Manchester Bars & Pubs

Manchester has a great selection of bars and pubs to satisfy all thirsts. The Northern Quarter is home to the city’s bohemian crowd while Castlefield is best enjoyed on a sunny afternoon. Lads and lasses out for a good time will find that Deansgate Locks suits their purposes and the downright lazy will find everything they need under one roof at the Printworks. Manchester’s famous Gay Village attracts a fairly diverse crowd. Gays, hen parties and the curious are found in varying proportions, depending on the venue.

Name	Type	Location	Map	Notes
Ape and Apple	Pub	28 John Dalton Street, Deansgate	[View Map]	Traditional Joseph Holt’s pub offering real ales. Reasonable prices given its city centre location.
Atlas Bar	Bar	376 Deansgate, Conference Quarter	[View Map]	Popular bar famed for its sun terrace. Friendly staff, great DJ's at weekends. Next to Deansgate train station/ Deansgate Locks.
AXM	Bar	Canal Street, Gay Village	[View Map]	Stylish gay bar. No hen parties/stag nights allowed. Offers free wireless internet access and terminals.
Bar 38	Bar	Pavilion, Peter Street, Conference Quarter	[View Map]	Housed in triangular steel and glass building, Bar 38 is one of Manchester’s most distinctive bars. Popular outdoor terrace. DJs weekend evenings, late license and free entry. Just down the road from the Radisson Edwardian.
Briton’s Protection	Pub	50 Great Bridgewater Street, Conference Quarter	[View Map]	Deceptively large pub next to the Jury’s Inn and the Bridgewater Hall. Traditional interior. Offers real ales and a huge selection (hundreds) of whiskies.
Bulls Head	Pub	84 London Road, Piccadilly	[View Map]	Closest pub to Piccadilly train station. Popular with UMIST staff and students.
Corbieres	Bar	2 Half Moon Street, St Ann’s Square	[View Map]	Hidden away down a side street and flight of stairs, but always busy. Good jukebox stacked with lots of Manchester favourites.
Cornerhouse Café & Bar	Bar	Cornerhouse Cinema, 70 Oxford Road	[View Map]	2 bars in art house cinema. Nice place to come and chill out with a beer or coffee. Offers the ‘Reel Deal’ on Mondays – fixed price deal on cinema ticket, pizza and glass or wine.
Coyotes	Bar	14 Chorlton Street, Gay Village	[View Map]	Lesbian bar. Regular events – Tuesdays – karaoke, Wednesday – student night (‘Detention’), DJs at weekends. Premiership football.
Dukes 92	Pub	18 – 25 Castle Street, Castlefield	[View Map]	Popular canal-side watering hole. Famous for its speciality cheese counter.
Eden Bar & Restaurant	Bar	3 Brazil Street, Gay Village	[View Map]	Restaurant by day, bar by night.
Lass o’ Gowrie	Pub	36 Charles Street, Oxford Road	[View Map]	Impressive tiled façade. Real ales. Next to the BBC.
Living Room	Bar	80 Deansgate	[View Map]	Restaurant and bar popular with footballers and celebrities. Dining Room restaurant and The Study private members’ bar upstairs. Fairly strict door policy at weekends.
Lloyds No 1	Bar	Printworks, Millennium Quarter	[View Map]	JD Wetherspoon’s bar. DJ every Thursday, Friday and Saturday night. All-day food menu.
Loaf	Bar	Deansgate Locks, Conference Quarter	[View Map]	Huge cavernous bar in a converted railway arch at Deansgate Locks. Club nights downstairs. Upstairs offers a more relaxed atmosphere.
Manto	Bar	46 Canal Street, Gay Village	[View Map]	Founder member of the Canal Street scene. Frequent 2 for 1 drink promotions.
Marble Arch	Pub	73 Rochdale Road, Ancoats	[View Map]	Traditional pub with fantastic tiled interior. Has its own micro-brewery, Marble Beers.
Mr Thomas’s Chop House	Pub	52 Cross Street, Deansgate	[View Map]	Legendary institution. Well-preserved Victorian pub with a great reputation for British food. Sister pub of Sam’s Chop House.
Norwegian Blue	Bar	Printworks, Millennium Quarter	[View Map]	Busy bar with 2 floors. Long queues for drinks are common. Monday evening is Student Night.
Old Wellington Inn/Sinclair’s Oyster Bar	Pub	Cathedral Gates, Millennium Quarter	[View Map]	Two pubs joined at the hip and moved brick by brick to their present location after the IRA bombing in 1996 destroyed most of Shambles Square. Old Wellington Inn is a 16th century pub now owned by Samuel Smiths. Sinclair’s Oyster Bar dates back to the first half of the 18th century. Both share a beer garden. Next door to the Mitre Hotel, Triangle Shopping Centre, Selfridges and Harvey Nichols.
Peveril of the Peak	Pub	127 Great Bridgewater Street, Conference Quarter	[View Map]	Tiny boozer with distinctive green tiled exterior and dwarfed by its surroundings. Grade II listed building dating from 1829. Offers real ales. Popular with Manchester United fans on match days.
Queer	Bar	4 Canal Street, Gay Village	[View Map]	Split-level gay bar with dance floor and internet café. Food served until closing. Popular meeting spot for Essential.
Revolution	Bar	Deansgate Locks, Conference Quarter	[View Map]	Vodka chain bar. 3 floors. Basement club. Also on Oxford Road and Parsonage Gardens.
Taurus	Bar	1 Canal Street, Gay Village	[View Map]	Relaxing atmosphere, wonderful food and good service. Gay.
Vanilla	Bar	39 – 41 Richmond Street, Gay Village	[View Map]	Lesbian bar established in 1998. Resident DJ’s, premiership football, parties in Blackpool and Manchester, pool competitions.
Waxy O'Connor's	Pub	Printworks, Millennium Quarter	[View Map]	Unique venue with 3 bars and numerous nooks and crannies. Spread over 4 floors and linked together by a network of stairways, passages and a 250 year-old beech tree!