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

50% off wine, free pizzas, half-price meals and plenty more to get excited about.

Georgina Pellant Georgina Pellant - 5th August 2023

August has arrived, and with it, we’ve unearthed some cracking Manchester restaurant and bar deals.

Plenty of local bars seem to be capitalising on the terrible weather we’ve been having by launching rain-specific happy hours, and the proliferation of 50% off dining deals doesn’t seem to have slowed down at all.

There is also a pub in Salford giving its diners the chance to win £72,000 worth of prizes when they dine from its £22 set menu this month that is well worth a look-in.

Keep reading to discover the best dining deals and drink offers in Manchester this August.

50% off food and drink – Manchester August dining deals

Image: The Bay Horse
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Corbieres

The offer: Free pizza

T&Cs: Free pizza when you buy a drink, every Tuesday to Friday from 4-7pm

Disorder

The offer: 50% off bottles of prosecco, 50p wings

T&Cs: Drinks offer only available when it’s pouring down with rain. Say ‘If it rains, it pours’ at the bar to get the deal. 50p wings every Wednesday.

Ducie Street Warehouse

The offer: £5.55 selected drinks and dishes

T&Cs: Available Monday to Thursday from 5 to 5.55pm.

Elnecot

The offer: Soup and sandwich £8

T&Cs: Available Monday to Friday, 11am to 3pm.

Italiana Fifty Five

The offer: 50% off food

T&Cs: Available Sunday to Thursday throughout August, booking required.

La Bandera

The offer: 50% off food

T&Cs: Mondays and Tuesdays, maximum six per booking. Booking required.

Muse Uppermill

The offer: 50% off the menu*

T&Cs: *some exclusions apply. Available every Thursday

On The Hush

The offer: 50% off food

T&Cs: Available to walk-ins 12pm to 2pm, Thursday and Friday

Read more: The French at The Midland – the unsung hero of Manchester’s food and drink scene

Public

The offer: BOGOF Burgers

T&Cs: Available on 24 August only from noon until they run out.

The Bay Horse

The offer: 50% off all food

T&Cs: Every Wednesday in August, all day long

The Firehouse

The offer: 50% off bottles of wine, Aperol spritz, pittas and hummus, stracciatella, and beetroot borani.

T&Cs: Available Wednesday to Friday from 4 to 7pm, booking required.

The Pen and Pencil

The offer: 50% off all food

T&Cs: Available all day Monday, booking required.

What’s Your Beef

The offer: £1 burgers

T&Cs: Available from 12pm on Thursday 24 August until sell out.

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20 Stories

The offer: Three courses for £35 with a glass of Mirabeau rosé

T&Cs: Monday to Thursday 5.30 to 6:30pm.

Albert’s Schloss

The offer: £6 spritz and seasonal cocktails, £5 pints of Pilsner

T&Cs: Monday to Friday, 4-7pm

Almost Famous

The offer: £10 burgers with fries

T&Cs: Monday to Friday, 12-4pm

Bab

The offer: £5 children’s menu, two courses with a drink. 

T&Cs: Monday to Saturday 12-10pm and Sundays 12-8pm

Canto

The offer: Three dishes for £18

T&Cs: Monday to Wednesday 3 to 6pm, Thursday to Friday 12 to 5pm, Saturday 12 to 4pm, all day Sunday

Ciaooo Garlic Bread

The offer: £7 garlic bread with a drink included

T&Cs: Available Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, 12-3pm

Cote

The offer: Two courses for £18.95

T&Cs: Available Monday to Friday from 7pm

Dokes

The offer: Two mains and a bottle of wine for £25

T&Cs: Available every Sunday from 12 to 8.30pm.

Edinburgh Castle

The offer: £15 for a main and a drink.

T&Cs: Available Thursdays and Fridays, 12 to 4pm. Glass of wine, pint or soft drink available, main option changes weekly.

Read more: Three diners at Salford pub The Black Friar win over £1000 of prizes in 2 days

Embankment Kitchen

The offer: Three small plates £17.50, five for £27.50

T&Cs: Available Wednesday to Saturday, 4 to 10pm.

El Gato Negro

The offer: Three dishes for £18

T&Cs: Available Monday to Friday 12 to 4pm, all day Sunday.

Exhibition

The offer: A dish and a drink for £10

T&Cs: Available Wednesday to Friday, 12 to 4pm.

Habas

The offer: Main, side and a drink for £15.

T&Cs:  Available Tuesday to Friday, 12 to 5pm.

Hawksmoor

The offer: Two courses for £26, £15 steak and frites ‘strike offer.

T&Cs: Set menu available for reservations made Monday-Saturday until 6.30pm and all day Sunday. Steak and frites offer applies whenever there is a rail strike (book quoting ‘strike steak’).

Henry C

The offer: £5 negronis (from a choice of ten)

T&Cs: Available Thursdays 4pm-late.

