Exhibition

Exhibition, or EXHBTN as the sign outside would have you believe, is one of Manchester’s cluster of exciting multi-kitchen concepts (read: food halls) that just seem to be multiplying. In the former home of the Natural History Museum on Peter Street, the location makes it perfect for visitors to Manchester Central, the Radisson Blu and the Midland Hotel.

Exhibition is made up of three kitchens in one restaurant setting – Baratxuri, Jaan by Another Hand, and OSMA.

The menu is designed for kitchens to work together, giving diners the choice to create their own menu – ordering from any and all of the kitchens at once.

The Scandinavian stylings of OSMA include caviar, sashimi and whole-baked lobster divided between snacks, cold small plates and larger hot plates.

Popular Ramsbottom restaurant Baratxuri upped sticks to Exhibition in 2022. The kind of dishes you might find from this Basque fire kitchen include pinxtos, whole wild turbot, an oozy Bilbao-style tortilla, and a sharing board of Ibérico cured meats. Other crowd-pleasers include a huge 1kg bone-in rib steak served blue and an Ibérico pork steak served with aubergines and clam sauce.

Jaan by Another Hand is a Persian bread kitchen. Another Hand’s hugely popular flatbreads take centre stage topped with delights like slow-cooked lamb shank, grilled octopus and chermoula chicken. It’s a low waste enterprise taking leftovers from the other kitchens and turning them into something magical.

Exhibition is a place for drinking and dancing as well as eating. Weekends are soundtracked by a great line-up of DJs playing everything from block party beats to celebrations of classic albums. Weekdays evenings have their own appeal – go from Tuesday-Friday between 3pm and 6pm and you can enjoy two for one cocktails, £4 Manchester Union beer and £20 bottles of Prosecco.