Eats

All the August Manchester restaurant deals, discounts and offers you need in 2023

50% off wine, free pizzas, half-price meals and plenty more to get excited about.

Georgina Pellant Georgina Pellant - 5th August 2023

August has arrived, and with it, we’ve unearthed some cracking Manchester restaurant and bar deals.

Plenty of local bars seem to be capitalising on the terrible weather we’ve been having by launching rain-specific happy hours, and the proliferation of 50% off dining deals doesn’t seem to have slowed down at all.

There is also a pub in Salford giving its diners the chance to win £72,000 worth of prizes when they dine from its £22 set menu this month that is well worth a look-in.

Keep reading to discover the best dining deals and drink offers in Manchester this August.

50% off food and drink – Manchester August dining deals

Image: The Bay Horse
Image: The Firehouse

Corbieres

ADVERTISEMENT

The offer: Free pizza

T&Cs: Free pizza when you buy a drink, every Tuesday to Friday from 4-7pm

ADVERTISEMENT

Disorder

The offer: 50% off bottles of prosecco, 50p wings

T&Cs: Drinks offer only available when it’s pouring down with rain. Say ‘If it rains, it pours’ at the bar to get the deal. 50p wings every Wednesday.

ADVERTISEMENT

Ducie Street Warehouse

The offer: £5.55 selected drinks and dishes

T&Cs: Available Monday to Thursday from 5 to 5.55pm.

Elnecot

The offer: Soup and sandwich £8

ADVERTISEMENT

T&Cs: Available Monday to Friday, 11am to 3pm.

Italiana Fifty Five

The offer: 50% off food

T&Cs: Available Sunday to Thursday throughout August, booking required.

La Bandera

ADVERTISEMENT

The offer: 50% off food

T&Cs: Mondays and Tuesdays, maximum six per booking. Booking required.

Muse Uppermill

The offer: 50% off the menu*

T&Cs: *some exclusions apply. Available every Thursday

ADVERTISEMENT

On The Hush

The offer: 50% off food

T&Cs: Available to walk-ins 12pm to 2pm, Thursday and Friday

Read more: The French at The Midland – the unsung hero of Manchester’s food and drink scene

Public

ADVERTISEMENT

The offer: BOGOF Burgers

T&Cs: Available on 24 August only from noon until they run out.

The Bay Horse

The offer: 50% off all food

T&Cs: Every Wednesday in August, all day long

ADVERTISEMENT

The Firehouse

The offer: 50% off bottles of wine, Aperol spritz, pittas and hummus, stracciatella, and beetroot borani.

T&Cs: Available Wednesday to Friday from 4 to 7pm, booking required.

The Pen and Pencil

The offer: 50% off all food

ADVERTISEMENT

T&Cs: Available all day Monday, booking required.

What’s Your Beef

The offer: £1 burgers

T&Cs: Available from 12pm on Thursday 24 August until sell out.

More Manchester August dining deals

Image: Hawksmoor
Image: Edinburgh Castle

20 Stories

ADVERTISEMENT

The offer: Three courses for £35 with a glass of Mirabeau rosé

T&Cs: Monday to Thursday 5.30 to 6:30pm.

Albert’s Schloss

The offer: £6 spritz and seasonal cocktails, £5 pints of Pilsner

T&Cs: Monday to Friday, 4-7pm

ADVERTISEMENT

Almost Famous

The offer: £10 burgers with fries

T&Cs: Monday to Friday, 12-4pm

Bab

The offer: £5 children’s menu, two courses with a drink. 

ADVERTISEMENT

T&Cs: Monday to Saturday 12-10pm and Sundays 12-8pm

Canto

The offer: Three dishes for £18

T&Cs: Monday to Wednesday 3 to 6pm, Thursday to Friday 12 to 5pm, Saturday 12 to 4pm, all day Sunday

Ciaooo Garlic Bread

ADVERTISEMENT

The offer: £7 garlic bread with a drink included

T&Cs: Available Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, 12-3pm

Cote

The offer: Two courses for £18.95

T&Cs: Available Monday to Friday from 7pm

ADVERTISEMENT

Dokes

The offer: Two mains and a bottle of wine for £25

T&Cs: Available every Sunday from 12 to 8.30pm.

