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

A number of Manchester restaurants are extending their 50% off deals this February - with plenty more discounts and offers on top.

Georgina Pellant Georgina Pellant - 31st January 2023

This February, there are still plenty of great Manchester restaurant and dining deals to get stuck into.

Quite a few of the city’s bars and cafes have decided to extend their 50% off food deals from January into February, and we’re absolutely chuffed to see it.

Beyond that, there are some awesome set menus, lunch deals and general discounts going around – not to mention quite a lot of Valentine’s deals to take up if you’re looking to celebrate Cupid’s holiday with someone special this month.

Keep reading to discover the best Manchester restaurant deals, discounts and offers to try this February.

50% off food – Manchester February dining deals

Image: The Firehouse
Image: The Mews

Almost Famous

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What is it: Legendary burger bar serving the original ‘dirty burgers’ as well as loaded fries and wings.

The offer: 50% off burgers

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T&Cs: Offer available Sunday to Friday all day ending 3 February.

The Bay Horse Tavern

What is it: A brilliant little Northern Quarter gastropub famed for its pies, Sunday roasts and massive sandwiches.

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The offer: 50% off food

T&Cs: Available Monday to Friday, 12-5pm. Booking recommended.

Cocoa Cabana

What is it: A dedicated chocolate cafe in Ancoats serving up indulgent hot chocolates, afternoon teas, martinis, brunch and more.

The offer: 50% off brunch and afternoon tea

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T&Cs: Available Monday to Friday. To redeem must be booked in online in advance with code ‘50% off’ in comments. Offer only applies to food and afternoon tea. Not available 9-17 February. Further T&Cs apply.

Ducie Street Warehouse

What is it: A huge cultural hub serving small plates and disco brunches and good vibes.

The offer: 50% off food

T&Cs: Valid all day on Tuesdays only from the Something for Everyone menu between 1 and 28 February. Booking recommended.

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Firefly

What is it: A glitzy spot across the water from Spinningfields, serving small plates influenced by south east Asia.

The offer: 50% off food and drinks

T&Cs: 50% off food available Wednesday to Friday. 50% off entire bill Sundays ONLY from 5pm. Maximum 6 guests, book in advance using code SUN50.

Provence

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What is it: A gorgeous wine bar where you can wash down your natural wine with Manchester-made charcuterie and cheese boards.

The offer: 50% off food

T&Cs: Discount applies to grazing boards when purchasing a bottle of wine between until 7 February. Cannot be used with any other deal or experience.

The Firehouse

What is it: A cool Detroit-style restaurant and bar housed in a former MOT garage.

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The offer: 50% off peri, plates and pitas.

T&Cs: Available until 10 February, Wednesday and Thursday between 4-9pm, Friday 12-9pm. Booking in advance is required.

Three Little Words

What is it: Sleek restaurant and bar in industrial railways arch with vaulted ceilings, with a neighbouring gin school and distillery attached.

The offer: 50% off food and selected drinks.

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T&Cs: Available until 10 February, Wednesday and Thursday between 5pm-midnight, Friday 12-7pm. Anything ordered after these time periods will not be eligible for discount. Maximum party of six.

TNQ

What is it: A proper institution offering a little taste of bistro culture in the heart of the trendy Northern Quarter.

The offer: 50% off food

T&Cs: Available until 10 February. Applies to the A la Carte only Monday to Friday between 12-10pm. Maximum booking of six. Quote  ‘JanSale’ when making booking online to get the deal.

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The Mews

What is it: A wine and charcuterie bar tucked away on Deansgate Mews.

The offer: 50% off food

T&Cs: Offer runs until 12 February. Available every day except Saturday, offer excludes fondue.

Trof

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What is it: A Northern Quarter OG turned independent bar and restaurant, known for its Sunday roasts, tasty burgers and pub grub classics.

The offer: 50% off food

T&Cs: Available all day on Tuesdays only throughout February.

Wood

What is it: MasterChef Simon Wood’s high-end restaurant down at First Street, perfect for a pre-theatre treat.

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The offer: 50% off Taste of Homage menu (five cheeses and five wines for £25 per person)

T&Cs: 50% off cheese and wine at Homage throughout February. Bookings via [email protected].

Other Manchester February dining deals

The Blues Kitchen is serving up bottomless chicken wings this month. / Image: The Blues Kitchen
You can get pies and a side for £10 all month at The Black Friar as its pub grub menu makes a return. / Image: The Black Friar

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What is it: Ultra-glitzy restaurant and bar set way up amongst the city’s skyline.

The offer: Three courses and a glass of wine for £30.

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T&Cs: Available Monday to Wednesday between 630-10pm. Available for groups of six people max.

