Despite what has been another tricky year for hospitality businesses up and and down the country, 2023 promises to be a bumper year for Manchester restaurant and bar openings.
All across the city, new restaurants, bars and bakeries are set to open their doors, including a number of London imports - from Treehouse Hotel and its rooftop bar on Blackfriars Street to Lucky Cat, Gordon Ramsay’s swish Pan-Asian restaurant and robata grill.
Dotted around the city - and in some cases the suburbs - a plethora of new and exciting openings are set to take Manchester by storm - further bolstering the region’s reputation as one of the best for food and drink.
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Looking for some New Year inspiration? Feast your eyes on all these restaurants and bars opening around Greater Manchester in 2023.
The Stock Market Grill
Following the announcement that the Bull and Bear restaurant inside The Stock Exchange would be closing after Christmas, it was revealed that the Schofield brothers would be taking over the space originally helmed by celebrity chef Tom Kerridge. Earlier this year, the bartending duo opened a subterranean bar inside the basement bank vault of Gary Neville’s hotel.
Moving upstairs, the new restaurant, which represents the group’s first restaurant venue, will take the form of a ‘British brasserie with touches of elegance from continental Europe, served with homely and comforting flavours from the UK’. Working with Head Chef Joshua Reed-Cooper, who has formerly worked alongside Simon Rogan at The French, Sam Buckley at Where The Light Gets In, and Simon Martin at Mana, the new restaurant will be plating up a menu of traditional British dishes.
4 Norfolk St, Manchester M2 1DW
Lucky Cat by Gordon Ramsay
Gordon Ramsay’s restaurant empire will expand up North next year as he looks to open a swanky Pan-Asian restaurant and robata grill in Manchester. Lucky Cat, which first opened in Mayfair in London in 2019, will take over the unit formerly occupied by Jamie’s Italian and HSBC on King Street.
Owners of Union Street Cafe, of which Ramsay is a director, have filed a licensing application for a ‘high quality Asian style bar and restaurant with entertainment by way of recorded music and a DJ’ on King Street, with trading over three floors. The concept, billed as an ‘authentic Asian Eating House’, is inspired by the drinking dens of 1930s Tokyo and the Far East and its London site features a raw bar, chefs table and an open kitchen.
100 King St, Manchester M2 4WU
Gail’s
Award-winning craft bakery Gail’s will land in the north west early next year, bringing handmade breads, pastries and cakes to Wilmslow, before opening other stores across the region. Following the success of its sites in London, as well as Brighton and Oxford, the popular bakery chain and cafe wants to bring its ‘make good food that people love ethos’ up north.
Using the best seasonal ingredients from local suppliers, Its menu features the likes of mini avocado and chickpea buns, parmesan chicken sandwiches, spinach rolls, blueberry and custard brioches, and Madeleines. Earlier this year, Gail’s was awarded fourteen Great Taste Awards by the Guild of Fine Foods, so expect some very exciting - and tasty - food coming out of the ovens of Gail’s in Wilmslow when it opens next year.
46 Water Lane, Wilmslow, SK9 5AH, United Kingdom
Soho House
Though originally slated to open this year, celebrity hotspot Soho House will launch its first Northern venue in Manchester next year. Operating 13 venues across the South, Soho House’s expansion to Manchester follows decades of success in cities such as New York, Hollywood and Barcelona, amongst others.
The hotel chain will occupy the top three floors of the former Granada TV Studios and will feature its very own rooftop pool and accompanying bar, alongside a nightclub and daytime workspaces. Guests will also be able to dine at the hotel’s in-house Italian, Cecconi’s, as well as Mollie’s Motel & Diner next door - the brand’s American motel-diner concept, which will feature its own restaurant and bar.
Quay St, Manchester M3 3GS
House of Fu
Leeds ramen and dumpling spot House of Fu will land on Portland Street next year on the site formerly occupied by tearoom Leaf, and will feature ‘state of the art’ karaoke rooms. There will also be a late-night bar, with a licence application in for a 2.30am close, plus a ‘secret outdoor terrace’.
The project comes from the team behind Leeds' Headrow House, the Ox Club and live venue and Belgrave Music Hall, where the first House of Fu opened as a pop up in 2014. The late-night spot has been inspired by trips to New York, Portland and Los Angeles, and chef Ben Iley’s 10-year stint as a chef in Tokyo, and the Manchester branch will feature an upstairs restaurant and karaoke bar downstairs.
113, 115 Portland St, Manchester M1 6DW
North Taproom
A huge brewery taproom will open its doors in Manchester next year - and it’s much sooner than you might think. Leeds-based brewery, North Brewing Co, will open its glass-fronted doors on Oxford Road in January - representing the tenth venue for the brand.
North Taproom will showcase the brand’s core range, alongside a diverse line-up of beers, wines, cocktails, ciders and spirits from a range of local and international producers. Seating 100 people, plus a further 30 standing, there will also be an outside terrace area overlooking the green event space at Circle Square. Food wise, fellow Leeds-based brand Little Bao Boy will be serving up contemporary Asian street food from ‘early until late’.