Edinburgh Castle

The offer: £15 for a main and a drink.

T&Cs: Available Thursdays and Fridays, 12 to 4pm. Glass of wine, pint or soft drink available, main option changes weekly.

Read more: Three diners at Salford pub The Black Friar win over £1000 of prizes in 2 days

Embankment Kitchen

The offer: Three small plates £17.50, five for £27.50

T&Cs: Available Wednesday to Saturday, 4 to 10pm.

El Gato Negro

The offer: Three dishes for £18

T&Cs: Available Monday to Friday 12 to 4pm, all day Sunday.

Exhibition

The offer: A dish and a drink for £10

T&Cs: Available Wednesday to Friday, 12 to 4pm.

Habas

The offer: Main, side and a drink for £15.

T&Cs:  Available Tuesday to Friday, 12 to 5pm.

Hawksmoor

The offer: Two courses for £26, £15 steak and frites ‘strike offer.

T&Cs: Set menu available for reservations made Monday-Saturday until 6.30pm and all day Sunday. Steak and frites offer applies whenever there is a rail strike (book quoting ‘strike steak’).

Henry C

The offer: £5 negronis (from a choice of ten)

T&Cs: Available Thursdays 4pm-late.

Juice Box

The offer: £5 negronis

T&Cs: All day every day, 12-10pm.

Our Neighbourhood Bar

The offer: 30% off pizza

T&Cs: Available every Monday in August

The Black Friar

The offer: Two courses for £22 

T&Cs: Available from a set menu all day Monday, 12 to 6pm Tuesday-Friday. Walk-ins and bookings welcome

The Famous Crown

The offer: Four bar snacks for £22

T&Cs: Available throughout August.

The Jane Eyre Ancoats

The offer: £7 cocktails, £30 house wine with two snacks, £8 classic cocktails on Sundays

T&Cs: Tues – Thurs 3 to 6pm ongoing, every Thursday throughout summer, Sundays from 6pm.

The Jane Eyre Chorlton

The offer: Lunch menu 3 for £15

T&Cs: Tuesday to Friday, 12 to 5pm.

Public

The offer: £4 pints and wine, £6 daiquiris

T&Cs: Available only when it’s raining, weekdays until 8pm.

Santé

The offer: £15 for 3 small plates or tapas

T&Cs: Available weekly, starting from 4pm Tuesdays and finishing at 5pm Fridays.

Featured image – The Manc Eats

Eats

Plans to open a brand-new pub on the site of the Rovers Return

Daisy Jackson Daisy Jackson The Stables Tavern is coming to Manchester in June. Credit: Supplied

A brand-new pub is set to open in Manchester city centre net month, with treats in store like complimentary bowls of crisps, an outdoor terrace, and a games parlour.

The Stables Tavern is taking shape in the St John’s district, poetically on the same site that was once home to Coronation Street’s iconic Rovers Return pub.

They’re promising this will be a ‘historic tavern reimagined for today’s lover of a proper pint’.

The pub will come from Shiko Group, which is also behind Courts Club, where you can play tennis or basketball followed by court-side pints, and Side Street, a bar-restaurant-events space with a mid-Century interior.

Neighbouring the Bonded Warehouse, The Stables Tavern will join this rapidly blossoming new creative district, just across the yard from Caravan, The Trading Route and Aviva Studios.

Inside, punters will find multiple beer taps with local beers, served with complimentary bowls of crisps as well as a menu of pub snacks like handmade sausage rolls and local pies.

The pub will be split into three sections – an outside terrace, a main bar, and a parlour area at the back of the pub for live entertainment, old school games, and rounds of whiskey.

This might be a new district but it’s a historic area for the city – the same building was a busy watering hole back in the early 19th century for workers, merchants and visitors who made use of the nearby canals and cobbled streets.

It was then the home of the Rovers Return, back when this area was the home of Granada Studios.

Hayley Sammé, Marketing Director, said: “We’re so excited to bring The Stables Tavern back to St John’s. The area’s extensive historical backdrop and burgeoning hospitality scene provides the perfect landscape for a traditional British pub.

