Manchester’s best year-round dining and drinks deals

Across their Kampus, Common and Beagle sites, the folks at Nell’s sling their famed NYC-style pizzas for just £7.77 on weekdays between 12pm-4pm. On Friday and Saturdays, you can also grab £6 margaritas from 4pm until close.

Helping to make Mondays more bearable in their own special way, NQ stalwart The Pen & Pencil will give you 50% off your food bill all day every Monday. All you have to do is book in advance

Between Tue-Fri, 12pm-5m, you can get two courses for £14.50, or three courses for £18.50 at Albert’s in Didsbury.

Every weekday between 12pm-3pm, head down to the stunning Blues Kitchen and pick any item from their generous lunch menu, along with a soft drink for just a tenner. Upgrade to a hard beverage or shake for an extra £2.

South African bar and kitchen Chakalaka promise ‘a true taste of the Cape’, and every Wednesday you can grab half price off your main dish. Along with that, every Tuesday you can grab a traditional Boerewors roll for £2.

Each of Society’s fantastic street food traders offer a £10 lunch option from Mon-Thu and every Sunday between 12pm-3pm. Whether’s it’s a mouthwatering stack from Slap & Pickle burgers or hearty bibimbap from Yoki Social, you’ll be spoilt for choice.

The spectacular Peter Street Kitchen, set within the historic Free Trade Hall, boasts a unique blend of Japanese and Mexican cuisine. At £23 for two courses, the special set menu offers high-end dining at serious value, with the option to up that to three dishes for £28.

Getting anything for a quid feels like an achievement in itself, when that thing is one of Wolf at the Door’s Chippy Tea baos, or a Margherita Pizza taco, it’s cause for celebration.

Weekdays ’till 5.30pm mean three small plates for £15 at Didsbury’s Volta. A menu inspired by international travels, diners can choose from mouthwatering favourites like Whipped feta & hazelnuts, Berbere spiced black lentils and Queenie scallops.

From Mon-Fri, 12pm-4pm, Bundo’s Express Lunch lets guests pick two dishes from a collection of their biggest and best, including the Mung Chatpata, Okra Fries, Bundo Chaat and Tarka Dhal.

Available at Crazy Pedro’s Bridge Street, the £6 lunch deal incudes 2 pizza slices and a soft drink. Grab a beer for an extra £1. Then, between 5pm-9pm, slices are on offer for £2.50, full pizzas for £12 and 2-for-£12 cocktails.

Pick from three mains, sides and a soft drink – all for just £10 at Yard & Coop. Available Sun-Thu, 12pm-4pm, there’s the Classic Chicken Burger, Chicken Wrap or Drums & Wings, all served with fries, then a choice of Mac & Cheese, Gravy or Street Slaw and a soft drink. FOR A TENNER.

A kebab for lunch? An absolute no-brainer when it comes courtesy of the fine folks at Bab. Grab one of their refined takes on the late-night delicacy for £9. Upgrade to Greek fries for an extra quid.

Over at NQ hotspot, Lost Cat, you can grab a breakfast bagel until 4pm for just £1, with other brekky items hovering around a similar price. From 5pm-10pm, the menu switches to sliders and mini sandwiches, with Buffalo Chicken for £1, Cheeseburgers for £1.50 and Salt Beef Bagels for £2.

Swing by Rustik down Burton Road on a Wednesday and gorge on 50p wings between 12pm-9pm. Conveniently, you can also stick around for their quiz night, which kicks off at 8pm.

At just 25p per wing, you can essentially order a bucket-full at Bunny Jackson’s and still come home with change from a tenner. If you really wanted to push the boat out, there’s even a more premium 50p wing menu, just in case you fancied treating yourself.

10 Tib Lane is undoubtedly one of Manchester’s most gorgeous dining rooms, a sentiment only amplified by the fact that you can tuck into £1 oysters everyday between 4pm – 6pm.

Unequivocally one of the city’s greatest drinking establishments, and famously housing Manchester’s best jukebox, Corbieres will even throw in a free pizza when you spend just a fiver every Tue – Fri between 4pm-8pm.

Hyatt Manchester’s fantastic in-house restaurant, The Laureate, offers buy-one-get-one-free pizzas every Monday between 5pm – 11pm, meaning you can grab two full pies for as little as £13. Along with that, available daily between 3pm – 5pm, guests can get two cocktails for a tenner at the hotel’s Graduate Bar.

Pull up a chair between 12pm – 5.30pm, Mon – Sat, and you can get two courses for £21, or three courses for £26, from the TNQ Express Menu. The mains menu is made up largely of crowd-pleasing favourites, including flat iron steak, mini shepherd pie, fish and chips and a veggie cannelloni, so it’s always a solid choice for big groups.

Kala’s ever-changing Bistro Menu is always a winner for anyone after a premium but budget-friendly meal out. At two courses for just £15, or three for £20, there aren’t many places in town that you’ll find such high-quality cooking at this kind of price point. Available Mon – Thu, 12pm – 6.30pm, and Frdays 12pm – 4pm.

Manchester’s OG dirty burger specialists Almost Famous have a delightful lunch deal where you can get one of their legendary stacks, plus their signature Famous Fries for £12.50. Available weekdays between 12pm – 5pm.