An upmarket Japanese restaurant named Kitten will open at ground level this month in Manchester’s high-rise Deansgate Square development. It will hope to attract customers from the 1,500 new apartments in the square’s four residential skyscrapers – including Britain’s tallest tower outside London. Kitten’s interior is pretty tall itself, featuring eight-metre-high ceilings and a five-metre indoor […]

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Restaurateur Steve Pilling, who runs Manchester’s Damson with such “evident passion”, has cancelled plans for a new city centre restaurant. His Roast Restaurant and Oyster Bar was scheduled to open in Manchester’s historic Courthouse development on Deansgate, alongside the first non-London outpost of Hawksmoor, however the chef decided his concept was just too similar to Huw […]

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