Manchester’s St Michael’s development will soon have many more places to eat and drink. Pasture, the open-fire restaurant group founded in Bristol in 2018, will run four venues on the site, working with Gary Neville’s Relentless Developments and developer Salboy.
Chef-owner Sam Elliott’s group already operates restaurants and bars in Bristol, Cardiff and Birmingham, and this marks the brand’s first move into Manchester.
The four new venues coming to Manchester’s St Michael’s development
Pasture Manchester will be the flagship, a ground-floor restaurant in the development’s 43-storey tower. Expect the group’s signature cooking over live fire, with a focus on carefully sourced ingredients and expertly prepared meat.
W Lounge is the bar inside the W Hotel Manchester, which is also part of the tower.
The Abercromby is the historic pub currently being sensitively restored as part of the scheme. It will reopen as the Abercromby by Pasture.
Terrace sits alongside the pub and offers outdoor dining, with a Mediterranean-inspired menu served all day.
What else is in the second phase?
The second phase of St Michael’s, a joint venture between Relentless and Salboy, also includes 75,000 sq ft of office space, a 162-room W Hotel and 217 W Residences, all within the tower.
The first phase, No.1 St Michael’s, opened last year. Its hospitality line-up already features coffee brand Grind, Circolo Popolare from Big Mamma Group and Japanese-Peruvian restaurant group Chotto Matte.
Sam Elliott said Manchester has “a huge personality, a strong independent spirit and a real passion for great food”, and that each venue will have its own identity while sharing the same values on quality and provenance. Gary Neville, director of Relentless Developments, said the aim is for St Michael’s to be a place people want to visit, whether they work there, stay there or are simply out in the city.
Relentless Developments, led by Gary Neville and Anthony Kilbride, also created Hotel Football in Old Trafford and the Stock Exchange Hotel in the city centre. The wider £400m regeneration of St Michael’s is expected to support 6,000 construction and operational jobs.
Pasture’s other brands include Parallel, Nightshade, Prime by Pasture and Pasture Butchers.
