Terrace

Terrace is a place that you have to visit at least three times. Sounds bizarre, but hear me out.
Visit one — mid week, early/​late evening. Terrace is a great bar for that cheeky mid week drink. Perfect place to catch up with friends, with loads of seating given its size, nice warm atmosphere with music that’s audible, but not so loud that your conversations are drowned.
Visit two — weekend breakfast/​lunch. Terrace has a brilliant menu serving pizzas, sandwiches, burgers and salads. It’s often a place I’d take friends who were visiting Manchester for the weekend because I know everyone will like it.
Visit three — 10/​11pm Friday/​Saturday. When the sun goes down, the RnB turns up. Terrace is absolutely packed at the weekend with a queue outside that can seem like it goes on forever. All the tables inside are shifted out of the way and replaced with a dj blasting your old (and new) school RnB. Great fun as a night out, but make sure you get there early; space is definitely limited.
I suggest giving all three times a try to get the whole Terrace experience.

A cool bar that is hard to find unless you have already been here, due mostly to lack of signage :) ‘too cool’ to have its name on it. As it does say Terrace on one side at least but it is missable as a location. However, we are here to review them for their service which I have always found very good, plus I am a fan of there big table at the back if you have a good sized group. It is a good space and I have to say it is always good to find a good cider on tap (yes I am descending into being a teen again, but I never had a good drinking sense, being more of a wine man).
I liked the fact that unlike a lot of bars these days people did not pounce on your empty pint glass as it became empty (over zealous bar staff annoy me especially when you still have an inch of drink left in the glass). Terrace is yet another bar in the NQ that I tend to like less the later it gets though as the music is turned up to loud and it is hard to hear the fellows you have around you, but as a quick one stop, or an afternoon drinker it is a good stop off or start point.

The atmosphere of Terrace I would describe as dark or possibly dank. feeling slightly worse for wear on Monday, this suited me fine.
This also meant the only option for lunch had to be the Full English at £7.50.
Both of us opt for the Full English, I ditch the beans because they are bullshit, and pair it with a pint of coke to avoid any potential unpleasantness. Total cost, £10.50, I wish I’d just paid for a proper pint.
First thing we notice, no black pudding, this is bullshit.
Check menu, apparently we needed to upgrade to the £9.50 breakfast to get that super food included.
Putting the lack of black pudding aside, you’ve got a meaty sausage, some nicely done bacon, a decent run to the poached egg, a hefty hash brown, and some healthy shit thrown in there as well. Its a strong ⁷⁄₁₀. Could have pushed to 2 slices of toast, giving the option of converting to a sandwich.
It brings me out of my hangover slump and ready to coast through the afternoon, the sugar of the Coke was probably a good choice.
Overall rating: 8 of 13 bastards.

Finally got round to review Terrace.
Every time I have arrived the atmosphere has always been a chilled out atmosphere. The drink selection is good and of a competitive price to other bars in the area. The past couple of times I have visited the staff have always been friendly and helpful.
The downside to terrace that they play the music pretty loud. Other than that it isn’t a bad bar.

Out for an early morning breakfast I decided to try the food at Terrace. It’s always been one of my local spots for a drink, but this was my first time trying food.
I’d heard good things about their brunch menu, so I opted for a simple Egg on Toast. Couldn’t fault it really.
The brunch scene is kicking off massively around the NQ and although terrace was great it didn’t quite live up to the brunchiness of rivals Home Sweet Home, Federal and Teacup.

For me to review Terrace at this stage probably wouldn’t be fair as i only spent around an hour there, had one glass of wine (which was nice) and didn’t eat any food.
We were looking for a place to sit and chat to fellow Unilocalers following an event and chose to go to Terrace, however because of the loud music (throughout the bar), this made having a chat very difficult and therefore wasn’t appropriate to our needs for that evening. That’s not their fault though surely.
Soooo, lets turn this on its head. If you’re looking for a lively atmospheric bar with plenty of room and seating with a DJ playing some excellent tunes on a midweek (Wednesday) night… then i can totally recommend Terrace.

I don’t get out much, really.
I mean, I do. But I am normally out so much in the day and at dinner time that I tend to be all tuckered out by 9pm and in my bed for 10pm. I was in Manchester for work and when it was suggested we go to this NQ bar for post-​event drinks, I was up for it. We arrived and this place was LOUD. I mean, really, really loud. So loud you couldn’t really hear when you were having a conversation unless you just spoke to one person. I can’t really comment on the tunes because I don’t remember them but I do remember enjoying the beers, the vibe and generally having a nice time. Some people commented that it was student-​y but the crowd didn’t seem that young to me. Maybe I’m going blind in my old age.
Anyway, I don’t know if I would go out of my way to go here when I visit Manchester again, but if I ended up here I know I’d have a pretty damn good time.

