Dishoom has confirmed a second Manchester restaurant, with a 280-cover site in a converted railway arch and warehouse complex on Deansgate Locks targeting an autumn 2026 opening. The announcement ends months of speculation following the brand's first Manchester site on St Peter's Square consistently operating at capacity since it opened in 2022.
The Deansgate Locks site will be the brand's largest outside London, incorporating an original Victorian railway arch structure alongside a new mezzanine level that will house a private dining room for up to 40 guests. The ground floor will operate as a traditional Dishoom dining room — all-day, no reservations — with the brand's characteristic queue-management system adapted for a site that the group expects to be among its busiest.
The building
Dishoom has a long history of finding buildings with character and working them into the brand's evocative aesthetic — the sense of Bombay's Irani café culture filtered through a specifically local architectural lens. The Deansgate Locks site fits that approach well: the Victorian arches retain their original brick vaulting and cast-iron columns, and the group's design team has been on site in Manchester since January working with the building's existing structure.
"Every Dishoom is different because every building is different," said a spokesperson for the group. "Deansgate has a different quality of light, a different character, a different history to St Peter's Square. The food and the warmth will be the same. The room will be its own thing."
Menu and format
The Deansgate menu will follow the standard Dishoom format — the Bacon Naan Roll at breakfast, the Black Daal slow-cooked for 24 hours, the Chicken Ruby, the Lamb Chops — with the potential for location-specific additions that reflect Manchester's food culture. The brand has occasionally introduced city-specific menu items: the Dishoom Edinburgh menu, for instance, has incorporated Scottish seafood in ways that feel genuinely connected to the place rather than decorative.
The all-day format, which has been central to Dishoom's commercial model since the beginning, will be maintained. The restaurant will open from 8am for breakfast and run through to midnight on Fridays and Saturdays.
The Manchester market
Manchester's restaurant scene has matured significantly in recent years, with serious operators from London — Hawksmoor, Bundobust, Mackie Mayor tenants — establishing permanent, successful presences alongside a new generation of local independents. The city supports a level of restaurant spending per head that would have seemed ambitious a decade ago.
Dishoom's first Manchester site regularly ranks among the most searched-for restaurant reservations in the city despite operating on a no-reservations policy for most of its tables — testament to a brand loyalty that is unusual in the sector.
A precise opening date for Deansgate will be confirmed later in the summer.