Flok — Manchester's sherry bar, since 2017
FLōK — Sherry & wine bar and eatery
5 Stevenson Square, Northern Quarter
“Manchester’s first dedicated Sherry bar.” sherry.wine, the Consejo Regulador, Jerez
The Coravin list
Vintages by the glass.
Without the bottle.
A thin needle through the cork, a breath of argon, and a bottle pours without ever being opened. Flok was one of the first bars in the city to run a list this way: high-value vintages, by the glass, on an ordinary weeknight.
When it opened, that meant a 2005 Vega Sicilia Único, a candidate for Spain’s finest red, poured by the 75ml glass when it opened. The price of a round, not a holiday.
No list is printed here on purpose. It changes weekly.
2005 Vega Sicilia Único · Ribera del Duero
Ask what’s open tonight.
There is more to this than your gran's dusty bottle of Croft Original.
Fino to PX,
without the lecture.
The full range of sherry and Madeira, by the glass and the bottle, plus sherry cocktails: there's a Sanlúcar Sour with your name on it. Five words of Spanish are all you need.
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Fino
Bone-dry, pale as straw, served as cold as the fridge will go. Start here.
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Manzanilla
Fino raised by the sea at Sanlúcar. The same wine, with salt on its breath.
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Amontillado
A fino that lost its blanket of flor and kept ageing. Hazelnut, amber, autumn.
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Oloroso
Aged open to the air: walnut and old wood, the colour of this room’s lamplight.
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Pedro Ximénez
Grapes dried in the sun until the wine pours like treacle. Pudding, in a copita.
Spanish vermut,
pulled like a pint.
Never poured like one.
It's 15%, so it comes in small measures: a sipping thing, cold, with an olive. The handpull says Manchester; what comes out of it says Barcelona.
Alongside: local craft beer on cask and keg, a deep Spanish spirits shelf (Nordés, the Galician gin, among them) and a hundred-odd wines, ten whites and ten reds by the glass.
From the board.
Dishes that have appeared on the board. It changes weekly; ask what’s on.
- Baby octopus smoked paprika, chilli, garlic
- Bacalao salad potato, piquillo peppers, orange
- ‘Bikini’ toasted cheese and ham
- Morcilla vermut reduction, on crostini
- Jamón meatballs
- Honey-glazed chorizo red wine and rosemary
- Jamón Ibérico de Bellota bread, oil, toasted almonds
- Cheese Mahón, Picos Blue, Manchego
- Whatever's on tonight by the glassful of manzanilla — ask
Private hire, downstairs
The vault.
This building began as a bank, latterly a gift shop. The bank's vault is still down there, and Flok kept it: lined in gold leaf, stocked minibar, a vintage hi-fi and a stack of records. Or bring your own.
It takes gatherings, meetings and fiestas, with tailored service for the evening. And no, there's no photograph of it online. Some rooms you have to come and see.
“An incredible sherry list … a hidden, gold leaf-lined vault complete with record player and minibar.”
Time Out, The best bars in Manchester, 2024
Enquiries by DM to @flokmcr, or on the phone. The bar has no working email address today; that changes with this site.
Tastings, pairings, sherry school.
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Sherry school
An evening downstairs with a Sherry Educator: fino to PX, poured properly, no gatekeeping. The reason a stranger walks in a sceptic and walks out with a favourite amontillado.
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Tastings & pairings
Wine tastings, food pairings, the occasional vertical. Sherry Week done seriously.
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In the vault
Private tastings for a table of friends, records on the hi-fi, door closed.
Dates are the owner's to fill. They land on @flokmcr, or you ask at the bar.
Sun from mid-morning
until it sets.
The benches bleed straight into Stevenson Square: a roaring trade whenever the sun's out, and the best people-watching in the Northern Quarter with a cold fino sweating next to you.
Find us
On the corner of the square.
Flok · 5 Stevenson SquareManchester M1 1DN · Northern Quarter
Booking is a DM to @flokmcr or a phone call; the bar has no working email.
Hours
- Monday – Thursday 11:00 – 23:00
- Friday – Sunday 11:00 – 01:00
CAMRA WhatPub survey, February 2026. Other listings differ; confirm with the bar or check @flokmcr. (as listed by Manchester’s Finest: Monday – Thursday & Sunday 11:00–23:30; Friday – Saturday 11:00–01:00.)