A glamorous Italian-style grill room and bar launches next week in Manchester’s Grade II listed former city library and registrar’s office off Deansgate. GiGi Gusto Griglia has taken over and transformed the former premises of Gusto, with an open kitchen and a central cocktail bar, Bar Elegenza, and aims to capture the ‘glamour, energy and […]
A new seafood-and-cocktail bar has opened in Manchester city centre tomorrow promising an ‘oyster happy hour’ every weekday from 4-5pm, when the bivalves are half price. Bar Shrimp is from the trio behind sustainable modern bistro Higher Ground, which is next door. The bar will focus on British and Irish oysters and shellfish from David […]
A restaurant offering a ‘fine-dining’ take on classic northern dishes has launched in Rochdale’s newly restored Victorian Gothic town hall. The Martlet Kitchen, named after a mythical bird with no legs, has taken flight under chef Darren Parkinson, formerly of Shibden Mill in Halifax. It is open all day from breakfast, via a straightforward lunch […]
Prominent Manchester chef Mary-Ellen McTague is to open a new restaurant called Pip this summer at the new Treehouse Hotel in the city centre’s Deansgate. The former Fat Duck chef made her name in Manchester with Aumbry, which firmly established her credentials with an original take on smart and sustainable cuisine. Pip will be one […]
Ambitious former pop-up Manchester restaurant Higher Ground opens tomorrow in a permanent site in the city’s Chinatown, from the team behind Ancoats natural wine bar Flawd. Joe Otway, Daniel Craig Martin and Richard Cossins (left to right in photo) have been working together for three years, although their progress was diverted by the pandemic. The […]