Terrace is a great bar, and I would’ve given 5 stars had the music not been so bloody loud!
Great beers on offer here and some cool craft cans all at reasonable cost. Terrace also brings together a cool blend of people, it’s not just your young folk or your couples, you have your hipsters, your groups of lads & lasses and everything in between. That alone makes it a cool place to hangout.
I’ve only been here at night which is maybe why I complain about the music — maybe I’m just an old man, but I do still like the social aspect of being able to hear the person next to you speak.
Apparently they do some nice grub during the day, so I may have to venture in and try that. All in all a great spot in NQ to grab a few beers!

Good ale, but pricey, and rediculously loud.

After 18 months and countless trips to the NQ I finally made it to Terrace. It definitely epitomises NQ hipster style, but there’s a big range of bottled beers (including an 8% Japanese ginger ale) and decent looking food. On a sunny day the eponymous terrace is a sheltered and pretty, albeit small, place to sit in an area (and city) that suffers from a severe shortage of outdoor options.

Having been in terrace many a time in all states of mind (sober to falling asleep to blind drunk) I have finally found the right words to describe terrace !
The unsigned outside shop front style window is dark and mysterious. With a small ledge and school science lab stools you can only work out its a bar from the outside when you see somebody raise a glass of Amber coloured ale with a fluffy head !
I like terrace I really really do, but I can’t find it in my too give it more than 3 stars. I know I should give it four but I can’t even though I’ll be back very soon !
My points mainly to reach its 4^th star is employ some bar tenders that actually respect there customer if they do not fit in with the NQ vibe of the week (this is me) ⁹⁄₁₀ of them are great you just get one that seems a bit short .
Example being asking to look difference between two bottles of beer as I wanted the lower alcohol one and getting a sigh from the bar keep !
I’ve not tried the food but have been told it’s good ! Cocktails in here are brilliant ant worth there money. Some bottled beers are a bit over priced even for central Manchester. Particular the Belgian beers
I’ll be back and I’ll tell my friends just make sure you Get what you want from the bar and not pushed to choose something !

An attractive and spacious bar on Thomas Street in Manchester’s burgeoning Northern Quarter. I’ve passed here many times at the weekend when it looks absolutely packed and therefore I’ve carried on by!
However for an early evening drink on a Tuesday it was perfect. The bar is massively more spacious than it first appears. There’s an excellent selection of both draught and bottled beers. I had a 355ml bottle of Mexican Pacifico which was priced at £4.20
A very pleasant bar, and one I’m sure to return to now I know how huge the place is inside.

We ended up here one Sunday, hungover and aimless, looking to fill in a couple of hours before our train back to Glasgow with a slap-​up Sunday roast. We’d been wandering around the Northern Quarter for a good 40mins trying to find somewhere that could accommodate us and by Crikey these Manchester folks like their Sunday roasts! Everywhere was full! Then we happened on Terrace just as we were starting to lose our senses of humour and friends had begun to just look like giant cartoon hams. It was oddly quiet, compared to the rest of the places we’d seen. It looked suitably hipstery (all industrial bare brick walls and school-​lab-​type chairs), and the menu suited us all so the pessimist in me was thinking «ok– what the hell’s wrong with the place? Why is it half empty?». One slightly grumpy waitress was countered with one super-​cheery waitress, so it can’t be the staff. So what is it? They’ve said it’ll be 15 mins wait for food. That’s not too long, so that can’t be it. Is it the weird smell in the corridor to the loos, maybe? Well, that’s not great, but the smell disappears by the time you get to the actual loos, so I don’t think that’s it. It must be the food, then, I think to myself. The food must be terrible. Oh, no, the food’s going to be terrible isn’t it? They didn’t do a veggie option for the Sunday roast, so perhaps the kitchen aren’t really any great shakes. Actually, where *is* that food? It’s been quite a while since we ordered. How long does it take to cock– up my lunch (as I’m now expecting)? It slowly dawns on us as we survey other tables who are also still waiting for food that the grumpy waitress actually said it was a FIFTY MINUTE wait for food, not FIFTEEN. Ohhhhhhh, I seeeee.
After another 20 mins wait, our food finally arrived and I’m pleased to say it was delicious. I had moist roast pork with crunchy crackling, crunchy/​fluffy roast potatoes, pillowy Yorkshire pudding, buttery kale, fruity stuffing, and real gravy. It was gorgeous. Perfect, even. The veggies in our group also reported that their veggie breakfast and halloumi salad were delicious, though they did feel a little left out of the roast dinner tastiness. Come in, Terrace, just do a nut loaf or a mushroom tart or something, so that the veggies can enjoy the trimmings too. (NB: I suspect the Yorkshire and possibly the roast potatoes too were beef-​dripping based, so I realise there’s a bit more re-​jigging involved to accommodate the veggies).
So there you go: eerily quiet bar-​restaurant, great food, and even though I searched for things that were wrong to explain the eeriness, the only real problem is a very slow kitchen. If you are not in a rush, aren’t ravenous and are looking to have a delicious, leisurely Sunday lunch over a couple of hours then I’d recommend Terrace!

Well what a cooooool bar this is!! Came here just for a drink so am eager to try the food menu but what I saw was a great atmosphere!
We came at Xmas time and after work drinkers so very busy! At weekends you will be hard-​pressed to find a seat here let alone a table! Friendly atmosphere and staff and not too hipster (I am not cool) ! I had the mulled cider which was DELICIOUS!
That is all, I shall update this when we have food here!

