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The Courtyard is a mecca for sports-loving students with a huge amount of TV screens, a massive beer garden and bargain booze.
Gasworks is a repurposed industrial space on First Street that’s now used for quality drinking and dining.
Find Navarro Lounge just off Oxford Road on University Green, a modern and welcoming chain bar with excellent choices of food.
Located at the south end of Oxford Road between the universities, hospital site and Whitworth Park, the Turing Tap is a handy pub with an extensive, all-day food menu.
A rock music-friendly venue where everyone can enjoy a pint in one of Manchester’s most historic pubs.
The Footage is probably the defining student pub of Oxford Road, now refitted for quality food, drinks and sports.
Take a seat by the river at The Lass O’ Gowrie and watch the world go by in this refined and ancient watering hole.
Peveril Of The Peak is Manchester’s most iconic pub adorned with the sorts of bottle green, yellow and brown Victorian tiles that are a reclamation yard’s dream.
Ducie Arms is a traditional pub near Manchester Science Park, with top-class pub food, real ales and a cracking atmosphere.
Contact has teamed up with one of Manchester’s most-loved street food venues, GRUB to bring Oxford Road an exciting new food and beverage offering.
Brickhouse Social is an exciting place where bar meets restaurant and all are welcome.
This huge three-floor pub, formerly a Victorian warehouse, then an umbrella factory (hence the name), has one of the city centre’s largest beer gardens.
Head to BrewDog Manchester Outpost at University Green for equity for punks, and quality beer for connoisseurs.
Sandbar, just off Oxford Road in Manchester, is a well-loved watering hole, with a great selection of ales and some eccentric seating.
Originally called The Temple of Convenience owing to its former life as a public toilet block, this is a tiny bar with some of the finest bathroom graffiti in town.