Abeja

What is it: A Southern Spanish tapas kitchen serving up classic favourites alongside traditional dishes.

The offer: Three tapas plates for £15, add a bottle of sangria or wine for £15.

T&Cs: Available 5-9pm Wednesday and Thursday, until 5pm Friday and all day Sunday. Book a table in advance and ask for the February deal to get the saving.

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The Black Friar

What is it: A classic pub reborn, with a huge new restaurant installed into a new glass extension.

The offer: £10 pie and mash.

T&Cs: Available all day Monday and 12-6pm Tuesday to Friday until the end of February.

The Blues Kitchen

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What is it: Dedicated blues bar serving hickory-smoked comfort food, plus regular live music and DJs.

The offer: Bottomless chicken wings.

T&Cs: Available every Sunday throughout February between 12pm and 6pm. Available for £12 per person (£20 for two people), served with blue cheese dip and celery.  

The Beeswing

What is it: New Kampus wine bar with a sun-soaked terrace (probably not right now), sandwiches and small plates.

The offer: Meat or cheese board with bread and a carafe of wine for £25.

T&Cs: Available every Wednesday and Thursday between 4-9 pm.

Image: The Beeswing
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Canto

What is it: A lovely Portuguese restaurant from the minds behind El Gato Negro.

The offer: Three courses for £18

T&Cs: Available Monday to Thursday evenings, 12-5pm Friday and all day Sunday throughout February.

Cane and Grain

What is it: New York-style style bar split of over three themed floors, serving ribs, burgers and cocktails.

The offer: Burger, fries and a drink for £10.

T&Cs: Offer available Monday to Friday between 12-4pm.

Image: Cane and Grain
Image: Cane and Grain

Cibo

What is it: Modern Italian cafe, restaurant and prosecco bar serving Italian pizzas, grill dishes and sharing plates.

The offer: One course £7, two courses £12.

T&Cs: Available 12-230pm Monday to Friday, 12-3pm Saturday and Sunday.

Ducie Street Warehouse

What is it: A huge cultural hub serving small plates and disco brunches and good vibes.

The offer: Bottomless pancakes

T&Cs: Available on Pancake Day only from 10am until 5pm.. 30 minutes of unlimited pancakes priced at £13.50.

Don Giovanni

What is it: Modern Italian restaurant with floor-to-ceiling windows, marble bar and a large selection of traditional dishes.

The offer: Two courses £23.95, three courses £28.95.

T&Cs: Available 12-2pm and 4-6pm every day for a maximum of six people.

Edinburgh Castle

What is it: Another classic pub reborn – cosy vibes and pies downstairs, fancy small plates upstairs.

The offer: Two courses with a drink £30, three for £35.

T&Cs: Available Wednesday to Friday between 5 – 6.30pm throughout February.

El Gato Negro

What is it: Widely considered one of Manchester’s best restaurants thanks to its world-leading tapas menus.

The offer: 3 dishes for £18.

T&Cs: Available Monday to Friday 12-4 and all day Sunday throughout February.

Evelyn’s / The Daisy

What is it: More great brunches and roasts, plus an all-day menu that’s just had an overhaul and a charming bar underneath.

The offer: Roasts followed by £12 carafes at The Daisy

T&Cs: Enjoy a carafe of red or white wine for £12 at Evelyn’s subterannean bar The Daisy before or after your Sunday roast.

Greens

What is it: Manchester’s longest-standing vegetarian restaurant, from TV chef Simon Rimmer with two sites – one in Sale and the original in Didsbury.

The offer: Two courses for £15

T&Cs: Available Monday to Friday until 6.30pm.

Habas

What is it: The third restaurant from El Gato Negro’s Simon Shaw, this time celebrating the middle east.

The offer: Two courses for £20 or three for £24

T&Cs: Available between 5 and 10pm every Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday throughout February.

Hawksmoor

What is it: Premium British steakhouse serving the very best dry-aged beef, sustainable seafood and seasonal farm produce from the UK.

The offer: Two courses for £25, three for £28

T&Cs: Available for reservations made Monday-Saturday until 6.30pm and all day Sunday.

The Lawn Club

What is it: Airy cafe bar with wicker chairs, food served on wooden boards and an extensive cocktail menu.

The offer: Dine out for £50 (for two)

T&Cs: Available Valentine’s Day only. Offer includes a bottle of prosecco, any 2 mains and 2 sides from the main menu, between two people for £50. Walk-ins welcome.

Musu

What is it: High end Japanese restaurant serving quality sashimi, sushi, fine wines and a special Omakase chef’s choice menu.

The offer: Four courses for £35

T&Cs: Available as part of the Subayai (meaning ‘quick’) lunch tasting menu. 12-2pm Monday to Friday.

