Margherita's Manchester guide
Food scene
Vibrant pop-up destination featuring independent retailers, breweries, restaurants & a courtyard
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Hatch
103 Oxford RdVibrant pop-up destination featuring independent retailers, breweries, restaurants & a courtyard
Once upon a time, two musicians named Matt & Phred decided to open a Jazz Club. In 2010, some years after both musicians had left for pastures new, the Turner family took over the little back street Jazz Club and have been enjoying meeting musicians and guests from all over the world ever since.
The club has now firmly established itself as one of Manchester city-centre’s most dearly loved live music venues, with an emphasis on creating an atmosphere people from different backgrounds and ages can all enjoy as one.
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Matt & Phreds Jazz Club
64 Tib StOnce upon a time, two musicians named Matt & Phred decided to open a Jazz Club. In 2010, some years after both musicians had left for pastures new, the Turner family took over the little back street Jazz Club and have been enjoying meeting musicians and guests from all over the world ever since.
The club has now firmly established itself as one of Manchester city-centre’s most dearly loved live music venues, with an emphasis on creating an atmosphere people from different backgrounds and ages can all enjoy as one.
Franco Manca
12-16 Mosley StGreat and cheap pizza!
Salvi's Cucina
19 John Dalton StDelicious Italian food, medium prices
Concert hall/bar for great music and nice beers, cocktails, sliced pizza and sandwiches on 4 floors! Super affordable prices
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YES
38 Charles StConcert hall/bar for great music and nice beers, cocktails, sliced pizza and sandwiches on 4 floors! Super affordable prices
Nice Indian vegetarian tapas restaurant (booking recommended)
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Bundobust
61 PiccadillyNice Indian vegetarian tapas restaurant (booking recommended)
Concerts and good food and beers at affordable prices
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The Deaf Institute
135 Grosvenor StConcerts and good food and beers at affordable prices
sandbar
120 Grosvenor StNice bar for a beer or pizza
Idle Hands Coffee
35 Dale StNice hipstery coffee shop
PORTER + cole
Nice and spacious coffee shops that also sells craft items
Mackie Mayor
1 Eagle StStreet food, medium/expensive
Sightseeing
Manchester Central Library is the headquarters of the city's library and information service in Manchester, England. The form of the building, a columned portico attached to a rotunda domed structure, is loosely derived from the Pantheon, Rome. The library building is grade II listed.
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Manchester Central Library
Saint Peter's SquareManchester Central Library is the headquarters of the city's library and information service in Manchester, England. The form of the building, a columned portico attached to a rotunda domed structure, is loosely derived from the Pantheon, Rome. The library building is grade II listed.
The John Rylands Library is a late-Victorian neo-Gothic building on Deansgate in Manchester, England. The main reading room on the first floor, 30 feet above the ground and 12 feet from all four boundaries, was noted for the pleasant contrast between the 'sullen roar' of Manchester and the 'internal cloister quietude of Rylands'.
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Biblioteca John Rylands
150 DeansgateThe John Rylands Library is a late-Victorian neo-Gothic building on Deansgate in Manchester, England. The main reading room on the first floor, 30 feet above the ground and 12 feet from all four boundaries, was noted for the pleasant contrast between the 'sullen roar' of Manchester and the 'internal cloister quietude of Rylands'.
St Peter's Square is a public square in Manchester city centre, England. To the west of the square is Manchester Central Library, Midland Hotel and Manchester Town Hall Extension. The square is home to the Manchester Cenotaph, the Emmeline Pankhurst statue, and St Peter's Square Metrolink tram stop and incorporates the Peace Garden. In 1819, the area around the square was the site of the Peterloo Massacre.
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St Peter's Square station
St Peter's Square is a public square in Manchester city centre, England. To the west of the square is Manchester Central Library, Midland Hotel and Manchester Town Hall Extension. The square is home to the Manchester Cenotaph, the Emmeline Pankhurst statue, and St Peter's Square Metrolink tram stop and incorporates the Peace Garden. In 1819, the area around the square was the site of the Peterloo Massacre.
Whitworth Park is a public park in south Manchester, England, and the location of the Whitworth Art Gallery. To the north are the University of Manchester's student residences known as "Toblerones".
