Which restaurants were our readers visiting last month?

Want a snapshot of where’s ‘hot’ on the Manchester food and drink scene right now? The Confidential Guides Hot 50 is where to look.

It shows which of the 700+ Manchester restaurants and bars listed on Confidential Guides got the most clicks in the previous month (excluding clicks from our newsletters and promotions).

In other words, it’s the places that you, the people, are searching for and reading about; the places everyone’s talking about.

Don’t get The Hot 50 confused with our list, The best restaurants in Manchester for 2025, which gives our writers’ top-rated restaurants. Think of that as our favourite restaurants and the Hot 50 as our readers’ favourites. As you’d expect, a fair few places appear on both.

Click here for the Confidential Guides Hot 50 – the most popular restaurants in Manchester for December 2025.

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