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Where to spend New Year’s Eve in Manchester

3 weeks ago

This is the ultimate night to go out-out. Celebrate New Year’s Eve in Manchester however you want with literally hundreds of bars, restaurants and clubs taking part in the annual countdown to midnight.

Whether you want a high-energy all-night danceathon, a luxury hotel stay with a rooftop party, or a sophisticated soirée spent clinking Champagne glasses, there’s something for you in our curated list of New Year’s Eve destinations.

It’s our pick of the best places to see in 2025 in Manchester. Get your tickets or reservations sorted sharpish – these places tend to sell out.

  • Enjoy a NYE dinner at Australasia followed by a party at Sunset.
    Book Now Spinningfields

    Australasia

    Bars

    Cool Pacific Rim fusion fare for the fashion set. Australasia combines a sense of theatre with professionalism and culinary wizardry, making any occasion feel special.

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  • Dakota Grill Manchester Lamb Rump
    Book Now Northern Quarter

    Dakota Grill Manchester

    Bars

    Dakota Grill Manchester is the work of former Malmaison owner, Ken McCollough and it is as dark-hued and handsome as the successful boutique hotel chain. It’s an inviting place with flickering candlelight, very retro-sexy – sure to be the setting for many a first date.

    The focus at Dakota is on steaks which are very good – all grass-fed, 28 day-aged, hand-cut Aberdeenshire beef cooked over hot coals.

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  • Exhibition - one of our recommended places to celebrate New Year's Eve in Manchester
    Book Now Manchester City Centre

    Exhibition

    Bars

    Exhibition is one of Manchester’s cluster of exciting multi-kitchen concepts (read: food halls) that just seem to be multiplying. In the former home of the Natural History Museum, the location makes it perfect for visitors to Manchester Central, the Radisson Blu and the Midland Hotel.

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  • Celebrate NYE at Freight Island with The Little Disco and The Twilight Trail
    Book Now Manchester City Centre

    Freight Island

    Music Venues

    Food hall meets music festival is how we’d describe Freight Island to anyone confused about what they’ll find at this regenerated rail depot beyond Piccadilly Station. 

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  • Celebrate New Year's Eve at Grand Pacific
    Book Now Manchester City Centre

    Grand Pacific

    Bars

    Grand Pacific is the work of Living Ventures and it easily outshines its sibling venues in terms of pure glamour. Not in a big chandeliers, glass and chrome Spinningfields way, but with a decadent blend of colonial Raffles-style grandeur and some of the best of the city’s Victorian architecture.

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  • Celebrate NYE 2024 at Malmaison
    Book Now Piccadilly

    Malmaison Manchester Piccadilly Bar & Grill

    Bars

    Malmaison Manchester Piccadilly Bar & Grill isn’t just for overnight guests, its reputation for cocktails, quality beef and a buzzing atmosphere mean it’s respected as a restaurant in its own right.

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  • The Pen & Pencil in Manchester's Northern Quarter
    Book Now Northern Quarter

    The Pen & Pencil

    Bars

    The Pen and Pencil is the Northern Quarter’s cool all-day hangout, modelled on the New York bar of the same name popular with the city’s journalists and ad men in the 1950s and 1960s. It has a reputation for great cocktails, quality food and an atmosphere that makes it stand out from nearby imitators.

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  • Celebrate New Year at Piccolino Caffe Grande
    Book Now Manchester City Centre

    Piccolino Caffe Grande Manchester

    Bars

    With its terrace overlooking Albert Square and Manchester Town Hall, and a beautiful interior featuring a 40-seater private dining room, an open kitchen, and an oyster bar, Piccolino Caffé Grande Manchester is a real destination restaurant. (And, notably, it’s one that doesn’t price people out of the experience.)

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  • Celebrate New Year's Eve 2024 at Piccolino Grande Wilmslow
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    Piccolino Grande Wilmslow

    Bars

    Piccolino Grande Wilmslow is an elegant and glamorous restaurant with an airy open-plan design, a Tuscan terrace and luxurious furnishings. Service is excellent and a meal here always feels special.

