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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.

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4.8

Food 4.9/5

Service 4.8/5

Atmosphere 4.5/5

Value for Money 4.8/5

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4.5

Mike Britchfield

Visited Armenian Taverna for the second time in the last few months. Really excellent again - good and friendly service, nice atmosphere and some really nice aromatic food - we ordered a lot of starters as always, with the Ararat Pie (like a Samosa, but much better!!) and Yershig lamb sausage really good. For mains, the Stuffed Aubergine and Mixed Khorovats both excellent also. I will be back again soon...

5.0

Helen Bisson

Great

4.5

Gemma

Great food, good value lunch deal menu. Would recommend.

5.0

Ian Howarth

Our first visit here and it won’t be the last. Brilliant atmosphere and huge choice of food that we are looking forward to trying. Our food and services was excellent. Well worth the visit at reasonable prices too.

5.0

stuart tarran

Excellent as always. Been Patron well over 30 years never disappointed

5.0

Xenofon Sgouros

I was very happy to return to this restaurant. I believe is one of the best restaurants in Manchester with an exquisite food, atmosphere that takes you back to Armenia, and very friendly service

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*

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