The park, of some 18 acres (7.3 ha) opposite Manchester Royal Infirmary, was opened in 1890 on land known as Potters Field.
A statue of King Edward VII by John Cassidy on the east side, unveiled in 1913, commemorates the royal visit when the new Royal Infirmary was opened in 1909.
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Parque Whitworth
Oxford RoadWhitworth Park is a public park in south Manchester, England, and the location of the Whitworth Art Gallery. To the north are the University of Manchester's student residences known as "Toblerones".
The park, of some 18 acres (7.3 ha) opposite Manchester Royal Infirmary, was opened in 1890 on land known as Potters Field.
A statue of King Edward VII by John Cassidy on the east side, unveiled in 1913, commemorates the royal visit when the new Royal Infirmary was opened in 1909.
Chetham's Library in Manchester, England, is the oldest free public reference library in the United Kingdom.
- closed on weekends -
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Chetham's Library
Long MillgateChetham's Library in Manchester, England, is the oldest free public reference library in the United Kingdom.
- closed on weekends -
HOME is a centre for international contemporary art, theatre and film that opened in 2015.
HOME has two performance venues - a 500-seat theatre and 150-seat flexible studio space, five cinema screens, gallery space to display contemporary art, cafe bar and restaurant.
The centre is part of the development of a creative quarter in the city.
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HOME Manchester
2 Tony Wilson PlHOME is a centre for international contemporary art, theatre and film that opened in 2015.
HOME has two performance venues - a 500-seat theatre and 150-seat flexible studio space, five cinema screens, gallery space to display contemporary art, cafe bar and restaurant.
The centre is part of the development of a creative quarter in the city.
The Royal Exchange is a grade II listed building. The complex includes the Royal Exchange Theatre and the Royal Exchange Shopping Centre.
The exchange has four storeys and two attic storeys built on a rectangular plan in Portland stone. It was designed in the Classical style.
The theatre features a seven-sided steel and glass module that squats within the building's Great Hall. It is a pure theatre in the round in which the stage area is surrounded on all sides, and above, by seating. Its unique design conceived by Richard Negri of the Wimbledon School of Art is intended to create a vivid and immediate relationship between actors and audiences.
It is worth visiting it even if you don't go to a theatre play :)
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Royal Exchange Theatre
Old Bank StreetThe Royal Exchange is a grade II listed building. The complex includes the Royal Exchange Theatre and the Royal Exchange Shopping Centre.
The exchange has four storeys and two attic storeys built on a rectangular plan in Portland stone. It was designed in the Classical style.
The theatre features a seven-sided steel and glass module that squats within the building's Great Hall. It is a pure theatre in the round in which the stage area is surrounded on all sides, and above, by seating. Its unique design conceived by Richard Negri of the Wimbledon School of Art is intended to create a vivid and immediate relationship between actors and audiences.
It is worth visiting it even if you don't go to a theatre play :)
The gallery has fine art collection consisting of more than 2,000 oil paintings, 3,000 watercolours and drawings, 250 sculptures, 90 miniatures and around 1,000 prints. It owns more than 13,000 decorative art objects including ceramics, glass, enamels, furniture, metalwork, arms and armour, wallpapers, dolls houses and related items.
Manchester Art Gallery is strongest in its collection of Victorian art, especially that of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, and Victorian decorative arts.
The gallery houses several works by the French impressionist, Pierre Adolphe Valette, who painted and taught in Manchester in the early years of the 20th century; some of his scenes of foggy Manchester streets and canals are displayed. A Cézanne hangs in the same room, showing the similarity in treatment and subject between his misty French river bridge and Valette's bridge in a pre-Clean Air Act Mancunian fog. L. S. Lowry was one of Valette's students and the influence on Lowry of impressionism can be seen at the gallery, where paintings by the two artists hang together. The museum houses The Picnic (1908), a work by the British Impressionist painter Wynford Dewhurst, who was born in Manchester. Annie Swynnerton who was born in Hulme is represented in the collection by 16 paintings and her contemporary at the Manchester School of Art, Susan Dacre by 17 paintings.
