The all day dining restaurant, bar and coffee roastery launches at St John’s
Rolling back the floor-to-ceiling windows of its swanky new St John’s venue, popular London restaurant brand Caravan is set to launch in the city next week (Tuesday 20 August).
Co-founders Chris Ammermann, Laura Harper Hinton and Miles Kirby, all native New Zealanders, brought Antipodean speciality coffee culture and a fresh take on all day dining to London in 2009.
Since opening their first restaurant in Exmouth Market in 2010, the team behind Caravan has grown the brand mindfully, opening a further six restaurants in the capital as well as a flagship coffee roastery in North London, three coffee bars and a separate restaurant in Chelsea called ‘Vardo’.
The new Manchester venue joins the city’s Creative District, St. John’s - a city-centre neighbourhood that has established its own thriving community thanks to globally renowned leisure and hospitality brands like the Soho House Group, Everyman Cinema, Barry’s Bootcamp, Fenix, and cultural hub Factory International at Aviva Studios making the area their home.
Caravan Manchester is an airy and open space with a 170 cover restaurant, cocktail bar and private dining room. Ideal for groups, there’s plenty of space for networking, catching up with friends and hosting parties.
The restaurant’s vibrant and colourful brunch menu ranges from fresh fruit and grain bowls to indulgent fry-ups, all elevated with globally-inspired flavours such as house favourite Korean Style Buttermilk Fried Chicken with kimchi pancakes and gochujang ketchup. There will also be freshly crafted cocktails, an extensive international wine list and a selection of hand-picked local beers to accompany their range of dishes.
Open seven days a week, from 8am on weekdays and 9am on weekends, Caravan Manchester will serve an ‘eclectic’ and ‘thoughtfully well-travelled’ menu throughout the day, spanning breakfast through to dinner.
As well as the dishes Caravan is known and loved for down south, they’ll be bringing their famous roastery up north too, serving up ethically sourced, sustainable, fresh-as-can-be coffee made in house from Tuesday 20 August. Caravan will also work as an ethical source, partnering with local businesses to stock its coffee around the city.
Caravan expects to welcome a varied crowd, from early morning gym-goers and those on office coffee runs, to after work socials and weekend get-togethers. Opening to the public on Tuesday 20 August, diners can book to reserve a table now.
