Restaurants, hotels, bars and wineries in Manchester from the En Primeur Club guide.
Accolades in Manchester
Tasting menus in our guide include the city's two Michelin-starred restaurants, a plant-based sequence in Whalley Range and a 12-seat chef's table in the Northern Quarter.
Skof, in Piccadilly, is a Modern British fine-dining restaurant serving a tasting menu in a former textile warehouse. Tom Barnes cooks at an open kitchen, and guests take a course at the counter, served by the chef, with a tableside tiramisu. In 2026 it holds a Michelin star and 29th place in the National Restaurant Awards Top 100.
mana, in Ancoats & Beswick, serves a multi-course tasting menu in a double-height room where every table faces an open kitchen on the same floor. Simon Martin cooks British produce with Asian techniques. Service is sommelier-led, and craft cocktails are poured. Michelin's latest award is a star dated 2026, with four AA Rosettes.
The Walled Gardens Underground Restaurant, in Whalley Range, is Eddie Shepherd's plant-based fine-dining room in a converted home. The tasting menu runs to 12 courses for eight guests a night, using vacuum distillation and molecular gastronomy. It holds a Wine Spectator Best of Award of Excellence dated 2025.
Sampa, in the Northern Quarter, is an underground Brazilian-British chef's table with 12 seats. The format is a tasting menu of 12 courses that keeps changing, and the courses follow the kitchen's sourcing. Craft cocktails are poured. Michelin awarded a Plate in 2026.
Four wine programmes in our guide are marked exceptional, including sommelier-led lists in Deansgate and natural wine in Ancoats & Beswick. Cheetham adds a list with sake.
Climat, in Deansgate, is a Modern European wine-led restaurant with panoramic views over Manchester and a cellar of 300 bottles. The wine programme is exceptional, extensive and sommelier-led. The kitchen cooks small plates and a la carte dishes in a style it calls Parisian ex-pat. It holds a Star Wine List award and a World's Best Wine Lists two-star award, and Michelin's latest award is a Plate dated 2026.
Adam Reid at the French, in Deansgate, is the Grade II-listed dining room of the Midland Hotel. The set menu and tasting menu draw on northern food culture, with tableside service, using Sladesdown Farm duck, day-boat cod and Stichelton. The wine programme is exceptional, extensive and sommelier-led. Michelin's latest award is a Plate dated 2026, with four AA Rosettes, and The Good Food Guide rated it Exceptional in 2025.
Flawd, in Ancoats & Beswick, is a wine bar, bottle shop and sharing-plate restaurant. The wine programme is exceptional and built on natural wine, with low-intervention bottles from small producers. A changing blackboard menu is largely plant-focused and uses local ingredients, including Lancaster smoked mackerel, Garstang Blue and sourdough from Pollen bakery. The Good Food Guide rated it Very Good in 2025.
The Spärrows, in Cheetham, cooks modern Central European food from house-made spätzle, dumplings and filled pasta, as small plates and a la carte. The list favours smaller producers, with sake and a bottle shop. Michelin's latest award is a Bib Gourmand dated 2026. The Good Food Guide named it a Best Local Restaurant that year and rated it Very Good in 2025.
Three small-plate restaurants in our guide pour natural wine with the food. Higher Ground and Erst hold a Michelin Bib Gourmand, and Another Hand holds a Michelin Plate.
Higher Ground, in Deansgate, cooks modern British food from UK and Irish produce, drawn largely from the team's Cheshire market garden, Cinderwood. The formats are small plates, a tasting menu and a la carte, from an open kitchen. Centred on natural wine. Its 2026 awards include a Michelin Bib Gourmand and 39th place in the National Restaurant Awards Top 100.
Erst, in Ancoats & Beswick, is a small-plates restaurant and natural-wine bar. Patrick Withington grills inventive plates on a robata, using prime seasonal ingredients. The wine list skews toward natural wine and holds a Star Wine List award dated 2026. Michelin awarded a Bib Gourmand and a Plate for 2026. The Good Food Guide rated it Good in 2025.
Another Hand, in Deansgate, serves veggie-led modern British sharing plates, as small plates and a la carte. Ingredients are responsibly sourced, and the flavours are inventive and punchy. The wine list centres on natural wine, with low-intervention bottles and craft beers. Michelin's latest award is a Plate dated 2026. The Good Food Guide rated it Very Good in 2025.
