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Joe & The Juice to open even MORE locations in Manchester city centre

Joe is booked and busy

Daisy Jackson Daisy Jackson - 2nd March 2026

Joe & The Juice is set to launch yet more juice bars and coffee shops in Manchester city centre.

The viral brand used to have a spot in town within the former Debenhams building, but vanished from Greater Manchester when the department store folded.

But its comeback has been remarkable since reopening in town last year, with the number of Joe & The Juice locations now at an all-time high.

And there are even more on the way…

Bright pink hoardings have appeared on a corner unit on Princess Street, right off St Peter’s Square, teasing a new Joe & The Juice cafe in the city centre.

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The unit has been empty for at least 10 years, despite being in such a prime part of the city centre.

Plans were also revealed last year for the Danish-based brand to open within the reopened Sunlight House on Quay Street.

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Joe & The Juice is coming to St Peter's Square in Manchester
Joe & The Juice is coming to St Peter’s Square in Manchester
Joe & The Juice on Cross Street
Joe & The Juice on Cross Street

The new additions will bring the number of Joe & The Juices in Greater Manchester to five, adding to their existing portfolio of Cross Street, Manchester Airport T2, and the Trafford Centre.

The brand is known for its signature menu of juices, smoothies, health shots, coffees and matchas, plus its viral Scandi-inspired sandwiches like the Tunacado.

With more than 300 juice bars and coffee shops around the world, Joe & The Juice’s pink branding has become a familiar site globally since its launch in 2002.

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An exact opening date for the new St Peter’s Square Joe & The Juice hasn’t been revealed yet, but the signs promise it’s ‘coming soon’.

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Inside the new Manchester food hall opening in a Grade II-listed building

Daisy Jackson Daisy Jackson Inside the new Manchester food hall opening in a Grade II-listed building

The operators behind a brand-new food hall in Manchester city centre have shared a glimpse inside.

Work is underway to transform the Grade II-listed Ducie Street Warehouse into an enormous food hall concept, with 11 kitchens plus an outdoor terrace, mini cinema, tequila bar, and game rooms.

When it opens this summer, Manchester Street Food will also have a self-service beer tap wall and two stages, as well as a 75-cover private hire space.

Ducie Street Warehouse closed late last year to make room for the building’s new chapter, as the team behind Edinburgh Street Food (ESF) take the reins.

In new images shared today, original features like the arched brick ceilings and terracotta tiled floors will be retained, but the space will have plenty of colour added in the form of murals, painted pillars, and neons.

ESF is looking to expand right across the UK over the next five years, kicking off here in Manchester on the edges of the Northern Quarter.

The 15,000 sq ft internal space, just a stone’s throw from Manchester Piccadilly, will have space for 450 people inside plus another 180 on the south-facing terrace outside.

The games room at Manchester Street Food
The games room at Manchester Street Food
The 32-seat cinema
The 32-seat cinema
Inside Manchester Street Food
Inside Manchester Street Food

A winter garden will host breakfast service, while guest traders will take over the terrace to keep the offering fresh.

The existing 32-seat mini cinema in the building will be retained in the new plans for Manchester Street Food.

Manchester Street Food is expected to generate 180 employee opportunities.

Ben MacMillan, ESF Managing Director, said: “Manchester has always been a city with incredible energy, creativity and a love of food, so bringing our concept here in this stunning venue is a natural and exciting next step.

“We want to create a space brought to life by local artists which celebrates the city’s culture and provides line up independent traders and brewers a city centre platform to shine.

“We’ve seen how much people embraced the spirit of ESF in Edinburgh and we know Manchester, with its energy and hunger for innovation will take it to another level. We’re incredibly excited about making the city our second home.”

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A new ’boutique’ chicken spot has opened in Manchester’s Northern Quarter

Danny Jones Danny Jones New chicken boutique restaurant Northern Quarter Manchester

A brand-new chicken spot called ‘Le Coq Boutique’ has just opened in Manchester city centre, serving out of a popular Northern Quarter bar.

Is this the best name we’ve ever heard in our time writing about food and drink? It just might be…

Opening from inside The Social NQ on Thomas Street (formerly known as Smithfield Social), their new resident and poultry-centric kitchen is a bit of a pun on the classic French sportswear label, but having now been versed in the word about the bird for ourselves, we can confirm it’s much more than that.

For starters, the only thing more decadent than the roasted meats are the sides and cocktail menu, which features everything from chunky hash browns and some of the richest sauces you could ask for.

As you can see, the most chicken is well and truly the star of the show here, but what they have done is find unique ways of innovating and experimenting with it.

For instance, if you’ve never had a cocktail with chicken fat in it, here’s a place you can try one.

Honestly, this isn’t our first rodeo with this very particular kind of drink – but for those of you that haven’t, we promise, it really is quite good.

Aside from surprisingly saline kicks beside the salty marg rims we’ve become more accustomed to over the years, there are some very nice drinks on the menu.

But we’ll be honest, if you’re a sucker for the famous ‘chicken wine’ – a.k.a. La Vieille Ferme, if you want to be all formal – we imagine you’ll be sticking to plenty of this.

Purely to stay on brand, of course.

Having already spent many a weekend, be that afternoon or night, at the old Smithfield over the years, now that it has this fine new in-house food offering tacked on, we suspect we’ll be going back a lot more.

Whether you want lots of crispy chicken skin or prefer it smothered in gravy and various other kinds of savoury jus, if you’re an unadulterated mothercluckin’ chicken lover, then you’ll have a great time here.

As the team has joked in the comments under their first few social media posts, while it isn’t technically mandatory to wear the vintage 80s brand upon visiting, it is “expected”, with “bonus marks and shots” and promised for your efforts.

It’s also worth noting that they have an exclusive launch offer for those who sort a booking early, so we wouldn’t wait around if we were you.

Let us know what you think if you visit anytime soon.

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