First,
Calum Best liked the fact that I corrected his grammar.
I
went to Proof, the Friday night in Panacea.
The weather- sleet- really put a
damper on proceedings, in more ways than one, and the club was dead.
Their glass collector looks like Stamper from Tomorrow Never Dies.
Would have been good if busier. The nightlife scene will, until the
main Christmas nights, be similar to this. Didn't stay long.
Yesterday
I ticked off a few bars from the Hit List, which has been heavily revised over the years as new bars and clubs
have opened up. My date and I started at West Corner, a nice little restaurant on
Hilton St in the Northern Quarter, and made our way around a few new
venues in that area.
Next:
Turtle Bay for some rum shots (must
try the food here). Busy with good happy hour deals.
We
found a drunk stag do in Flok, a
Spanish-style place which the MEN
describes as 'Manchester's first sherry bar.'
Unique décor with a tiled floor, strange mounted decorations and a
full-sized bank vault downstairs, the bar stands out from its
neighbours for it's low key visuals mixed with upmarket deep house. I
like. I did think it was a bit unfair the management to tell us off
for singing swing classics with the stag do, though.
We
moved on to Soup Kitchen, a
fragrant little venue serving, you guessed it, soup, to people on
long rows of tables like a scene from Oliver! Or something. I would
have been up for soaking up the atmos a bit longer but my date wasn't
feeling it.
A
satisfying night all in all. In February (after we've been paid and
the sales are over, and it gets warmer and the nightlife scene picks
back up) I'll probably set up a meetup to go around this area with
Manchester Cool Bars.
Last
night we'd started off in the early evening, so I was actually sober
enough to get to Writers Connect
for the first time in ages. More on this on Wednesday.
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