Hardens Guide to the Best Restaurants in Blackbrook
Hardens guides have spent 33 years compiling reviews of the best Blackbrook restaurants. On Hardens.com you'll find details and reviews of 103 restaurants in Blackbrook and our unique survey based approach to rating and reviewing Blackbrook restaurants gives you the best insight into the top restaurants in every area and of every type of cuisine.
Featured Blackbrook Restaurants
1. Indian Affair
restaurant in Chorlton-cum-Hardy
362 Barlow Moor Road - M21
Indian Affair showcases North Indian cuisine cooked Dilli-style. It’s inspired by the city’s diverse flavours and home-style cooking.Whilst the dishes on our menu can be found across North India, the way of cooking is specifically from the Delhi region which...
2. TNQ Restaurant & Bar
British, Modern restaurant in Manchester
108 High St - M4
The “delicious bistro-style food” – “simple dishes always done reliably well” – is what brings guests back “time and again” to this neighbourhood spot in the Northern Quarter: “if only everyone were so lucky to have one around the corner from their home”. There’s a “good quality/price ratio, especially for their themed evenings” .
3. Tattu
Chinese restaurant in Manchester
3 Hardman Sq, Gartside St - M3
A pink-lit tree inside the dining room helps seal the Insta-potential of this glam pan-Asian venue – a glossy scene in Spinningfields that has helped spawn what’s now a national chain. Feedback remains more limited than we’d like, but remains consistently positive about its modern Chinese cuisine (whose definition is stretched a bit to include dishes like Japanese Wagyu and tempura; and tuna tartare with caviar).
4. Indique
Indian restaurant in Manchester
110-112 Burton Road - M20
Fans are consistent year on year in their adulation for this upmarket West Didsbury curry house; the name (‘Indian’-meets-‘unique’) translates to a “lovely selection of snack-y, less frequently found, starters that work well to share” but no fear – there’s also a section of the menu devoted to ‘conventional curry dishes’ with many “successful flavour blends”.
5. Bundobust
Indian restaurant in Manchester
61 Piccadilly - M1
After 10 years serving a combination of craft beer and Indian food, this northern-based group is “still the best veggie curry place” – the venues might be “quite basic”, but the “quick service” and “tasty” Gujarati food make them “great for a cheap bite to eat”.
6. San Carlo
Italian restaurant in Manchester
40 King Street West - M3
This decade-old fixture (with many a sibling in the city and beyond) is certainly “a bit flash” – lots of crisp tablecloths and well-dressed waiters – and accordingly popular with business types as well as those celebrating a special occasion – and those who are simply keen to star-spot. The “food is standard Italian but well presented”, while the old-school service is “very attentive” (albeit slightly “overwhelming” for some tastes).
7. Indian Affair
Indian restaurant in Ancoats
46 Blossom Street - M4
Indian Affair showcases North Indian cuisine cooked Dilli-style. It’s inspired by the city’s diverse flavours and home-style cooking.Whilst the dishes on our menu can be found across North India, the way of cooking is specifically from the Delhi region which...
8. Chez Nous Bistro
British, Modern restaurant in Sale
179 Marsland Road - M33
2023 Review: Needing to eat in Manchester’s plush southern ’burbs? – this ‘suburban bistro with urban attitude’ (their words) doesn’t generate huge feedback in our survey, but such as there is rates it as excellent value.
9. MUSU
Japanese restaurant in Manchester
India Buildings, 8 Brunswick St - M3
It’s all change at this “beautiful restaurant with incredible Japanese food” which has operated for two years now on a site that was formerly Randall & Aubin (RIP). As of autumn 2024, the original chef Michael Shaw has departed and it is about to undergo major expansion so we have left it un-rated. Under the new plans, it is to be divided into three separate experiences. Kaji (see also); a new space will house MUSU Miyabi, led by chef-patron Steven Smith – formerly of the well-known Freemasons at Wiswell – which given his renown promises to be a major launch in itself; and also MUSU Theatre of Omakase, under executive sushi chef Andre Aguiar.
10. The Glazebury
British, Modern restaurant in Glazebury
207 Warrington Road - WA3
2021 Review: South African-born chef Ernst van Zyl and partner Liz Kellett have taken over (and substantially refurbished) this Warrington pub, which opened at the end of 2018. This new place has 60 covers, five rooms and a huge beer garden. Scant survey feedback as yet, but based on his previous gaff – The Lord Clyde in Kerridge – there’s reason to hope for notably accomplished food in this village pub.
