Sugarvine

More atmosphere on the moon than the upstairs room...
Seafood Cataplana...tasty & a very nice bowl etc
but more of a "Seafood Surprise" 2x mussels 1x Prawn 1x small piece of Fish a bargain at £15.95

This Restaurant is awesome, one of the best in Manchester. I eat out quite regularly and the service and food was second to none. My wife had an awesome Pork Vindaloo and I had Fillet and lobster tail. The Bread offered comes with 4 different flavoured butters. Book this place now.

food is amazing, service is good and you can tell these boys have been in this job for a long time it shows. good to see something different in manchester. don't stop Luso

Ate at Luso last night for the first time and what a treat it was! The food was outstanding. There were 4 of us dining and every dish we chose was fantastic. The only complaint is that the menu is so good and varied that it takes you ages to decide what to have as you want to try EVERYTHING! We will certainly be going back soon.

I love this restaurant. The food is absolutely excellent; its fresh, tasty and modern; along with the great service and whole ambience this is by far my favourite restaurant both for lunch and dinner. I cannot recommend Luso enough and rather than "go on" about it, all I would say is "go and try it".

After years of eating out in Manchester I have never felt compelled to write a review but that has changed. The meal I have just eaten was fantastic. Really good quality food, service and wine.

Awesome meal, bit pricey. But worth it.

this is one of the best restaurants in Manchester without a doubt. the food is very modern and the service is perfect. keep it up well worth a visit.

I was extremely impressed with this restaurant. The place has a great look, simple but stylish. The service was immaculate, fine dining in execution but without the stuffiness. I loved the menu choices and want to go back and sample more, this is rare for me as I can get jaded by menu formulas. Excellent!

Ate at Luso this week and our expectations were exceeded. Very good food in an interesting and varied menu, well served in a tastefully furnished room. For the quality and the location this restaurant isn't expensive. Well done. Will recommend and am looking forward to eating there again.

Excellent! Went on a busy Saturday night and it could not have been better. Food, service and atmosphere are all fab - one of the best restaurants in town. Fresh food, cooked to perfection and laid back but highly professional service. I recommend that everyone tries this restaurant

When we arrived we were shown to our table and given the menu, after 5/10 minutes the waiter returned to ask if we required any drinks, we ordered the wine and at the same time ordered our starters and main course; the starters arrived about 20 minutes later, these were worth waiting for, we then sat another 30 minutes until the main courses arrived, mine was just warm and as was my wife's, the waitress explained that all the diners had arrived at once and the kitchen was having problems coping, surely it is the responsibility of the restaurant to ensure that this does not happen. Despite this the food was excellent and we will return hopefully to a better organised evening!

First visit, and it won't be long until we return. A friendly welcome and attentive service. Food was just superb. We had the £36 per couple menu which includes two courses and a bottle of wine. Menu choice was fabulous and the wine delicious. I don't think that offer is on at weekends but certainly until 10:30 pm on week nights.

Popped in this evening for snack/starter and had the parsnip soup with curried scallops which was superb. Interesting soft drinks too for the drivers. I had peach nectar on a previous visit and pear today. All in all... Yum!

Saturday night, popped in early-ish (6.30) and the place was already pretty busy - three courses and two hours later, they were telling a steady stream of punters there was 'nothing available until 10'. The menu was genuinely fascinating - two hours intended to be spent catching up with the parents turned out to be two hours spent discussing each others' dishes and swapping bits around the table on forks. Seafood cataplana in its theatrical copper pot was satisfyingly meaty, but in a sufficiently delicate tomato sauce that it never felt too heavy for our excellent bottle of crisp, cold Portuguese white. Starters were uniformly excellent (the subtle goat's cheese polenta and more labour-intensive stuffed baby squid come highly recommended), but the real winner of the night was the lamb - thick, melt-in-the-mouth slices seared nice and pink with a fabulously velvety flavour that came through in waves. All in all, an absolute orgy of strong flavours and ambitious structuring - not for the faint-hearted or overly picky, but a thoroughly rewarding adventure for anyone bored of pizza! The atmosphere was spot-on too: although the 'clinical rustic' (!) style meant there was a lot of ambient noise, the tables are large and well-spaced enough to keep your conversation feeling intimate. We'll be back.

Dined at Luso on a miserable wet mid week evening and it was an absolute treat. Had heard about it opening and having holidayed in Portugal many times were keen to try it. Despite there being only two other tables occupied when we arrived, it did not feel empty. The team are very welcoming and the service is attentive without being over the top. Chose caldo verde soup (potato, cabbage and chorizo soup) and squid, chorizo and chickpea salad to start followed by cataplana (fish and seafood in a tomato based sauce with potatoes served in the traditional cataplana hinged dish) and arroz de marisco (fish and seafood rice which was one of the specials). We were warned that the arroz de marisco was different from the one served in Portugal. It's a bit more like a risotto. All very tasty and the fish was fresh and cooked perfectly. Good wine list with plenty of choice including half bottles and by the glass and very reasonably priced. No room for dessert but they sounded very good. Two courses each and a bottle of wine for about £50 plus tip - we thought the prices were excellent for the quality. Would not hesitate to recommend it and we'll definitely be back.

This Portugese restaurant on bridge st used to be le bouchon. The new owners have re-done the interior in a modern bright style and the place seems finished to a very high standard. As befits a portugese restaurant there is an excellent choice of fish courses on both the a la carte and specials menu. The starters average about £5-7 and main courses around £13-22. The staff and friendly and helpful in their recommendations. Food overall was of a high standard although the poussin was served slightly too greasy. Luso has only been open a month or so but seemed to have steady business even mid-week and in a part of town which sometimes can struggle outside of working hours. If luso manages to establish itself it will prove to be an asset to manchester dining and offers good quality ingredients cooked to a high standard. It also goes some way to compensate for the loss of the excellent chef from the Bridge Tavern just across the road.