BBC Rick Stein's Food Stories: All the Manchester pubs and restaurants featured

Rick Stein is back on TV screens this week as he launches a brand new show exploring the cuisine of the British Isles and how we eat today. Rick Stein's Food Stories follows the acclaimed chef and restaurateur on a mouth-watering cookery pilgrimage as he tries out the UK's most popular dishes and meets the people helping to shape the future of British cuisine.

The 15-part series aired its first episode on BBC2 on Monday night, stopping off in Cumbria, but tonight's episode takes him to Manchester where he's lucky enough to visit a historic Greater Manchester market, an up-and-coming restaurant on the edge of Chinatown and one of the city's beloved boozers.

In the opening credits of the Manchester-based episode, which pans to shots of Deansgate Towers, Central Library and the University of Manchester, Stein says: "A city created in the furnace of the industrial revolution which once sang to the tune of the cotton mills. Today, Manchester is a thoroughly modern city, a jewel in the Northern crown."

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One of the first places the renowned chef stops off at is Bury Market, which in 2022 was named Britain's Favourite Market for a second time by visitors in an online poll. The market attracts millions of visitors every year but its indoor hall has been shut for months due to an unsafe roof.

During his visit, he makes sure to try out some of the local delicacies including black pudding, tripe and Eccles cakes. "I've been told that the best place to grab some great Northern grub is at Bury Market," he says before adding that markets are the best way to find out what makes an area tick.

Stein heads to Chadwick's to speak to owner Tony about black pudding, which