OK, this really is going to be interesting. The people of Manchester have, for the first time in living memory, been graced by the opening of a really hot upmarket restaurant concept straight from the capital. Hawksmoor unveiled plans to open an outpost there last year and since then the Mancunian blogosphere has been in high excitement. […]
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 […]
It’s all happening in Manchester at the moment. No sooner have the duo behind trendy Hawksmoor announced plans to open an outpost there than the trendy(ish) Ibérica group unveils plans to join them. The tapas restaurant, with four sites already in London, has long been praised by reporters for its authentic Spanish dishes. Even as the […]
