The team behind Tattu and Fenix – two of Manchester’s most beautiful restaurants – have today revealed plans for a brand-new concept called Louis.
The venue will be a love letter to the Italian-American restaurants of New York, and as well as having classic Italian dishes will also be the home of nightly musical performances.
Set in the sparkly Spinningfields area, Louis takes its inspiration from the classic Manhattan restaurants portrayed on the silver screen as a home away from home.
Louis has teased its launch this morning on Instagram with a series of black-and-white, 1940s-era photos of New York, including waistcoated waiters, champagne towers, and jazz bands around a grand piano.
It comes from the Permanently Unique Group, who most recently launched the beautiful Fenix, a Greek-Mediterranean restaurant inspired by Mykonos, and who operate one of Manchester’s most long-standing luxury restaurants, Tattu.
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Louis wants to bring a new style of dining to Manchester’s restaurant scene, and it’s an idea that’s been in the making for three years.
Guests will be served a menu developed by executive chef Ippokratis Anagnostelis (who recently launched Fenix), with dishes including handmade fresh pasta made in a dedicated workshop next to the kitchen.
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Will Meredith will be on hand to create a 12-strong menu of American classic cocktails.
One of Manchester’s grandest restaurants has finally reopened TWO YEARS after fire
Daisy Jackson
One of the most historic restaurants in Manchester has reopened at last, two years after a fire forced its closure.
Mount Street Dining Room & Bar – which many of us may remember as Mr Cooper’s – stands within the Grade II-listed Midland Hotel.
The grand dining room dates all the way back to 1903, when it opened with the hotel as the Grill Room.
The restaurant was at the epicentre of the Industrial Revolution and was frequented by railway travellers, perhaps best-known for hosting a lunch between Charles Rolls and Henry Royce in 1904, who went on to form the world-famous Rolls-Royce brand.
The Midland’s restaurants has gone through several changes in the decades since, undergoing a major £14 million refurb in 2020 to relaunch as Mount Street Dining Room & Bar.
Its interiors are inspired by the hotel’s early 1900s art deco and railway heritage, with a menu that focuses on locally-sourced British produce.
But the restaurant has been shut since early 2024, when a fire damaged the entrance and trellising around its main entrance on Mount Street.
The beautiful bar areaA glimpse of the menu at Mount StreetCocktails and British food
The Midland has finally managed to get the restaurant back open again this month, with a new food and cocktail menus, which aims to offer refined but simple British dining.
Expect dishes like pork and black pudding bonbons, white onion soup with crispy potatoes, smoked British salmon with lemon gel and dill mascarpone, and slow cooked beef daube with confit garlic mash.
Plus desserts such as rice pudding with Anise glazed pearsand Bakewell pudding with cherry syrup.
It’s been a long time since we’ve seen inside this beautiful, storied dining room – and it looks just as beautiful as we remember.
Daisy Jackson -
19th February 2024 
