Restaurants

Restaurants

Dining in Manchester is a real cosmopolitan culinary experience with a host of quality restaurants to choose from. Whether it is British, Chinese, Russian, Thai or Brazilian, and no matter your budget Manchester has a tasty offering.

British cuisine

Hard Rock Cafe Manchester

Exchange Square, Manchester, M4 2BS
Tel: 0161 831 6700
Web: www.hardrock.com

Located in the centre of the city, the UK’s largest Hard Rock will rock your senses serving what can only be described as “The Official Food of Rock”, generous drinks and an awe-inspiring collection of rock memorabilia. Priceless pieces from legends The Beatles, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Oasis, and Elvis Presley grace the cafe walls along with more contemporary items including stage costumes worn by Natasha Bedingfield and the Arctic Monkeys.

The River Bar and Restaurant

The Lowry Hotel, 50 Dearmans Place, Chapel Wharf, Manchester, M3 5LH
Tel: 0161 827 4041
Web: www.theriverrestaurant.com

The River Bar and Restaurant at The Lowry Hotel is one of the region’s most celebrated dining spots. Overlooking the waters of the River Irwell, it offers a modern and comfortable approach to its food and guest service, making a top quality dining experience both affordable and accessible for everyone. The menu is truly British menu using the best seasonal British and local ingredients where possible. Taking inspiration from local producers and using traditional cooking methods the ingredients are allowed to speak for themselves.

Barbirolli

Barbirolli, 31 Lower Mosley Street, Manchester M2 3WS

Tel: 0161 236 3060 Web:  www.barbirolli.com

Barbirolli is a smart but relaxed restaurant, lounge bar and live music venue in a quiet waterfront piazza down the steps next to the Bridgewater Hall … “a calm oasis from city centre bustle”. A place for casual diners, exhibition delegates and corporate entertainers to enjoy high-end bar meals, fixed-priced pre-theatre and concert meals or fine à la carte dishes in a casually stylish atmosphere. Available for private hire, Barbirolli is as perfect for meeting clients, networking and product launches as it is for private parties, banquets and family celebrations.

Sam’s Chop House

Back Pool Fold, Chapel Walks, off Cross Street, Manchester
Tel: 0161 834 3210
Web: www.thevictorianchophousecompany.com

Sam’s chop House is the best for classic and contemporary British cuisine in the city. Dishes such as Corned Beef Hash, Rib of beef and homemade steak and kidney puddings will tickle the taste buds whilst the interior is warm and welcoming. They even serve their own ale and have one of the best wine lists in town. Specialise in serving huge portions so make sure you arrive hungry.

Abode

107 Piccadilly, Manchester M1 2DB
Tel: 0161 247 7744
Web: www.abodehotels.co.uk/manchester

Cleverly designed to pay homage to the building’s past as a cotton merchant’s warehouse, Abode's Victorian facade gives way to modern British style, comfort and absolute luxury. ABode Manchester is also home to Michael Caine’s restaurants and bars catering for a variety of tastes serving award winning innovative modern British cuisine.

Northern Quarter Restaurant and Bar

108 High Street, Manchester M4 1HQ
Tel: 0161 832 7115
Web: www.tnq.co.uk

Funky but not frightening, the pleasant dining room is the place to come for classics done well. Head Chef Anthony Fielden trained in top Manchester eateries and serves up gutsy fresh food whilst using prime local ingredients with added flavours of the Med and beyond. The menu changes frequently, making the most of seasonal ingredients.

International and British cuisine

Opus One Restaurant

Radisson Edwardian Hotel, Peter Street, Manchester, M2 5GP
Tel: 0161 835 8904
Web: www.radissonedwardian.co.uk

This Manchester restaurant is fast becoming one of the finest, most vibrant restaurant in the city centre. The ambience is dramatic, dressed with lush, exotic colours, red velvet walls, glossy black woodwork and airy high ceilings. Serving innovative modern British food, Opus One is one of the places to see and be seen in.

The French

The Midland Hotel, Peter Street, Manchester, M60 2DS
Tel: 0161 236 3333
Web: www.qhotels.co.uk

The French at the Midland Hotel enjoys a reputation as the best fine dining restaurant in Manchester city centre and is certainly the perfect restaurant for that special occasion. Like the Midland Hotel itself, its grandness and ambience provides a dining experience not to be forgotten. The menu is superb and the service here is also noteworthy, attentive without being intrusive.

The Living Room

80 Deansgate, Manchester, M3 2ER
Tel: 0161 832 0083
Web: www.thelivingroom.co.uk

Chic, upbeat and welcoming, The Living Room is a unique restaurant and bar, which offers an abundance of choice with a wide range of high quality food and drink choices, brought to the table with an award-winning level of service. An extensive A la carte menu is supplemented by daily chef’s specials and monthly chef’s plates; regionally inspired dishes created from local produce or with local significance.