In our guide, Manchester has two Michelin-starred restaurants and two Michelin stars in total. Skof, in Piccadilly, and mana, in Ancoats & Beswick, each hold a Michelin star dated 2026. Skof serves a tasting menu with an extensive wine list. mana serves a tasting menu with an extensive, sommelier-led list and craft cocktails.
Exceptional wine programmes in our guide include rooms in Deansgate and Ancoats & Beswick, and the Wine Spectator award is in Whalley Range. Climat and Adam Reid at the French, both in Deansgate, run sommelier-led lists, and Climat keeps a cellar of 300 bottles. Flawd, in Ancoats & Beswick, pours natural wine from small producers. The Walled Gardens Underground Restaurant, in Whalley Range, holds a Wine Spectator Best of Award of Excellence.
Tasting menus in our guide are in Piccadilly, Ancoats & Beswick, Deansgate, Whalley Range and the Northern Quarter. Piccadilly has Skof. Ancoats & Beswick has mana, a multi-course open-kitchen menu. Deansgate has Higher Ground, with a tasting menu among its formats, and Adam Reid at the French, with a set menu and a tasting menu. Whalley Range has The Walled Gardens Underground Restaurant and Walled Garden Supper Club. The Northern Quarter has Sampa, a 12-seat chef's table.
The Walled Gardens Underground Restaurant, in Whalley Range, is the venue in our guide with a Wine Spectator award. It holds a Wine Spectator Best of Award of Excellence dated 2025. Citywide, that Best of Award of Excellence is the only Wine Spectator award in the guide.
By Emmett Haley · Updated October 8, 2026 · Editorial standards
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In a reborn textile warehouse, Skof in Manchester pairs Tom Barnes’s precision cooking with a relaxed, music-led vibe—think tasting menus that bridge local produce and global nuance, closing with the heartfelt “Barney’s Tiramisu.”
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Mana ended Manchester's 40-year wait for a Michelin star in 2019, one year after opening in Ancoats. Chef Simon Martin runs a multi-course tasting menu built on British produce and Asian technique, served in a double-height open-plan space where the kitchen and dining room share the same floor. The 'Complete' menu runs to £175 per person, with lunch available from £70.
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Higher Ground operates from a corner of Faulkner House on New York Street, holding a Michelin Bib Gourmand and a place on Opinionated About Dining's European casual list. The kitchen draws much of its produce from Cinderwood, the team's own Cheshire market garden, and serves sharing plates that run from air-dried culatello to Scottish turbot. It is one of the more considered mid-price options in Manchester's city centre.
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A natural wine bar and small-plates restaurant on Murray Street in Ancoats, Erst has held a Michelin Plate since 2024 and ranked in Opinionated About Dining's Casual Europe list three years running. Patrick Withington's kitchen produces sharply constructed dishes from prime seasonal materials, while the drinks list skews heavily toward natural wines. Open Tuesday through Saturday from 1pm.
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Occupying the Belle Époque dining room of Manchester's grade II-listed Midland Hotel, Adam Reid at The French translates northern English culinary tradition into a focused multi-course set menu. Reid's cooking draws on regional provenance, Sladesdown Farm duck, day-boat cod, Stichelton blue cheese, within a darkly romantic, mirrored interior that frames the meal as occasion. Holders of a 2025 Michelin Plate and ranked 604th in the Opinionated About Dining Europe list.
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Under the railway arches of Manchester's Green Quarter, The Spärrows holds a Michelin Bib Gourmand for its house-made dumplings, spätzle, and filled pasta, a format that draws on Alpine and Eastern European tradition while keeping prices firmly at the accessible end of the city's dining spectrum. The wine list leans toward smaller producers, with a sake selection and an attached bottle shop rounding out a programme that runs well beyond the kitchen.
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On the eighth floor of a Parsonage office block, Climat earns its place in Manchester's serious dining conversation through a wine-led approach and a concise fixed-price menu the kitchen describes as 'Parisian ex-pat'. A Star Wine List award-winner in both 2023 and 2024, it pairs thoughtful sourcing with panoramic city views, making it one of the more considered rooftop dining propositions in the city centre.
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Eddie Shepherd's Whalley Range underground restaurant operates on a strict limited-capacity format, sending twelve plant-based courses through a sequence of technical precision that has drawn visiting chefs from across Europe. Ranked #520 in Opinionated About Dining's Top Restaurants in Europe for 2025, it sits in a narrow tier of serious vegetarian tasting menus in the UK. Book well ahead, seats are genuinely scarce.
