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* Based on a three course dinner, half a bottle of wine, coffee, cover charge, service and VAT.

This “great lively place” is certainly something a bit “different”: a Bavarian-style beer hall where the food (bacon kroissants with a ‘k’, schnitzel, spätzle and funky pretzel donuts) is more reminiscent of something you’d get up the Alps than in Manchester city centre. Much like an après-ski bar, it’s also all about entertainment, with regular cabaret and DJ nights amplified by further insanity during Oktoberfest. The local Mission Mars group who run it now has outposts in Birmingham, Liverpool and (as of early 2024) a ‘600-cover pleasure palace’, as an impressed Grace Dent put it in the Guardian, on London’s Leicester Square, which has taken over the old Rainforest Café site.

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* Based on a three course dinner, half a bottle of wine, coffee, cover charge, service and VAT.

“Always busy and buzzing,” not least when it lays on dedicated Oktoberfest antics, this raucous Bavarian-style beer hall serves up “great food” of a heavy Alpine bent, from schnitzel, spätzle and fondue to other rib-coating fare. Manchester-based Mission Mars, which owns the joint, is clearly in an expansive mood: following siblings in Birmingham and (as of December 2022) Liverpool, another Schloss is due to take over the former Rainforest Café site on London’s Leicester Square, in Spring 2024.

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* Based on a three course dinner, half a bottle of wine, coffee, cover charge, service and VAT.

Not for the faint-hearted – Manchester's first and only Bavarian-style beer hall (plus bakery), offering what they bill as “mountain frolics” aplenty, i.e. live music, fattening staples like currywurst and copious Pilsner. The hit formula spawned a Birmingham sibling in 2021.

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27 Peter Street, Manchester, M2 5QR

Restaurant details

No dress code

Prices

Availability 2 courses 3 courses coffee included service included
Lunch £24.00 £29.00

Traditional European menu

Starter Main Pudding
£9.00 £16.80 £9.00
Drinks  
Wine per bottle £26.00
Filter Coffee £3.50
Extras  
Service 10.00%
27 Peter Street, Manchester, M2 5QR
Opening hours
Monday9 am‑2 am
Tuesday9 am‑2 am
Wednesday9 am‑2 am
Thursday9 am‑2 am
Friday9 am‑2 am
Saturday9 am‑2 am
Sunday9 am‑2 am

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