SCHOOL Lane in Didsbury Village is refreshed as food and drink destination. Solita is well settled in a site where Cibo and before that La Tasca failed to hold the attention. Now it is sharing its car park with the definitely attention-grabbing Hispi bistro, where Jem & I failed to glitter.
Joining this duo and expected to open in spring 2017 is the latest Botanist, who are taking over the site of JD Wetherspoons’ The Milson Rhodes. The writing was on the wall for the place when it was among 34 pubs the national chain put on the market last year.
Expect the interior to be transformed along the horticultural lines seen at fellow Botanists in Alderley Edge, Knutsford and Manchester Deansgate (pictured above) and eight other sites run by the New World Trading Company. A place to sample botanical cocktails, gins and cask ales alongside deli boards and those curious ‘hanging kebabs’ (below).
Founded by Living Ventures duo Tim Bacon and Jeremy Roberts in 2012, The New World Trading Company was sold to private equity company Graphite Capital for £50m in June this year. Its other brands include The Trading House, The Club House, The Smugglers Cove in Liverpool and The Oast House in Spinningfields.