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A Michelin Bib Gourmand holder since at least 2024, El Gato Negro occupies three floors on King Street, running from a street-level tapas bar through an open-kitchen counter to a rooftop terrace above. The cooking leans on Spanish classical technique, Josper-grilled meats, charcuterie boards, and a Iberian-led wine list, at a price point that sits well below Manchester's tasting-menu tier.
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A Michelin Plate-recognised bistro on Deansgate Mews inside Manchester's Great Northern development, Another Hand serves vegetarian-led sharing plates sourced from local and ethical growers, paired with low-intervention wines and craft beers. Expect punchy, inventive flavour combinations at a mid-range price point (££) in an approachable, lively room.
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A counter-dining room tucked behind a cocktail bar on Bridge Street, Stow is one of Manchester's most committed open-fire kitchens. The short, regularly changing menu puts ex-dairy beef, whole fish, and coal-roasted vegetables through live-fire technique, watched close-up from a compact chef's table. The all-French wine list and excellent draught cocktails complete a format that punches well above its cramped square footage.
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Occupying a listed Victorian courthouse on Deansgate, Hawksmoor Manchester has anchored the city's serious steakhouse tier since 2015. British-bred, grass-fed, dry-aged beef drives the menu, backed by a cocktail program and a wine list that climbs into four-figure territory. Opinionated About Dining has ranked it among Europe's leading casual dining rooms in both 2024 and 2025.
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On Princess Street, Winsome occupies the more direct end of Manchester's dining spectrum: a stripped-back brasserie where cold cuts, whole fish, hearty pies, and mixed grills arrive with obvious ingredient quality and none of the fine-dining ceremony. Compared to the tasting-menu tier that dominates Manchester's Michelin conversation, Winsome reads as a deliberate counter-position, confident in its gutsy cooking and youthful service.
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A Grade II-listed townhouse just off Albert Square, 10 Tib Lane runs across three levels with two dining rooms above a natural wine bar. The kitchen produces a seasonally shifting menu of sharing plates, spring beef tartare, cured sea bream, slow-cooked lamb shoulder, anchored in current British produce culture and delivered by staff who draw consistent reader praise. Sunday roasts with Bloody Marys and Jersey oysters round out the week.
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Perched on the twentieth floor of No 1 Spinningfields, 20 Stories pairs panoramic views stretching to the Pennines with a kitchen that takes North Country produce seriously. The à la carte runs from braised lamb shoulder to pan-roasted cod, while a wine list drawing from 600 bins across five Eurocave fridges gives the room genuine depth. Set lunches and pre-theatre menus make the altitude accessible at different price points.
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A compact, tiled tapas bar on Beech Road in Chorlton-cum-Hardy, Bar San Juan delivers a textbook Madrid-style spread in a room that earns genuine reader loyalty. Tables are hard to come by given the size of the place, but the payoff is a Spanish-speaking team, proper papas bravas, and a short wine list that holds its regional nerve. The kind of neighbourhood bar that Manchester's inner suburbs do well when they commit to the format.
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A Michelin Plate holder tucked into a Market Street kiosk, Bell operates at the accessible end of Manchester's modern cuisine scene without conceding on ambition. Small in footprint, serious in intent.
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On the waterside at New Islington Marina, Flawd is a compact bottle shop, wine bar and sharing-plate room that combines a regularly changing blackboard menu of largely plant-focused dishes with a serious natural wine programme. Expect Lancaster smoked mackerel, Garstang Blue, and sourdough from neighbouring Pollen bakery, alongside low-intervention bottles sourced from small producers across the globe.
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Gary Usher's Didsbury bistro trades ceremony for confidence: clothless tables, exposed brick, and a menu that runs from black olive arancini to dry-aged beef fat Eccles cake without ever losing its nerve. Lunchtime and early weekday sittings offer strong value, while wine-pairing evenings add a more structured format. A neighbourhood restaurant with genuine cooking behind it.
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A MICHELIN Selected hotel on Piccadilly, ABode Manchester occupies a converted Victorian building that places it squarely in Manchester's heritage-conversion tier.
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Dakota Manchester occupies a converted warehouse on Ducie Street in the Northern Quarter's southern fringe, selected by the Michelin Guide Hotels 2025. The property brings the Dakota brand's signature dark-toned interiors and considered service to one of the UK's most energetically reconfigured city centres, sitting in a tier of Manchester hotels that prioritise atmosphere over ceremony.
