Junkyard Golf have found a permanent home on First Street and it’s bigger, better and WEIRDER than ever. Putt up or shut up on nine-hole crazy golf courses made from a whole lotta random and pre-loved shizzle. Think UV slides, UFC bear cages, a hip-hop farm, tree house bar and loads more bizarre stuff they’ve picked up along the way. Remember, #LoserBuysTheDrinks. Open daily until 1am with Under 18's allowed all day Sunday and until 19:00 Monday - Wednesday.

Bunny Jackson’s is Manchester best dive bar, serving up soul food and great drink, coupled with live music and the best 10p chicken wings in the world! With an extensive bourbon selection, happy hours every day, lunch deals and food that’ll get all over your face, BJ’s is the kind of place to dance on the tables and leave with a massive grin on your face.

Opened in May 2016 by the management team who were responsible for making Apotheca the Pride Of Manchester Award-winning "Best Bar in Manchester", this basement cocktail den is hidden in a former bookies on a backstreet, just off Deansgate. Inventive cocktails sit alongside locally sourced craft ales and the welcoming atmosphere. Open every day and until 04:00 at weekends.

Living Ventures' £3m Manchester House restaurant boasts one of the city's most fashionable lounge bars, situated ten floors higher on Level 12 of Tower Twelve, a non-descript office block in Spinningfields. The lounge and private terraces offer spectacular, wrap-around views of the Manchester skyline and a lavish decor in which to enjoy some of the city’s finest cocktails, Afternoon Teas and resident DJs. Open until late.

Offering some of the best cocktails in Manchester, using unusual ingredients, alongside a great selection of bio-wines, a huge gin, vodka, tequila, rum and whisky collection, and locally brewed beers, the popular bar inside the plush Midland Hotel offers a unique setting with a Victorian library, an inside garden, birdhouses, a gazebo, cascading wall of plants and even a 30ft tree. Combining modern touches with the history and heritage of Mr Cooper himself, whose house and famous gardens sat on the site back in 1819, this is simply one of the best bars in Manchester.

Hidden behind a secret door and decked out with wood panelled walls, antique glassware, and taxidermy squirrel lights, the first floor bar at Cane and Grain is more than a subtle nod to the speakeasy. Drinks are cocktail led, with an emphasis on classics, but the menu also includes award-winning creations from the bar’s skilled staff headed by the World Class UK finalist Massimo Zitti.

This very stylish Pacific Rim subterranean cocktail lounge and restaurant from Knutsford's Living Ventures group offers a unique list of expertly crafted cocktails alongside a wine and sake list of impressive proportions. Service runs into the early hours against an eclectic backdrop of music created nightly by DJs on the touch-screen emulator. Located underneath the Armani store in Spinningfields, you can enter via the glass pyramid on Deansgate or through the ground level bar and terrace bar with its canopied garden at the rear of the building.

Although you'd be forgiven for thinking it dates back to the 1820s, the time of the historic warehouses around it, this beautiful Castlefield pub was actually built in 1998 and traded until 2005 as 'Jackson's Wharf'', before Brunning & Price spectacularly re-opened it in July 2012. The large building offers a huge canalside terrace alongside innumerable nooks and crannies, with cosy, intimate rooms and alcoves in which you (and your dog) can enjoy the friendly "country pub" atmosphere, 12 cask ales, 50 wines, 100 whiskies and delicious British food.

This intimate late night, laid back Tequila and Mezcal den from the guys behind The Liar's Club downstairs, can be found just across Bridge Street from Spinningfields. With boozy hard shakes, frozen Margaritas, ice cold cans of Hooch, sharing cocktails, and Manchester’s largest Mezcal & Tequila selection, it's open daily until 04:00. Oh, and then there's the pizzas and nachos, served all night long to help you soak up the booze.

Established in 2003, this Castlefield favourite, opposite the Science & Industry Museum, has remained a beer drinker's heaven with one of the most comprehensive lists in town; featuring many local brews, German wheat beers, strong Belgian imports, special American imports and bottles from around the globe. The Manchester music jukebox and beer garden prove equally as popular, as does their relaxed attitude to food, which allows you to bring your own, including from the fish & chip shop next door.

Once used to roast hops in the 16th Century, this original building was actually moved from Kent to the heart of Spinningfields by Living Ventures in 2011 and effortlessly blends relaxed pub surroundings with a huge selection of craft ales, Champagne, wines and cocktails on tap with live acoustic music every night and a whole host of outdoor events all year round. The Ale Anthology offers over 85 beers and ciders, whilst the wine list serves up many by the glass.

This no gimmicks Northern Quarter boozer opened in May 2012 and embraces the history and tradition of the area, combining a vintage pub design with contemporary features. Independently owned by three of the leading names in Manchester's bar scene, it’s not attempting to be a theme bar and just offers a good old fashioned selection of beers, spirits and wines with TV screens showing an array of live sports over its two floors.