New bars at B.Eat Street

MANCHESTER’S hidden food and drink terrace B.Eat Street has partly reopened with the launch of two new bars.

The development opened on Deansgate Mews, at the Great Northern Warehouse last summer, housing a row of street food microdiners and bars, but closed to the public in February to become a private events space. Now, owners are welcoming back drinkers at two new venues and have also revealed plans for a series of summer street food parties at the weekends.

The Golden Pineapple, a Cubanstyle cocktail bar inspired by Havana’s historic La Piña de Plata (The Silver Pineapple), which was famously frequented by Ernest Hemingway, has taken over the former Milk of Burgundy wine bar.

The B.Eat Street team have already opened a branch of the bar in London, above their pop-up putting green Junkyard Golf Club in Shoreditch.

“It will have a bit of a Caribbean vibe, somewhere you can go to have a great daiquiri,” said co-director Lyndon Higginson, who also runs The Liar’s Club, Cane and Grain and Crazy Pedro’s.

Next door, inside former Czech beer bar Kozel Lokal, the street’s old blues bar Bunny Jackson’s has also been resurrected as Junior Jackson’s.

“It will be a smaller version of that - lots of blues, lots of bourbon and whiskey and a bit more of an acoustic vibe later on,” said Lyndon.

The scaffolding shack at the entrance has been dismantled to create an open terrace.