Manchester’s best-known hotel to get £14m revamp

Midland Hotel lobby

Manchester’s best-known hotel is to undergo a major £14m revamp.

The Midland Hotel, which was bought by Swedish hotel investment company Pandox and Fattal for £115m last year, is to undergo a major revamp.

The refurbishment programme will see all of its bedrooms upgraded along with the bars, restaurants and lobby.

As part of the improvements a new bar will be built opposite fine dining restaurant Adam Reid at The French.

The designs are in keeping with the art-deco design of the hotel.

The hotel’s bistro Mr Cooper’s is to be renamed and revamped with a more casual feel and design.

Jason Carruthers, managing director of Leonardo Hotels UK and Ireland, said: “The Midland has the luxury of having a very large ground floor footprint, particularly in the entrance hall area, and we’ve always been keen to do something with that space.

“There are two major projects we’re doing downstairs.

“One is to enlarge the main bar, which is currently called The Octagon Bar, and pull that out into the main lobby of the hotel to create more of a large, all-day space that will be used for breakfast, lunch and dinner and have a slightly different use for each of those periods.

“Then we are converting the current Mr Cooper’s restaurant into more of a casual bistro.

“It will be a very informal, bistro-style offering – something that will be appealing to guests and non-residents in the hotel.

Midland bar

“We want to have a menu that appeals at all times of day – that would be the key difference – and I want there to be a sense of where you are, in Manchester and the north of England, when you’re looking at the menu.”

The existing Octagon bar and afternoon Tea Room, both opened in 2017 ,will be retained.

Work will begin on the lobby bar and new restaurant in the New Year and is expected to be completed by June.

The hotel’s 312 bedrooms are also being refurbished.

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