Northern Quarter transformed as Peaky Blinders creators film new Netflix series House of Guinness (2024)

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It's been transformed into 19th century Dublin.

Daisy Jackson -14th October 2024

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The Northern Quarter in Manchester looks practically unrecognisable today as Netflix crews film House of Guinness.

The new upcoming drama, written by Peaky Blinders creator Steven Knight, has transformed Dale Street once again.

And while the road through the bustling Northern Quarter has often doubled as New York City, today it’s been transported back to 19th century Dublin.

Old carts and barrels are positioned all along the roadside, and the street’s modern tarmac has been covered in dirt instead.

Film crews have turned the street into a bustling hive of activity for House of Guinness, which has also filmed in Stockport.

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The new Netflix drama is inspired by The Guinness family, and is set immediately after the death of Sir Benjamin Guinness.

It’s all about the impact of his will on his four children, Arthur, Edward, Anne and Ben.

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Northern Quarter transformed as Peaky Blinders creators film new Netflix series House of Guinness (5)

The cast for House of Guinness includes Happy Valley’s James Norton, Game of Thrones’ Jack Gleeson, and Anthony Boyle.

Anne Mensah, Vice-President of Content at Netflix UK, said: “We are beyond thrilled to be working with Kudos and the incredible Steven Knight to bring the story of the Guinness Family to Netflix audiences.

“It has all the power of Peaky Blinders but the scale and the sweep of a true family saga. Set in the UK and the US, we cannot wait to see this realised.”

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Creator Steven Knight commented: “The Guinness dynasty is known the world over – wealth, poverty, power, influence, and great tragedy are all intertwined to create a rich tapestry of material to draw from.

“I’ve always been fascinated by their stories and am excited to bring the characters to life for the world to see.”

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The very best and booziest bottomless brunches in Manchester city centreDanny JonesNorthern Quarter transformed as Peaky Blinders creators film new Netflix series House of Guinness (7)

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If you’re looking to find the very best bottomless brunch places Manchester city centre has to offer, then look no further.

You’ll probably be struggling to see straight after you finish brunching anyway, but that’s all part of the fun, isn’t it?

In Manchester, we love a good brunch like the best of them.

Getting stuck into some free-flowing drinks with your friends around a table of food is a match made in heaven if you ask us.

To help you achieve your ultimate bottomless brunch goals, we’ve put together a list of some of our top spots in Manchester to help you find the right one for you.

Keep reading to discover our top picks.

25 boozy bottomless brunch places in Manchester

1. The Blues Kitchen – Deansgate

One of Manchester’s most popular bars has recently relaunched its Hip Hop Orchestra Brunch, with live music, bottomless drinks and food.

At Blues Kitchen, you can tuck into soul food-inspired mains like fried chicken and gravy, taco bowls, shrimp sandwiches and beef dip melts, with 90 minutes of unlimited drinks for £35 per person.

And in true Blues Kitchen fashion, there’ll of course be live music aplenty, from live soul and R&B in the bar to the house band playing upstairs in the gig space.

There are loads of options and packages to check out – head HERE to make your booking.

2. Ramona/Firehouse – NQ/Ancoats

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Northern Quarter transformed as Peaky Blinders creators film new Netflix series House of Guinness (9)

Bordering two of Manchester city centre‘s coolest and best foodie neighbourhoods, the team who run the show over at Ramona and Firehouse during the day and well into the night have become famous around the UK for their Detroit-style pizza, loaded tater tots, margaritas and good vibes.

Better still, you can turn those Cali peps slices, helpings of fresh burrata, spicy margs, mimosa and more bottomless at just £38pp.

Between 12pm and 4pm on Saturdays and Sundays, you can get any slice of pizza plus frozen margs, selected spritzes, prosecco and Ramona pilsner.

3. New Century – NOMA

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Northern Quarter transformed as Peaky Blinders creators film new Netflix series House of Guinness (11)

All the traders from the New Century food hall band together at the weekends to serve up a bottomless brunch with more menu options than anywhere else in the city.

You can order a brunch item from any trader inside – and that includes egg banh mis from Banh Vi and chicken and waffles from Parmogeddon – then add on a bottomless drinks package for 90 minutes.

