That’s changing, as a new generation of chefs dig into their terroir and emerge with handfuls of truffles, scallops, and cheeses, from James Sommerin’s Home restaurant in Penarth to SY23 in seaside Aberystwyth, headed by Great British Menu finalist Nathan Davies. It’s been a few decades since actor Richard Burton famously described laverbread – seaweed, mixed with oats and fried in bacon fat – as the Welshman’s caviar, but a Welsh foodie renaissance has taken a while to arrive. You can toast the polka-dotting artist with one of the tasting menus at MUSU, a theatrical new Japanese restaurant on Bridge Street from chef patron Michael Shaw, where dining booths transform at night into cocktail-club tables for floor shows. Set on the site of Granada Studios, this primetime cultural space will help host the Manchester International Festival and carve out its own identity with Free Your Mind, a kinetic multi-media performance based on the Matrix films, and the largest ever immersive installation from Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama, entitled You, Me and the Balloons. Other openings include the Fashion Gallery at Manchester Art Gallery, and the Co-op Live music venue in the NOMA area, along with a TBA debut by Soho House but the most anticipated is Factory International in June, its name inspired by the city’s genre-breaking record label. ![]() When it comes to diversity, Manchester Museum is reopening after a major revamp with galleries devoted to the city’s Asian diaspora – including a South Asia gallery curated by 31 people from the area, telling stories such as the day Gandhi visited the mills of Darwen in Lancashire. The sustainability-minded Treehouse, which opens in spring near Selfridges, will also have a zero-waste restaurant, hopscotch carpets and a rooftop bar from local DJs-turned-restaurateurs the Unabombers. ![]() So it seems apt that its latest hotel, Treehouse Hotel Manchester, is a celebration of biophilic design, with bee hives in the roof gardens and living walls. And right next to Piccadilly Station, Mayfield Park – the city’s first new park in a century – opened on a derelict brownfield site with meadows, trees and play areas alongside the River Medlock. While the 154 acres of RHS Garden Bridgewater bedded in nicely outside the Salford village of Worsley, with its walled-garden microclimate, more vital greenery arrived in the city centre as Castlefield Viaduct became Manchester’s answer to the New York High Line, seeding cotton grass, ferns, fennel and broom along 330 metres of former Victorian rail track. Happy travels.Īs the world’s first industrial city, Manchester has always been about redbrick urbanity and vocal street culture, but in 2022 something changed: it got greener. And don’t forget to visit our global list of international destinations to visit next year – the best places to travel in 2023, vetted by Condé Nast Traveller editors, plus ideas for places to go in the USA, top spots in Spain and destinations to book in India. From Manchester's new museums to Glasgow's slew of slated hotel openings via conservation initiatives in Inverness and the sparkly arrival of Eurovision in Liverpool, these are the 13 best places to visit in the UK in 2023, in no particular order. ![]() This list – curated by our expert contributors – is an edit of cities, regions and entire counties across the four devolved nations of the UK that should be on your radar right now. As part of our Best Places to Go in 2023 series, we shine a spotlight on the destinations in the world, as well as the US, India, Spain and the UK that are set to have a real moment in 2023, whether thanks to splashy hotel openings, foodie awakenings or cultural moments that the whole world will be watching. ![]() Every winter, we look ahead to the upcoming year and consider which destinations – of the many, many beautiful places across the world – we'll see travellers flocking to.
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