Places to see in Manchester
Castlefield Urban Heritage Park - Besides the science museum, the big draw here is Castlefield Basin. The Bridgewater canal runs through it. It also offers fine pubs and trendy restaurants.

Imperial War Museum North is a war museum for those with a fascination for military hardware and battle strategy.

John Rylands Library is a marvelous Victorian Gothic library and probably Manchester’s most beautiful building.

Lowry is an industrial architecture art gallery with a creative hub of theatres, galleries, restaurants and shops.

Manchester Art Gallery is an amazing collection of British art.

Manchester Museum is an extensive and fascinating mix of natural history and social sciences. It has galleries related to archaeology and zoology.

Museum of Science and Industry is the largest museum in Manchester spread over two huge warehouses and the world’s oldest passenger railway terminal. It’s all about Manchester’s key role in Industrial Revolution.

Urbis Museum showcases the cities and the way they work. It displays the major themes of urban living like homelessness, rootless ness and dislocation.

Places to Eat in Manchester
Manchester has a wide range of restaurants and cafes to dine out in the city to suit every ones budget.

• Earth Café offers excellent organic, vegetarian food at the cheapest possible rates located in Northern Quarter.
• Eighth Day is a full vegetarian restaurant favourite for students.
• Le Petit Blanc - its French cuisine with world influences, primarily Asian is a real treat.
• Love Saves the Day - The Northern Quarter’s most popular café
• Market Restaurant - it’s an excellent restaurant for British cuisine at Northern Quarter
• Oklahoma Café - it’s a trendy café specializing in organic veggie food
• Shere Khan - an Indian restaurant is recommended for its plush setting, good cuisine, polite and friendly service.

Nightlife in Manchester - Manchester is also known for the bands it produces. Manchester’s nightlife is lively with a vast range of night cafes, clubs and pubs like Band on the Wall, Club V, Cord Bar, Duke 92, Music Box, Old Wellington Inn, Sankeys and more.

Shopping in Manchester - Shopping in Manchester is a most entertaining experience with large variety of shopping options available; you can shop for clothes, jewellery, household items and almost anything. A few of the popular shopping places are:

• Affleck's Palace - a four-storey warehouse full of outlets with hip urban wear and retro fashion.
• Cornerhouse Bookshop - a bookstore for visual arts and film books
• Trafford Centre - Largest shopping centre in UK
• Piccadilly Records - Very snazzy jam-packed alternative and unusual record store
• Marks & Spencer - Britain’s most reliable departmental store