The team behind popular NQ brunch spot Another Heart To Feed are opening a new bar Called The Wayfarer, it’ll be opening up on the corner of Oldham Street and Swan street at the edge of the Northern Quarter.
The bar will be moving into the spot left vacant by upscale cocktail bar Mecanica. The cocktail bar closed last August, having replaced the previous bar, Quick Brown Fox.
Images from the contractors show that the old green-tiled frontage will remain in place, with outdoor terrace seating planned for both the Swan Street and Oldham Street corners.
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The Wayfarer will be the latest project from Urban Village Bars, which also has a handful of other locations across the city. As well as Another Heart To Feed on Hilton Street in the Northern Quarter, they have West Village on Burton Road, and The Freemount on Oldham Street.
Speaking to the Manchester Evening News co-owner Mike Dillon said: "We'd had it on the burner for a while. The Freemount has been a runaway success for us, and that's more of a pub feel. We want it to be a modern pub, with DJs and live music, open late, and that's a gap we want to fill.
"The Freemount is a bit of a knees up type of place, and this will be a bit more relaxed. Harking back to a more traditional pub. A boozer where you can get a cocktail, DJs on the weekends, some live music, but with that feel of a traditional pub. We're investing lot in the frontage, so again more traditional, where Mecanica had this modernist glass frontage. It will speak much better with the building."
Contractors RECOM, which fitted out Another Heart To Feed, West Village and The Freemount will be doing the refurbishment, though there’s no opening date set just yet.
The bars joins a host of others making the Northern Quarter and Ancoats border a hive of late-night activity.
Also on Swan Street are the likes of Ramona and The Firehouse, the Rose & Monkey Hotel, 80s-vibe cocktail spot Sammy’s and, of course, the newly refurbished Band On The Wall.
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