Options include bottomless lager, stout, IPA, cider, prosecco, and Aperol Spritzes for £30 (including one brunch item), or for an extra fiver you can also get Pornstar Martinis and Bloody Marys.

4. Peaky Blinders – Deansgate

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Northern Quarter transformed as Peaky Blinders creators film new Netflix series House of Guinness (13)
Northern Quarter transformed as Peaky Blinders creators film new Netflix series House of Guinness (14)

The Peaky Blinders bar on Peter Street grows more popular year after year, and not just because people enjoy dressing up in fancy old-world clobber and coming along to see the lookalikes – it’s the birdcage of tasty bites, ‘Cherry Ada’s and ‘Shel-bee’ whiskey-based specials that keep them coming back.

There are different bottomless brunch menus available every Friday, Saturday and Sunday, from classic brunch platters to steak and fries to bottomless roast dinners.

And they all come with endless cocktails, beers, spirits and more drinks, with bottomless packages between £37.50 and £40.

5. Sexy Fish – Spinningfields

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Northern Quarter transformed as Peaky Blinders creators film new Netflix series House of Guinness (16)

One of the fanciest new openings in Manchester, Sexy Fish, serves one of the city’s swankiest bottomless brunches.

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For £48 per person, you can indulge in a range of starters, unlimited sushi from the sushi buffet, a main course with a side, and desserts.

Or you can just have your fill at the sushi buffet for £28 per person.

Then you can add on free-flowing cocktails for £30 per person or indulge in limitless bubbles from £34 per person.

6. Diecast – Piccadilly East

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Northern Quarter transformed as Peaky Blinders creators film new Netflix series House of Guinness (18)

90 minutes of pure drag entertainment is what’s on the menu at Diecast in Piccadilly East, as Dragstravaganza takes over for an interactive bottomless battle.

There are also more regular bottomless brunch offerings, where you can choose a pizza from the menu plus add on 90 minutes of frozen daiquiris.

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The event schedule is a busy one so check HERE to book your bottomless at Diecast.

7. Banyan – Corn Exchange and Spinningfields

Another solid Manchester bottomless brunch spot is Banyan, offering two hours of the good stuff for £36.95 and free reign on their food menu – we’re talking breakfast hash, Korean fried chicken burgers, flat iron steak and curry.

You can go bottomless in the evenings too for £39.95.

And endless drinks include loads of their house cocktails, plus your usual suspects like prosecco, beer and spirits.

8. Tampopo – Corn Exchange and Albert Square

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Northern Quarter transformed as Peaky Blinders creators film new Netflix series House of Guinness (20)

A Pan-Asian bottomless brunch with dishes like an Asian twist on a full English, a Rendang roti, a Bali brunch bowl and Bang Bang steak and eggs? Sign us up.

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Running seven (yep, seven!) days a week, the Tampopo bottomless (and they have two restaurants in Manchester) includes 90 minutes of free-flowing bubbles, lager, rum beach buckets and house cocktails, plus any brunch plate or vegetarian, chicken or pork large plate.

Not bad for £38 a head.

9. Italiana Fifty-Five – Great Northern Warehouse and Castlefield

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Northern Quarter transformed as Peaky Blinders creators film new Netflix series House of Guinness (22)

Next up is one we’d consider an old faithful: Italiana Fifty-Five, formerly known as Cibo. With three sites in Manchester, now including one in Didsbury. We’ve had this particular bottomless brunch so many times now we’ve lost count but it never disappoints.

Available every Friday, Saturday and Sunday with sittings between 12pm and 7.30pm, you’ll be presented with a tower of Italian treats and endless cocktails, including Aperol Spritzes.

See more and book your sitting HERE.

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10. Canto – Ancoats

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Northern Quarter transformed as Peaky Blinders creators film new Netflix series House of Guinness (25)

Bottomless tapas and sangria at Canto puts a Portuguese twist on boozy brunch proceedings over in Ancoats. The sister site of AA Rosette restaurant, El Gato Negro, this is what they call ‘tipsy tapas’.

Priced at £40 a head, you get a choice of three plates each and 90 minutes of unlimited drinks with choices like sangria, fizz, bellinis, house wine and lager.

Tapas choices include options like jamón croquetas, salt cod fritters, patatas bravas, crispy squid and plenty more. Never fails.

