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Verso

Just over one year old, Verso in West Didsbury is a smart, well-run operation towards the Withington end of Burton Road that captures a more laid back crowd than the likes of One Lounge and M20. Read more…

The Nook

As its name suggests, The Nook is a tiny bar nestled between Abode and The Bar along Chorlton’s vibrant Wilbraham Road strip. Through the glass window you can often see groups of friends huddled around the tables, shifting stools to accommodate new drinkers. Read more…

Common

Unlike the stylishly cool venues that have sprung up around it in recent times, Common stakes its claim to cool through scruffy simplicity, a casual approach from its staff and customers, and artistic influences. Read more…

Barbirolli

When corporate chain bar Pitcher & Piano vacated Barbirolli Square in 2009 in search of the high footfall of Deansgate Locks, the peaceful waterside spot drew the attention of independent operators Barry Hogan and Pete Petrondas. Read more…

Bar Wizards Lounge

The country-pub laden landscape of north Manchester’s rural tourism hotspot Littleborough has been given a fresh injection of city-style bar life in the form of Bar Wizards Lounge. Read more…

DV8

‘DEPART from the established course’, reads the slogan on the drinks menu at DV8 – a fairly apt statement for such a unique cocktail bar. Down a quaint side street in Congleton town centre, it is the bricks and mortar of the Grade II-listed, terraced Tudor building that give it its character. Read more…

Boca

TOGETHER with Alderley Edge and Prestbury, Wilmslow completes south Manchester’s ‘golden triangle’, where supposedly you can find more champagne flowing and more millionaires per square mile than anywhere else in the country. Read more…

Town Cafe Bar

TOWN Cafe Bar has arguably been the place for drinking in Heaton Moor among the young professional crowd for more than four years. With people spilling out onto the front roadside smoking terrace each weekend, it was a good decision to extend into a first floor space just before Christmas. Read more…

Barcelona

JUST when you thought the Northern Quarter could not possibly accommodate another outlet, a new venture has opened its doors. The area’s cluster of independent bars continues to grow at a pace of one every two weeks in the last couple of months. Read more…

Taps

CITY bonuses aren’t what they used to be. Gone are the Maseratis and the Porsches. So where do our city boys celebrate in these straitened financial times? Read more…

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