This year has been a pretty stunning year for restaurant and bar openings - despite battling gruelling economic conditions. Whether it’s high end dining experiences, small plates, BBQ or honest to goodness deep fried madness, more or less every base has been covered.
Even the locations have continued to inspire, with Victorian splendour, white-tiled industrial, underground architectural feats and 60s brutalism all represented in what has to be a landmark year in Manchester hospitality.
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