Manchester’s 6 Best: Fine Dining Manchester Restaurant Guide for 2023 – eating out in Manchester has never been better. Looking for a restaurant in Manchester to enjoy some fine dining? There are a number of venues that fit the bill for your special occasion. Check out all our recommendations for the 6 best fine dining restaurants in Manchester plus Mana, Manchester’s Michelin Star Restaurant
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63 Degrees – Fine Dining Manchester
104 High Street, Manchester, M4 1HQ
Set in Manchester’s lively Northern Quarter, 63 Degrees is Eric Moreau’s family-run restaurant. He’s an experienced genuine French owner-chef. His classic dishes are cooked with pride and passion using both local and imported French produce. We recommend the set lunch as it represents especially good value. Also, you must try Eric Moreau’s brilliant chicken dishes gently cooked at 63° – deliciously tender and full of unique flavours.
63 Degrees Restaurant – expect to pay £18 – £60
Facilities include wheelchair access, air conditioning and outside dining available. 63 Degrees accepts American Express.
The Bull & Bear – Fine Dining Manchester
4 Norfolk Street, Manchester, M2 1DW
The Bull & Bear is located in the former trading room of the old Northern Stock Exchange and is a fine restaurant, bar and hotel experience by Tom Kerridge the TV chef.
Enjoy refined British classic dishes in the unique setting of the elegant domed ceiling of the ‘bear pit’ the elegant former trading room of the Manchester Stock Exchange in the renovated Stock Exchange Hotel. The Bull and Bear is the restaurant at Ryan Giggs and Gary Neville’s Stock Exchange Hotel in Manchester.
The Grade II listed landmark is a striking example of Edwardian architecture from the early twentieth century. It’s refreshingly informal though – you’ll be able to watch football on the many screens and you’ll be impressed, with its marble pillars and wonderful illuminated domed ceiling.
Tom Kerridge has sourced local products, including many Manchester brewers, coffee suppliers, bread bakeries, butchers and salmon smokehouses.
Perhaps start with a cocktail or beer in the bar beside the marble fireplace, then head through to enjoy a tempting mix of British brasserie classics.
If you require a private meal for business or pleasure, in contrast to the main restaurant, there’s The Bank their private dining area.
Expect to pay £30 to £85 to dine, although Tom Kerridge has tried to cater for most occasions and you’re welcome to pop in for a drink, a light bite or coffee.
The Stock Exchange Hotel has 40 rooms, including two signature suites.
The Bull & Bear facilities include wheelchair access, air conditioning, counter dining, and breakfast servings. The Bull & Bear accepts American Express.
El Gato Negro – Fine Dining Manchester
52 King Street, Manchester, M2 4LY
El Gato Negro (‘Black Cat’) is located in a historic three-storey townhouse on King Street, in the heart of Manchester, with King Street’s boutique shopping readily shopping at hand.
El Gato Negro has consistently received praise from customers and critics alike. El Gato Negro has been crowned City Life’s ‘Best Restaurant’ twice in three years.
Beautifully converted by Chef Patron Simon Shaw, it opened in Manchester in 2016, and we fondly recall its original venue in the Pennine village of Ripponden in Calderdale, near Halifax.
Delicious tapas dishes include magnificent meats from El Gato Negro’s Josper Grill – Josper Grill was established by Pere Juli and Josep Armangué in Barcelona and has become a legend in the world of charcoal gastronomy. All the dishes are shared amongst your party, and they cater for all dietary requirements and they have a particularly remarkable wine list.
El Gato Negro offers fixed-price group sharing menus for groups of 7 or more.
El Gato Negro’s ground floor features al fresco pavement dining, a splendid bar and dining area.
Their middle floor has a range of restaurant table and seating options, plus the chef’s table for the extra experience and theatre of El Gato Negro’s open kitchen.
El Gato Negro’s top floor features a magnificent terrace with a retractable roof and it is available for hire with award-winning food, drinks, live entertainment with El Gato Negro’s expert support for your group – their top floor maximum capacity is 45 seated or 100 standing.
Capacity is 45 seated or 100 standing
El Gato Negro’s facilities include air conditioning and a private dining room. El Gato Negro accepts American Express.
Erst – Fine Dining Manchester
Murray Street, Ancoats, Manchester, M4 6HS
Erst is located around the corner from Manchester’s Michelin Star Restaurant, Mana.
Erst is a modern, industrial-style wine bar run by a group of friends. Laid-back Erst offers a pleasingly different experience in Manchester with a collection of small plates designed for sharing. The dishes change depending on what’s in season and the quality of the products available on the day.
Erst also specialises in natural, low-intervention wines, many of which you can buy to take home.
‘Low intervention wine’ means production with vineyard activities carried out by hand such as pruning, canopy management, composting and harvesting – with the lowest possible chemical and mechanical intervention because they believe it’s a better way to drink: better for the drinker, the maker, and the planet.
Erst’s facilities include air conditioning and counter dining. Erst accepts American Express.
Canto – Fine Dining Manchester
Blossom Street, Ancoats, Manchester, M4 5DH
Along with Erst, Canto is also around the corner from Manchester’s Michelin Star Restaurant, Mana. Canto is Simon Shaw’s, of El Gato Negro fame, second restaurant in Manchester, a neighbourhood restaurant serving modern casual tapas and drinks.
Take a seat at the counter to watch the chefs preparing a mix of vivacious Spanish and Portuguese small plates. Perhaps try Simon Shaw’s fish dishes, along with his delicious Portuguese custard tarts. The room has an enjoyable, industrial feel and is decorated with traditional blue azulejos tiles -the type that adorns the buildings of Portuguese cities like Lisbon and Porto.
Canto’s facilities include air conditioning, counter dining and takeaway. Canto accepts American Express.
Adam Reid at The French – Fine Dining Manchester
Midland Hotel, Peter Street, Manchester, M60 2DS
The French is located in Manchester’s magnificent Midland Hotel, where Rolls met Royce, and much further down the line in its history, where David and Victoria Beckham had their first date.
The restaurant has been thoughtfully restored into a striking dining area, which appears both contemporary yet comfortable and inviting. The French is an intimate hotel restaurant created in the Belle Époque age. and now brought to the modern era with two striking rainbow crystal chandeliers and booths down the centre of the room.
The grand dining room’s opulent feel hasn’t changed, but eating at The French feels less formal than before, but no less impressive.
Adam Reid joined The French in 2013 as Head Chef, taking over as Chef-Patron in 2016. Since then, with Reid stamping his own distinctive mark on proceedings, Adam has been awarded 4 AA rosettes and has won the BBC’s prestigious Great British Menu competition with his signature dessert, Golden Empire, a decadent deconstruction of apple crumble and custard.
Various confidently flavoured modern dishes focus on one main ingredient and the chefs present and explain the dishes themselves. The French is famed for its immaculate service as well as its food and expect to pay between £105 and £125.
Adam Reid at The French facilities includes wheelchair access and American Express is accepted.
