Despite walking past this place for the past 17 years I’d never, until last night, stepped through it’s front doors.
A friend invited us to the opening night of a photo exhibition there so a good opportunity to check the place out was presented to us. With a name like ‘Green Room’ you can kind of guess the ‘aroma’ and clientèle of the place (which is more obvious when you look inside when passing by). Yup, it’s a fairly arty place in which to imbibe your favourite tipple.
Although perhaps not the most widest choice of drinks they still stock some decent premium and fruity ales (which I adore, just not in large quantities).
It is in fact more than a cafe/bar - a contemporary arts space for emerging talents in creative Manchester. Set over two floors in a converted Victorian rail arch (one of the few original conversions left on Whitworth street) it’s a nice space to take in exhibitions whilst quaffing a jug of pleasant nectar.
Within the complex you’ll find workspace, exhibition space and a mezzanine space for audio events (as an example).
Anyway, I’d urge you to go look at the current exhibition by Jane Samuels entitled: ‘The Abandoned Buildings Project’, quite unsettling photographs captured within abandoned asylums and presented terrifically in three dimensional montages (on for the next three weeks).
Art and Ale mix very well.

Situated just off Oxford Road is this cute little bar with a really nice little theatre. Much like the Cornerhouse, this place is frequented by arty indie types, it has more of a professional feel to it than most student-inhabited places though. The bar sells a small but decent variety of quality alcohol, and there are often theatre productions going on, which for a major city are not expensive at all.