Manchester, Spanish Restaurant Guide

“Wherever you sit – the downstairs bar, the rooftop terrace (lovely on the top floor in summer), one of the booths – you can hardly go wrong and the tapas remain excellent” at Simon Shaw’s happening multi-level townhouse, which remains one of the more high-profile locations in the city. “It’s hard to criticise anything, everything is just done really well”, and it helps that “staff are well informed”.

This Deansgate-based quartet offers a “great selection of tapas”, after two decades at the forefront of Hispanic cuisine in Manchester. The excitement level has fallen off a little in recent years, but there’s little to suggest that standards have greatly declined. The original is now joined by branches in the Northern Quarter, Knutsford and Altrincham.