Originally named the Grill Room when The Midland opened in 1903, the restaurant was designed as a grand dining room for railway travellers and Manchester society.
It became part of Manchester's industrial history when Charles Rolls and Henry Royce met at the restaurant for lunch in 1904, forming a partnership that would become the world-famous Rolls-Royce brand.
In 2020, following a £14 million refurbishment of the hotel, the restaurant was relaunched as Mount Street Dining Room & Bar. The rebrand saw the restaurant transformed into a modern British brasserie-style dining room with interiors inspired by the hotel's early 1900s Art Deco and railway heritage, focusing on serving locally sourced produce.
This month, the restaurant has once again reopened with brand new food and cocktail menus. The new food menu aims to offer simplified yet refined British dining, featuring dishes such as pork and back pudding bonbons, white onion soup with crispy potatoes, smoked British salmon with lemon gel and dill mascarpone, slow-cooked beef daube with confit garlic mash, and comforting desserts such as rice pudding with Anise-glazed pears and Bakewell pudding with cherry syrup.
The new cocktails have been cleverly curated to combine nostalgic concepts with contemporary twists, such as the Fresca Verde, which combines tequila, matcha and strawberry to recreate a version of the trending cafe order, and the Atomic Cherry, inspired by the iconic Haribo cherry sweet.
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