Manchester coffee shop with queues down the street named top in the UK and one of the world's most popular

Here in Manchester we’re lucky enough to have a number of must-visit coffee shops, selling the very best coffee and whipping up all manner of treats from cakes and pastries to all-day brunch. Now, one in the city centre - known for attracting big queues - has been named as the UK’s most popular independent coffee shop.

In a recent study, Federal, which has four locations across Greater Manchester, was also named one of the most popular in the world, in a ranking by Betway. The bookmakers measured the social media popularity of over 300 independent coffee shops, comparing the number of TikTok views, Instagram hashtags and Google search volume to determine which independent café is the world’s favourite.

The Manchester-born coffee spot topped the leader board for the UK’s most popular with almost 400,000 global searches per year and 1.1 million TikTok views. Betway’s research also ranks popular cafes in the world, and crowned Federal as the fourth most popular overall, with the seventh highest number of TikTok views in the entire ranking.

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The Antipodean-inspired coffee shop and brunch peddlers, boasts multiple locations across the region, with sites on Oxford Road, Deansgate, the Northern Quarter, Altrincham, and most recently at Club de Padel by Deansgate Square. hose who have visited its branches will instantly recognise its famous logo featuring a kiwi bird with a beak in a coffee cup, a nod to owner Claudio Ribeiro’s homeland of New Zealand.

Federal’s first café opened in the Northern Quarter in 2014, with some of the best coffee in the city accompanied by an all-day brunch menu, plus smoothies, juices and Portuguese custard tarts. Queues still snake