Brilliant little business and one I'm dead happy to have so close to home!…read more This place is just down the road from my house and houses loads and loads of great wines. You can get wines just for a quiet night in or an expensive bottle for a nice gift! The staff are really knowledgable so don't hesitate in asking for advise! Perfect for birthday and christmas presents as they have other wine-related things that are great as gifts. Perhaps the best bit is they do wine tasting and educational classes very often! Another perfect idea for a present or for a nice evening with a friend/partner - definitely recommend!

Great little business crammed floor to ceiling with tempting wines! The staff are extremely…read moreknowledgeable and helpful especially when choosing as a gift for someone else. Such a wide selection, impossible not to find something to suit your tastes. My husband and I were bought tickets to one of the wine tasting events, a great way to sample familiar and new wines and I would highly recommend. There is a separate room at the back set up for the wine tasting events and cheese and crackers are provided. There was no pressure to buy the wines sampled, the staff just want you to enjoy your evening and share their knowledge of wine with you.

fantastic shop! very friendly always have a laugh when i go in xxread more

This is a small, simple off licence that has a good selection of beers, wines and spirits…read more It's clean and tidy, with a small range of magazines and basic groceries. A perfect place to pop in and get some of those bare essentials on your way home.

This is one of very peculiar streets in Northern Quarter. A mile-long Tib Street runs from the…read morejunction of Oldham Road and Swan Street down to Market Street, where it is flanked by Debenhams and Starbucks. Affectionately known as "cats and dogs street", Tib Sr used to house a good number of pet shops. Sadly, the last pet shop was forced to close in 2002. Since then "pet" acquired a more intimate meaning, in the proper sense of the word: the number of adult shops in the street and on its corners is, well, astounding. It is still possible, I suppose, to call it "cats and dogs street" or "pet paradise", but with entirely differently meaning attached... Of course, there is more to Tib St than shop windows with X-rated videos and sexual paraphernalia. My main destination in Tib St between 2005 and 2006 was CSV Media Clubhouse, at the top of the street, close to Hydroponics shop on the corner. CSV Media Clubhouse provides training and courses for those who want to acquire various skills in Broadcast Media, from radio to TV and filming. Opposite the door there is a peculiar graffiti wall, commemorating Tib St as it was, with lots of pet shops. Other notable doors in Tib St include: Olivier Morosini hairdressing salon; Thornley Groves estate agency; Rags to Bitches famous vintage shop; Matt & Phred's jazz club; The Northern pub; the Army Shop; Centro bar; Simple bar; Hedonist hair salon; and Sacha's Hotel. Affleck's Palace occupies the corner of Church St and Tib St. Abakhan Fabrics, the Mancunian Mecca for all things sewing and knitting, is planted on the corner of Warwick St and Tib St, opposite The City pub. Warwick St also connects Tih St and Oldham St. And one more unique feature about Tib St. As you walk up and down, you will notice pavement blocks with lines tiled on them. Take a moment to read them: they are the lines by the renowned Lemn Sissay, a poet who marked Manchester by his talent before jetting off to London (due to family, not for fame, as he insists). He was a guest at 2009 Manchester International Festival, and there are several places in the city where you can read his poems, but Tib St must be the most daring one. The poem is called Flags.

When I first moved in to the house where me and Mrs Zombi call home the shop over the road was…read moreowned by a cool Indian family and it had the local Post office in it,then one day those lovely Royal Mail people decided to close the post office part of the shop down...boo royal mail,boo!! After that the shop was still run by the same family but it became a Bargain Booze instead of an indie,which wasn't a problem as overnight the prices on essentials (bread,milk,sugar and chainsaws) came down a little and all was well with the world apart from the atm now charged you. Then a few months ago the wheels fell off a touch,the Mother and Father who pretty much ran the shop retired to have an extended trip back to India so the shop was sold,and overnight it stopped being Bargain Booze and became Boozed Up (a dreadful name) Now the bloke who owns it seems to make up the prices as he goes along thus leaving my local shop almost unshoppable in,call me weird (please do,i root the bad guy all the time for crying out loud) but I dont like having to ask the price of something and then not being convinced that the price you are given was plucked out of thin air. It's difficult to shop local if that means being poorer because of it....

When Chris M and I ducked in here on the way back to his in need of some milk, who'd have thought…read morewe'd be grabbing amazing bargains by the armful. Our first introduction to Lakeland Groceries involved giant bags of Barbecue Doritos for less than a quid, and huge quantities of eggs at criminally low prices (free range before you start finger-wagging!). Wow, where had this place been all our lives? Situated right near Castlefield Gallery, it seems to be operated by one or two friendly staff, and it's a lovely hotch-potch corner-shop-like offering with a surprising range of products. Anything from a stonkingly generous variety of cheeses to pretty much a whole deli counter, snacks and store cupboard essentials and bits and bobs. You can even buy a bit of booze here if you've had a hard day at the office. So, The Southern Gateway eh. Sarah-Anne M's right, this residential area doesn't have a single recognisable retail outlet less than a ten minute walk away. Well forget hopping all the way to Whitworth Street West's Sainsbury's and Oxford Road's Tesco for your essentials and forgottens, if you're in need of a bit of milk, juice or even some cold cuts and nibbles to lay out for guests, here's your spot!

This little grocery store is genuinely worth a visit. I went in today for primarily yelping…read morepurposes and for the first time I was delighted with a convenience store. Not only do they have a really impressive range of everything you could expect, from chocolate and crisps to newspapers to necessities such as ketchup and tobasco, but they also have a cold meat and cheese counter! It's a little mini version of the Cheese Hamlet in Didsbury, with a great selection of different cheeses and cold meats that are much much cheaper than your usual cheese shop prices. A really nice little surprise find. Check it out!

A pretty small Spar store at St Mary's Gate, I like to avoid this store if I can as it isn't the…read moremost inviting of stores, people (and sometimes the staff) like to smoke outside, and there is a lot of homeless people outside the store most of the time (very sad) The store is pretty small inside and a little dark, the selection is okay, but I do much prefer the Spar store at City Tower, or local Sainsbury's and Tesco locations in terms of product range and selections. Some of the staff seem friendly and they do offer MyHermes drop-offs, which can be handy, especially considering my previous favourite Hermes store, Sainsbury's Local, no longer offer this service. 2*