The best: Romantic restaurants to book this Valentine’s Day in Manchester

Located in a Grade II-listed dining room at the heart of the Midland Hotel, The French resurrects the inimitable allure of Belle Époque Paris while serving some of the best modern British cuisine in the country.

Under the leadership of Adam Reid, the Michelin Guide-featured restaurant has swept up countless accolades thanks to its signature tasting menu; a love letter to hearty, soulful northern cuisine, transforming the finest seasonal produce into an exquisite celebration of English flavours.

Check out a sample menu HERE, and book your table for Valentine’s Day below.

Brimming with delicate splendour and intoxicating passion, Manchester’s ambient cocktail capitol invites couples to try its four-course Valentine’s menu with a breathtaking panoramic view of the city in nocturnal bloom from 5.30-10pm on Fri 14 Feb.

Priced at £90pp, the 20 Stories Valentine’s Day 2025 menu features an exclusive selection of dishes including seared scallops, pan roasted sea bass, treacle-cured beef fillet, celeriac & truffle wellington and more, finished with dark chocolate marquise & cherry sorbet, banoffee sphere & salted caramel ice cream and lemon & passionfruit meringue tart with pineapple sorbet for dessert.

Situated in the thrumming Red Bank development, Manchester’s beloved pasta haunt delivers a ‘glorious carb-fest’ (Jay Rayner, The Guardian) of Tyrolean delights, with wildly popular noodle-based takes on the traditional flavours of Central Europe in a homely, welcoming atmosphere.

Featured in the Michelin Guide and worthy winners of the Good Food Guide’s North West Best Local Restaurant in 2023, The Sparrows specialises in spätzle prepared in a variety of ways, from bolognese and guanciale to kase and chorizo, with an extensive wine list and free-flowing sake to wash it down.

Founded on an ethos of culinary seasonality, the Michelin Guide Bib Gourmand-winning Higher Ground serves the best of British produce at its peak throughout the year, with an irresistible evening sharing menu starting at just £58pp.

Dishes change regularly, but diners can expect an assortment of locally sourced treasures like four-month-aged beef bresaola, hot smoked trout, Isle of Mull cheddar tart, hand-dived Orkney scallop and more, with Manchester honey ice cream and cane sugar custard tart for dessert.

Shortlisted for Manchester’s Best Restaurant in the 2024 British Restaurant Awards, Deansgate Mews’ acclaimed fine-dining stalwart Another Hand combines casual dining with vibrant natural wines and hand-crafted cocktails, promising an intimate, unforgettable Valentine’s meal with flavour-driven sharing plates including fallow deer, salt-aged duck, butter-roasted turbot and more.

Set high against the sparkling vista of Deansgate, the achingly chic wine-led small plates haunt Climat offers some of Manchester’s best vintages alongside immaculately curated dishes for couples to enjoy with a view.

Menu highlights include turbot in sherry sauce, beef tartare, prawn crackers & thai basil, porchetta & fèves à la française and a lavish black forest eclair.

Book your table below.

Billed as ‘Manchester’s premier dining destination for bold, fire-inspired flavours’, opulent Japanese fusion hotspot KAJI is serving an exclusive five-course tasting menu on Fri 14 Feb, promising to transport guests on a journey through an irresistible inferno for just £75pp.

Couples can sample an assortment of innovative high-end dishes including KAJI fried louet-feisser oysters, cod loin kiev, Himalayan salt aged beef fillet, a decadent half-kilo chateaubriand to share and yuzu baked custard tart.

To make it a Valentine’s meal for the ages, diners can add wine pairings for each course, chosen by KAJI’s in-house sommelier.

Check out the KAJI website HERE, and book your table below.

Spacious, modern and elegantly appointed while sustaining an air of ‘old-school sauciness’ (The Guardian), the polished yet unpretentious 10 Tib Lane offers a sprawling array of classic cocktails and natural wines alongside a sizeable selection of dishes which use – you guessed it – the very best in seasonal British produce.

This Valentine’s Day, menu standouts include steak tartare, Dorset black truffle salami, roasted onion squash, grilled hispi cabbage, cured sea bream and spiced apple & brandy cream mille feuille.

Serving the best of British with sizeable portions and haute cuisine presentation in the centre of Prestwich, the sophisticated yet unassuming Pearl restaurant justifies its name as a rare benchmark for Manchester’s suburban dining scene, with a simple, expertly balanced menu featuring wild bass, hay-baked hogget – a sumptuously rich aged sheep dish – corned beef hash and more.

This year, The Pearl is hosting a ‘Six Days of St. Valentine’ programme of food, art classes, wine-tasting, live jazz and more from Tue 11 – Sun 16 Feb.

Find out more below.