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Oh, stunning: The Manchester bars serving Negroni

11 months ago

If you’re lucky, they might add some Prosecco to it.

If there’s one thing you can use to get the sum of a bar, it’s how it mixes its classic cocktails. Negroni is one of our all-time favourites and a well-balanced aperitif is wonderful to sip in a cosy cocktail bar just watching the world go by.

We thought we’d put together some of the places in Manchester that we’d recommend for a great Negroni – whether you ask for Prosecco in it is up to you.

  • Manchester City Centre

    Blinker Bar

    Bars

    The name for Blinker Bar comes from a forgotten classic three-ingredient cocktail made from rye, grapefruit and raspberry. It’s this curious collection of ingredients that inspired ex-Gordon Ramsay bars boss Dan Berger to create a menu that changes seasonally but still honours the classics.

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  • Inside Elnecot, one of the new generation of restaurants in Ancoats, Manchester.
    Ancoats

    Elnecot

    Restaurant - European

    Named after the first recorded name for Ancoats, Elnecot (meaning ‘lonely cottages’) takes its influence from historical cooking methods with lots of fermenting, a little foraging and a few nose-to-tail dishes.

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  • Grand Pacific is a Confidential Guides recommended Christmas party venue.
    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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  • Namii Kitchen and Cocktails is a Confidential Guides recommended Christmas party venue.
    Book Now Chinatown (Manchester)

    Namii Kitchen & Cocktails

    Restaurant - Vietnamese

    It’s got neon, it’s got pastels, it’s got faux foliage, it’s got innovative cocktails and it’s got Pan Asian cuisine with a definite lean Vietnam-wards. It calls itself “authentically modern”, but faithful to the Vietnamese way of life, it recommends ordering food for the table, tapas style.

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  • Salford

    The River Restaurant

    Restaurant - Modern British

    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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  • The terrace at San Carlo Fumo in Manchester city centre
    Book Now Oxford Road

    Fumo

    Bars

    With its terrace overlooking Oxford Road and its much-photographed spiral staircase, Fumo is a favourite spot in Manchester for dinner and drinks with friends.

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  • Book Now Spinningfields

    Schofield’s Bar

    Bars

    With links to Atomeca on Deansgate Square (and the upcoming Sterling downstairs at Stock Exchange Hotel), their very own vermouth and a cocktail cookbook to boot, bartender brothers Joe and Daniel Schofield are also busy garnering awards.

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  • A cocktail served at Speak in Code - one of the best cocktail bars in Manchester
    Book Now Manchester City Centre

    Speak In Code

    Restaurant - Bar

    Finding itself resting in the top 10 of the top 50 cocktail bars in the whole of the UK, Speaking In Code – SiC to his friends – makes everything in house and is passionate about flavour exploration, hospitality, oh, and hip hop, which inspires the drinks menu.

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  • Sud Pasta Sign
    Ancoats

    Sud Pasta Ancoats

    Restaurant - Italian

    SUD Pasta is a must-visit restaurant in Manchester. Since opening their first pasta kitchen in 2015, they’ve taken the city and suburbs by storm.

    With restaurants in Altrincham, Ancoats and now Sale, they’re a firm favourite amongst locals and visitors alike.

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

    Three Little Words

    Restaurant - Global

    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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  • Manchester City Centre

    Wood & Company

    Bars

    With its disguised entrance and back street location, Wood & Co has the feel of a secret speakeasy only frequented by those in the know. The unmarked door is on South King Street, in between Cross Street and Deansgate. Descend the steps and you’ll find yourself in a tiled, sleek space centred on a marble bar that stretches the length of the room.

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