The Midland Hotel in Manchester has reopened Mount Street Dining Room & Bar with a new offering of British dishes and creative cocktails.

Originally named the Grill Room when The Midland opened in 1903, the restaurant was designed as a grand dining room for railway travellers and Manchester society. It became part of the city’s industrial history when Charles Rolls and Henry Royce met at the restaurant for lunch in 1904, forming a partnership that would become the world-famous car brand.

In 2020, following a refurbishment, the restaurant was relaunched as Mount Street Dining Room & Bar. The rebrand saw the restaurant transformed into a modern British brasserie-style dining room with interiors inspired by the hotel’s early 1900s Art Deco and railway heritage, focusing on serving locally sourced produce.

The newly launched menus offer simplified yet refined British dining, with dishes such as pork and black pudding bon bons; white onion soup with crispy potatoes; smoked British salmon with lemon gel and dill mascarpone; slow cooked beef daube with confit garlic mash; and comforting desserts like rice pudding with anise glazed pears; and Bakewell pudding with cherry syrup.

New cocktails have been curated to combine nostalgic concepts with contemporary twists, such as the Fresca Verde which combines tequila, matcha and strawberry to recreate a version of the trending cafe order; and the Atomic Cherry, inspired by Haribo’s cherry sweet.