Beastly Trading Conditions

It really is tough times at the moment in Manchester for the restaurant and bar scene - with many complaining of challenging trading conditions in what, away from weekends, can almost seem like a ghost town.

Following the news last week that Dogs N Dough, La Tasca, and Solita Prestwich had followed Jamie's Italian in shutting their doors, we are barely a day into another week and the latest to fall is Spinningfields favourite Beastro.

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The well-loved independent meat restaurant originally opened in March 2017, in the units previously used for pop-up food street The Kitchens.

In a statement, owners Richard Brown, James Taylor and Heather Taylor said "Unfortunately, due to an incredibly difficult trading period, the costs of running Beastro have made it impossible to continue. We wanted to end this now before the situation became worse, we hope that you will understand this is the last thing we wanted to happen."

Whilst their city centre base will be tragically missed by Manchester's foodies, fortunately, the trio can still be found cooking up amazing dishes at their pub The Bulls Head, in Royton.

We have been informed of a few other venues that are likely to follow suit in the next few weeks, and it appears warnings of Manchester's over saturated market have come to pass, at a time of Brexit uncertainty and related cost increases, arguably to blame for the sharp drop in footfall to the city centre.

Away from the overseas-funded skyscrapers and building developments, there are many in the industry predicting Manchester could already by in the grips of a recession.

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