Urmston, Fish & Seafood Restaurant Guide

“This excellent small restaurant is not to be missed” – “a gem hidden in plain sight on Great Ancoats Street”. “The menu changes frequently and is driven by seasonal locally sourced produce and the passions of Kevin and Rachel Choudhary”. “It’s a relaxing space, an oasis full of potted plants and herbs, where conversation is easy, portions are generous, and dishes combine traditional ideas and concepts with innovative contemporary additions”.

2021 Review: A “new restaurant serving ultra-fresh fish from Fleetwood” (but also Shetland scallops, Irish sea trout and Cornish monkfish), set up by fishmonger Jamie Barrett, who owns the Marple Fish shop round the corner. A former car spares shop, it's now a hybrid country-pub and beach shack, style-wise.

A “great, popular local fish restaurant” where the “brilliant” and “affordable” catch often comes chargrilled, or with influences from other seafood-loving nations (“favourites include the Thai curry prawn dish”); the “recent addition of outside covered tables” is an added boon. After six years in the game, a much-touted sibling in Sale’s foodie-oriented Stanley Square development was due to launch in summer 2023.

Open from mid-October 2023 (after we go to press), this new 200-cover outpost of Richard Caring’s showy and luxurious fish and seafood brand has been a long time in the making. At the gateway to Spinningfields where the Armani Emporium used to be, it is set to feature fish tanks; a bar made of glowing pink onyx and glass; and a water-feature (or ‘cascading waterfall’ as the press release prefers to call it). Will Finchley-born Caring find a new spiritual home amidst Manc’s bevvy of star footie players and WAGs ?