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Manchester Evening News
Manchester Evening News
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Dianne Bourne

The rise and fall of Manchester's celeb-favourite bar and restaurant 25 years before its time

It was the game-changing bar, restaurant and micro-brewery that was so ahead of its time that people still talk about the legacy of Mash & Air.

Bursting onto Manchester's dining scene back in 1996 inside a former textile warehouse, revellers recall it was so unlike anything that had come before it was "like a spaceship landing in the city".

It fast became the place to see and be seen - welcoming the city's movers and shakers alongside famous faces like the Spice Girls, DJ Zoe Ball, George Michael, Coronation Street icons and the entire Manchester United squad for their Christmas parties.

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