Mira

What is it: A grab-and-go sandwich dealer selling focaccia slabs and Naples-inspired cuzzetiellos, currently operating out of a hatch next to The Sadler’s Cat pub.

The offer: 15% off sandwiches

T&Cs: Available throughout February. Just rock up to get the deal.

Pastan

What is it: A new all-vegan pasta restaurant that has taken over the old Vertigo unit on Cross Street.

The offer: £10 mains

T&Cs: Offer available throughout February at lunchtime only. Further T&Cs may apply.

Provence

What is it: A relaxed, independent new wine bar serving quality cheese and charcuterie boards alongside low-intervention wines by the bottle and glass.

The offer: Free dessert boards and free prosecco.

T&Cs: Free dessert boards (chocolate brownies, blondies and cupcakes, all made by local baker ‘cupcakes by donna) offered with any bottle of wine purchased. Guests who pre-book will receive a complimentary glass of fizz. Available Valentine’s Day only.

The Shack

What is it: Laid back Northern Quarter bar and restaurant showing sports fixtures and serving cocktails.

The offer: Bottomless booze and pancakes.

T&Cs: Available from Pancake day, running 21-23 February. 90 minutes of unlimited pancakes (£12.50), unlimited drinks from £15.

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The most magical Christmas displays have now landed at one of the North West’s best garden centres

Emily Sergeant Emily Sergeant

Christmas has officially arrived at one of the best garden centres in the North West, and it’s just as magical as you’d hope it would be.

Just outside of Greater Manchester in the village of Glazebury in Warrington, you’ll find Bents Garden and Home – a multi award-winning destination garden centre that’s often voted one of the region’s best. It’s great place to visit all year round, but as anyone who has ever made the trip there will tell you, this place really comes alive during the festive season.

Bents first started out life all the way back in 1937, when Alfred and Margaret Bent began growing and selling roses in the front garden of their terraced house in Glazebury.

Ever since then, the business has gone from strength to strength – opening its first dedicated garden centre building in the early 1950s, and then undergoing several expansions in the 60 years that followed to create the place we know and love today.

A place that’s home to everything you need to kit out your home and garden, several cafes and restaurants, a food hall, a cook shop, a children’s boutique, and plenty more.

Christmas has arrived at Bents Garden and Home for 2026 / Credit: The Manc Group

And then at Christmas time, you can also get to wander around all the magical festive displays and stop for a bite to eat at the winter food markets.

Christmas at Bents originally began in the 1970s, establishing what would become one of the garden centre’s most successful – and favourite – times of the year, with people travelling in their thousands from all across the North West to visit, making it an annual tradition in the festive events calendar for many families.

With a jaw-dropping display to suit everyone’s festive decor tastes, Christmas at Bents really does need to be seen to be believed.

Expertly decorated trees form the centrepiece of each display, with all the baubles and decorations adorning them for sale by the side for you to recreate yourself at home.

Walking around the centre, you’ll also find every type of artificial tree (both normal and pre-lit), an array of fairy lights, wreaths, and garlands, before you arrive at what is sure to be one of the best Christmas Lemax Model Village set-ups you’ve probably ever seen.

A trip to Bents is an annual festive tradition for thousands across the North West / Credit: The Manc Group

Then, once you’ve filled your basket up with all the decs you need, you have to stop off at the Winter Food Markets before you head home.

There’s a wide array of different street food options to choose from like bratwursts, giant filled Yorkshire puddings, loaded fries, nachos, mac and cheese, crepes, churros, and build-your-own crumble, before taking a pew in one of the little wooden huts and washing it all down with festive-themed hot chocolates and mulled wine.

Don’t forget to stop off at the food hall, farm shop, and deli counters to stock up on plenty of goodies there before you leave too.

Basically, if you’ve never been to Bents before, we honestly cannot recommend it enough – even more so during Christmas time.

Don’t forget to stop off at the Winter Food Markets before heading home / Credit: The Manc Group

But it is really important to note that it does get very busy here, especially on weekends and at peak times like the run up to Christmas.

So you may have to be prepared to patiently wait for parking spaces and cooperate with your fellow shoppers, as well as join queues at the cafes and restaurants, all while respecting the hard-working staff at all times.

Let’s be as respectful as possible, and make this a place where everyone can enjoy a magical festive experience in 2026.

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Bents Garden and Home is open from 8:30am-9pm on Monday to Saturday, and 10:30am-4pm on Sundays, with the store open for browsing from 9am.

Find out more and plan your trip HERE.

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Meet Larishka – the DJ making her mark on Manchester’s Garage scene

Emily Johnson Emily Johnson

It’s time to meet Larishka – Audio North’s Artist of the Month for October.

