The best restaurants and bars opening in Manchester in July

This month, there’s a wealth of new places to eat and drink in the city, from backstreet cabaret venues to smart late night dining spots. These are our top picks…

Maray

The long-awaited Maray is making its way down the M62, where it’s been an unmitigated hit in Liverpool with its three locations; one on Bold Street, one on the Albert Dock and a local spot in Allerton. The idea is Middle Eastern with a vaguely French twist, hence the name, after the vibrant Marais district. So expect peerless falafel, the best carrots you’ll have in your life and the disco cauliflower - a whole head of cauliflower basted in a head-spinning amount of chermoula and yoghurt and then finished with sparks of pomegranate. We’re salivating already.

14 Brazennose St, Manchester M2 6LW

Canvas

This late night club venue, bar and restaurant is about to become one of the city’s hottest tickets, and along with the likes of Hello Oriental, is making Oxford Road’s Circle Square development - on the site of the old BBC building - a real destination. The late night bar and restaurant will open all day for food, from breakfast to dinner, with dishes like sumac lamb chops, Korean chicken and Asian inspired duck leg with sweet and sour roast plum.

Unit 5, Building 4, Circle Square, Oxford Road, Manchester, M60 7HB

Cherry’s Boba Shop

Cocktail wizz, former world bartending champ and the man behind the Cherry Jam bar Neil Garner has just opened Cherry’s Boba Shop, Stockport’s very first bubble tea spot. It will bost a staff of ‘char tenders’ blending the teas to your specifications, and - get this - there are 10,000 possible combinations of flavour, making this the ‘widest range’ of bubble tea flavours in the UK. Quite a claim. Go find out if it’s true.

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