Food Scene
Great coffee, cake (including vegetarian, vegan and gluten-free options) and light snacks. Their soups are often great VFM!
8 abantu bendawo batusa
Tea Hive
53 Manchester RdGreat coffee, cake (including vegetarian, vegan and gluten-free options) and light snacks. Their soups are often great VFM!
A great small bar with friendly service, that also serves a rotating menu of great French-influenced food eg.. from Senegal, Madagascar, Vietnam, CanadaAlgeria, Seychelles/Maldives, French Caribbean
15 abantu bendawo batusa
Man Bites Frog
378 Barlow Moor RdA great small bar with friendly service, that also serves a rotating menu of great French-influenced food eg.. from Senegal, Madagascar, Vietnam, CanadaAlgeria, Seychelles/Maldives, French Caribbean
The Drop Bar Cafe
356 Barlow Moor RoadAuthentic Caribbean food, huge portions, reasonable prices
Double Zero Neapolitan Pizza
368 Barlow Moor Rdauthentic wood-fired Neapolitan-style pizza
Good Mexican food, small with nice friendly staff. Excellent margaritas (beware they are quite strong!)
La Casita
372 Barlow Moor RdGood Mexican food, small with nice friendly staff. Excellent margaritas (beware they are quite strong!)
Fabulous South Indian street-food restaurant with super-friendly staff. Excellent dosaa and dhals! Does takeaway.
Amma’s Canteen
285 Barlow Moor RdFabulous South Indian street-food restaurant with super-friendly staff. Excellent dosaa and dhals! Does takeaway.
Pho Bowl
520 Wilbraham RdNice authentic Vietnamese restaurant, friendly service, good VFM
Junipers Coffee Shop
514 Wilbraham RdGreat tea/coffee and food, huge portions!
Don't be put off by the appearance - great Punjabi and Bangladeshi food inside! Has dishes rarely found in other Indian restaurants (salmon/swordfish/crab curries!)
Tandoori Flame Traditional Punjabi Restaurant
Don't be put off by the appearance - great Punjabi and Bangladeshi food inside! Has dishes rarely found in other Indian restaurants (salmon/swordfish/crab curries!)
Fantastic value-for-money home-made curries, including rare dishes and the best chapatis/rotis in Manchester. Unusual serving options - you can choose to have up to 3 of the 5/6 curries available that day :) Always at least 1 vegetarian main dish offer, often several.
Chapati Cafe
496B Wilbraham RdFantastic value-for-money home-made curries, including rare dishes and the best chapatis/rotis in Manchester. Unusual serving options - you can choose to have up to 3 of the 5/6 curries available that day :) Always at least 1 vegetarian main dish offer, often several.
Zaytoon - Chorlton
352 Barlow Moor RdExcellent Lebanese restaurant, huge portions and friendly service.
Drinks & Nightlife
Mary & Archie Chorlton
111 Manchester RdNice relaxed bar & cafe
Horse & Jockey
9 Chorlton GrnTraditional local pub, which serves good food. Welcomes dogs.
Parks & Nature
A lovely well-maintained Victorian Park literally at the end of the street! Has free tennis courts, basketball court, football pitch, etc. Also has lines of >300-year old trees marking the original pre-Victorian field boundaries.
Chorlton Park
A lovely well-maintained Victorian Park literally at the end of the street! Has free tennis courts, basketball court, football pitch, etc. Also has lines of >300-year old trees marking the original pre-Victorian field boundaries.
Huge nature reserve & natural meadows running for miles along the River Mersey. Has a watersports centre, walking/running/cycling/horse-riding trails.
45 abantu bendawo batusa
Chorlton Water Park
74 Maitland AveHuge nature reserve & natural meadows running for miles along the River Mersey. Has a watersports centre, walking/running/cycling/horse-riding trails.
Shopping
Legendary and best bakery in Manchester! Owned & run by the same Polish family for generations, it has the biggest choice of different breads from all over the world. Excellent deli too. The outdoor sausage BBQ on Fridays & Saturdays is also a big local favourite with all ages.
31 abantu bendawo batusa
Barbakan Delicatessen Ltd
67-71 Manchester RdLegendary and best bakery in Manchester! Owned & run by the same Polish family for generations, it has the biggest choice of different breads from all over the world. Excellent deli too. The outdoor sausage BBQ on Fridays & Saturdays is also a big local favourite with all ages.
Award-winning cooperative that has grown from a vegan health-food shop to a mini-supermarket stocking excellent range of organic vegetables and fruit, much of it grown on land close to Manchester than they are buying by reinvesting their profits. Now stocks tinned & bagged produce, bakery & deli and alcohol.
54 abantu bendawo batusa
Unicorn Grocery
89 Albany RdAward-winning cooperative that has grown from a vegan health-food shop to a mini-supermarket stocking excellent range of organic vegetables and fruit, much of it grown on land close to Manchester than they are buying by reinvesting their profits. Now stocks tinned & bagged produce, bakery & deli and alcohol.