Ho’s Bakery

Try Thai is an unfussy authentic Thai restaurant in Chinatown that has been quietly serving up superb quality food for years.

A cult tv and movie themed bar set below street level on Portland Street in Manchester.

This high-end city-centre restaurant has an excellent afternoon tea option that more than matches up to the superb main menu.

Passionately adored by many Mancunian foodies (and the first Manchester restaurant in ages not to get a slating from notoriously picky Observer food critic Jay Rayner), this Szechuan restaurant rules the culinary roost from an unprepossessing basement on Portland Street.

Everything you want in a Canal Street club can be found here. Cruz 101 – better known as Cruz – is an institution, and a must-visit in Manchester.

The formerly known Hotel Brooklyn reopens as voco, a brand new and gloriously stylish hotel on Manchester’s Portland Street.

Sackville Park is a lovely green space in Manchester city centre, home to the Alan Turing Memorial.

Now a conference and events venue, the Grade II-listed Mechanics’ Institute was the birth place of the TUC in 1868. It was also the birthplace of the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology (Umist) and the Cooperative Insurance Society.

Le français, c’est chic! The Alliance Française de Manchester has a large range of online & onsite French courses.

Ban Di Bul is a longstanding Korean restaurant in the very centre of Manchester.

The second of stylish Anthologist cocktail bar and restaurants has arrived in Manchester’s St Peter’s Square, following the success of the London venue.

Japanese restaurant Yuzu in Manchester is the kind of place that beckons you to return– we review it.