Pasture Manchester leads four openings at St Michael's
The Bristol group's first North West venture puts an open-fire flagship, a hotel bar, a restored pub and a terrace inside Gary Neville's £400m tower.
Pasture Restaurant Group will open four venues inside Manchester's St Michael's development, led by its open-fire flagship, Pasture Manchester.
The Bristol-founded group, led by chef-owner Sam Elliott, already runs sites in Cardiff and Birmingham. St Michael's marks its first move into the North West, inside a £400m scheme backed by Gary Neville's property firm Relentless and developer Salboy.
Pasture Manchester takes the ground floor of the project's 43-storey tower, built around open-fire cooking and beef, the format that built the group's name in Bristol. The brand has expanded carefully since 2018, adding cities one at a time rather than chasing rapid rollout.
Four restaurants, one tower: St Michael's is filling out before its hotel has fully opened.
Four venues, one tower
The other three openings sit around the same site. W Lounge is the hotel bar for the 162-bedroom W Hotel Manchester, also part of St Michael's. Abercromby is a historic pub being restored as part of the development, keeping one older building inside an otherwise new-build scheme. Terrace is an outdoor dining space built around an all-day, Mediterranean-leaning menu.
No opening date has been set for any of the four. The Caterer, which first reported the plans, quoted the group saying only that dates would be announced in due course, leaving St Michael's tenants and nearby operators to guess at a timeline.
St Michael's builds its food and drink line-up
Pasture joins a roster that already includes Big Mamma's Circolo Popolare, Japanese-Peruvian chain Chotto Matte and coffee operator Grind, giving the tower four very different dining identities before its hotel has fully opened.
St Michael's has taken years and several design changes to reach this stage, and the hospitality line-up is now one of the clearest signs of the scheme moving from construction site to functioning neighbourhood.
For Pasture, the project is also a scale test: this is the group's first foray outside two cities it has run since 2018, and its first flagship built from the ground up inside a single mixed-use tower rather than a standalone site.