11. Elnecot – Ancoats

One of the best bottomless brunches in Manchester? Don’t mind if we do. They keep it simple at Elnecot as you just opt for your unlimited drinks on top of the usual but you’ll hear no complaints from us whilst we’re sipping on house Cosmos, mimosas, Bloody Marys, boozy ice teas and lager.

Brunch dishes, meanwhile, feature the likes of crispy pork belly with rosti, fried eggs, savoy kimchi, Elnecot chilli jam and yoghurt; wild mushrooms on toast with goat’s curd and dukkah, as well as Elnecot’s full English and eggs on toast, just to name a few.

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Bottomless drinks are £26 per person, plus whatever brunch dish you want, for two hours of drinking time.

12. The Bay Horse Tavern – Northern Quarter

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Northern Quarter transformed as Peaky Blinders creators film new Netflix series House of Guinness (27)

Affectionately known by locals as ‘Horse-moor’, the boozy brunch menu at upmarket NQ pub The Bay Horse Tavern is a pretty traditional affair dish-wise, although there is a funky peanut butter, bacon and fried banana croissant bad boy to be found here too.

Priced at £32.50 for a dish and unlimited drinks until 4pm every weekend, think egg, bacon and sausage butties; fry-ups; poached and scrambled eggs (they do eggs really well here) mushrooms, avo and smoked salmon on toast, as well as fizz, Irish coffee, beer, mimosas, bloody marys and house wine. Easy.

13. Gaucho – Deansgate

Maybe one of the more expensive on this list but worth every penny, Gaucho’s ‘Electro Brunch’ is one of the Manchester OGs and it also happens to be one of the best steaks in town. Setting you back £65, it’s all about the beef here which is wet-aged and can be cut with a butter knife it’s that soft.

The music-fuelled all-you-can-eat midday feast also features cocktails like pornstar martinis and Aperol spritz alongside glasses of Argentinian Domain Chandon and even includes a brunch dessert of smoked chocolate ganache. They have a maximum of eight drinks per person but, let’s be honest, that’s plenty.

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14. Lucky Cat – King Street

Another more boujee, boozy brunch option is at Gordon Ramsay’s very own Lucky Cat.

For 90 minutes, you can enjoy endless prosecco alongside a two-course meal, with dishes like vegetable tempura, crispy beef rice bowls, and teriyaki salmon.

You can also add dessert platter for an extra tenner or upgrade from prosecco to champagne for £20. This is definitely a more classy excuse to get tipsy, whilst enjoying some proper high-quality food.

15. Fress – NQ

Fress is an award-winning white-subway tiled restaurant on Oldham Street that often has queues out the door for its bottomless boozy brunch. There’s a hearty menu featuring all the favourites, from a full English and beans on toast to mouth-watering waffles and pancakes, but it’s the sweet stuff we go for.

With a 1 hour 15 minute £37 per person sitting (that price includes a main from the menu) drinks choices include prosecco, mimosas, house wine and lager.

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16. Zouk Tea Bar and Grill – Quadrangle

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Northern Quarter transformed as Peaky Blinders creators film new Netflix series House of Guinness (29)

Just off Oxford Road Corridor, you’ll find one of the very best bottomless brunches in Manchester and it’s over at Zouk — also one of the best places for a curry in town that you can enjoy bottomless style, but that’s a separate matter. Two plates and as much booze as you can stomach. Glorious.

Either way, for £35 a pop from 11am to 4.30pm every Saturday, you can get an incredible South Indian and Pakistani-inspired menu featuring everything from masala omelettes to the ‘Bollywood Benedict’ and SO much more. Absolutely slaps every single time.

17. Manahatta – Deansgate

A favourite amongst the flag-waving bottomless brunch brigade, we can’t think of many places that come more immediately to mind than Manahatta on Deansgate. Two whole hours of non-stop booze and some Insta-worthy scran for £36.95 until 3pm and you can upgrade to any dish for an extra fiver.

Manahatta’s brunch menu features a wide range of spritzes, bloody marys or lager to enjoy alongside plates that range from Mexican wraps to breakfast hash, pancakes, steak frites and other NYC-inspired plates. You can also book big parties and the main menu for £41.95.

