Simon Rogan's Mancunian baby sister to his 2 Michelin Star L'Enclume in Cartmel is housed in the heavily revamped historic dining room of The French at The Midland Hotel. A choice of six or ten course Tasting Menus showcase his multi-award winning British dishes with most ingredients grown on the farm at L'Enclume. It has remained the Pride Of Manchester Award-winning "Best Restaurant in Manchester" since opening in February 2013. Every bit as good as, if not better than, Rogan's other recent Michelin Star awarded Fera at Claridge's in London.

Living Ventures' £3m fine-dining restaurant from Great British Menu winning celebrity chef Aiden Byrne is located on the second floor of a non-descript office block in Spinningfields. Although Byrne, the youngest ever chef to win a Michelin Star, hails from Merseyside, this is truly Mancunian influenced, informal, funky fine dining at its best with entertaining dishes and over 24 chefs for just 76 covers. Opened September 2013 and featured in the BBC TV series "Restaurant Wars".

A multitude of different dining settings under one roof, this incredible value-for-money casual fine dining restaurant from 2 Star Michelin chef Simon Rogan offers a unique setting inside the plush Midland Hotel with an inside garden, a cascading wall of plants and a 30ft tree. It also offers arguably the best cocktails in Manchester. Opened in September 2013

This stylish yet relaxed fine dining restaurant from 2 Star Michelin celebrity chef Michael Caines is located in the basement of the Abode Hotel near Piccadilly Station. It has won the Pride Of Manchester Award for "Best Restaurant in Manchester" in 2009, 2010, 2011 and 2012. Technically superb.

The fantastic sister restaurant to Steve Pilling and Simon Stanley's multi-award winning restaurant in Heaton Moor, this 140 cover British fine-dining restaurant at Media City offers great views of The Lowry and Imperial War Museum North, next door, with Old Trafford just a short walk over the footbridge.

A stunning restaurant from BBC TV's Saturday Kitchen host James Martin, one of Britain’s top celebrity chefs, located inside the plush Manchester 235 casino. Delicious British dishes, steaks and desserts showcase the Yorkshireman's signature style, which is evident throughout the menu with each meal crafted using only the finest seasonal and locally sourced ingredients.

Opened in Spinningfields in April 2015, this incredibly stunning Oriental restaurant takes its influence from different styles of body art, and this is reflected in everything from the captivating Edwin Pickett designed interior to the expertly crafted Andrew Lassetter created menu. Both the Head Chef and Head Dim Sum Chef have been sourced from London's renowned Hakkasan Group and the whole dining experience is, without doubt, one of the best in Manchester city centre.

This very stylish Pacific Rim restaurant from Knutsford's Living Ventures group offers a fantastic choice of sushi, sashimi and tempura dishes. The menu combines modern Australian cuisine with Pacific Rim flavours underpinned by European cooking traditions, a blend of Indonesian, Southeast Asian influences and Australia's strong ties with Japan are reflected. Located underneath the Armani store in Spinningfields, you enter via a glass pyramid on Deansgate.

This authentic family ran Spanish restaurant is already popular with the footballers of Manchester United and Manchester City despite opening quietly under the radar in December 2014. Executive Chef Josetxo Arrieta hails from a background which includes two 3 Star Michelin restaurants in San Sebastian, (Restaurante Akelarre and Restaurante Martín Berasategui) and the 2 Star Michelin Restaurante La Galupein in Urt, France. The menu changes daily and covers many Spanish favourites, including tapas and rice dishes, alongside fresh fish and meat.

This family ran restaurant in the Northern Quarter, which relocated to the former Market Restaurant in August 2015, uses only locally sourced, fresh ingredients and a unique cooking technique in its expression of modern French cuisine. Head Chef Eric Moreau cooks meat long and low at 63°, a skill he perfected after many years of experimentation working at 2 star Michelin restaurants in Paris, meaning poultry tastes like you've never tasted it before, incomparably tender and full of flavour. His wife Florence and son Alexandre take care front of house..

The out-of-this-world £4.5 million Thai influenced Asian fusion restaurant near the City Of Manchester Stadium in Miles Platting, just 10 mins taxi ride from Piccadilly Station, is the most spectacular restaurant and bar to have ever opened in Manchester. Like something out of a James Bond movie, the incredibly impressive dining arena is without doubt one of the best in Europe and was designed by Miguel Cancio Martins, the design house behind the famous Buddha Bar in Paris, the Alain Ducasse Crystal restaurant in Marrakech and Johnny Depp, Sean Penn, John Malkovich and Mick Hucknall's Man Ray in Paris.

