Manchester Restaurant Guide
Grado
The ever popular Heathcote group has donned its Spanish cloak and opened up in Manchester's Piccadilly, with an open plan kitchen serving an all-day menu of tapas, the whole ensemble extremely Spanish, bringing back memories of boisterous nights in sunny Spain as you wend your way through Manchester on a wet Monday morning.
- Address: New York Street, Piccadilly Plaza, Manchester, M1 4BD (Map)
- Cuisine(s): Spanish
- Avg. Cost Per Head Lunch: £20.00, Dinner: £45.00
Olive Press - Manchester
There are few better locations in the thriving Manchester centre than twenty metres off Deansgate, making Olive Press one of the best place in town for business lunches, pre-theatre suppers, or a place of welcome refuge during a heavy shopping spree.
- Address: 4 Lloyd Street, off Deansgate, Manchester, M2 5AB (Map)
- Cuisine(s): Italian, Pizza & Pasta
- Avg. Cost Per Head Lunch: £16.00, Dinner: £25.00
San Carlo - Manchester
When one of the country's most respected and leading critics says that a restaurant in this group is 'the best Italian Restaurant outside London' it is time to take them seriously. Britain's love affair with Italian food is a cause célèbre of long standing and shows no signs of waning, so it is always welcome news when somewhere like San Carlo sets out to reach for the skies.
- Address: 40-43 King Street West, Manchester, M3 2WY (Map)
- Cuisine(s): Italian
- Avg. Cost Per Head Lunch: £22.00, Dinner: £40.00
Spicy Hut Restaurant
Spicy Hut, located on Manchester's renowned Curry Mile has an enviable reputation for its excellent food and informal friendly atmosphere. Over the years the restaurant has built up a sound customer base based on a passion for curry, service that takes heed of people and their expectations against a comfortable and relaxing background, and real value for money.
- Address: 35 Wilmslow Road, Rusholme, Manchester, M14 5TB (Map)
- Cuisine(s): Halal, Indian, Pakistani
- Avg. Cost Per Head Lunch: N/A, Dinner: £20.00
Zouk Tea Bar & Grill - Manchester
It can't be every restaurant that can claim to have had an elephant as one of the star attractions at its opening, but Zouk Manchester did. Alright, so it was a baby elephant and it was on the stage not the menu, just in case anyone gets carried away in reporting this unusual event.
- Address: Unit 5 Quadrangle, Chester Street, Manchester, M1 5QS (Map)
- Cuisine(s): Indian, North African, Pakistani
- Avg. Cost Per Head Lunch: £16.00, Dinner: £21.00
Brasserie and Bar at Malmaison - Manchester
The Malmaison group of hotels has established throughout Britain a collection of centres of excellence where nothing but the best will do. As a concept alone this is exciting, but the reality is brilliant, so that at last there is a hotel group where uniformity of standards is of the same high calibre.
- Address: Piccadilly, Manchester, M1 1LZ (Map)
- Cuisine(s): Brasserie, Grill
- Avg. Cost Per Head Lunch: £24.00, Dinner: £38.00
Dimitris
Dimitris is a well-established Greek restaurant with a strong Mediterranean influence, exercising a strong hold over the contemporary café society of central Manchester. Its location at the lower end of Deansgate in a clever conversion of an airy glass and iron arcade, is inspired and tends to encourage a feeling of exhilaration before the eating and drinking even starts.
- Address: Campfield Arcade, Tonman Street, Deansgate, Castlefield, Manchester, M3 4FN (Map)
- Cuisine(s): Greek
- Avg. Cost Per Head Lunch: £14.00, Dinner: £28.00
Second Floor Restaurant
Situated in the Harvey Nichols store in Exchange Square, with panoramic views of Manchester's skyline, The Second Floor Restaurant, Bar and Brasserie has quickly become one of Manchester's leading destination dining and drinking venues.
- Address: 21 New Cathedral Street, Manchester, M1 1AD (Map)
- Cuisine(s): Modern European
- Avg. Cost Per Head Lunch: £30.00, Dinner: £45.00
Cafe Rouge - Manchester Deansgate
afé Rouge has around one hundred branches throughout Britain all offering a wide range of dishes drawn from the French cuisine. Slightly less than half their branches are in or close to London. Almost inevitably the décor and design of each restaurant differs from the others, but there is a general curtsy towards La France.
Enjoy 20% off your food bill at Café Rouge.
- Address: 82-84 Deansgate, Manchester, M3 2ER (Map)
- Cuisine(s): French
- Avg. Cost Per Head Lunch: £21.00, Dinner: £26.00
Cafe Rouge - Manchester Printworks
Café Rouge has around one hundred branches throughout Britain all offering a wide range of dishes drawn from the French cuisine. Slightly less than half their branches are in or close to London. Almost inevitably the décor and design of each restaurant differs from the others, but there is a general curtsy towards La France.
Enjoy 20% off your food bill at Café Rouge.
- Address: Unit 1, The Printworks, Shudehill, Manchester, M4 3JS (Map)
- Cuisine(s): French
- Avg. Cost Per Head Lunch: £21.00, Dinner: £26.00