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Forty-Seven occupies a converted address on Peter Street, one of Manchester's most architecturally layered streets, and carries a 2025 Michelin Selected designation that positions it among the city's more considered hotel options. The property trades on atmosphere and location rather than scale, making it a useful reference point for travellers weighing character-led stays against the larger branded options nearby.
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A Victorian Gothic landmark on Oxford Street, the Kimpton Clocktower Hotel occupies one of Manchester's most architecturally significant buildings. The hotel sits at the intersection of heritage preservation and contemporary hospitality, with a dining programme that reflects the city's broader shift toward serious food and drink. For visitors who want proximity to the city centre without forfeiting character, it positions itself firmly in the upper tier of Manchester's independent-spirited luxury options.
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A Michelin Selected hotel occupying a Victorian bank building on one of Manchester city centre's most architecturally coherent streets, King Street Townhouse places guests within walking distance of the civic quarter, the Northern Quarter, and Spinningfields. The address does most of the work: history above, the city's commercial and cultural pulse immediately outside. It sits in Manchester's upper-mid hotel tier alongside properties like Hotel Gotham and Kimpton Clocktower.
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Leven Manchester occupies a considered position in the city's boutique hotel tier, holding a MICHELIN Selected distinction for 2025. Located on Chorlton Street in the heart of the city centre, it offers an alternative to the larger branded properties nearby, compact in scale, deliberate in format, and suited to guests who prioritise the quality of the room itself over amenity sprawl.
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Malmaison Manchester occupies a converted railway building on Piccadilly, placing it at the intersection of the city's industrial heritage and its contemporary hotel offer. A Michelin Selected property for 2025, it sits in the mid-to-upper tier of city-centre hotels, distinguished by its moody, design-led interior and a food and drink programme built around sourcing from British producers.
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Moxy Manchester City sits in the affordable-design tier of central Manchester hotels, earning a place on the Michelin Selected Hotels 2025 list at 8 Atkinson Street. The property positions itself against louder, pricier city-centre options with a format built around social common spaces and compact, well-considered rooms. For travellers who want Michelin-acknowledged quality without the rates of the boutique independents, it is a credible anchor in the city.
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A Michelin Selected aparthotel occupying a converted Victorian warehouse on Ducie Street, Native Manchester sits in Manchester's emerging Northern Quarter fringe, where industrial heritage and contemporary hospitality overlap. The property offers apartment-format accommodation within a building whose bones predate the city's modern reinvention, making it a reference point for travellers who want architectural context alongside practical space.
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A Michelin Selected hotel occupying a Victorian Gothic mansion at the edge of Bruntwood Park in Cheadle, Oddfellows On The Park offers a design-led alternative to Manchester's city-centre hotel circuit. The setting trades urban density for parkland calm while keeping a credible aesthetic position, enough character to read as a destination in its own right, not merely a suburban fallback.
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A Michelin Selected hotel occupying one of Manchester's most architecturally significant financial buildings, the Stock Exchange Hotel sits at the intersection of heritage preservation and contemporary hospitality. The dining programme anchors the property's identity, drawing visitors as much as overnight guests. Located on Norfolk Street in the city centre, it competes in the upper tier of Manchester's independent luxury hotel set.
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Occupying the Grade II*-listed Free Trade Hall on Peter Street, The Edwardian Manchester sits at the intersection of nineteenth-century civic architecture and contemporary five-star hospitality. Following a multi-million-pound redesign, the hotel houses Peter Street Kitchen's Japanese and Mexican small-plates programme alongside a Champagne afternoon tea bar, spa with pool, and suites with city-facing outdoor space.
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Sitting on the Irwell riverfront at Chapel Wharf, The Lowry Hotel holds MICHELIN Selected status in the 2025 guide, placing it among Manchester's most consistently recognised addresses for overnight stays. The hotel occupies a sharp modernist building in Salford, minutes from the city centre, and draws both corporate and leisure travellers who want proximity to Manchester without the noise of the core.
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Velvet Hotel sits on Canal Street in Manchester's Gay Village, earning Michelin Selected recognition in 2025. The address places guests within walking distance of the city's most concentrated dining and nightlife corridor, while the hotel's independent character sets it apart from the branded properties that dominate Manchester's upper-mid tier.
