extensive food menu. By night there's a party atmosphere and the self-proclaimed venue for 90's pop and dance music at Monday's 'Boombastic' student night.
  
  
• One Central Street
  1 Central Street, Manchester M2 5WR. Tel: 0870 740 4000.
  Website: www.onecentralstreet.co.uk.
  One Central Street was formerly known as 'The Number One' and is rated one of the city centre's finest clubs, located in the basement of a Grade II listed building near the Town Hall. This award winning bar and nightclub plays funky house and disco dance music and offers a wide range of cocktails.
  
  
• Opus
  Printworks, Withy Grove, Manchester M4 2BS. Tel: 0161-834 2414.
  Website: www.opusmanchester.com.
  Opus is a new venue to come to the Printworks in Manchester and it is a brand new concept
  in entertainment. The Ink Brasserie downstairs has 60 covers, and the downstairs bar has leather booths and plays soft percussion and jazz music early evening and funky house music during the evenings. Comedy lounge shows every Friday and Saturday evenings and party areas go on till 2.30am. The Live Room offers live music and the Chill Out Room has endless cocktails.
  See also: Manchester Comedy Clubs.
  

  
  
• Paramount, The
  33-35 Oxford Street, Manchester M1 4BH. Tel: 0161-233 1820.
  The Paramount is a JD Wetherspoon’s bar/pub located on the corner of Oxford Street and Portland Street. Drinks and food are served all day every day, and come cheap. A relaxing place to drink and eat modestly in the city centre.
  
  
• Pitcher & Piano, The
  31-33 Lower Mosley Street, Great Bridgewater, Manchester M2 3BD.
  Tel: 0161-228 7888. Website: www.pitcherandpiano.com.
  New to manchester, located near Bridgewater Hall and therefore popular with concert-goers.
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  1D School Lane, Disbury, Manchester M20 6SA
  Tel: 0161-448 9326. Fax: 0161-448 9316.
  
  
• Podium
  The Hilton Hotel, Beetham Tower, 303 Deansgate, Manchester M3 4LQ.
  Tel: 0870 770 0805.
  Podium is a high class bar and restaurant located on the ground floor of the Hilton Hotel in the Beetham Tower. A busy place.
  
  
• Prohibition
  2-10 St Mary’s Street, (off Deansgate), Manchester M3 2LB.
  Tel: 0870 22 03 026. Website: http://www.prohibition.uk.com.
  Located just off Deansgate alongside Kendals department store, Prohibition serves an array of cocktails which have been developed here into little short of an art form.
  
  
• Pure
  Unit 11 & 12, The Printworks, Withy Grove, Manchester M4 2BS.
  Tel: 0161-819 7770. Website: www.pure-manchester.com.
  Huge multi-million pound nightclub. Also home to 'The Island' private members club.
  
  
• Rain Bar
  80 Great Bridgewater Street, Castlefield, Manchester M1 5JG.
  Tel: 0161-235 6500. Website: www.rainbar.co.uk.
  A J W Lees bar named after the umbrella factory that once stood on the site. Ground floor is in the style of a dark traditional pub, whilst upstairs is a bright modern bar, which can be rented for private functions. Canal-side seating and tables, very busy during the summer and on concert nights at the nearby Bridgewater Hall.
  
  
• Relish
  10-12 The Great Northern Warehouse, Deansgate, Manchester M3 4EJ.
  Tel: 0161-832 8320.
  Located in the Great Northern Warehouse, this is a restaurant and a bar serving bar food. Located in the premises formerly occupied by 'Persia', the interior retains its Moroccan style bar style with relaxed seating, A good place to relax, drink cocktails and listen to the local DJ playing music till around 4.00am.
  
  
• Revolution
  Arch 7, Deansgate Locks, Whitworth Street, Manchester M1 5LH.
  Tel: 0161-839 7558. Fax: 0161-839 7560.
  Website: www.revolution-bars.co.uk.
  One of the Manchester chain with bars all over the UK, which originally began on Oxford Road. The Deansgate Locks bar is arguably their busiest and best known in Manchester. Specialities include many different flavoured vodka drinks imported from many countries, bottled beers and an extensive range of cocktails. Downstairs dance floor gets busy at weekends.
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  311-313 Wilmslow Road, Fallowfield, Manchester.
  Tel: 0161-256 4754 Fax: 0161-256 4754.
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  90-94 Oxford Road, Manchester.
  Tel: 0161-236 7470 Fax: 0161-236 7470.
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  St Mary's Gate Parsonage Manchester.
  Tel: 0161-839 9675 Fax: 0161-834 9578.
  
  
• Room
  81 King Street, Manchester M2 4ST. Tel: 0161-839 2005.
  Described as "a plush but unpretentious cocktail bar and restaurant", Room is located in the classy King Street shopping area. Formerly the premises of the 'Reform' and then 'Hurricane Bar & Grill', this high quality bar, successfully mixes old antique with modern style. On offer is a wide range of cocktails. Considered by many to be one of manchesteer's best restaurants.
  
  
• Squares
  11 Peter Street, Manchester M2 5QR. Tel: 0161-839 0540.
  Formally known as the 'Square Bar' (and even earlier as 'Cube Bar'), Squares is located opposite the Great Northern Warehouse on the corner of Peter Street and Deansgate. It has a large dance floor downstairs, overlooked by an upstairs bar, it offers music, cheap drinks and entertainment.
  
  
• Sports Café, The
  23 Quay Street, Manchester M3 4AE. Tel: 0161-839 8800.
  Website: www.thesportscafe.net.
  The Sports Café, part of a national chain of similar cafés, is a popular Manchester meeting place offering a range of different nights and events throughout the week, including student nights. This very large bar is said to accommodate nearly 1500 people, and has a restaurant seating 75 people, 5 bars, 9 pool tables and over 100 television screens for the sports fan. As you might expect, the walls are decorated with sporting memorabilia.
  
  
• Sensations Lounge
  2 Old Bank Street, Manchester M2 7PF. Tel: 0161-831 9991.
  Located in a back alley between S. Anne's Square and Cross Street. Formerly known as the 'Judas Lounge' it boasts sumptuous seating and is popular with shoppers and Royal Exchange Theatregoers. A good selection of drinks, cocktails and bar snacks throughout the day.
  

• Temple, The
  Great Bridgewater Street, Manchester M1 5JW. Tel: 0161-228 9834.
  Formerly known as 'The Temple of Convenience' on account of once having been a public toilet. Probably one of Manchester’s smallest bars. Very popular with a large selection of foreign bottled beers and a jukebox playing predominantly music by Manchester bands .
  

  
  
• Varsity
  The Circus, Oxford Street, Manchester M1 4BH. Tel: 0161-237 5051.
  Website: www.varsitymanchester.co.uk.
  Varsity, has branches in manchester city centre, Rusholme, Didsbury and Bolton and is part of the Barracuda Group chain of bars. Varsity offers drinks and food at affordable prices with a student bar-like feel to it. Their free loyalty card gives a 25% reduction on drinks, together with many other discounts and freebies.
  
  
• Waxy O’Connors
  The Printworks, Corporation Street, Manchester M4 2BS.
  Tel: 0161-835 1210. Website: www.waxyoconnors.co.uk.
  An unusual Irish bar situated in the Printworks. Three bars and nine seperate areas spread over it’s 4 levels. Pub/wine bar with function room and parties catered for.