Honest Crust founder opens doors to new pizza concept in Manchester

A new restaurant from two of Manchester’s leading hospitality figures has opened its doors on the fine line between the Northern Quarter and Ancoats.

Proloco arrives at One Port Street via chef Richard Carver, founder of Honest Crust Sourdough Pizza, and Dan Hope, co-founder of Manchester club night Rainy Heart.

The new concept is built around ‘seasonal food, generous hospitality and a love of music’. Proloco’s menu features a weekly rotating selection of 18-inch pizzas and sharing plates, drawing on Carver’s longstanding relationships with some of the best producers in the North West, and rooted in a simple philosophy: local where possible, British by preference.

Highlights from the opening menu include plates like crispy egg, mortadella and fennel, tomatoes with vinaigrette and lardo, and roasted beetroot with Roscoff onion.

Debuting pizzas include a Tomato Butter Pie, the Porchetta, which features rolled pork belly, potato, shishito peppers and Cornish kern, and a bizarrely brilliant smoked eel, courgette, sungold tomato, lemon basil and pine nut pizza.

The drinks menu boasts a £7 negroni, apertivi, curated wines and handpicked beers from local suppliers.

“Proloco is about cooking food I genuinely love with the best people and produce around me. I want it to feel effortless – warm, a little bit fun, and always worth coming back to.” – Richard Carver, co-founder

Proloco is open now; book a table below.