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27/05/2026

has a brand NEW concept in time for summer 🌮✨

NQ, meet Cantina. A Mexican-inspired menu featuring tacos, loaded fries, burgers, homemade salsas, and NINE different margaritas. 🫨

ON THE TABLE

* Hand-cut tortilla chips with avocado crema, a nice change to traditional guac
* Fried tequila chicken taco: crispy chicken piled into a soft tortilla with salsa verde, pickled onions and coriander
* Slow-cooked beef taco loaded with avocado crema, queso fresco and pico de gallo in a crunchy shell
* Smashed Texas toast: my fave!! Double smash patties, slow-cooked onions, chipotle mayo, thick-cut pickles and melted American cheese sandwiched between buttery toasted bread.
* Croquettes: the cheese pull was outrageous, paired with a creamy jalapeño dip that I could eat by the spoonful

Find me here all summer bby 🌞

20/05/2026

.uk is easily one of Manchester’s most photographed restaurants, but thankfully it’s not just style over substance 🍝🫶

We started with antipasti, and the highlights were definitely the warm focaccia, soft and airy in the middle with crisp edges, and the pulled pork crocchette stuffed with slow-cooked pork and served with anchovy mayo.

I loved the fresh truffle pasta too. Finished tableside in a pecorino wheel, it’s creamy and indulgent without feeling overly heavy. The lemon crab pasta was less of a standout. The pasta itself was beautifully cooked, but there just wasn’t enough crab to carry the dish flavour-wise.

Desserts stole the show. Proper classic tiramisu, silky vanilla rice pudding with salted caramel and roasted peanuts, and the lemon pie which genuinely deserves the hype. Light sponge, sharp citrus, sweet cream.

Perfect for birthdays, date nights, or honestly just cocktails and dessert alone 🍋✨

19/05/2026

Manchester weather 🤝 warm hearty bowls at

I’ve loved the vendor for years, so I can’t believe it’s taken me this long to try their standalone spot on Tib Street, right next to another fave, .

Rich broths, chewy noodles, crispy toppings, and exactly the kind of food you want when Manchester is doing its grey rainy thing again. Will 100% be back x

10/05/2026

I already love for their brilliant tapas and cocktails, but these limited-edition dishes might be my favourites yet… 🌮🔥

To celebrate Cinco de Mayo, they’ve transformed the menu this month, bringing bold Latin American flavours to Whitefield.

ON THE TABLE

* Fried chips & dips with smoky salsa morita, fresh pico de gallo and a sharp tomatillo salsa verde
* Pollo asado: a highlight!! Chicken marinated for 24 hours with citrus and spices, paired with pickled watermelon, creamy aji verde and a crunchy pumpkin seed salsa macha
* Elotes: everything you want from street corn. Smoky, messy, creamy - completely addictive
* Baja fish tacos: loaded with crisp beer battered cod, cooling avocado crema and pickled cabbage
* Lamb barbacoa tacos: rich and deeply flavoured from 13 hours of slow cooking. The little pot of cooking liquor for dipping absolutely made the dish

Desserts kept the tropical theme going with a caramelised pineapple & coconut eton mess I was utterly obsessed with, and chilli chocolate truffles for a final kick of Latin heat. 🌶️❤️

09/05/2026

.uk has officially landed in MCR ❤️

The Copenhagen-born restaurant has opened in Spinningfields, bringing together Japanese cooking and Scandi interiors.

The menu is built for sharing. We ordered a mix of sushi, grilled sticks and small plates including crab croquettes, tuna tostadas, tempura shrimp, seared wagyu and their buttery miso-marinated black cod.

My standout was the Temaki Setto, a DIY maki bite. Crisp sheets of nori wrapped around warm sushi rice and filled with wagyu tartare, lobster and yuzu, avocado, trout roe and crunchy kataifi. One of those dishes you immediately want again.

Perfect for date nights, post-work dinners, and group catch-ups that turn into a few more cocktails than planned. Honestly, even people who “don’t like sushi” would eat very well here.

05/05/2026

is Castlefield’s new canalside brunch spot and community space ☕️✨

Freshly baked pastries line the counter, alongside brunch classics like their soft and buttery brioche French toast piled with berries, white chocolate and almond crumble.

Coffee comes via Allpress, but the drinks menu goes further. Coconut clouds, matchas, signature cold foams.

It’s more than just brunch too, with weekly fitness events and their already iconic Saturday morning coffee raves. 🕺🏻🪩

04/05/2026

Is this MCR’s best Sunday Roast?? 🙂‍↕️

, from the team behind , is doing a Sunday roast that seriously overdelivers for the price.

There’s only one meat option - dry-aged striploin, marinated in treacle. Tender and rich, with sweetness running through it. And then come all the sides: barbecued root veg with chilli honey, maple and miso pigs in blankets, bone marrow gravy, garlic duck fat roasties, and a huge yorkshire pudding stuffed with oxtail ragu. You also get a big portion of nduja mac and cheese, which was a personal highlight. Proper gooey, a little spicy, very hard to stop eating. All of that for £35 is crazy 🫨🫨

There’s a strong veggie option too, with a flame-grilled harissa cauliflower steak, chimichurri and a goats cheese mac and cheese. You’ll find me here every Sunday tbh.

01/05/2026

have a couple of gorgeous new spritz on the menu, perfect for spring and summer when the sun does decide to show up. 🥂

My favourite is the Golden Hour: a fresh, gin-based twist on a Hugo, with elderflower, lemon and soda. Light, floral and really easy to drink, especially with those rooftop views.

30/04/2026

Manchester’s NEWEST Brazilian Restaurant 🇧🇷💚

is the latest addition to , from Caroline Martins, the chef behind Michelin-recommended .

It’s all about properly good meat. Premium cuts cooked over fire, seasoned with salt and brushed with smoked oil. Juicy, charred edges, and full of deep, smoky flavours.

There’s plenty to go alongside it too. Warm, chewy cheese bread (pão de queijo), crispy croquettes (salgadinhos), charcuterie boards, and fresh salads with heart of palm and sweet cherry tomatoes.

To finish, bite-sized churros filled with dulce de leche. Dreamy!! All washed down with frozen caipirinhas, my new go-to cocktail. 🤭✨

28/11/2025

have gone all in on Christmas 🥧✨

Their Bottomless Festive Feast comes with a proper stacked pie, dessert, and 2 hours of bottomless festive cocktails, prosecco and pints.

We tried The Cracker (tender turkey and ham with sweet-sharp cranberry, roasted parsnips and a hint of sherry), and the veggie option packed with earthy parsnip, buttery chestnut, cheddar, and leek. Both plates come piled with crispy parsnip shards, a stuffing-ball skewer, carrot & swede mash, and lashings of rich gravy.

The perfect night with your pals, get booked in!!

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