As we hurtle towards the festive period, there are a glut of restaurant openings happening across the city, from relaxed wine bars to classic pasta spots. Here's a round-up of all the best ones...
Provence
This relaxed new wine bar in Spinningfields is focussing less on the usual wine region or flavour profile categorisations, and more on what occasion it’s suited for - whether special occasion or after-work frivolities. Basically, it doesn’t take itself too seriously, with ‘wine-oke’ sessions (yep, wine and karaoke) on the billing too.
Unit G21, Provence, 3 Hardman St, Manchester M3 3HF
Loaf
Loaf started out life as a lockdown project to raise money for the NHS, and then, before he knew it, baker Aiden Ryan was providing cakes to the likes of Selfridges and Harvey Nicks. Now he’s all set to open his first place on Oxford Road, with loaf cakes and other bakes taking centre stage in the new unit, which will be festooned in delicious pink decor and feature special events like Late Night Loaf Fridays, with added booze.
St James's Bldg, 83 Oxford St, Manchester M1 6EG
10 Tib Lane
Not a new opening, 10 Tib Lane has been producing its exceptional food and cocktails for almost a year-and-a-half now. But it has changed things up for November, issuing a new autumnal menu - with dishes sourced from the produce of local types - from the Cinderwood Market Garden and the Crafty Cheeseman to sourdough dons Holy Grain - and a great value fixed price lunch.
New dishes include a ham hock terrine, a pork chop with burnt apple pureé and celeriac remoulade and beetroot with pickled walnut, mint and créme fraiche. Pop in for lunch and you can get two courses for £12 or three for £16, Wednesday to Friday. And happy hour still runs from 4pm to 6pm Wednesday to Friday and from 12pm to 4pm on weekends, so that’s £1 oysters and cocktails for £6.
10 Tib Lane, Manchester M2 4JB
Gooey at Selfridges
Everyone loves Gooey’s sensational cookies and cakes, all emerging from their cosy High Street café in the Northern Quarter. But now they’re opening a special pop-up café at Selfridges at the Trafford Centre specially for Christmas. So expect kitsch decorations, visits from Santa and other such festive happenings to come with your top drawer confections.
60 The Trafford Centre, Trafford Park, Stretford, Manchester M17 8DA
Exhibition
In the brilliantly handsome setting of Manchester’s former Natural History Museum, Exhibition is the intimate new foodhall that could well become a regular haunt for those looking for fantastic food and inventive drinks in the centre of town. Ramsbottom’s Baratxuri are in the house, with their spectacular grilled meats and some equally spectacular Spanish charcuterie, alongside the brilliant Caroline Martins of the Sao Paulo Project and Prestwich’s Osma, which is dishing out whole roasted lobster.
St George's House, 56 Peter St, Manchester M2 3NQ
Ewe
The cutely entitled Ewe, in Westhoughton, outside Bolton, opens this month and will be showing off the skills of chef Maros Surovka, who’ll be serving up modern British classics - shepherd’s pies, beef wellingtons - with a global twist. You can also expect sumptuous afternoon teas and quirky cocktails from a team formerly of Neighbourhood, Yours on Deansgate and the excellent Black Friar in Salford.
370 Chorley Rd, Westhoughton, Bolton BL5 3NB
Rudy’s Didsbury
The unstoppable Rudy’s expands into Didsbury with its latest outlet, on the site of the old Mad Giant food hall in the village. As you’d expect from Rudy’s - which is pretty much nationwide at this stage - the pizzas are excellent value and perfectly charred.
653 Wilmslow Rd, Didsbury, Manchester M20 6QZ
Nonna’s at Deasgate Square
Nonna’s will be taking over the kitchen at Green Lab’s Deansgate Square spot right up until Christmas with some solid, old fashioned pasta cookery. You can expect classic cacio e pepe, rigatoni with vodka and tomato and seafood linguine, alongside appetisers like arancini and burrata with prosciutto.
East Tower, 7 Owen St., Deansgate, Manchester M15 4YB
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