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Armenian Taverna and Restaurant

Middle Eastern • Manchester City Centre
Sugarvine
4.5/5
(0161) 834 9025 3 Princess Street, Manchester City Centre, Greater Manchester, M2 4DF (0161)83…Show
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Now under new ownership and recently refurbished, this legendary Manchester Armenian restaurant has been in business for nearly 40 years.
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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.

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Armenian Taverna and Restaurant Offers

Middle Eastern
Manchester City Centre

Lunch & Early Bird Menu, £12.95

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2 courses, £12.95. Available 12pm-5pm, Monday to Friday (not between 15 Nov and 24 Dec).

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Natalia
Amazing food and cozy atmosphere as always. Love the Armenian coffee! Keep bringing my friends here and we will be back!
Sean
Brilliant food, friendly staff, warm atmosphere. I’ll be back.
Paddy
Food was SO tasty. Good service (albeit a bit strange that two serving staff dropped things). Armenian wine was really good. Only complaint was that bread was a bit stingy with the dish- a small piece of lavash between 2 people on a shared starter at £18 with lots of dipping dishes. Would that stop me going back? Absolutely not!
Gary
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Diane Bradshaw
Had a nice meal here on Monday. 2 types of soup and 4 starters between 2 of us. Only one dish we weren't keen on (beetroot salad) but that was just personal taste. We thought price of the wine was quite expensive. Lady was very pleasant.
Lucy
This place is fantastic - not to be missed. Lovely staff and amazing food. Our first visit, and will definitely not be our last!
5.0
Cam McDermont
Great and attentive staff, amazing food, and very nice interior.
Gianluca de Cesare
Tutto molto buono, una tappa obbligatoria per chi visita Manchester. Cibo di ottima qualità e personale gentilissimo.
Sarah
Beautiful food, great venue, and really lovely staff
Aidan Kelly
I was really looking forward to this restaurant as a colleague who lives in Manchester recommended it, we were up for the Manchester Marathon this Sunday and were looking froward to a good meal after the race. It probably started ominously when we made the booking initially for 6pm and I emailed to inquire if we could change it to 7pm in case we were delayed from the marathon, no response, so this is usually a bad sign regarding customer service. We ordered two Ukrainian beers to begin with, mine was fine by my friend's had some black pieces floating in the glass. When we brought this to the attention of the waiter, he could see this problem but brought my friend a completely different coloured beer, but insisted that it was the "same beer", we didn't want to be rude and argue the toss with him, my friend got about half way through it then didn't drink the rest. At the end, we asked that this be removed from the bill as this wasn't the beer we had ordered (and the original beer was in a contaminated glass), yet it still appeared on the bill. Because restaurants have had a difficult time with Covid and the impending cost of living crisis, we decided we'd let it slide, but the waiter just blatantly ignored our request. The attitude of both people who served us was surly and unpleasant. We ordered the Armenian "meat banquet" for two, it said it was a mixture of hot and cold starters and a "chef's special" kebab. It all came at once, which we weren't aware of, we thought it was all part of the "starter". The food itself was of good quality, but a complete rip-off - extremely small portions, we were given one piece of bread between two of us, when we asked for another piece of bread we were charged extra. The entire meal came to almost £100 for two of us (we had two beers each, the meal and three additional sides), including service. I live in London but this was extremely expensive for small portions and poor service. When my coat fell off the back of my chair for a second time, the waiter quipped he'd "have to charge me" if it happened again, he was joking, of course, but overall that was the sort of tone of the evening, we both felt ripped off. This restaurant probably does quite good quality Armenian food, but the price, portion size and poor quality service make it one to avoid at all costs, Manchester has far better restaurants than this, it's very poor value for money.
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Armenian Taverna and Restaurant File

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Main dining room capacity 75
Max group booking size 50
Average 3 course lunch price (excluding drinks) £10.9
Average 3 course evening meal price (excluding drinks) £17.95

Additional Information

Wifi free
Payment by credit card Yes
Payment by debit card Yes
Air conditioning Yes
Drink without food Yes
Takeaway services Yes
Covered smoking area no covered smoking area