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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Oct- 2019 -25 OctoberRestaurants
Rosa’s Thai Cafe to open in Manchester
Rosa’s Thai Cafe will open its first restaurant in Manchester next spring, in The Old Courthouse on Deansgate, formerly occupied by Handmade Burger Co. Launched in 2008 by Thai chef Saiphin Moore and her husband Alex on East London’s famous Brick Lane, Rosa’s Thai Café said it has built a…
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9 OctoberNews
Wilderness Bar + Kitchen renamed Wolf At The Door
Wilderness Bar + Kitchen has announced it is renaming its newly opened Manchester branch to The Wolf At The Door. Owner Dan Morris said they decided to change its name to avoid any potential confusion with another establishment based in Birmingham. It follows a successful six weeks of being open,…
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Sep- 2019 -23 SeptemberBusiness
Bailiffs visit 310 premises a day over business rates, study finds
Councils across England are sending bailiffs to 310 companies a day over business rates arrears, new figures show. The investigation by the real estate adviser Altus Group revealed that, during the last financial year, for 2018/19, over 78,000 non-domestic properties from shops to restaurants to pubs to factories to offices…
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17 SeptemberNews
Bill’s Manchester to move to new site in Spinningfields
Bill’s Restaurant and Bar has announced it is moving from its current Manchester city centre location, on John Dalton Street, to the city’s financial centre, Spinningfields, this autumn. The group said it will open its doors on Monday 28 October with a “vibrant” new look, and the new 177 sqm…
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17 SeptemberPubs and Bars
Whelans takes on seventh SP&B site
South east multiple operator, Whelans, has taken on The Goat in Shirley and is to reopen it as The Apple Tree at the end of October, following a joint investment with Star Pubs and Bars of over £500,000. The pub, which has been closed for two years, is to become…
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Aug- 2019 -16 AugustRestaurants
Wilderness Bar + Kitchen officially opens
Wilderness Bar + Kitchen, a three-storey eating, drinking and lifestyle venue in the Northern Quarter, Manchester has officially opened. The cooking at the restaurant will be modern European in style, with a kitchen team headed up by former Manchester House chef James Lord using ingredients from the most forward thinking…
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7 AugustRestaurants
D&D London to open new restaurant in Bristol
D&D London will launch a new 13,000 sq ft restaurant and events venue within the landmark Quakers Friars piazza at Hammerson’s flagship destination in Bristol, Cabot Circus. This will be D&D’s second venture with Hammerson, following the openings of Issho and East 59th at Victoria Gate, Leeds in 2017. The…
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6 AugustPubs and Bars
The Sun Inn pub reveals £50,000 revamp
New jobs have been created at the Sun Inn pub in Ulverston, Cumbria, following a £50,000 project to revamp a disused area of its second floor. Room 1780 will open on Sunday 11 August, when Manchester United take on Chelsea in the Premier League. The new venue – named in…
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Jul- 2019 -31 JulyRestaurants
Tattu reveals preview of its fourth site ahead of Edinburgh launch
Contemporary Chinese restaurant group, Tattu, has revealed a preview of its upcoming fourth restaurant in Edinburgh. Inspired by Scotland’s cosmopolitan capital, Tattu Edinburgh will pay homage to the relationship between ‘traditional and contemporary’; complete with a Chinois-style interior that features wooden fretwork, antique furnishings and chinoiserie fabric panelling partnered with…
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29 JulyRestaurants
Wilderness Bar + Kitchen to open in Manchester this August
Wilderness Bar + Kitchen, a three story eating, drinking and lifestyle venue will open in the Northern Quarter, Manchester, on Thursday 15 August. The venue has been described as a “welcoming, relaxed space” with a “modern” approach to flavour, and the food and drink menus at Wilderness Bar and Kitchen…
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