Little Sparrow at the Portico Library

Beef and Pudding is a gastropub in Manchester city centre.

Moose Coffee celebrates ‘the best meal of the day’ (brunch) in American style, with stack pancakes, potato hash, Huevos Rancheros and eggs any way. There’s always a queue.

Six By Nico is the brainchild of renowned Scottish-Italian chef Nico Simeone. This Manchester arm of his acclaimed restaurant offers a completely new six course menu every six weeks.

Home-X is the online spin-off of renowned Scottish-Italian chef Nico Simeone’s Six By Nico restaurant. This is geared around kit meals to cook at home.

Roc and Rye is now closed.

Pho does a fine line in pho, the noodle soup that’s a staple of Vietnamese street cuisine.

Now based at the Great Northern, Siam Smiles is a food stop that’s hot on everyone’s lips.

Upmarket Italian cusine in this beautiful historic building based in the Spring Gardens area of Manchester.

Summery bakes, seasonal salads and fresh light meals at Manchester Art Gallery’s in-house café, courtesy of highly-regarded Head Chef Matthew Taylor.

A staple of Manchester’s Chinatown, serving up a vast range of dim sum and Chinese cuisine.

Hunan, a Chinese restaurant in Manchester’s Chinatown, may be a bit off the beaten track – but it’s all the better for that.

Salut wines pride themselves in offering “wider horizons beyond the safe choices.” With 42 wines by the glass and a regularly changing selection of bottles in their Enomatic wine preservation machines (or  “wine jukebox,” as they’re colloquially known), this is one of be best bars in Manchester for exploring new vintages.