For Larishka, music has always been around her in some form. Growing up surrounded by classical and rock music, she never expected her route into electronic music to begin with a Parklife set from Carl Cox, before eventually becoming a DJ, promoter, and co-owner of Manchester’s Ghosts of Garage.

Today, she runs events, DJs across House, Garage and Bass, and is helping build a community around one of Manchester’s most exciting electronic music brands.

From promoter to DJ

Larishka actually started out as a promoter while doing an apprenticeship at a music booking agency. She always knew she wanted to work on the events side rather than bookings, but felt like she wasn’t going to make many connections within the industry while living in Oldham.

Her plan was to go to university to study music, with the hope of learning to produce while also moving into Manchester and making connections within the city’s music scene.

Quite quickly into her studies, she joined Ghosts of Garage. After about a year, she had something of a lightbulb moment.

Meet Larishka, the DJ making her mark on Manchester’s Garage scene / Credit: Supplied

“I was studying music, I run my own nights, and I was always on the aux at house parties, so why have I not learned to DJ yet?” she explained.

That realisation came while she was sitting on MATTIK’s living room sofa, where she asked if he would teach her. Before long, she was calling him every day asking if they could go to the studio and practise mixing.

“I owe it to him really, he was a brilliant teacher.”

“I get it” – the Parklife moment that changed everything

Larishka’s introduction to electronic music wasn’t exactly the traditional one.

“I grew up on classical and rock music – my dad was a sound engineer in the 70s so that was his thing really, and my mum played the piano every single day so that’s what I was constantly around.”

She first heard house music when she was around 15 or 16, after a friend sent her a track they had found on SoundCloud.

“I listened to it out of my phone and didn’t really get it, it was too repetitive.”

A few years later, everything changed. After hearing Parklife from her window every year growing up, Larishka eventually went to the festival for the first time and watched Carl Cox close The Valley. He played ‘Finder’ by Ninetoes, and it was the first time she had experienced electronic music on a huge sound system.

“I remember being in absolute awe and turning to my friend and saying ‘I get it’ and from then, I was just absolutely hooked.”

It became a genuine turning point.

“I had my A Level exams that following week and when I was revising all I was listening to was house music and I remember my Dad coming in and saying ‘Is this you forever now?’ and I said ‘Yeah I think it is'”.

Larishka is Audio North’s Artist of the Month for October / Credit: Supplied

Why Manchester means so much

“I mean it’s home, and always has been.”

Having become part of the city’s music scene, she says she feels incredibly lucky to have found a community around her.

“There’s a certain camaraderie that exists here that I don’t know that you’d find anywhere else.”

For her, that sense of community is what makes Manchester’s music scene so special.

“Seeing people you know everywhere you go, you kinda feel like you’re never alone and that you’re actually part of something.”

That spirit extends beyond electronic music, too.

“And it’s not just in electronic music either, that spirit exists across all genres – Manchester music history is so rooted across such a broad spectrum of genres, and to see that still prevailing today is something we should all be proud of.”

Building Ghosts of Garage

It’s impossible to talk about Larishka’s journey without talking about Ghosts of Garage.

She’s a co-owner of the brand, having joined in 2021, and works across its marketing, bookings and creative direction alongside Rich Reason. For her, one of the biggest things that makes a Ghosts of Garage night stand out is its commitment to the music.

“The music and lineups truly never miss, which is a credit to Rich. The guy knows how to program a lineup.”

The team makes a conscious effort to champion new talent, often including at least one Manchester or UK debut on a lineup.

“A big part of each event is making them unique while keeping the brand consistent – each event has to have its own USP or else the nights get boring and people think they can just skip this one and go to the next and it’ll be the same.”

For Larishka, music has always been around her in some form / Credit: Supplied

Community is a huge part of the brand.

“We’re also big advocates of community and want to create the gap between audience and DJ as little as possible, so try to get the crowd involved as much as possible through things like our WhatsApp community.”

The aim is to make people feel like buying a ticket means becoming part of something bigger.

“We want people to feel like if you buy a ticket for our event, then you’ve unlocked a key to be part of something.”

Larishka’s advice for getting into Manchester’s music scene

For anyone hoping to break into Manchester’s music scene, Larishka’s advice is simple – go out.

“I’m way more likely to book you if we’ve met and we’ve had a good chat because it means I can put a face to a name and I know what you’re like.”

For her, being part of the community is about more than simply sending messages and asking for opportunities.

“Being an active member of the community means you’re already part of the night, so booking you to DJ just makes you even more part of it than you already are, rather than someone I’ve never met before who’s in my DMs.”

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Ultimately, it comes back to the same thing that has shaped so much of Larishka’s own journey – showing up, meeting people, and becoming part of something.

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