The outstanding Chinese restaurant inside the Great Northern Warehouse, on the ground floor of Manchester 235 casino, has won rave reviews since opening its doors in December 2009. It boasts a largely Cantonese menu, influenced by the principals of healthy-eating, with exceptional dim sums, seafood and vegetarian options. There is an extensive vegetarian menu, with vegan, wheat free, gluten free and Halal options available, all cooked with reduced salt, less fat and no added MSG. Widely regarded as the best Chinese restaurant in Manchester.

Named after the Japanese term referring to food eaten as an accompaniment to alcohol, this impressive 240-capacity Pan Asian restaurant from the team behind Ocean Treasure 235 restaurant offers stylish street food, regional classics and contemporary molecular gastronomy in two restaurants over two floors. The ground floor restaurant features a large atrium rising above an open kitchen with two teppanyaki sections, a robata grill and a fresh sushi counter, whilst the fine dine gallery restaurant upstairs offers Pan-Asian culinary excellence.

Not to be confused with his more formal fine-dining restaurant in the basement, this informal eatery from 2 Michelin Star celebrity chef, Michael Caines, can be found on the ground floor of the ABode Hotel at Piccadilly, offering al fresco dining on the bustling Piccadilly approach. Fresh cuts of Cheshire meats from Jack Wood's bespoke butchery in Failsworth are joined on the great value-for-money menu with Fleetwood Market fish. Whether it's a light bite or a hearty lunch you’re after, there is something for everyone; from tapas, salads and sandwiches, to succulent steaks, flame-grilled burgers and beer battered fish & chips

This light and bright Italian trattoria just off Albert Square specialises in fish and seafood courses. Having worked in restaurants in Dubai, Portugal, Kuwait and Bangkok, as well as Manchester's celebrated San Carlo Cicchetti and 39 Steps, Executive Chef John Thompson gives a cosmopolitan twist to classic Italian dishes with influences from across the Mediterranean and modern British cuisine. Two VIP private dining rooms and three bars over two floors offer added exclusivity whilst its location near to all the theatres makes it ideal for pre-theatre dining.

Following an expensive refit in December 2011, and appointing Rod Francis, from the now-closed iconic Manchester restaurant Lounge 10 as Head Chef, this former tearoom cafe reinvented itself as an upmarket restaurant popular with the celebrities that flock to this tiny backstreet hive of restaurants behind Kendal's House Of Fraser department store. It has deservedly earned a reputation for its modern take on French and British classics and they still offer some of the best Afternoon Teas in Manchester as well.

Clearly raising the standard in Rusholme, this stylish time-honoured family restaurant on the famous Curry Mile serves authentic Mughlai-cuisine from the northern regions of India and Pakistan. The street food tapas style menu focuses on freshly prepared traditional and contemporary dishes and features an extensive range of vegetarian, chicken and seafood options with succulent biryanis, mouth-watering grills and home-style curry dishes. The menu uses only Halal meats, with celiac and lactose-intolerant friendly dishes. Open until 1am during the week and 2am at weekends

Just across the road from The Palace Theatre and a short walk to the RNCM, Manchester Academy and the universities, you'll find the stylish £1 million sister branch to Bradford's award-winning family-ran Halal Indian restaurant. There's an array of authentic Indian and Pakistani dishes cooked for the health and nutrition conscious customer on a Sigri charcoal grill in the large theatre-style open kitchen, which also plays host to a cookery school, with a wide selection of speciality vegetarian dishes and a seafood menu that is unrivalled in any other Indian restaurant in Manchester. An attractive 'Al Fresco Sheesha Lounge' also offers a secluded oasis of foliage and heated parasols, under which you can enjoy outdoor dining or a variety of Egyptian Shishas.

This intimate 19 seat Japanese sushi bar is hidden in the unlikely location of an industrial lock-up unit in a viaduct arch next to the Manchester Arena. The menu changes daily depending on what is available fresh at market and features a great selection of seafood, Nigiri and Maki sushi alongside Chirashizushi, tempura and traditional hot plates such as homemade Kimchi, Crispy Wakame and Sous Vide Belly Pork. Japanese Koshu wines are also available.