Manchester’s food is sure to go through your stomach and straight to your heart.

Here is the black book list to my favourite eateries in Manchester:

Grado is a great little (well, medium sized) restaurant in Manchester city centre. It reminds you that there is much more to Spanish cuisine than paella, potato squares and other typical Spanish holiday foodie stereotypes. The restaurant also has a rather impressive list of wines, one hundred and ten different bins to be exact!

Bacchanalia is a cocktail and wine bar with a restaurant on the top floor. The brilliance of Bacchanalia though is not its great cocktails that are served by expert cocktail waiters or the mouth watering food. It is the fact that you can enjoy a whole night out in one establishment. The food is not an afterthought to the bar or vice versa. Both elements are equally tended over and are presented as if they were completely separate and neither disappoint.

Bluu is situated off Thomas Street in the northern quarter of the city centre. Locals may recognise it as being in the old fish market building. This restaurant offers a huge range of delights such as cheese fondue with home made crusty bread and olives to large meat platters. Sunday ‘recovery' lunch is served from 12am ‘until we run out of roast'.