Joshua Brooks

You'll find yourself in one of Princess Street's most schizophrenic venues – a place that serves excellent ales and hearty pies during daylight hours, then morphs into a sweaty underground club come nightfall. The daytime crowd nurses pints of local breweries' finest while demolishing proper British pies that actually have filling worth talking about. By evening, especially weekends when they stay open until 4am, the whole energy shifts. The DJ booth fires up and suddenly you're in the thick of Manchester's club scene. It's this brilliant dual personality that makes Joshua Brooks work – serious about both good food and good times, never trying to be something it's not.