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Didsbury House Hotel occupies a Victorian townhouse on Didsbury Park, one of south Manchester's most composed residential addresses. The property sits apart from the city centre hotel cluster, trading urban proximity for a quieter, more residential character that suits guests arriving for rest as much as activity. Its position in Didsbury places it within walking distance of the village's independent restaurants and green spaces.
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Hotel Gotham occupies a landmark Art Deco building on King Street, one of Manchester's most architecturally considered addresses. The property sits in the upper tier of the city's independent luxury hotels, where heritage fabric and considered service count for more than chain-hotel uniformity. For travellers who want a base with genuine character in central Manchester, it warrants serious attention.
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Nobu Hotel Manchester sits in a city where hotel design now carries as much weight as postcode, service model, and restaurant access.
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Whitworth Locke occupies a converted Victorian warehouse on Princess Street, placing guests within walking distance of Manchester's Civic Quarter institutions and the Northern Quarter's independent scene. The aparthotel format, full kitchens, generous floor areas, sits in a different tier from conventional hotel rooms, drawing longer-stay visitors and those who prefer space over hotel-service formality. Among Manchester's design-led options, it reads as the city's most address-conscious extended-stay proposition.
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Selected entries from the current guide for Manchester.
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Ranked #95 on the World's 50 Best Bars list in 2023 and #224 in the Top 500 Bars for 2025, Schofield's occupies a handsome corner of Sunlight House in central Manchester, positioning itself among the UK's most credentialled cocktail addresses.
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A reconditioned late-Georgian pub on Blossom Street, Edinburgh Castle sits at the heart of Ancoats, Manchester's most closely watched regeneration district. The cooking moves well beyond the building's pub origins, with market-driven seasonal dishes drawing from Roman, coastal, and British farmhouse traditions. Sunday lunch draws a crowd, but the weekday menu is where the kitchen makes its sharpest arguments.
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Sexy Fish brings its London-born formula of high-energy dining and theatrical interiors to Deansgate, occupying a position in Manchester's premium restaurant tier where spectacle and substance are expected to coexist. The Manchester outpost carries the brand's reputation for gracious service alongside its appetite for bold, immersive environments, placing it firmly in the upper bracket of the city's destination dining scene.
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APT Disco belongs to Manchester’s late-night bar conversation rather than the formal cocktail-counter tier.
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Manchester's seafood bar scene has a focused, no-frills tier that prioritises the produce over the theatre, and Bar Shrimp sits squarely in that bracket. Positioned in a city where casual dining has sharpened considerably over the past decade, it offers a seafood-led format that suits both counter eating and a longer session. Check current booking availability before you visit, as walk-in capacity can be limited.
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On Dale Street in Manchester's Northern Quarter, Fell occupies the intersection of neighbourhood bar and craft-focused drinks venue that defines the area's current drinking culture. The room rewards those who arrive without a fixed agenda, and the program draws on both local sensibility and technique borrowed from further afield. Sit at the bar and let the list do the talking.
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Matt & Phreds Jazz Club on Tib Street has anchored Manchester's live music and late-night drinking scene for years, occupying a Northern Quarter address that places it squarely within the city's most concentrated stretch of independent bars and venues. The format combines live jazz programming with a full bar, making it one of the few places in the city where a milestone evening can run from early drinks through to a late set without changing postcodes.
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Science And Industry occupies a corner of Manchester's Northern Quarter where the city's industrial past and its current obsession with considered drinking converge. The bar sits on Thomas Street, a stretch that has quietly become one of the more serious addresses for craft cocktails in the north of England, drawing a crowd that arrives with intention rather than impulse.
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On Tib Street in Manchester's Northern Quarter, The Daisy occupies a stretch of the city's most concentrated independent bar scene. The cocktail programme draws from the neighbourhood's appetite for technique-led drinking, placing it alongside the small cluster of bars that have quietly shifted how Manchester approaches the glass. An address worth knowing before the weekend crowds arrive.
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The Ivy Spinningfields Brasserie occupies a glass pavilion on Byrom Street in Manchester's Spinningfields quarter, bringing the brand's recognisable all-day brasserie format to the north of England. The space trades in theatrical dining room design, a broad menu that runs from brunch through late-night, and a cocktail list pitched at the area's professional crowd. It sits in the mid-to-upper tier of Manchester's brasserie circuit.
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