Ian Jones

Food and Drink Editor
Ian Jones

Ian Jones is a Manchester-based journalist, photographer and videographer with 23 years' experience, writing food reviews for Creative Tourist since 2015. His work has appeared in Telegraph Food, Time Out, The Independent, Vice and New Scientist. He has also contributed cultural commentary on Manchester for the New York Times.

Written by Ian Jones

Leeds
Tourist Attraction
Leeds Dock

Leeds Dock is a creative waterside village, home to a vast number of businesses and shops.

Leeds
Restaurant
Sheaf Street Cafeteria

Part of the effortlessly cool Duke Studios, Sheaf Street offers all kinds of interesting food and drink plus events and resident DJs.

Leeds
Restaurant
Gaucho Leeds

High-end Argentine restaurant with a focus on steaks, glamour and wine.

Rafters
Sheffield
Restaurant
Rafters

Rafters isn’t the kind of place you stop by for a quick bite to eat. It’s a fine dining experience that requires an entire evening, invoking cooking techniques up there with Simon Rogan.

Chinese restaurants in Manchester (outside Chinatown)

Look outside Chinatown and you'll find everything from little backstreet haunts, to celebrity-packed multi-million-pound mega-restaurants. The one thing they have in common is excellent food. Here are the city's best

Ocean Treasure 235 Cantonese restaurant and casino.
City Centre
Restaurant
Ocean Treasure 235

This upmarket Cantonese restaurant is based in a casino, meaning you can fill your belly then go blow your wages, all in the same place!

Wings Restaurant Manchester.
City Centre
Restaurant
Wings

Highly-regarded Chinese restaurant with a peerless range of dim sum and other Chinese dishes. Louis Van Gaal’s (remember him?) favourite restaurant in Manchester, by all accounts.

The Rice Bowl Chinese Restaurant.
City Centre
Restaurant
The Rice Bowl

This family-run business is widely-recognised one of the city’s finest Chinese restaurants. Whether you’re looking for authentic, unusual or just plain tasty, Rice Bowl has it all.

Chinatown
Restaurant
Yang Sing

One of the most well-known Chinese restaurants in Manchester, Yang Sing has been feeding Mancunians for forty years.