18. The Pen and Pencil – NQ

Another long-standing favourite over ours, you’ll find plenty of people heading to The Pen and Pencil when they’re round Northern Quarter way and after a solid bottomless brunch.

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Their bottomless brunch runs on the last Saturday of every month, costs £50 and will leave you full to bursting – and that’s just the booze part.

You’ve got all of the staple egg dishes, pancake stacks and more, as well as all your classic cocktails – and you can eat and drink as much as you like.

19. BLVD – Spinningfields

Very similar vibes here – no list of the best bottomless brunch places in Manchester is complete without BLVD, the Spinningfields venue without the vowels but all the flavour, putting their own unique spin on things with a selection of small plates like veg tempura to duck spring rolls to salt and pepper chicken wings.

You can choose two small plates, one side, and then dive in to different flavours of Bellinis, prosecco, rum punch, gin smash cocktails, vodka raspberry ripples, and bottled beers.

It costs £35 per person and is available every day that BLVD is open.

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20. Crazy Pedro’s – NQ and Deansgate

Yes, Crazy P’s does do bottomless brunch and yes it is mint. Enjoy unlimited slices from their ever-rotating daily menu of crazy pizza concoctions, as well as non-stop Hooch, beer, prosecco and their classic Frozen Margz for 90 minutes

It’s just £29.50pp for pure carbs and the fun-time juice when you book and it also happens to be ‘r Amy’s favourite pizza place and quite a few of us would probably agree with her.

21. Shack Bar and Grill

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Northern Quarter transformed as Peaky Blinders creators film new Netflix series House of Guinness (31)

Shack’s brilliant disco brunch starts from £32.50 per person, with a few levels of drinks packages if you want to step things up a little bit.

Dishes include French toast, chorizo chilli eggs, breakfast buns, and absolutely massive pancake and waffle stacks, plus a full menu of grilled cheeses, wraps and burgers.

See more HERE.

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22. Ducie Street Warehouse – Piccadilly

In our opinion, Ducie Street Warehouse quietly does some of the best bottomless brunch in Manchester, there just aren’t enough people that know about it, so we’re fixing that. Croque monsieurs, pancake stacks, breakfast baps and more. This menu is elite.

Changing themes each month, as well as wheeling out their ‘disco’ brunch every Saturday, their parties (and believe us, they are) will set you back £42.

23. Dirty Martini – Deansgate

Once again, no list of bottomless brunch hotspots in Manchester city centre would be complete without the Deansgate cornerstone that is Dirty Martini. Someone pass us a phone, we need another picture in front of them wings because the last 20 or so weren’t quite good enough.

Just as good during the day as it is for a night out, their bottomless brunch costs £37.50pp on Fridays and Saturdays but their Martini brunch from Sunday-Thursday is the cheaper option at just £30.

24. Almost Famous – Great Northern and NQ

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Northern Quarter transformed as Peaky Blinders creators film new Netflix series House of Guinness (33)

We will take any excuse to head to one of the best burger joints in Manchester so, naturally, the fact Almost Famous also does bottomless brunch is ideal. Available Friday-Sunday from 12-3pm, you get the standard 90-minute sitting from £37.50pp.

Get ready for this: get absolutely ANY famous burger with winning or bacon bacon fries and chicken nuggets as well a free run at as much draught beer, cider, prosecco and cocktails as you fancy sinking. We call that heaven.

25. Foundry Project – NQ

Finally, the Foundry Project over on Thomas Street does a bang-up bottomless brunch with plenty of variety for just £36 per person.

Hash brown nachos, breakfast brioche, fry-ups, brunch burgers and more to go with prosecco, bellinis, mimosas, Aperol spritz or pints of Amstel. What more could you possibly want?

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It goes without saying that there aren’t plenty more places we could have out on this list and we’re sure it’ll keep growing over time, but 25 should do you for now.

Manchester really does have some of the best bottomless brunch culture in the country and we’re saying that with our chests, so don’t even try and argue with us.

And if you’re just looking for really good morning/early afternoon scran that isn’t necessarily bottomless, you can also check out our list of the best breakfast and brunch places in Manchester city centre — and yes, there’s plenty of overlap.