“It’s the perfect addition to the existing scene, and we hope it’s going to become a popular spot in our new creative district.”

The Stables Tavern will open at St John’s on Friday 6 June.

Read more

Featured image: Supplied

Eats

‘Classy, clever, confident’ – New Manchester restaurant receives glowing Guardian review

Daisy Jackson Daisy Jackson British classics at Winsome, Manchester. Credit: The Manc Group

Winsome, one of the newest restaurants on Manchester’s dining scene, has gone and received a seriously glowing review in The Guardian this weekend.

Legendary restaurant critic Grace Dent said that the British bistro ‘may well be my new favourite restaurant’, lauding chef patron Shaun Moffat’s ‘elegant but plentiful modern cooking’.

She said that there’s even a teeny touch of Toby Carvery in their Sunday offering, with meaty and saucy dishes and ‘cartoon-esque XL yorkshire puddings’.

Winsome opened back in March under the steer of three hospitality heavyweights – ex-Edinburgh Castle chef Shaun Moffat, former Schofields head bartender Tom Fastiggi, and Belzan founder Owain Williams.

It’s a beautiful, stripped-back space at the foot of the Whitworth Locke aparthotel and Moffat’s first venture as a chef patron.

Based on this Guardian review, he’s doing a pretty good job so far…

Grace Dent said of Winsome’s nostalgic yet modern menu (featuring dippy eggs and puddings that sound like school dinner puds): “This is Cool Britannia wearing a napkin bib with a side portion of rhubarb jelly and custard for pudding.”

Novelty crockery at Winsome. Credit: The Manc Group
Novelty crockery at Winsome. Credit: The Manc Group
Chef patron Shaun Moffat at Winsome. Credit: The Manc Group
Chef patron Shaun Moffat at Winsome. Credit: The Manc Group
Dippy egg and asparagus. Credit: The Manc Group
Dippy egg and asparagus. Credit: The Manc Group
Inside WInsome on Princess Street. Credit: The Manc Group
Inside WInsome on Princess Street. Credit: The Manc Group

She also wrote that it’s ‘far from a novelty restaurant’ in spite of its animal-shaped crockery.

And Dent added that while there’s an element of fine dining, it’s unpretentious enough that you’re happy to smear it all over the tablecloths and, indeed, yourself.

‘Deeply nostalgic’, ‘forward-thinking fine dining without any of the faff’, is how she described her Winsome experience.

“This is confident, clever cooking that stays just the right side of earnest, or at least as earnest as a chef can be when he also serves up a dessert that is essentially a 1980s school sponge pudding with a scoop of milk ice-cream flecked with multicoloured sprinkles, or hundreds and thousands as they will for ever be known in my heart,” she wrote.

Grace Dent’s Guardian review concluded with: “Winsome may well be my new favourite restaurant, and it’s the new, big, generous beating heart of Manchester hospitality. It’s classy but come-all – bring your gran, bring your baby, no one need feel conspicuous.

“There’s something about the place that makes me want to use it as a canteen, not least out of sheer curiosity as to what Moffat will put on the menu next. Great cooking, and forward-thinking fine dining without any of the faff.

“Bring your appetite and don’t wear pale colours. Aaah, Manchester, you have so much to answer for. Winsome will seriously impact your waistline.”

Winsome said in a post on Instagram: “It doesn’t get much better than that! We’re over the moon, full of pride and could not be more grateful to the team who’ve worked so hard to help us deliver this dream.”

Read more

Featured image: The Manc Group

More Eats

City Centre

Hidden Manchester bar Mala to offer unique ‘movie night’ experiences inside private cabins

Eats

You can get FREE sandwiches in Manchester this weekend – but only if you have certain names

Circolo Popolare in Manchester. Credit: The Manc Group

Eats

Big Mamma Group opens incredible Italian restaurant Circolo Popolare in Manchester

Audio

Clint Boon takes us around Manchester's iconic Deaf Institute

Eats

We go meatballs deep with Mira's traditional Neapolitan sandwiches