From high-end hotel brasseries to dessert spots, there are some great places to eat and drink throwing open their doors in Manchester and beyond this month. Be sure to try a few of these out.
Higher Ground
Arguably the most exciting restaurant opening of the year, former pop-up project Higher Ground will take on its first restaurant on the edge of Chinatown and fill it with some of the city’s brightest talent. With pedigree from Michelin-starred restaurants in Copenhagen and New York, they’ve been cooking at Islington Marina’s Flawd for the past year, with a seriously limited kitchen. What they might achieve with a proper one will be well worth watching. It opens on February 18.