The easy way to find a restaurant,find dining offers,find an event,find inspiration,make a booking

Armenian Taverna and Restaurant

Middle Eastern • Manchester City Centre

(0161) 834 9025 3 Princess Street, Manchester City Centre, Greater Manchester, M2 4DF (0161)83…Show

Now under new ownership and recently refurbished, this legendary Manchester Armenian restaurant has been in business for nearly 40 years.

About Armenian Taverna and Restaurant

Manchester's Armenian Taverna has been ensconced in its current Princess Street location nearly four decades, although is started life even earlier on Fountain Street. Now under new ownership and recently refurbished, literally generations of customers have visited this romantic basement taverna which is right on Albert Square, just opposite the Town Hall. The food is freshly prepared over a charcoal grill and favourites include starters such as Gagamp, cabbage leaves filled with delicately spiced lamb meat, rice, tomato and parsley and mains like the Armenian Goulash, made with pieces of lamb, cooked in a rich wine sauce together with courgette, carrot, onion, aubergine and tomato and served with rice. The mezze selection is popular and everything comes with the chef's special bread from the Caucasus. The wine list also features wines from Armenia. The restaurant is open for lunch Tuesday to Friday and dinner Tuesday to Sunday.

Sugarvine

4.0

Food 4.0/5

Service 4.0/5

Atmosphere 3.9/5

Value for Money 4.0/5

Read Reviews (26)

Write a Review

View Menus Website

General Enquiry

Write a Review

4.3

Dorcelin Mcatamney

As a first timer in this very interesting restaurant, i was not very sure on what to expect. I have been passing by this restaurant so many times yet was feeling intimidated going there on my own. So finally with a dear friend, we conquered Armenian Taverna. The greeting from the staff as soon as we descended into the entrance was already very welcoming. The decor was calm and inviting. Since it was our first time, we cannot decide on the whole myriad of choices. In the end we settled for the meat banquet for two. Boy did we get in over our heads. The food was amazing but definitely not for two ladies who lunch. Two brusque men maybe. The selection was very good and the taste was incredible. The tastes were similar to most middle eastern food but being in a different place makes all the difference. We will definitely be back.

5.0

Armen Gaunt

Wow, what a great meal. I took my partner and her mum, who have never tried Armenian food and they loved it. Amazing food, and service. We will be back, thank you.

4.5

yavuz göksel özdeniz

Delicious food and good service. Nice selection of typical food.

4.8

Jill

We thought we'd try this place out for our works party meal as we like to try different foods each year. We all found it quite hard to select one item each from the menu as there was so much we wanted to try, so be ordered 3 of the meat banquets and 2 vegetarian banquets, so we got a bit of most things. We shared them all between the 5 of us, fantastic, flavoursome foods, that did not disappoint, we did need to order extra flatbreads, but they arrived promptly, warm and fresh from the ovens. Great place, great company, great food 5*

4.0

Nicky Bateman

We were a large party of 17, the restaurant hosted us extremely well and the food was delicious. We all had a great time. The house red was not great but the restaurant swapped it for another bottle which was a great replacement. Would recommend for larger parties easy to deal with from a reservation perspective

3.8

Julie Barbour

Party of 8 at lunchtime with the team. Booked in advance and we were the only people there when we first arrived. Given this we felt the service could have been a bit quicker given it was evident we were on our lunch break although it was generally good overall. The food was hot and well presented and seemed authentic (this was our first time trying Armenian food). Felt the prices were reasonable although we were a bit disappointed that the lunch time 2 course offer is still advertised online but was crossed out in the menus.

2.5

Linda

Visited the restaurant after a long hiatus. We were quite disappointed in the standard of food. The house red wine was also very poor. We should have complained but the staff were very nice. Not up to the standard we expected.

5.0

David Thom

A real hidden gem- great food, friendly service. Amazing wine

3.0

Janet Chapman

A bit mixed.. my starter was excellent. My husband’s spinach pie had been cooked in oil that wasn’t hot enough so it was pale and oily. Very tasty mains but mine wasn’t hot. Our drinks order (which wasn’t complicated) got confused. Lovely decor and very friendly staff but not sure if we will return.

3.0

Natalia

Very lovely authenticic tasting Armenian food My only criticism is that I booked a table for my mother’s birthday, so a special occasion evidently. When I arrived there was no recognition of my booking which I was a bit disappointed about

1 2 3