Hawksmoor Manchester

Hawksmoor is the British steak-and-seafood group founded in London in 2006 by Will Beckett and Huw Gott, and the Manchester restaurant — its first outside the capital — opened in 2015 inside a landmark former bank on Deansgate, a short walk from Spinningfields. The grand old banking hall gave the team an unusually handsome shell to work with, all soaring ceilings, marble and dark wood, restored into a warm, low-lit dining room with a substantial bar. It has become one of the city's benchmark occasion restaurants, known for native-breed beef dry-aged in-house and grilled over charcoal, day-boat seafood and a much-loved Sunday roast.

Drinks matter as much as the food here, and Hawksmoor treats non-drinkers seriously rather than as an afterthought. The group's wider ethos is captured in its 'Temperates' idea — what to drink when you're not drinking — and the Manchester bar carries a named 'Lo & No Alc' section on its cocktail list, built on proper alcohol-free spirits rather than sugary mixers. Steady Pete's Ginger Brew combines Tanqueray 0.0 with lemon, ginger and Lucky Saint IPA; the Non-Alc Cherry Negroni is built from Tanqueray 0.0, Lyre's Amaretti and sour cherry; and the Afterburner mixes Botivo and Almave non-alcoholic agave spirit with jalapeño, lime and pineapple. Lighter, lower-sugar options include the Shirley T — sparkling ginger tea with lemongrass and pomegranate, a grown-up take on a Shirley Temple — and a tangy homemade Pineapple Soda, with alcohol-free beer poured alongside.

The list changes with the seasons but the intent is constant, and it has drawn local praise. Rounding up the city's best alcohol-free drinking in January 2026, Manchester's Finest singled out Hawksmoor's 'concise but perfectly-formed alcohol-free menu', from a stivo spritz to a booze-free sangria. For a high-end steakhouse to give its zero-proof drinks their own billing on the cocktail list, made with the same technique as the full programme, is exactly the kind of considered NA offering that earns Hawksmoor Manchester a place here — somewhere a designated driver, a pregnant guest or anyone simply off the sauce can order something proper to sit beside the steak.