Escape to Freight Island

About

Located on Baring Street, amid the thrilling regeneration of Depot Mayfield, Escape to Freight Island is an urban market and festival space - an axis of food, drink, music, immersive entertainment, festival takeovers and family focused happenings.

It is home to a number of different bars, restaurants, food trucks, with retail space and a bike park.  There's a 70s New York-inspired roller disco, a hidden high-fi audio bar, which transforms into a karaoke venue called Queen Samantha’s, and a retro arcade games corridor. Escape to Freight Island also hosts a diverse, ticketed events programme, with free festival-calibre entertainment 12 hours-a-day. 

Among the food outlets are Madre, with its own non-traditional, upscaled, ingredient-driven tacos, the amazing Voodoo Ray’s Pizza northern outpost, and a favourite of renowned restaurant critic Jay Rayner, Ramsbottom's pioneering Baratxuri holds court in the outside space, with a wood-fired ‘Asador’ grill, roasting large cuts of meat and whole fish.

Escape to Freight Island is Camden Town Brewery’s biggest collaboration outside of London, with a boutique craft ale bar in partnership with Salford’s inimitable Pomona Island brewery. This runs alongside a specialist wine bar, and a cocktail space from the team behind Ancoats' favourite neighbourhood bar, The Jane Eyre.

The entire venue is sound-tracked by a visionary selection of music, festival takeovers and exclusive collaborations with the likes of Homoelectric, We Out Here festival, Festival N°6, Love International and other iconic musical curators.