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Café And
A trendy café, hip record store, contemporary art gallery and retro furniture shop all in one, this is your one stop for everything you might possibly need in the Northern Quarter. The toasties and wraps are delicious, but it's the excellent organic soups that kept us coming back for more.
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Earth Café
Below the Manchester Buddhist Centre, this gourmet vegetarian cafe is working hard towards becoming the first 100% organic spot in town. The food is usually excellent, always filling and ridiculously cheap.
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Eighth Day
New and most definitely improved after a major cleanup, this environment-friendly hang out is a favourite with students and sells everything to make you feel good about your place in the world, from Fairtrade teas to homeopathic remedies. The vegetarian- and vegan-friendly menu is substantial.
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El Rincón del Rafa
Descend the steps into this basement restaurant and find yourself in a little corner of Spain, complete with mouthwatering tapas, posters depicting bullfighting and the kind of buzz more in keeping with Madrid than Manchester. It's always packed so book ahead.
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Le Petit Blanc
Top chef Raymond Blanc brings his winning formula of French cuisine with world influences (Asian primarily, but lots of English touches) to Manchester with some style and plenty of success.
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Love Saves the Day
The Northern Quarter's most popular café is a New York-style deli, small supermarket and sit-down eatery in one large, airy room. Everybody comes here - from crusties to corporate types - to sit around over a spot of lunch and discuss the day's goings-on. A wonderful spot.
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Market Restaurant
Excellent British cuisine is on the menu at this Northern Quarter restaurant - and it changes every month or so to take account of the season's best. While the decor isn't too pretty, the beer list is a cracker.
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Oklahoma Cafe
The Oklahoma is a trendy cafe, specialising in organic vegie and vegan food. Along with a quirky gift shop, this a cosy spot to spend a rainy afternoon in the Northern Quarter. The toasties and wraps are delicious, but it's the excellent organic soups that kept us coming back for more. Great fair trade coffe.
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Shere Khan
Of the almost impossible selection of curry houses along the Curry Mile, we recommend this place above all others for its plush setting, unfailingly good cuisine, polite, friendly service and for the fact that their sauces can be found stocked in supermarkets all over the country.
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Tampopo
Fast and furiously efficient, you're in and out of this Asian fusion canteen-style restaurant before you can learn the difference between the various gorengs (noodles or rice). The food is uniformly excellent and well worth the 30-second wait. There are vegan, vego and allergy-sensitive meals available.
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The Ox
Manchester's only gastropub has elevated boozer-dining to a whole new level and earned plenty of kudos in the process. The Brit nouvelle cuisine - how about an oven-roasted T-bone steak with tempura onion rings, beefsteak tomatoes and Portobello mushrooms - is complemented by an almost exclusively Australian wine list.
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Yang Sing
A serious contender for best Chinese restaurant in Britain, Yang Sing attracts diners from all over with its exceptional Cantonese cuisine. From a dim-sum lunch to a full evening banquet the food is superb, and the waiters will patiently explain the intricacies of each item to punters who can barely pronounce the dishes' names.
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