A food market inspired by Mackie Mayor and Hatch is set to open on the site of a derelict mechanics on Bury New Road. Planning permission has been granted for the venue in Salford, which will also include a rooftop shisha bar.
It's located on a former Lexus garage, next to a Tim Horton's drive-thru, at the junction of Appian Way. The ground floor will have 10 food stalls, with space for around 200 diners.
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The first floor will become a semi-open shisha bar with space for around 70 people indoors and an outdoor seating area for around 20 more. Proposed opening hours are noon to 11pm and no alcohol will be served.
Design practice Millson Group, the firm which helped develop Manchester's Albert Hall and Albert's Schloss venues, is working with the site owner and applicant the Al-Mehdi Group on the plans. Documents provided with the planning application say the food hall will 'offer both employment opportunity to local residents and a location for start-up dining businesses in a similar vein to existing similar venues such as Hatch on Oxford Road and Mackie Mayor in the Northern Quarter'.
It adds: "The site's proximity to other local amenities and transport links, whilst providing an offer not currently represented ensures that the proposed food hall will be greatly beneficial to the area."
Planning permission had been previously granted for a banqueting hall on the site, but the owners have now changed tack. It's the latest in a string of food markets springing up across Greater Manchester.
Last week plans for a riverside food hall in a former warehouse on the banks of the Irwell were granted and in November a high-end food hall opened on Museum Street in Manchester city centre, joining the like of Hatch, Mackie Mayor, New Century Hall and Radcliffe Market on the region's dining scene.
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