The top 25 places for the best breakfast and brunch in Manchester

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The Last Dinner Party aren’t ‘industry plants’, they just got real good real quick – Victoria Warehouse, ManchesterDanny JonesNorthern Quarter transformed as Peaky Blinders creators film new Netflix series House of Guinness (35)

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It feels very easy in the modern age to furrow your brow at any artist that gets really popular really quick, especially if it isn’t necessarily the kind of music you typically listen to, but after seeing The Last Dinner Party live we can confirm they’ve earned every bit of their success.

They’re not an industry plant, they’re just dead good.

Now, we accept that isn’t exactly top-tier analysis or music journalism from the off, but we’re hoping that this review of their recent Manchester gig at Victoria Warehouse and our sincere recommendation that you go and see The Last Dinner Party live for yourself will be all the vouching you need.

For starters, let’s talk about the supports.

We were sadly too late into the gig to catch the first warm-up act, Lucia and the Best Boys, but we did arrive in time to hear the applause as they left the stage and have been to enough concerts to know when a support act has genuinely surprised and/or impressed uninitiated listeners.

Having gone away and listened to them in our own time, we can see why they were chosen by the TLDP. There’s a familiar level of melodrama and that almost Victorian aesthetic to frontwoman Lucia Fairfull’s presence, style and floaty vocals, even if the whole band’s vibe isn’t exactly the same.

The Scottish outfit is arguably the more outright indie of the two, but when you combine them with the second support act and even more ethereal-sounding Kateo – who really did impress us not only with her performance and stage presence but her sheer range too – that alternative feeling comes through.

Between the two of them, it felt like the pair had been hand-picked by the headliners as genuine fans to cultivate a concert that also feels cohesive from start to finish, championing talented and aspiring artists who are trying to carve their own space not just within similar spaces but between genres.

This may not seem so uncommon but given how big the BRIT Award-winners have already gotten over the last year or so, they could have chosen more established or even regional acts for individual UK dates to win over audiences – but they didn’t. Make that anti-industry plant theory example number one.

And then we come to the matter of the 2024 Rising Stars themselves, who are clearly thriving and on top of the world but putting real effort into their live set beyond just playing the songs well.

For instance, we didn’t quite realise just how many impressive singers there are in The Last Dinner Party until we saw them take to that iconic Manchester stage and get truly rapturous applause as multiple band members took the spotlight for their own individual heroine moments.

Be it Lizzie’s cover of ‘Up North’ by fellow Halifax native Catherine Howe, Aurora’s haunting Albanian ballad or even just Emily’s genuinely shredding guitar solos, it was a reminder of just how versatile and multi-talented each of these lot are.

Don’t get us wrong, lead singer Abigail has all the charisma and style to knit them together in such a way that has no doubt helped make them such an instant hit, but they were full of surprises too.

The pseudo-medieval fantasy set, the orchestral entrance that is ‘Prelude to Ecstasy; the lighting, use of the stage and genuine rock-show moments (yes, they can thrash when they want to) – it was in seeing them in the flesh that we realised why so many have fallen in love with their music so hard and so fast.

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Northern Quarter transformed as Peaky Blinders creators film new Netflix series House of Guinness (37)

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Last but not least, following a week in which the five-piece have come under criticism not only for cancelling gigs last minute but due to men even being asked to leave the shows after they were quizzed on why they were there and how long they’d be following the band, it was refreshing to see that the climate of their crowd was nothing like it has been made out to be in some reports.

It’s worth noting that the band themselves came out to apologise for the treatment some male fans had received, insisting they were “appalled” by the incidents and that it was solely a venue issue, not anything to do with them.

Moreover, as a single male attending the gig, I can confirm we experienced nothing of the sort from security at Victoria Warehouse, and the room was as welcoming and carefree as you could hope for – not to mention all the tour tickets purchased have helped raise over £14k for food banks.

Perhaps there is an element of latent, underlying or covert sexism behind why some people have decided to take issue with the band whose members have various roots in good Catholic schools and have been accused of being ‘nepo babies’, but the plain truth is they’re just bloody good at what they do.

Creating a conspiracy around why a group of young women have become successful isn’t edgy, incisive or even an interesting theory – it’s embarrassing. Move on and just enjoy the music.

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