The cafe at Manchester’s Jewish Museum has won the Cafe or Restaurant of the Year at the 2022 Museum and Heritage Awards. The eatery, which only opened last year, serves a vegetarian kosher-style menu of Sephardi and Ashkenazi dishes.
It also offers new seasonal dishes around the traditional Jewish holidays, and vegetarian takes on Jewish classics, like its ‘Not Quite Traditional Chicken Soup’, which combines a hearty vegetarian broth with mushrooms and matzo balls. The cafe was part of a £6 million redevelopment of the museum in Cheetham Hill, completed over two years. It beat competition from the Stonehenge Cafe and the bistro at Black Watch Castle in Perth.
Alex Cropper, the Curator from Manchester Jewish Museum, said: “It felt so exciting to be at the Museum and Heritage Awards on Wednesday night and to gather to celebrate our sector for the first time since the pandemic - there was a real buzz in the room. And to win an award was the icing on the cake!