As well as paintings the museum holds collections of glass, silverware and furniture, including four pieces by the Victorian architect and designer William Burges.
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Manchester Art Gallery
Mosley StreetThe gallery has fine art collection consisting of more than 2,000 oil paintings, 3,000 watercolours and drawings, 250 sculptures, 90 miniatures and around 1,000 prints. It owns more than 13,000 decorative art objects including ceramics, glass, enamels, furniture, metalwork, arms and armour, wallpapers, dolls houses and related items.
Manchester Art Gallery is strongest in its collection of Victorian art, especially that of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, and Victorian decorative arts.
The gallery houses several works by the French impressionist, Pierre Adolphe Valette, who painted and taught in Manchester in the early years of the 20th century; some of his scenes of foggy Manchester streets and canals are displayed. A Cézanne hangs in the same room, showing the similarity in treatment and subject between his misty French river bridge and Valette's bridge in a pre-Clean Air Act Mancunian fog. L. S. Lowry was one of Valette's students and the influence on Lowry of impressionism can be seen at the gallery, where paintings by the two artists hang together. The museum houses The Picnic (1908), a work by the British Impressionist painter Wynford Dewhurst, who was born in Manchester. Annie Swynnerton who was born in Hulme is represented in the collection by 16 paintings and her contemporary at the Manchester School of Art, Susan Dacre by 17 paintings.
As well as paintings the museum holds collections of glass, silverware and furniture, including four pieces by the Victorian architect and designer William Burges.
CFCCA is the national lead in bringing Chinese contemporary art and visual culture to UK. For over 30 years CFCCA has led the UK in programming, showcasing and supporting artists from China, Hong Kong, Taiwan and the diaspora.
Through a rich programme of exhibitions, events, residencies, collaborations and research projects we explore and question the notion of Chineseness.
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Centre for Chinese Contemporary Art
13 Thomas StCFCCA is the national lead in bringing Chinese contemporary art and visual culture to UK. For over 30 years CFCCA has led the UK in programming, showcasing and supporting artists from China, Hong Kong, Taiwan and the diaspora.
Through a rich programme of exhibitions, events, residencies, collaborations and research projects we explore and question the notion of Chineseness.
The centrepiece of the park is a large pleasure lake, which is used for boating and fishing. The lake has an island sanctuary in the middle, as well as a lakeside visitors' centre and a boathouse.
A panorama of the lake and the central island sanctuary
There are gardens of different kinds, including community orchard gardens, which contain ferns, roses and heathers. There is also an educational garden and an environmental area, as well as Elizabeth II Jubilee gardens and an Eco Arts garden near to the boating lake.
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Parque de Platt Fields
The centrepiece of the park is a large pleasure lake, which is used for boating and fishing. The lake has an island sanctuary in the middle, as well as a lakeside visitors' centre and a boathouse.
A panorama of the lake and the central island sanctuary
There are gardens of different kinds, including community orchard gardens, which contain ferns, roses and heathers. There is also an educational garden and an environmental area, as well as Elizabeth II Jubilee gardens and an Eco Arts garden near to the boating lake.
Leafy park, opened in 1888, offers a stone garden, play area, running track & skate boarding area.
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Parque Birchfields
Birchfields RoadLeafy park, opened in 1888, offers a stone garden, play area, running track & skate boarding area.
MediaCityUK
101-110 BroadwayBBC headquarter, nice sightseeing spot
The Lowry
8 The QuaysThe Lowry is a theatre and gallery complex
Shops
Long-established store stocking comprehensive range of arts and crafts materials, plus haberdashery.
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Fred Aldous
37 Lever StLong-established store stocking comprehensive range of arts and crafts materials, plus haberdashery.
Oklahoma
74-76 High StSeveral shops on many different floors (from vintage to DIY, cafès, etc.)
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Affleck's, Manchester
52 Church StSeveral shops on many different floors (from vintage to DIY, cafès, etc.)
Cow Vintage Manchester
61 Church StVintage shop
Victorian setting for artists' studios with contemporary jewellery, ceramics and art for sale.
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Manchester Craft and Design Centre
17 Oak StVictorian setting for artists' studios with contemporary jewellery, ceramics and art for sale.