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  • A rooftop New Year's Eve party at Sora Manchester
    Book Now Manchester City Centre

    Sora Manchester

    Restaurant - Pan Asian

    Sora Manchester is a rooftop bar and restaurant serving up sushi, Pan Asian small plates and views across the city’s impressive Victorian neo-Gothic architecture.

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  • Sicilian NQ Wine
    Book Now Northern Quarter

    Sicilian NQ

    Takeaways

    Located in the Northern Quarter, this friendly neighbourhood bistro and bar is the place to avanti if it’s a taste of traditional Sicily you fancy – from authentic street food snacks through to big plates of pasta to desserts and holiday memory gelato, eat in or take away.

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  • Cocktail served at Three Little Words
    Book Now Manchester City Centre

    Three Little Words

    Bars

    Three Little Words is housed under the arches at the lesser-visited end of Watson Street, near Beetham Tower. Inside you’ll find the Spirit of Manchester gin distillery, a cocktail bar, and a kitchen serving small plates with thoroughly decent cooking. It’s certainly a place worth knowing about.

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  • See in 2025 at 20 Stories
    Spinningfields

    20 Stories

    Bars

    Manchester’s highest restaurant, bar and terrace 20 Stories was the opening of 2018 and still maintains its status as one of the city’s most popular place to eat, drink, be snapped and be seen.

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  • A girl holding a cocktail at Alcotraz, Manchester
    Deansgate

    Alcotraz Manchester: Cell Block Three-Four

    Bars

    Probably one of the most unique cocktail bars in Manchester, Alcotraz: Cell Block Three-Four is a speakeasy ‘prison’ that requires you to be cunning in order to get your drinks. 

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  • Albert Hall is holding a 90s club night to see in the new year
    Manchester City Centre

    Albert Hall

    Music Venues

    The upper floor of this Grade II listed Wesleyan chapel lay empty for 40 years before Mission Mars bought the building in 2012 and opened it up as a music venue. The only question is why didn’t anyone do it sooner?

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  • Albert's Schloss Manchester
    Manchester City Centre

    Albert’s Schloss

    Bars

    Albert’s Schloss is a Bavarian-inspired fun palace of extraordinary dimensions and clever design. Behind the glistening tiles of the former Manchester and Salford Wesleyan Mission building (est in 1910) you’ll discover a vast bar, real fires, perfectly preserved original plaster, and a wall stuffed generously with flowers by floral artists’ Frog. You’ll also find a stage, DJ booth and network of beer pipes and tanks serving unpasturised Pilsner Urquell to hordes of adoring punters.

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  • Band on the Wall - an iconic gig venue in Manchester
    Northern Quarter

    Band on the Wall

    Music Venues

    So called because the performers used to play on a stage situated halfway up the wall, Band on the Wall has been a stalwart of the Manchester music scene for about 200 years.

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  • NYE at Banyan in Manchester's Corn Exchange
    Manchester City Centre

    Banyan | Corn Exchange

    Bars

    Banyan in Manchester’s Corn Exchange has something for everyone and one of the best outdoor drinking and dining spots in the city.

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  • New Year's Eve at Manchester's Bierkeller
    Manchester City Centre

    Bierkeller

    Bars

    If dancing on tables with two-pint steins is what you’re after, head to Bierkeller in The Printworks. This Bavarian-themed bar is best known for its live oompah bands which play at weekends. It’s a raucous night out complete with lederhosen and copious amounts of German beer.

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  • BLVD in Manchester
    Spinningfields

    BLVD

    Bars

    BLVD is the place to go if you want cool cocktails and a party atmosphere with your meal. It’s a place to get glammed up, to see and be seen with a soundtrack of House, R&B and Hip Hop to go with your Mediterranean small plates.

