Tapas Bars Restaurants in Manchester

If you’re not a Chorlton local, you’ve probably never heard of Bar Lorenzo. Squeezed onto a corner of Beech Road, this tiny tapas place is of the blink-and-you'll-miss-it variety, with room for just 15 covers inside. However, on a sunny day each and every one of these seats is fought over, with enthusiastic diners spilling out onto tables along the pavement too. Run by husband and wife team Lorenzo and Immaculada Ruda, Bar Lorenzo does a fine line in cheap and cheerful tapas with an emphasis on quality ingredients and a flair for combining classic Spanish dishes with Immaculada’s own delicious concoctions.

Manchester suffers when it comes to Spanish food. Despite the charms of Evuna on Deansgate, there are altogether too many tapas bars serving flaccid patatas bravas and stodgy, tasteless paellas for extortionate prices - so many so, in fact, that we had more or less given up on Spanish altogether.
And then Grado opened...