One of Manchester’s grandest restaurants has finally reopened TWO YEARS after fire

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 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 pears and 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.

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