Offering both a “great view” and “good regionally-inspired food”, this 8th-floor city-centre restaurant is indeed a rare sort of beast; even more remarkably, it is “reasonably priced”, and offers a wine list that’s “always interesting” too.
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Well, it couldn’t be said we’re lagging on this one. We find ourselves sitting in the new sixth floor restaurant atop Manchester‘s city-centre Urbis centre on the very day that its review app...
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Press Reviews (2)
Matthew Norman (14th December 2009)
Oh dear, the critic goes all the way to Manchester – why?, one wonders, this restaurant has been there for years – to find a top-floor establishment that’s “sublimely charmless”. And then it gets worse… The service is “amateur hour”, his glass of wine was “the worst… I’ve ever lacked the strength to send back”, and the main course “a calumny”. (We then read of a motorway horror on the way back to London – why, pray, is a solo traveller from the supposedly green Guardian not letting the train take the strain?)
Jay Rayner (22nd July 2008)
“[S]top the presses! ‘Manchester has nice restaurant’ shock! Not a fabulous restaurant, not the sort of place whose name I would willingly tattoo across the fabulous tundra of my chest, but good all the same. It's called the Modern and in many ways it is. It occupies the top two floors of Urbis, a glass and steel shard opened around the Commonwealth Games in 2002 as a museum of city life.” Not much point in us trying to précis the critic’s sentiments, as he’s done it very well himself.
Matthew Norman (14th December 2009)
Jay Rayner (22nd July 2008)
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