Where to drink coffee in Manchester
A reader's notebook on the city's cafés, neighbourhood by neighbourhood.
Where to begin
Manchester drinks a lot of coffee, and where you drink it says something about where you are. The Northern Quarter and Ancoats pull the attention, but the good cups are spread far wider than that.
We write about the places worth sitting in. Some of it is the roast and the people pulling the shots; a fair bit is the room, the regulars, and how a neighbourhood treats its mornings.
The guides walk through it patch by patch — Altrincham and Didsbury, the Underbanks revival in Stockport, Chorlton cup by cup. Read whichever corner you're heading to.
