They’re hip, tasty and highly profitable. Why food halls are popping up all over the UK
A wintery midweek night in Manchester, and the tables are buzzing at Mackie Mayor with about 500 punters devouring Italian stone-baked pizzas, beef short-rib on toast and salted caramel chocolate brownies.
Once Europe’s largest fresh produce market, the building lay derelict for decades before finding a new life last autumn as a haven for foodies who dine communally at long tables set among ornate pillars under vaulted glass ceilings.
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