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  • Boom Battle Bar is turning pink for NYE 2024
    Manchester City Centre

    Boom Battle Bar Manchester

    Activities

    Boom Battle Bar Manchester is an all-in-one bright neon activity centre in the Printworks. It’s an indoor playground primarily for adults (over 18s only after 7pm) with shuffleboard, axe throwing, augmented reality darts, pool tables, karaoke and beer or Prosecco pong.

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  • Welcome 2025 with music at The Bridgewater Hall
    Manchester City Centre

    The Bridgewater Hall

    Music Venues

    The Bridgewater Hall is where Manchester gets serious about music. The international concert venue was built in the 1990s and its huge concrete structure was engineered to ensure the acoustics are as close to perfect as possible in a coming together of form and function.

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  • A party with a view at Cloud 23
    Manchester City Centre

    Cloud 23

    Bars

    Cloud 23 is one of Manchester’s highest dining and drinking experiences. Located 23 stories up in the Hilton Manchester Deansgate at Beetham Tower, it offers exceptional views of the whole of the city and beyond. 

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  • Celebrate New Year's Eve 2024 at Cosy Club in Manchester's Corn Exchange

    Cosy Club | Corn Exchange

    Bars

    If it’s all-day eating you’re after, all-day eating you’ll get at Cosy Club Manchester, and as you study the menu under the watchful eye of a selection of taxidermy and portrait paintings, you’ll quickly notice that there really is something for everyone here.

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  • Stay local with NYE in Prestwich
    Prestwich

    Cuckoo

    Bars

    Like the interloping bird that gives it its name, Cuckoo was an odd-one-out when it first opened in Prestwich back in 2013. Since then a whole flock of likeminded, indie cafe-bars have landed in this suburb, but Cuckoo is still the favourite for many.

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  • The Warehouse Project is bringing New Year's Eve to Depot Mayfield
    Piccadilly

    Depot Mayfield

    Events Venues

    Depot Mayfield is an events venue with raw urban grit and cultural cachet. Manchester’s former railway station, it has been reborn as a home for arts, music, industry, fashion and business.

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  • Ducie Street Warehouse
    Northern Quarter

    Ducie Street Warehouse

    Bars

    Ducie Street Warehouse is all sorts of things, but one of those things is a restaurant. It’s an all-day affair with everything from classic brunches to late-night cocktails. On the menu you’ll find a good selection of small sharing dishes and large plates – it’s a sociable kind of place. And of course, you’ll also find Ducie Street Warehouse’s signature focaccia flatbreads.

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  • Bottomless brunch your way out of 2024 and in to 2025 at Electric Shuffle
    Deansgate

    Electric Shuffle

    Activities

    Electric Shuffle is a fresh take on shuffleboard. Usually associated with the pubbier end of the bar spectrum or the subterranean neon of a gaming venue, this is something new.

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  • DJs, dinner, drinks and plate smashing at Fenix for NYE 2024
    Manchester City Centre

    Fenix Restaurant and Bar

    Bars

    Fenix is a simple, rustic Greek restaurant as re-imagined by World of Interiors. The palette of creams and neutral stones is minimalist and sophisticated. It’s rather pared back considering Fenix is from the team behind Tattu but still a sense of opulence prevails.

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  • A burlesque New Year's Eve at The Fitzgerald
    Northern Quarter

    The Fitzgerald

    Bars

    The Fitzgerald, appropriately enough, channels those Great Gatsby vibes with its vintage stylings, and its 1920s glassware sets off the cocktails beautifully.

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  • Bottomless Brunch for NYE at Flight Club
    Manchester City Centre

    Flight Club Manchester

    Activities

    Flight Club is a hit in London, Birmingham and Manchester, with its primary aim (sorry) to offer a contemporary take on playing a round of arrows in the pub – you can book your own semi-private area with a dartboard where two to six of you can step up to the oche.

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  • Habitat takes over Gorilla on December 31 for house and afrobeat fun
    Greater Manchester

    Gorilla

    Music Venues

    Gorilla is tucked under a railway arch, it has a slightly industrial vibe but it’s comfortable for all that. The cocktails are good and good value too – Gorilla is as much a bar as it is a restaurant.

