The Edinburgh Castle Pub
Ian Jones, Food and Drink Editor
The Edinburgh Castle is one of the standout venues in Ancoats, right on the edge of Cutting Room Square, with a laid-back pub on the ground floor and one of the area’s best-looking dining spaces upstairs, all dim lighting and elegant fixtures and fittings.
The stupendous Bangkok Diners Club have taken charge of the upstairs restaurant space, and the city is better for it. Read our full account, and book that visit in, stat.
If Manchester is one of the world’s leading modern cities – as all the polls and travel guides insist it is – then Edinburgh Castle is at its culinary cutting edge. It’s hard to think of a restaurant that suits the city better.