Is Sweet Mandar… Still Open? Best Local Restaurant Update (Manchester, UK)
Current status
As of October 2026, Sweet Mandarin is listed open on sweetmandarin.com, reviewed by our team on October 20, 2026; not yet independently confirmed through direct contact.
Last verified
What the source shows: The restaurant's own site, checked 2026-10-20, showed a 2026 copyright notice, an online-ordering link and dinner hours, and a Manchester's Finest listing modified 2025-08-04 shows the same address and hours.
- Season / episode Season 1, Episode 4
- Original air date
- Address 19 Copperas Street, Manchester M4 1HS
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What happened after The F Word: Britain's Best Local Restaurant?
Sweet Mandarin, a Chinese restaurant on Copperas Street in Manchester's Northern Quarter, won the Chinese heat of Britain's Best Local Restaurant on Gordon Ramsay's The F Word (Channel 4) in the episode "Chinese Restaurants" shown on 2009-11-24, scoring 82 out of 100 against 62 for Chop Chop of Edinburgh, and Wikipedia lists it in the first semi-final on 2010-01-05. Manchester's Finest, in a listing modified 2025-08-04, describes it as an award-winning restaurant focused on home-style cooking, run by a third generation of women restaurateurs. The restaurant's website says customers voted it "Gordon Ramsay's Best Local Chinese Restaurant in the UK", cites an AA Rosette for 2015-16 and MBEs for the twins in the 2014 New Year Honours, and calls aromatic crispy duck with gluten-free pancakes a must-try dish. When read on 2026-10-20, the website carried a 2026 copyright notice, an online ordering link, a Deliveroo link and dinner hours from Tuesday to Sunday.
On 2010-01-05, in the episode "The Dish of Their Lives", Sweet Mandarin appeared in the first semi-final of Britain's Best Local Restaurant on Gordon Ramsay's The F Word (Channel 4), alongside Lasan of Birmingham and Santa Maria del Sur of Battersea, according to Wikipedia's series table. The table says the semi-finalists had served signature dishes to panels of diners at their own restaurants before cooking in a cook-off at Ramsay's Royal Hospital Road restaurant in Chelsea, but it gives no scores or dishes for the semi-finals. Sweet Mandarin had reached this stage by winning the Chinese heat shown on 2009-11-24, scoring 82 against 62 for Chop Chop. Its own website, read on 2026-10-20, highlights aromatic crispy duck served with gluten-free pancakes and describes the restaurant as coeliac safe, and Manchester's Finest, in a listing modified 2025-08-04, places it at 19 Copperas Street in the Northern Quarter.
Featured on The F Word: Britain's Best Local Restaurant
- Original air date
- Episode title
- Chinese Restaurants
- What was featured
- Chinese heat win over Chop Chop, 82 to 62; later semi-finalist
- Role
- Featured restaurant
- Name on the broadcast
- Sweet Mandarin
- Season / episode
- Season 1, Episode 10
- Original air date
- Episode title
- The Dish of Their Lives
- What was featured
- First semi-final cook-off alongside Lasan and Santa Maria del Sur
- Role
- Featured restaurant
- Name on the broadcast
- Sweet Mandarin
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Visit info
- Address
- 19 Copperas Street, Manchester M4 1HS
- Venue type
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- Official website
- sweetmandarin.com
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Sources
- Wikipedia — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_F_Word_(British_TV_series)
- sweetmandarin.com — https://www.sweetmandarin.com/
- manchestersfinest.com — https://www.manchestersfinest.com/places/sweet-mandarin/
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