Northern Quarter
Inside the Secret Manchester Pub That Only Serves Bartenders
The Seven Oaks opens from midnight until 8 AM, catering exclusively to bar staff clocking off from their shifts. And with so many bartenders in one place, things can soon get rowdy.
Here's Why British Nightlife Needs to Explore New Places and Different Spaces to Survive
We use Manchester's ever-changing Northern Quarter to explore the growing importance of the non-traditional in UK club culture.
Meet the Manchester Record Shop Owner Who Went Deaf and Opened a Cafe
Eastern Bloc Records is one of Manchester’s longest standing music stores but when founder John Berry went deaf in 2007, he thought he’d have to give it all up. That was until he decided to start serving coffee alongside the vinyl.
Inside the Manchester Caribbean Cafe That Doubles as an Underground Club
Manchester’s Q Cavern sells curry goat and jerk chicken by day and operates as a club by night, gaining a reputation for both homestyle Caribbean cooking and intimate live shows.
Inside the Hotel Restaurant That Could Win Back Manchester’s Michelin Star
London has 80 Michelin-starred restaurants, Birmingham five, but Manchester? Zero. Chef Simon Rogan aims to change all that by winning hotel restaurant The French back the star it was stripped of in 2007 with a new kind of fine dining.