The Temple ★ 4.4
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.
Signature drink: Pint of Boddingtons
Food: None
Speak in Code is a bar in Deansgate, Manchester.
Editorially verified May 31, 2026 by Lewis Vaughan, TableJourney editor. Source.
Food program: Small plates
Address: 7 Jackson's Row, Manchester M2 5WD
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.
Signature drink: Pint of Boddingtons
Food: None
1867 Victorian Manchester chop house and pub on Cross Street. Cask ales, steak and kidney pudding, original tilework and the city's oldest dining room.
Signature drink: Cask ale
Food: British pub classics
Northern Quarter craft beer pub in Manchester since 2011. Eighteen keg, seven cask lines, hundreds of bottles, RateBeer's top Manchester bar most years.
Signature drink: Rotating taps
Food: Bar snacks
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.
Signature drink: Pint of Boddingtons
Food: None
Speakeasy hidden behind a laundrette front on Shudehill in Manchester. You pick up a phone, ask the operator for a slot, and a door opens to a bar inside.
Signature drink: Bespoke cocktail flight
Food: Burgers and bar plates
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.
Signature drink: Rum Old Fashioned
Food: Smoked ribs
1950s-inspired tiki hideout under Stevenson Square in the Northern Quarter. Basement booze paradise with tropical fish tank, fishbowl cocktails and DJ.
Signature drink: Fishbowl tiki cocktail
Food: Sharing snacks
1867 Victorian Manchester chop house and pub on Cross Street. Cask ales, steak and kidney pudding, original tilework and the city's oldest dining room.
Signature drink: Cask ale
Food: British pub classics