Date spot in Manchester
Tender at the Stock Exchange Hotel
Dress up for dinner under the glass dome of the old Manchester Stock Exchange, in the hotel restaurant run by chef Niall Keating.
Norfolk Street, off King Street, city centre
Address: Stock Exchange Hotel, 4 Norfolk Street, Manchester M2 1DW- Restaurant
- Rain-proof ☔
- A treat
- Romantic
- Big night
Why it's a good date: The room is the reason to go: a grand Edwardian trading floor with the dome overhead. Have a drink in the hotel's old bank vault bar before you sit down.
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John Rylands Library
Deansgate, city centre
Address: 150 Deansgate, Manchester M3 3EH- Culture
- Rain-proof ☔
- Free
Walk through the neo-Gothic library on Deansgate, opened in 1900, and up to its vaulted Historic Reading Room, lined with stained glass and statues.
Why it's a good date: It feels more like a cathedral than a library, and it costs nothing to get in. It isn't open every day, so check before you go, and expect a short queue at busy times.
Photo: Eirian Evans, CC BY-SA 2.0 (cropped and resized)
Manchester Art Gallery
Mosley Street, city centre
Address: Mosley Street, Manchester M2 3JL- Culture
- Rain-proof ☔
- Free
Wander the free city gallery, from Pre-Raphaelite paintings such as Waterhouse's "Hylas and the Nymphs" to its changing exhibitions.
Why it's a good date: It's right in the middle of town, so it fits round lunch or before dinner. Each of you picks the painting you'd take home and makes the case for it.
Photo: Pemolo, CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped and resized)
The Whitworth
Oxford Road, by Whitworth Park
Address: Oxford Road, Manchester M15 6ER- Culture
- Free
- Outdoors
See what's on at the University of Manchester's free gallery, whose glass-walled extension looks straight out into the trees of Whitworth Park.
Why it's a good date: It's calm and rarely crowded, and the park outside gives you somewhere to walk and talk about what you've just seen.
Photo: Charlesdrakew, Public domain (cropped and resized)