11. La Boheme
French restaurant in Lymm
3 Mill Lane - WA13
Olivier Troalen’s Gallic staple on the Cheshire outskirts “continues to be a top, most reliable choice for a high-quality dinner, year after year” (indeed some reporters have spent “over 20 years eating there”). “Chef is the owner with wife managing front of house”. “The menu is very French and very extensive”: no worse for being a little old-school, and a “treat when you fancy a return to the 1970s/1980s (it’s a kind of Oslo Court of the north)” with “a lovely northern Gemütlichkeit” to the place. Top Menu Tip – “do leave room for the Gâteau Paris-Lymm – an exemplary large choux bun, filled with a praline crème pat with hazelnuts, berries and salted caramel”.
12. The Church Green
British, Modern restaurant in Lymm
Higher Lane - WA13
2023 Review: Ex-Manchester House chef, Aiden Byrne’s attractive pub is cutely situated opposite said St Mary’s Church in one of the scenic commuter towns on the Cheshire/Greater Manchester borders. Steaks, burgers, pies and the likes of lobster and chips typify its quality gastrofare; and they also serve pizza and snacks from their garden ‘shack’.
13. Borage
British, Modern restaurant in Bowdon
7 Vale View, Vicarage Lane - WA14
“An excellent local restaurant with talent in the kitchen (Miarisuz Dobies) and professional front of house” (his wife); regulars are “never disappointed” by the French- and Central European-inflected food (including five- or seven-course tasting menus), with “every detail wonderful and made in-house”.
14. Altrincham Market
International restaurant in Altrincham
Greenwood Street - WA14
This “bustling” Victorian covered market offering a “good variety of high-quality food” “has been a focal point for revitalising the Altrincham economy”, with “Nick Johnson, the owner, always around to keep an eye on the operation, ensuring the stallholders maintain a very high standard”.
15. Sud (was Sugo)
Italian restaurant in Altrincham
22 Shaw's Road - WA14
“Forget flying to southern Italy – go to Sud for wonderful pasta and other Italian dishes”, say fans of the “fresh, vibrant, authentic food” served at this “fun” Altrincham outfit with “slick and friendly service” – the original of a group now with outposts in Ancoats, Sale and Manchester city centre, and which changed its name from Sugo to avoid a clash with a Glasgow operation of that name. “Lots of eye-rolling, and funny noises came out of my mouth, and my wife and I literally didn’t speak for 15 minutes during the main course – I’ll never eat pasta with a knife and fork again!”.
16. Sigiriya
International restaurant in Hale
173 Ashley Road - WA15
Named in homage to a rocky outcrop that has long been a settlement for Buddhist monks, Don Buddhika’s black-fronted restaurant is “still going strong with its Sri Lankan speciality dishes” – small plates, curries, grills and more, with dedicated vegan and gluten-free menus. Besides this venture in the swanky Manchester ‘burbs, as of late 2023 they’ve also opened a second outpost a short drive away in the market town of Knutsford.
17. Five Guys
Burgers, etc restaurant in Manchester
Intu Trafford Centre - M17
2021 Review: “When all you want is an old-school burger”, these US-based arrivals of recent years really “hit the spot” – you can “build your own”, with “tons of accessories”; plus “seriously addictive fries”, “thick milkshakes”, and “more soda flavours than is reasonable”. “The eat-in experience is as depressing as McDonald’s”, though, in fact perhaps more so – “some branches have a strangely gloomy ambience” – but fans feel that “if you don’t mind 1980s-rock, a trip can still be surprisingly fun”.
18. Bar San Juan
Spanish restaurant in Manchester
56 Beech Rd - M21
“You really do feel like you’re in Spain” at this “lovely little tapas bar”, a fixture on a Chorlton back street since 2010. “The first time I visited, I wasn’t convinced, the second time I totally was! Can’t wait to go back”.
19. Croma
Italian restaurant in Manchester
500 Wilbraham Rd - M21
“Pizza with an inventive streak” – plus all the standards “for those who are less adventurous” – is the offer at this surviving branch of an independent Manchester group founded in 2000. The flagship in the city centre and the Didsbury branch have closed down in recent times, to the dismay of their many fans, leaving just Chorlton and Prestwick standing.
20. The Lime Tree
British, Modern restaurant in Manchester
8 Lapwing Ln - M20
“Long Live the Lime Tree!” – where “the best food, impeccable service and great wine is why we go time and time again”. A chic brasserie in posh West Didsbury, it was launched in 1987 by chef-owner Patrick Hannity, who has always been ahead of the game with seasonal modern British cooking using locally sourced ingredients (he invested in a 20-acre smallholding in Macclesfield Forest 17 years ago to be self-sufficient in eggs and rare-breed beef, lamb and pork). “It’s been my favourite restaurant for years even though it’s quite a schlep to get there, and it rarely disappoints in any department”.
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