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  • Experience NYE at The Ivy
    Spinningfields

    The Ivy Manchester

    Bars

    The Ivy Manchester is an exuberant over-the-top place that’s perfect for glamming up and going out. The décor is wild yet smart and service is smooth and professional. The roof garden is a must.

    There’s an abundance about The Ivy with the costumed doorman, and the levels and levels of fun: The Ivy Asia; The Brasserie; The Ivy Roof Garden; the lurid floors; the lacquered screens; the mirrored central bar. It all adds up to a sense of occasion, a place where dining out is something special, something to dress up for.

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  • Enjoy a five course meal at James Martin to see in 2025
    Manchester City Centre

    James Martin

    Restaurant - British

    A fine-dining restaurant inside a casino with a celeb chef name above the door? Alarm bells. Yes, James Martin has his name across the massive billboard outside, but this is not an ostentatious venue.

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  • Celebrate New Year at Mulligans
    Manchester City Centre

    Mulligans

    Bars

    If you’re a fan of cosy pubs with good beer and great craic, Mulligans will be right up your alley. Located just off Deansgate, it’s full of character and is Manchester’s oldest authentic Irish pub.

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  • Day Fever at New Century
    Green Quarter

    New Century

    Bars

    Opened in the summer of 2022 after a hefty refurb which transformed the tired-looking New Century Hall of the mid-twentieth century into a newfangled music and dining destination in Manchester’s trendy NOMA district.

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  • New Year's Eve 2024 at Peaky Blinders
    Manchester City Centre

    Peaky Blinders

    Bars

    Peaky Blinders is a cocktail bar and pub with food which pays homage to the hit TV series starring Cillian Murphy. The show was famously set in Birmingham but several classic scenes were filmed in Manchester, hence our mild obsession with it here.

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  • Disco and dinner at The Refuge for New Year's Eve 2024
    Manchester City Centre

    The Refuge

    Bars

    Winning small plate fusion in an iconic and glamorous setting. Housed in Manchester’s iconic The Refuge Assurance Company dating back to 1858, this DJ-run restaurant and bar is large and sassy.

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  • See in 2025 in style at The River Restaurant
    Salford

    The River Restaurant

    Bars

    The River Restaurant at The Lowry Hotel is Manchester’s classic fine dining restaurant. Huge names that have run the kitchen include Marco Pierre White, while diners have included Jose Mourinho and Kylie.

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  • Performance and sparkles end the year at Sexy Fish
    Spinningfields

    Sexy Fish

    Bars

    Sexy Fish is no mere minnow in the UK dining scene. It’s brought to you by Caprice Holdings, the group behind some of London’s most glam dining spots. Think of it as more of a humongous mermaid – beautiful and ever so slightly improbable.

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  • Defected are teaming up with The Warehouse Project to end the year at Depot Mayfield
    Piccadilly

    The Warehouse Project

    Music Venues

    If you’re into EDM or club culture you’ll know The Warehouse Project as one of Manchester’s biggest nights out. It opened for the first time in 2006 and has returned for its four-month seasonal run every year since.

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  • New Year's Eve party at Wilson's Social
    Northern Quarter

    Wilson’s Social

    Bars

    NQ bar and eatery Wilson’s Social is equally popular with daytime brunchers, co-workers and late night drinkers. Situated on the corner of Stevenson Square and Oldham Street, this glass-fronted space is light and airy in the daytime and buzzing at night with DJs and live music every weekend.

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  • See in NYE 2024 with Deptford Northern Soul Club at YES
    Oxford Road

    YES

    Music Venues

    YES is a gargantuan place with four floors of fun. Despite that, it still has a low-key cool and something approaching a homely vibe for somewhere so big.

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  • Manchester City Centre

    Yours

    Restaurant - Pan Asian

    When a restaurant’s menu features lobster dynamite, you pretty much know straightaway that it might not be everyone’s cup of chai latte, and Yours, with its special red carpet-style Insta corridor and “dress to impress” reservation confirmation, isn’t going to appeal to style slouches.

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