North Brewing Co, Vita East, Circle Square, Nobel Way, Manchester, M1 7FA
Disorder
A new bar hailed as a ‘love letter to Manchester’ will open in the city’s Northern Quarter in 2023, taking over from the former Walrus and Man With Fish building on High Street. Across two floors, the venue will serve Asian-inspired street food, cocktails and beers from around the world, while the lower floor bar will host live music and DJ nights.
Disorder is named after the first track of Joy Division’s debut album ‘Unknown Pleasures’ and is being launched by James and Sam, two college friends from Stockport. The bar will play homage to the album’s themes with a menu of food and drink aimed to ‘inspire and delight’.
78-88 High St, Greater, Manchester M4 1ES
Great North Pie Co
In a further step forward for the development of the thriving Kampus neighbourhood just over from Canal Street, next year will herald the arrival of a brand new pie and mash shop. Founded over a decade ago by husband and wife duo Neil and Sarah Broomfield, Great North Pie specialises in traditional pie and mash with a modern twist and will serve up classics paired with matching beers and and wines.
Best known for its stunning pastry work at Altrincham Market, Great North Pie Co’s new will find a permanent home on Little David Street, flanked by handsome warehouse apartments. It’ll join the likes of Nell’s, Beeswing and Pollen in its new home, and will serve up their award-winning pies plus sides like mash, gravy and mushy peas.
Little David Street, Manchester, M1 3GA
Maya
A new three-storey restaurant and bar concept will pitch up in Manchester's Gay Village next year. Opening in spring 2023, Maya will be situated within 40 Chorlton Street - an iconic location of Manchester's nightlife history. The new concept will take part of the ground and lower floors of 40 Chorlton Street, and will encompass a canal-side brasserie space serving modern-European classics and a lower-ground dining room that will centre around an ingredient-led, locally sourced and seasonal menu.
The restaurant concept is due to open in the spring of 2023 and has been developed by a team who have worked for brands in London including Soho House, Isabel Mayfair and Michelin-starred Petersham Nurseries. The kitchen team will be led by Mancunian chef Gabe Lea, who honed his craft at Michelin-starred establishments like Le Manoir and The French at The Midland Hotel.
40 Chorlton St., Manchester M1 3HW
Treehouse Hotel
Looming large over Deansgate, a major new hotel is taking shape - one which will seriously up Manchester’s already impressive food credentials. Treehouse Hotel, which has taken shape at the prime city centre site on the corner of Blackfriars Street and Deansgate will include a riverside bar on the banks of the Irwell, as well as a rooftop bar venue called ‘The Nest’.
Earlier this year, it was announced that an all-star foodie line-up will curate the two brand new restaurants and rooftop bar at Treehouse. Chef Mary-Ellen McTague, Justin Crawford and Luke Cowdrey - aka the Unabombers who are known for The Refuge in Manchester - and Sam Grainger of Liverpool’s Belzan will be the creative forces behind the new project.
Blackfriars St, Manchester M3 2EQ
97
After the launch of The Jane Eyre in December, Beech Road will welcome another cocktail bar - and this one comes courtesy of the team behind The Lead Station and Tariff & Dale. The new neighbourhood spot will be called 97 and is expected to open at the end of January.
97 will offer an ‘intimate, elegant and informal place’ to enjoy ‘creative, quality cocktails’, with drinks spanning classics as well as signature serves. The drinks menu will be an inventive collection of cocktails all crafted in-house by the bar team, led by general manager and mixologist Ellie Caddick, who has undertaken a six-month tour around Europe - stopping off at prestigious hotel bars along the way - to develop the extensive drinks list.
Beech Road, Chorlton-cum-Hardy, Manchester M21 9EQ
Higher Ground
The team behind acclaimed Manchester wine bar and eatery Flawd at Islington Marina are set to open a permanent iteration of their Higher Ground restaurant concept in Manchester’s Chinatown. Richard Cossins, Daniel Crai Martin and chef Joseph Otway launched a four-month pop-up version of the restaurant in early 202-, but it was halted by the pandemic.
Billed as a ‘casual bistro’, the restaurant will launch in February and will be located on the corner of Faulkner Street and New York Street. Menus will focus on seasonal produce from Cinderwood Market Garden and other regional producers, with prices starting at £45 per person for fix to six sharing plates.
Bohemian Arts Club
It’s just been confirmed that Blossoms star Tom Ogden and wife Katie are planning on launching their first cocktail bar and salon venture in their native Stockport. The couple will launch the Bohemian Arts Club on Lower Hillgate in the blossoming Underbanks district in early 2023.
The Stockport venue, which is currently undergoing a huge renovation, will be a "chic and intimate cocktail bar" on the first and second floors, while the Bohemian hair salon will be situated on the ground floor. The late-night cocktail bar will be accessed by an entrance hidden away on the cobbled street of Coopers Brow, and has been inspired by secret speakeasies from across the globe.
18-20 Lower Hillgate, Stockport
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