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A new 'wine-led' rooftop venue with views over the city, run by the team behind Covino in Chester.

survey result

Summary

£61
  £££
4
Very Good
3
Good
4
Very Good
* Based on a three course dinner, half a bottle of wine, coffee, cover charge, service and VAT.

“The food is an embarrassment of riches” at this “charming” recent arrival (now one year old), but “it is quite hard to find”: a ‘wine-led rooftop’ atop a city-centre office block (“what a view!”). On the menu to complement the wine: “those ubiquitous small plates”, but they are “interesting”, “simple and tasty” and on a good day really hit the heights (one or two reporters’ best meals of the year were to be found here).

Summary

£60
  £££
4
Very Good
3
Good
4
Very Good
* Based on a three course dinner, half a bottle of wine, coffee, cover charge, service and VAT.

“A promising addition to the Manchester scene” which “burst onto the stage with a hell of a bang” a year ago from the team behind Chester’s Corvino, with The Observer’s Jay Rayner an early enthusiast. It’s “a fabulous rooftop spot” on the eighth floor of a city-centre building, with “excellent and innovative modern British small plates” backed up by “a really interesting wine list” (top Burgundies, but also vintages from Greece and other less famous wine growing regions). Top Menu Tips – “don’t miss the ever-changing vol-au-vent which smacks of nostalgic 1970s happiness, or the hash browns with perfectly judged taramasalata”.

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Have you eaten at Climat?

8th Floor Blackfriars House, St Marys Parsonage, Manchester, M3 2JA

What the Newspaper Critics are saying

The Daily Telegraph

William Sitwell found his way with some difficulty to a restaurant on the top floor of a city centre office block, where he was happy to encounter “fine grub” from a kitchen which showed signs of “nimble thinking”.
Its menu of snacks, plates, sides, sweets and cheese was seemingly designed to encourage you to order so greedily “that they can then shower you with glasses and carafes of wine”.

“On a glorious day,” he concluded, “with rooftop views to boot, the confident and civilised Climat made us feel like we were the lords not just of hundreds but of all creation.”

William Sitwell - 2024-03-18

Prices

Traditional European menu

Starter Main Pudding
£8.00 £17.50 £8.50
Drinks  
Wine per bottle £34.00
Filter Coffee £3.50
Extras  
Service 12.50%
8th Floor Blackfriars House, St Marys Parsonage, Manchester, M3 2JA
Opening hours
MondayCLOSED
Tuesday5:30 pm‑11 pm
Wednesday5:30 pm‑11 pm
Thursday12 pm‑11 pm
Friday12 pm‑11 pm
Saturday12 pm‑11 pm
SundayCLOSED

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