Went to Terrace for the Unilocal drinks. Ive been a few times on a Saturday night but never in the week.
Being Christmas time it was very busy and at first we were squashed on a small table. Luckily a large table at the back came free which gave us more room.
I was drinking prosecco all night. It is only £3.30 for a glass so it would have been rude not to. Some chips appeared on the table after about an hour which was nice — they were good chips.
Overall great venue and one I will visit more in the week.

It was a cloudy winter day in January, I found Terrace in Northern Quarter. It doesn’t have a fancy front face but it opened a whole different world when you walk in. In the front part of Terrace, a few tables were scattered around the bar area. There are plenty of spaces in the back of the room as well. The decoration inside was based on the original bricks with some tasteful details and lightings, which created a relaxed and chilled atmosphere.
I checked the menu and ordered an English breakfast with coffee. I was curious about the so-​called Manchester sausage on the menu. The food and coffee are arrived in good presentation and everything was very well cooked.
I had another visit on an afternoon after lunch with a friend. We had coffee and just wanted to sit down and relax. The coffee was alright and it was extremely cheap. I was so curious how could they support them in such low price until we came again at night another time. We came in for drinks after work and it totally transformed into a bar. Food was also served.
I love Terrace delivered the spirit of Northern Quarter– cool, fun, funky, artistic and quirky. You could have breakfast/​brunch here; hang out with friends over coffee and beers. It’s also perfect place for working on laptop since the WIFI is fast and the seats are comfortable. It’s also a great place to meet friends for drinks after work or for dinners. There could fulfil all your needs really.

My review for Terrace is unashamedly bias. A good friend of mine is a resident DJ and I know majority of the staff, (they’re absolute sweethearts!) Unfortunately, on week-​ends the crowd isn’t everyone’s cup of tea but that’s the nature of the beast. On weekdays however it’s as decent a spot for a meet-​chat-​drink-​chill scenario as anywhere else in the Northern-​Quarter.
There is also an upstairs area for private hire which, in my opinion is one of the best venues for private Birthday parties/​gatherings around. I can vouch for it as I’ve been to a few this year. Wrestling through the crowds on a Saturday night, it makes for a little oasis, with it’s spacious demeanour (High ceilings et al) and a private bar to boot.
As mentioned midweek is probably the best time to venture over yonder, but if you do decide to check it out on a weekend, make sure you get there fairly early. It gets mega busy and lining up outside «ain’t any kind of fun» (As Christopher Walken once said)

Stopped by here on a recent Sunday afternoon during a long weekend trip to Manchester for Pride. My friends and I needed some delicious stomach-​lining party fuel to see us through the evening, and this place proved perfect.
After wandering, famished, around the Northern Quarter for a while we noticed Terrace, with it’s smart industrial-​style frontage. Inside, the industrial feel continued, with lots of exposed brickwork, wooden benches and low lighting. The atmosphere was nice and relaxed and the staff were friendly (although the service was a little slow).
The menu offered plenty of tasty-​sounding burgers and pizzas, as well as Sunday roast options. After initially hovering over a roast, I opted for the cheeseburger with extra bacon. This came with fries, home-​made coleslaw and a tasty salad, all served on a cool little tray. It was all really tasty and very filling — just what was needed. One of our group went wild, deviating from the burger-​fest, and ordered a pizza topped with locally smoked meats, which also looked delicious.
Terrace offers a pleasing array of interesting international beers. I washed down my burger’n’bits with a Sierra Nevada Torpedo (recommended to me), which was hoppy and refreshing.
All in all, great little place and a good find. Would definitely recommend.

Another great hipster hideaway in Manchester’s Northern Quarter, Terrace is a nice restaurant/​bar offering burgers, pizzas, sunday roasts and a great selection of craft and international beers.
I had the beef burger with chorizo. I had actually ordered a chicken burger and chorizo, however was happy to eat this as I didn’t want to wait and was ready for some food. I also was pleased to see they had the Sierra Nevada Torpedo so naturally ordered this too. It was 2 in the afternoon at this point so I thought this would be fine and it was pride!
The burger was very tasty and came well presented alongside chips in a cup, salad and a homemade coleslaw.
Service was a little slow and the did get my order wrong, however it is somewhere I would recommend, especially seems like a great place for an after work drink or even somewhere to meet friends before a big night.

This has to be my favourite bar in Manchester
Its the style i like the people i like and everything i love what a bar should be.
Its super cool and probably one the coolest bars I’ve been in, Its super friendly staff and great beers make it even more special.
Once you walk through the main door, its cool look strikes you and its like youre in some cool NYC style bar, well this is probably better than some Manhattan bars, Its old building look is great and love the industrial style look is great and i love it!
Theres booths to sit around and loads of tables at the back or you can just sip you’re beer at the bar.
The music level was just right and could hear our friends talking well and clearly.
We visited on a wednesday evening and its was quite busy, i don’t think they have a happy hour but they don’t need too!
can’t wait to go back!