Cocktail bars, wine bars, dive bars and gastropubs: drinking in Manchester for grown-ups.

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Alcotraz Prison Cocktail Experience in Manchester

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The Temple

Drink Pint of Boddingtons

Tiny converted public toilet on Great Bridgewater Street in Manchester, now one of the city's most loved dive bars. Steps lead down to a one-room basement.

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The Washhouse

Drink Bespoke cocktail flight

Speakeasy hidden behind a laundrette front on Shudehill in Manchester. Book by phone, then tell the phone operator inside you have dirty clothes to wash.

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Cane and Grain

Drink Rum Old Fashioned

Thomas Street, Manchester, three-floor bar: rum and tiki at the top, cocktails on the middle, ribs and craft beer on the ground floor below.

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Hula

Drink Fishbowl tiki cocktail

1950s-inspired tiki bar in a basement under Stevenson Square, Northern Quarter, with a tropical fish tank and fishbowl cocktails; open Friday and Saturday.

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Twenty Twenty Two

Drink House cocktail flight

Manchester basement games bar on Dale Street with ping-pong and beer pong tables and cocktails, over-18s only; a late Northern Quarter standby.

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Common

Drink Pomona Island guest tap

Edge Street stalwart in Manchester's Northern Quarter since 2009. Pub plates, craft beer, a chalkboard of guest taps that changes weekly. Locals' bar.

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