Manchester
Coverage highlights foodservice and hospitality developments across Manchester, with a focus on high-activity areas such as the Northern Quarter, Ancoats, Spinningfields, and Deansgate. Reporting includes restaurant and bar openings, independent brand growth, investment trends, and evolving footfall dynamics. Insight is tailored for operators tracking urban trading patterns, premium casual formats, and consumer behaviour in one of the UK’s most competitive city markets.
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Feb- 2020 -21 FebruaryCatering Companies
Administrators appointed to MPM Catering Limited
Conrad Pearson and Patrick Lannagan of Mazars, the international accounting and advisory firm, have been appointed as joint administrators of MPM Catering Limited. The company, which trades as Cook Street, operates from leased premises in Shrewsbury and provides high volume mobile catering to public events around the UK. The family-run…
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21 FebruaryRestaurants
Manchester’s Mr Cooper’s to relaunch as Mount Street Dining Room & Bar
Manchester restaurant Mr Cooper’s has announced it will relaunch later this year as Mount Street Dining Room and Bar. The casual dining restaurant located at The Midlands Hotel in Manchester will be fronted by the hotels executive chef Brian Spark, and will serve “British classics with a twist.” The menu…
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20 FebruaryRestaurants
Pizzaluxe set to open at Manchester Arndale’s Halle Place
M&G Real Estate and intu, joint owners of shopping centre Manchester Arndale, have announced that Pizzaluxe will be joining the line-up at the centre’s casual dining destination, Halle Place. The pizza restaurant has agreed a 2,000 sq ft location on a 10 year lease. Pizzaluxe originally started life as a…
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18 FebruaryRestaurants
The Torridon’s 1887 restaurant appoints Paul Green as head chef
The Torridon, the AA Five Red Star hotel in the Scottish Highlands, has appointed Paul Green as head chef of its 1887 restaurant. Green, who recently worked as head chef at the Adam Reid at The French in Manchester, will work in partnership with the hotel’s Kitchen Garden and Torridon…
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4 FebruaryFeatures
From barrister to restaurateur: Nisha Katona on her Indian street food chain
“I was a child protection barrister for 20 years but always with a completely blinding passion and obsession for the food of my ancestors – which is home-style Indian food,” says Nisha Katona, founder of Indian street food chain Mowgli. Katona started her restaurateur journey because she realised that a…
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Jan- 2020 -27 JanuaryRestaurants
D&D to launch Birmingham rooftop restaurant
Restaurant and bar group D and D London announced it will launch a new rooftop restaurant in Birmingham. The new restaurant will be sited at 103 Colmore Row, which is set to be Birmingham’s tallest office tower. Sterling Property Ventures, who are developing the site, has agreed a 25 year…
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27 JanuaryPeople
Panoramic 34 appoints new head chef
Liverpool restaurant Panoramic 34 has announced the appointment of Elliot Hill as its new head chef. The restaurant said that Hill will bring a “unique” style of cooking to Panoramic, and that the front of house and kitchen team are “hugely excited with the new developments that are planned under…
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23 JanuaryRestaurants
Restaurant group Tre Ciccio enters administration
Manchester-based Italian restaurant group Tre Ciccio has entered administration. Tre Ciccio opened its first restaurant in Altrincham in 2018 and opened two more sites in Bramhall and Ramsbottom soon after. The group confirmed the closure on social media. In a Facebook post it said: “We can confirm Tre Ciccio Ltd…
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16 JanuaryFood and Drink
Greggs partners ‘exclusively’ with Just Eat for nationwide delivery
Bakery chain Greggs has confirmed Just Eat as its exclusive delivery partner. Following a successful trial in London, Newcastle and Glasgow, Greggs said it has opted to work “exclusively” with Just Eat to provide its “food-on-the-go favourites” directly to the customer’s door. A further rollout will begin this week, adding…
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15 JanuaryBusiness Bites
Boohoo more valuable than M&S – a sea-change encapsulated
From a purely journalistic standpoint it is now a de facto cliché to refer to Marks and Spencer as the “high street bellwether”, yet that is the status it has held for so many decades. The once mighty monolith was the first British retailer to reach a market capitalisation of £1bn and…
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