Jay Rayner weighs in on the north/south restaurant divide question The Observer’s critic-in-chief heads to Manchester to try out the new Hawksmoor and stumbles across a veggie dining room, 1847, serving great food – well, apart from the desserts. Read our roundup of restaurant news in Manchester and enter our Hawksmoor Manchester competition. Meanwhile the […]

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Manchester is a city on the rise when it comes to dining out. Last year, according to CGA Peach’s eye-catching figures, the capital of the north saw a 57% increase in food-led businesses. It seems almost too good to be true (London’s comparative growth was 32%), but just goes to show how vibrant the restaurant scene in Manchester […]

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Wahaca, Pho and Vapiano have all snapped up sites in Manchester’s Corn Exchange, which will reopen following a £30m refurb in June next year.  Thomasina Miers’s chain of vibrant Mexican operations (pictured) has been confirmed as one of the development’s flagship tenants alongside restaurants opening their first Mancunian outposts. Continental-style food court Vapiano, which already has […]

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Macdonald Manchester Hotel & Spa has decided to celebrate the relaunch of its Scottish Steak Club with a collection of ‘unique’ savoury cocktails. The restaurant, which has been given a new look as part of a £2 million investment programme across 16 hotels, will serve up limited edition concoctions like the ‘Whisky Steak’ and the ‘Rosemary Gin […]

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