Juice Box

The offer: £5 negronis

T&Cs: All day every day, 12-10pm.

Our Neighbourhood Bar

The offer: 30% off pizza

T&Cs: Available every Monday in August

The Black Friar

The offer: Two courses for £22 

T&Cs: Available from a set menu all day Monday, 12 to 6pm Tuesday-Friday. Walk-ins and bookings welcome

The Famous Crown

The offer: Four bar snacks for £22

T&Cs: Available throughout August.

The Jane Eyre Ancoats

The offer: £7 cocktails, £30 house wine with two snacks, £8 classic cocktails on Sundays

T&Cs: Tues – Thurs 3 to 6pm ongoing, every Thursday throughout summer, Sundays from 6pm.

The Jane Eyre Chorlton

The offer: Lunch menu 3 for £15

T&Cs: Tuesday to Friday, 12 to 5pm.

Public

The offer: £4 pints and wine, £6 daiquiris

T&Cs: Available only when it’s raining, weekdays until 8pm.

Santé

The offer: £15 for 3 small plates or tapas

T&Cs: Available weekly, starting from 4pm Tuesdays and finishing at 5pm Fridays.

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Bundobust and Madre announce bold new Indo-Mexican collaboration

Clementine Hall Clementine Hall Madre and Bundobust are teaming up

Two of Manchester’s best-loved casual dining spots are joining forces for a limited-edition collaboration.

Bundobust and Madre will be teaming up this summer to create a menu inspired by two world-famous street food cultures – India, and Mexico.

The Indo-Mexican menu will feature dishes like ‘Naanchos’, and plenty of other Desi-flavoured Mexican dishes.

It’ll be mashing up iconic ingredients, techniques, and flavours, with a menu of brand new spice-packed dishes and cocktails combining Desi and Mexican influence.

So, what can we expect?

Mexican street food classics chimichanga and quesadillas get the Desi treatment, while Bundobust’s Indian street food favourites like chaat get a little Latino heat.

All paired with spicy summer-time cocktails, as a homage to Mexican drinking culture, plus the return of Bundobust Brewery’s new golden Cerveza, SANJA Mexican Lager.

We can’t think of a better place to spend our summer evenings to be quite honest.

On the menu there are crunchy Indo-Mexican ‘naanchos’, topped with salsa verde, crema, tamarind, onion, coriander, and a punchy pickle masala.

Madre and Bundobust are teaming up
Madre and Bundobust are teaming up
Naanchos, from the Bundobust x Madre menu
Naanchos, from the Bundobust x Madre menu

There’ll also be a ‘Tikkadilla’ – a corn tortilla packed with oyster mushrooms, red tikka sauce and Oaxaca cheese, with a side of desi birria sauce for dipping.

That’s alongside masala chimichanga, birria-ani, and corn chaat.

Then you can wash that down with a cashew colada, an avocado lassi, spicy mango margs and loads more.

The Indo-Mexican menu will be available at all Bundobust and Madre locations from Monday 14 July until Sunday 17 August 2025.

Read more

Featured image: The Manc Group

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Northern Quarter cafe to give out 100 FREE slices of cake to celebrate its birthday

Emily Sergeant Emily Sergeant

A little Northern Quarter cafe is celebrating a big milestone this week, and is giving out 100 free slices of cake for the occasion.

Nibble is turning eight this week, and nothing makes a birthday better than cake.

The female-run independent cafe on Oldham Street in the heart of the Northern Quarter first opened its doors to hungry Mancs back in July 2017, after owner and manager Lauren had dreams to take her business of selling brownies at local artisan markets and turn them into a cosy cafe of her own that catered to people with all sorts of dietary requirements.

The cafe has since been acknowledged by tastemakers as one of the most accessible places in Manchester.

Not only is Nibble known and loved for serving up some of the best homemade bakes in the city, with something for everyone to tuck choose from, but they also provide a tasty selection of all-day brunch dishes, salads, and sandwiches, as well as corporate catering too.

So of course, to celebrate eight years of the lovely Nibble team feeding the good people of Manchester, the business is giving away free slices of birthday cake on Friday.

Nibble NQ is giving away 100 free slices of birthday cake / Credit: The Manc Group

After doing something similar to celebrate their birthday last year, this time around they’re taking things once step further, as it’s not just 100 free slices of scrumptious cake you can get your hands on, there’s plenty other prizes too.

Nibble will be ‘levelling up’ and throwing in some ‘hidden surprises’ in the form of vouchers, giving people an opportunity to win a free brunch, brownie box, or coffee and cake. 

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To be in with a chance of taking away one of the 100 free slices of birthday cake, all you’ll need to do is head to Nibble on Oldham Street this Friday (11 July) and line up outside the cafe from 9:30am, then you may just be lucky enough to start of your day in the sweetest way possible.

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