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Richard Richard - 10th August 2022

Inside Great Northern Market, the huge new food hall at Manchester Airport T2

Daisy Jackson Daisy Jackson Inside Great Northern Market, the huge new food hall at Manchester Airport T2

There’s a brand-new food hall in Manchester, and you won’t believe where this beauty is… it’s only at Manchester Airport (!).

The food hall craze has travelled all the way to Terminal 2, bringing a whole host of kitchens for you to enjoy before your flight.

You can tuck in to everything from full breakfasts and brunches (with the obligatory 7am pint, because time isn’t real in an airport), to burgers and street food.

Essentially, you can travel around the world before you’ve even boarded the plane. 

It’s all part of the terminal’s wider £1.3bn transformation, which now includes a first-of-its-kind market hall-style food and drink offering, with six kitchens around a central dining area, plus a Gooey kiosk and a takeaway hatch.

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Behind the scenes, Great Northern Market is powered by a community of Northern talent. All menus have been crafted by Manchester-born executive chef Amy Tomkinson.

Here are all the new traders who have moved in to the Great Northern Market.

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Gooey

Gooey at Great Northern Market
Gooey at Great Northern Market

This one surely needs no introduction – Gooey is one of Manchester’s top (and most popular) bakeries, famed for its chunky cookies, fluffy doughnuts, and cinnamon buns.

It’s the first thing you’ll see as you enter the Great Northern Market, a pretty tiled kiosk with its signature neon sign overhead.

As well as fresh bakes and their limited-edition specials, this is the spot to grab a pre-flight coffee too.

La Casita

La Casita at Great Northern Market

This Mexican street food spot has been created with the help of Madre’s Sam Grainger, and is serving a menu of burritos, loaded nachos, and salads.

A highlight is the beef birria nachos – authentic Mexican corn tacos loaded up with refried beans, pink pickled onions, guacamole, cheese sauce, salsa norteña and jalapeños. 

Nashville Hot House

Nashville Hot House

There’s another local name involved with Nashville Hot House – Yard & Coop have brought their fried chicken prowess to Manchester Airport.

At the Great Northern Market, you’ll find classic buttermilk chicken burgers, a spicy little K-pop thigh burger, and chicken tenders.

There’s also salt and pepper loaded fries and absolutely loads of different dips.

Napoli Street Pizza

There’s been a real lack of pre-holiday pizza at Manchester Airport until now.

Napoli Street Pizza makes its Neapolitan pizzas using a a 55% hydration method, and a biga dough that is fermented and used to create the dough daily.

There are loads of different flavours to choose from, like a hot honey and pepperoni, plus flatbreads, Caesar salads, and more.

Kouzina

Kouzina is importing flatbreads from Greece for the most authentic possible souvlaki experience, like a lamb kofta souvlaki with chopped tomatoes, pink pickled onions, cucumber, zhoug, tahini, garlic mayo, and coriander.

You can also order big salads here, mezze platters, halloumi fries, and flatbreads with dips.

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You’ll feel like your in Santorini before you’ve even stepped on the plane (… okay, that might be a stretch).

Black Iron Grill

Smash burgers and skin-on fries are up for grabs at this next Great Northern Market trader, Black Iron Grill.

These burgers are served in glazed brioche buns, with melt-in-your-mouth beef patties topped with a number of different options.

You can also order a side of mac and cheese or some filthy fries loaded with crispy bacon bits, crispy shallots, and garlic mayonnaise.

Palms Cafe

That pre-flight pint just got FANCY

Last but not least – and definitely not something we thought we’d ever see in Manchester Airport – is Palms Cafe.

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They’re whipping up big bowls of ramen, and other noodle dishes, with toppings like satay chicken, sweet chilli king prawn, crispy tofu, pulled Korean beef, crispy fried chicken, and miso roasted sweet potato.

Noodles include hearty ramens, katsu curries, Pad Thai, and sides like prawn crackers.

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Hilary Duff announces massive Manchester gig on first world tour in nearly 20 years

Danny Jones Danny Jones Hilary Duff Manchester arena live show tickets

Noughties throwback, Hilary Duff, is continuing her contemporary comeback trail by announcing a brand-new world tour, including a massive arena gig right here in Manchester.

That’s right, Lizzie McGuire herself is returning to the UK with new music.

In all seriousness, child star Hilary Duff has gone on to have quite the career, but it feels like it’s been forever since we’ve had fresh music from her, which is why her next album and huge run of tour dates around the globe feels like such a big deal.

Ahead of her sixth studio release, lucky… or something, dropping this month, the American popstar has now confirmed nearly 50 upcoming dates in support of the record; she also still managed to give us a very Disney Channel reveal video.

Yes, heading out on the road across North America, Europe, the UK and Ireland, as well as Australia and New Zealand, Hilary Duff has announced a total of 47 gigs so far.

With no other live shows confirmed in mainland Europe yet, Great British and Irish fans can be glad of the five shows locked in for the UK leg.

Having said that, with the 38-year-old enjoying a real renaissance of late, we wouldn’t be surprised to see more added to the newly confirmed ‘lucky me’ tour.

As mentioned, with her latest LP scheduled to launch on 20 February, we got her most recent track just a few short weeks ago.

Following the lead single from the project, ‘Mature’ – also released this past November 2 – you can see the music video for her ‘Roommates’ down below.

The song is also produced by her husband, Matthew Koma.

This newest outing is the first Hilary Duff album in over a decade, following 2015’s Breathe In. Breathe Out; it’ll also be nearly two of them since her last world tour, having last played Manchester all the way back in 2007.

As for her shows, following a number of performances in late 2025 and this year already, she’ll be playing throughout the calendar and well into early 2027.

You can see the rest of the European tour dates thus far down below.

Hilary Duff UK and IE tour dates – September ’26

  • 6 – Dublin, IE – 3Arena
  • 8 – Cardiff, UK – Utilita Arena Cardiff
  • 10 – London, UK – The O2
  • Thursday, 12 – Manchester, UK – AO Arena
  • 13 – Glasgow, UK – OVO Hydro

For tickets to see her here in Manchester at the end of this summer, early access can be enjoyed by Three mobile members from 10am on Tuesday, 17 February, or via the venue’s own presale window from the same time next Thursday, 19 Feb.

As for general admission, tickets will then go live at 10 the following Friday (20 Feb), and you can get ready to grab yours HERE.

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Featured Images — Press shots (supplied via AO Arena)

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