The Temple

Located just off Oxford Street, in the bowels of Great Bridgewater St you’ll find The Temple, a former public toilet that’s been quietly getting on being one of Manchester’s best dive bars for as long as anyone can remember.

Much like its sister bar, Big Hands, The Temple has an effortlessly cool vibe that many places have gone to great expense to replicate… like an old pair of gig-battered Converse or a patched-up denim jacket, not the ones you buy “distressed” from a high street chain store, the real deal.

For gig going Mancunians and visitors to the city, it’s a bar that feels like a right of passage. The jukebox is great and the selection of world beers in both bottles and on tap is great too, but there’s just something about the atmosphere and the vibe that feels authentic.