Reviews in Manchester City Centre

My guest and I started with a French Onion Soup with Gruyere Crostini at just short of a fiver - the onion soup was somewhat oily but otherwise fine. The accompanying croutons with barely melted cheese were neither crunchy nor brown. Bangers & Mash for my guest was reasonable and my goat's cheese risotto lacked any real passion, with the goat's cheese being thrown in raw at the end of cooking.

16 of us came to Efes for my friend's hen night last Saturday. What an atmosphere! The waiters did a fantastic dance and they got the bride-to-be up belly dancing. The waiters also led everyone round the room in a huge dance round all the tables. Very good food, lots of fun music...Turkish as well as the more usual dancefloor fillers. And they let you dance on the chairs! Brilliant!!!

A very good restaurant indeed, I think the food is outstanding and when you can eat a starter, main course and either a coffee or ice cream for £4.50 served to perfection then this is a place which should not be missed.

top notch cuisine and really great service. Really authentic food which brought memories flooding back of travelling round Thailand. Love this place

I have been to Panama Hattys a few times now and would definitely recommend this restaurant. The service is warm, friendly, and efficient. The atmosphere is relaxed. The food is unbelievably good! For the price of the food I don't think this place can be beaten in Manchester!

Extremely good quality of service. But the price of the set menu is not clearly stated 'per person'. If you think that the set menu is cheap, then you will get the bill with the double of what you expect!!!

I visited Grinch at lunch on a weekday; the food was excellent with very prompt service from a very attractive waitress. I would certainly visit again and would love to see the Jazz singer that is there on a Saturday. Top Marks.

If you, like me are tired of the burger / fries fast food culture (not to mention the health implications) then this is a real alternative. Barburrito's is an Authentic Mexican restaurant with excellent choice of dishes. I have been there 6-7 times over the past month and have never been disappointed by the quality of food or service. Excellent.

I eat there at least once a week. I am addicted and so are a number of my colleagues. The garlic naan is only comparable with the small but tasty naans at Shimla. The lamb is tender, the chicken plentiful, the keema spicy. Don't have the Rubicon pop though, it's minging.

This is a brilliant restaurant!!!! To be honest it's probably my favourite restaurant in all the world!

Firstly Manchester is a truly great night out now, with Deansgate and Deansgate Locks, the Northern Quarter, Oxford road and of course the gay 'village', you really can? be disappointed. Add in some super new restaurants and its the perfect night out. EASTZEAST is an excellent addition, good location, on princess street behind the BBC, it for us, rivals Rajdoot and Shimlas and we think it wins hands down. Authentic Indian with a great menu (check out the web site, v impressive) v busy on the Friday night, we WILL certainly be going again. Oh yea order a Naan at your peril, there huge!! Massive recommendation.

I've been to the Rice Bowl a couple of times and on both occasions it has been a very enjoyable experience. The food is superb and the menu caters well for us vegetarians. The staff were also excellent and offered a level of service sorely lacking in a lot of restaurants nowadays. On my second visit I was with a party of twelve as it was my birthday. Surprisingly we were able to order from the full menu, something which a lot of restaurants won't allow you to do. At the end of the meal I was presented with ice cream dessert with candles whilst the whole restaurant sang happy birthday. Then to top it all they gave me a box of chocolates and wished me a happy birthday. It's that kind of personal touch that makes all the difference! It's clear to see how this restaurant has lasted over 50 years in the business.

First the only gripe of the whole evening. The background muzac! It was the sort of generic house stuff that gets played in gyms and has no place in a 5* hotel dining room. Rant over, now the good bits. Two dined, arriving at 8pm, we were greeted in the bar and shown through to our table in the restaurant, which was about a third full. This surprised me as it was a Thursday, but then we were on a promotional offer so I suppose if they need to do promotions there is a reason for it! So seated, we receive our first glass of complimentary champagne. I couldn't see what label it was as it was in a bucket behind my seat, but as a not particularly big fan of champers, I thought this was jolly good. Choice of three breads was offered, White ,Brown and Beetroot. Good, but nothing to write home about. First course was a small coffee cup filled with delicious minted pea soup with pear and lobster. Gorgeous! Second course was two perfectly cooked roast Cornish scallops studded with black pudding and cider, with some sort of mayo like sauce. Very good, black pudding was just the right amount, didn't overpower the scallops. Third course was tournedos of Aberdeen Angus with horseradish mash and shallots jus. I had mine rare, dining partner had hers medium rare. I think medium rare was the better choice, as they are very thick fillets, and the heat hadn't quite got to the middle of mine. Other than that it was very good, served on wilted spinach over the mash-all lovely. Feeling rather full now, but without prompting we were asked if we would like a break before desert, gladly accepted! So after ten minutes(ish) we get pud. Bread and butter pudding with spiced raisin syrup, almost like a brulee. Very nice, especially the raisins/syrup. Really full now! Coffee and petit fours. Bill was £90 including large bottle of mineral water, service charge of ten percent and a round up tip. So for £45 a head I have to say it was extremely good value! 18/20

La Tasca has grown substantially in popularity, but the food was pretty average. The ribs were a bit too fatty but the waitress took those off our bill. Patatas bravas at £3-odd was rather on the dear side

Great place to stay loved it it was like india in UK

Plenty of choice, service with smile and efficient, beautifully presented food, served piping hot. Portions are excellent size, Chinese beer is recommended.

Wow the food was impressive.

This is the 1st time we have eaten korean food and was very pleasantly surprised. We enjoyed every course of the 5 course banquet. The only downside was we arrived at 21.30 and we were out for 22.40. We felt rushed as if the waiters wanted to go home. In fact they took the flowers and candle off the table before we had finished the main course! The food was excellent however.