Harvey Nichols Restaurant and Brasserie

21 Cathedral Street, Manchester, M1 1AD
Tel: 0161 828 8888
Web: www.harveynichols.com

With soaring glass walls boasting panoramic views of Manchester, the second floor of this shopping mecca offers great brasserie food, plus an award-winning restaurant with panoramic views over Exchange Square. It provides the perfect ambience in which to enjoy a light lunch or a sumptuous dinner.

Grill on the Alley

Ridgefield, (just behind Deansgate), Manchester, M2 6EG
Tel: 0161 833 3465
Web: www.blackhouse.uk.com

Located off iconic Deansgate this restaurant epitomises old and new Manchester, coming together to form a perfect partnership where you may hide away in a haven of great food, drink and atmosphere; serving a range of international dishes, it is an up-market steakhouse where you can dine on specially-massaged Kobe beef or choose your own lobster.

Panacea Bar & Restaurant

14 John Dalton Street, Manchester
Tel: 0161 833 0000
Web: www.panacearestaurants.co.uk

Panacea offers a laid-back environment in which to enjoy globally inspired dishes and impeccable service. It is a sophisticated setting with sumptuous furnishings, that evokes an atmosphere of style and luxury within a contemporary setting.

Asian cuisine

Akbars

73-83 Liverpool Road, Deansgate, Manchester M3 4NQ
Tel: 0161 834 8444
Web: www.akbars.co.uk

Akbar’s specialises in sizzling pan-cooked baltis from Baltistan, an extreme mountainous region North of Pakistan. Akbar's offers enjoyable food of a consistently high quality, at reasonable prices and made with the very best of fine ingredients. Everything on the menu is prepared on the premises by skilled and dedicated chefs to guarantee authentic cuisine.

Ning

The Burton Building, 92-94 Oldham Street, Northern Quarter, Manchester M4 1LJ
Tel: 0161 238 9088
Web: www.ningcatering.com

Style and simplicity, quality and value, individuality and hospitality - these are the values that stand Ning out from the crowd. The Malaysian restaurant, cookery school and catering service is situated in Manchester’s vibrant Northern Quarter. Ning serves a fantastic range of fresh and aromatic South East Asian food and is reckoned by some to have the best Pad Thai this side of Bangkok. Oriental chic, Northern Quarter charm. It’s a Ning thing!

Yang Sing

34 Princess Street, Manchester, M1 4JY
Tel: 0161 236 2200
Web: www.yang-sing.com

The Yang Sing was founded in November 1977 by two generations of the Yeung family. Winner of numerous awards and accolades, it is frequently cited as the best Chinese restaurant in Europe. Now considered a Manchester institution, it is well worth considering during any visit to Manchester. The Yang Sing has a vast 300-dish menu – the best plan is just to say ‘feed me’ and let them bring you the day’s specialities.

Ithaca

36 John Dalton Street, Manchester
Tel: 0870 740 4000
Web: www.ithacamanchester.com

Ithaca offers a mix of innovative and modern pan-Asian cuisine, specialising in dishes from the Far East, most notably Japan and China, all served in opulent surroundings against a background of exotic world music. The ethos is ‘affordable luxury’, and offers an ambience that is unique to Manchester.

Italian cuisine

Albert’s Shed

Eastgate, 20 Castle Street, Manchester, M3 4LZ
Tel: 0161 839 9818
Web: www.albertsshed.com

Situated right next to the picturesque Castlefield canal basin, this predominantly Italian restaurant is a good choice for alfresco dining in the summer. Its bizarre name comes from the owner of the tool shed that once occupied the site.

Spanish cuisine

Grado

New York Street, Piccadilly, Manchester, M1 4BD
Tel: 0161 238 9790
Web: www.heathcotes.co.uk

Grado is celebrity chef Paul Heathcote’s £1m traditional Spanish Tapas restaurant in the heart of Manchester, offering an eclectic mix of regional and new wave Spanish food, plus a wine list of over 100 Spanish specialities.

South and Central American cuisine

Gaucho

2a St Mary’s Street, Manchester, M3 2LB
Tel: 0161 833 4333
Web: www.gauchorestaurants.co.uk

Gaucho is a spacious, opulent Grade II listed building with an interior that combines contemporary glamour with Argentine heritage. Argentina has preserved a distinctly European heritage in its cooking and as a result, there is no such thing as an Argentine cuisine in the sense that we refer to French Italian or Japanese. As a result, Argentine cuisine is largely ‘European based’ and its contribution to world gastronomy is to use simple flavours and naturally organic ingredients. Gaucho has released its own-label range of wines to feature in its restaurants to represent all the major grape varieties in Argentina and from the ‘terroir’ in which they are best suited.

Bem Brasil

King Street West, Manchester, M3 2GQ
Tel: 0161 839 2525
Web: www.bembrasilrestaurants.com

Bem Brasil, a great sensation in dining, is a traditional Brazilian Churrascaria (steak house), where the preparation of beef, pork, fish and poultry is skillfully performed by in-house artisans. Alongside over 15 different cuts of beef, lamb, pork and chicken, there are various other dishes on offer including salads and vegetables.