Warehouse Project 2026 Season Preview
Everything you need to know about this year's WHP season - lineups, venues, dates and tickets.
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Manchester Stories
Features, journalism and guides about the city we love. Updated every day.
The Northern Quarter: Manchester’s Creative Quarter in 2026
From its textile warehouse past to its position as the city's creative heartland.
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20 March 2026
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5 min read
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Best Pubs in the Northern Quarter 2026
4 min readThe Northern Quarter has too many bars and not all of them are good. Here are the pubs that have earned their reputation - real ale, live music, honest atmosphere - and why the rest of the strip is mostly avoidable on a weekend.
Best Coffee in Ancoats – Manchester’s Café Strip
3 min readAncoats has the best coffee in Manchester. That's not a particularly contested claim. The concentration of serious cafes in a few streets around New Wakefield Street and Blossom Street is better than anywhere else in the city centre.
Best Bars on Deansgate – The Full Strip
4 min readDeansgate is Manchester's longest bar street, running from the train stations at the south end up to Spinningfields. It has some of the best bars in the city and some of the worst. This guide tells you which is which.
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