Manchester holidays
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The team challenge game inspired by the hit 90s television series releases extra tickets for the Manchester venue, which will open in April 2017, as well as for the original London site
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To celebrate World Vegetarian Day, we choose the best places to eat for veggies and vegans in the city where the UK Vegetarian Society was established, 169 years ago
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Beyond the shiny, high-profile regeneration projects, independent, left-field Manchester is still thriving, as our guide to its vibrant bars, restaurants, music venues and creative arts scene proves
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This Sunday marks the anniversary of one of the most important moments in UK democratic history, which ultimately led to the founding of the Manchester Guardian. Charlie Bennett has devised a walking tour to commemorate Peterloo
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The corporate cliches have been kept to a minimum at this large, comfortable chain hotel, which offers Bauhaus-style functionality and, surprisingly, the occasional DJ at breakfast
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This five square mile stretch of meadow and deer park became the great arsenal of the second world war effort, and the brains and guts of industrialised Britain
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1847 is an independent restaurant in Manchester serving imaginative and delicious vegetarian food. So why is it half empty, asks Jay Rayner
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Sitting directly opposite Manchester United’s ground, this new football-themed hotel fronted by ex-players Ryan Giggs and Gary Neville is cleverly targeted at fans. Look away now if you don’t find the game at all beautiful
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A new cafe in the Northern Quarter charges punters 5p a minute - but everything else is free. Jody Appleton clocks in
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Manchester’s Whitworth gallery was never the most welcoming building. But a £15m revamp has breathed new air and light into the venerable institution
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For some, 14 February can be stressful affair, but here’s how to show your valentine that you care with a charity twist
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Whether you find modernism magnificent or hideous, the concrete wonderland of city architecture is worth a closer look
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This new hotel in Manchester’s Northern Quarter is a crowd-pleaser despite a curious mishmash of stylings. And don’t expect its location to make it a beacon of the counterculture, says Tony Naylor
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Housed in a Grade II-listed building, this Manchester hipster mainstay is small but perfectly formed – if you like cutting-edge indie, writes Dave Simpson
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Marina O’Loughlin: ‘It’s not pretty. Not pretty at all. But it’s wonderfully, heroically cheap’
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Guardian photographer Christopher Thomond takes the TransPennine Express from Manchester to Leeds on the day plans are announced for the development of a high-speed cross-Pennine railway line, ‘HS3’, between the two cities
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From Marx and Engels to John Cooper Clarke, Manchester has a radical literary history. Ahead of the city’s literature festival, David Atkinson discovers its bookish haunts on a walking tour
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Marina O'Loughlin: 'I can't stop eating, even though the heat is causing my heart to beat worryingly fast'
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Europe's largest indoor pop venue attracts artists who know how to fill a vast space, from the Rolling Stones to Kylie Minogue
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'If I could clone Sticky Walnut,' Marina O'Loughlin says. 'I would. I'd plonk its like the length of the land, replacing every Frankie & Benny's and La Tasca and Café bloody Rouge'
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Track your favourite Irish writers, Britpop bands or Banksys with these three self-guided city walks
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Aiden Byrne's brilliant cooking is left to fend for itself at the maddeningly overbearing Manchester House, says Jay Rayner
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In the first of a new series on craft beer pubs, and ahead of this weekend's Indy Man Beer Con festival in Manchester, Tony Naylor samples the city's best boozers
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Marina O'Loughlin: 'Pizza abominations are flying out of the kitchen but, hey, the place has a banging DJ'
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Manchester and the north-west was known for music, fashion and clubbing, but not for its food and great restaurants. Until now, says chef Mary-Ellen McTague
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Travel news: Tuscany by vintage Fiat, Laura Ashley's first hotel, summer fun for kids plus cheap ferries to Brittany, Tunisia tourism on the up and a 'wild Taiga' trip, writes Gemma Bowes
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Marina O'Loughlin: 'There are the inevitable "jokes": pickled mussels whose shells are edible and twigs made of seaweed. I hazard these are more fun to dream up than they are to eat'
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This brilliant pub close to Manchester's universities is let down by decidedly lacklustre rooms, says Tony Naylor
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- United Kingdom holidays
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- Food & drink
- Restaurants (Life and style)
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- Manchester
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- Greater Manchester
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- Vegetarian food and drink
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