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"95% of the serotonin and approximately 50% of all dopamine

in  body is produced by your gut. Your true happiness starts there " 

May New Year 2025 bring to you All, many delicious food experiences

to maintain your long lasting happiness, vitality and health.  

The Spärrows Team 

 UPCOMING TASTING EVENT !     Winemakers dinner with Tenuta J Hofstätter   30th September 2025  18.30 - 22.00     £85 pp 5 course  

 

An Exclusive Winemakers’ Diner with Tenuta J Hofstätter.

Please us for an evening of exquisite food and wine, as we host the renowned winemakers from Tenuta J Hofstätter and Berkmann Wine Cellars . As a family winery and a pioneer of single-vineyard wines in Italy’s Alto Adige region, their passion is evident in every bottle. This is a rare opportunity to meet the winemakers, learn their story and taste a curated selection of their finest wines, including signature varietals like Gewürztraminer and Pinot Noir.

The Spärrows’ culinary team has created a special five-course menu of delicious traditional dishes from Trentino to perfectly compliment each wine.After dinner , we invite you to our bottle  shop for a special tasting  where you will also be able to purchase bottles at exclusive event  prices.

Ticket price £85pp

Includes:

- Welcome aperitif
- Five course menu with five perfectly paired wines

- afterdinner tasting 
This is a unique opportunity you won't want to miss, spaces are extremely limited (20 seats only) ,

so reserve your place now via

- The Sparrows Reservations or 

- Eventbrite 

30th September  18:30 - 22:00  

10% service charge will be added to the final bill

buy tickets now via EVENTBRITE

JAPANESE SAKE WAREHOUSE SALE + WALKABOUT TASTING 

SUZUME @ Little Spärrows

21 Red Bank, Manchester M4 4HF 

EXTENDED ADMISSION TIMES:

THU-FRI   10 - 11 JULY 2025

Evening Session 17:00 - 21:00

SAT 12 JULY 2025

Lunch Session 12:00 - 16:00

Evening Session 17:00 - 21:00

THU-FRI  17 - 18 JULY 2025

Evening Session 17:00 - 21:00

SAT 19 JULY 2025

Lunch Session 12:00 - 16:00

Evening Session 17:00 - 21:00

THU-FRI  24 - 25 JULY 2025

Evening Session 17:00 - 21:00

 

During the event you will be able to

• Purchase Japanese Sake bottles to take home

at exceptional prices

• Enjoy your favourite sake by the glass

• walkabout sake tasting

(subject of £20 fee allowing you to taste 10 different sake x 25 ml)

• Learn more about culture of sake drinking

from our in-house specialist

• Benefit from free home delivery of multi bottle buys

(6-12 bottles) for Manchester based clients.

Come sip, explore, and celebrate all things Sake with us!

free admission ticket here

100 BEST LOCAL RESTAURANTS 2025 - NOMINATION FORM

We’re delighted to let you know that nominations for The Good Food Guide’s 100 Best Local Restaurants 2025, in partnership with payments and POS provider Square, are now open!

Until  16th April 2025 , The Good Food Guide  will be  calling on the British dining public

to nominate their favourite local restaurant. 
THE CRITERIA
 Independently run; owned by the chef or a hands-on proprietor
 Offer regularly changing, seasonal menus at affordable prices
Demonstrate strong relationships with local suppliers
Be rooted in the local community
Offer at least two dinner services a week
Give customers a genuine, warm welcome ! 

 

In 2023  thnks to your unbelivable support .

The Saprrows was voted

 as The Best of North West  restaurant

 

If you think that our huble spätzle are still rocking  your loving  heart, 

please find a link below to cast your vote :  

for your convieneince our details are : 

The Sparrows 

www.thesparrows.me 

16 Red Bank, Manchester  M44HF, Lancashire , England 

nomination form 

MICHELIN GUIDE 2025  BIB GOURMAND GREAT BRITAIN  & IRELAND

  

Third year in the row we are given an opportunity  to express our pride, privilage

and enormous gratitiude to be awarded BIB GOURMAND,

in recognition of The Spärrows Team's great effort of keeping

dining experience inclusive, affordable and of course delicous!

This is trully uplifting news and inspirational energy for the year ahead!  

The Spärrows 

 

find more about Bib Gourmand 2025  restaurants

 

UK TOP 100 RESTAURANTS by SQUAREMEAL JANUARY 2025

 

"Inspired by all things dough-based,

The Sparrows - a translation of ‘spätzle’

- serves up the European noodles

of the same name along with continental pasta

and dumpling dishes treated

with the warmth and appreciation they deserve. "

 

we are very gratefull to all guests, who supported

 our entry to Squaremeal guide this year !

find 100 UK best restaurants here

Sunday 23rd February 2025 Winemakers Lunch

Sunday 23rd February 2025 Winemakers Lunch

with Weinhof Pinauer and Central Wines
Please join us  us for a three  course lunch with wine pairings provided by Johannes Pitnauer ,

wine maker from Carnuntum /Austria and distributed in UK  by  wine merchant

-  Central  Wines / Adam Michocki 

Date: Sunday 23rd February 2025

Time: 90 min time slots are available between 14:00  and 17:00 **

Location: The Sparrows Restaurant, Arch 16 Redbank,

Manchester, M4 4HF

Ticket Price: £35 per person 

 10% service charge will be alsoadded to your final bill     

duration   90 min per table of two and 120 min per table of 4 +  

Menu : 3 course lunch +3 x 125 ml glasses of Pitnauer's wines 

 

EVENT IS NOW SOLD OUT 

"TOM PARKER BOWLES warms to a cosy hideaway in Manchester serving comfort food of the highest calibre "

by TOM PARKER BOWLES FOR YOU MAGAZINE

PUBLISHED: 08:01 GMT, 28 December 2024 |

UPDATED: 08:01 GMT, 28 December 2024

READ ALL ABOUT IT  . . . "NIGHTS OUT AT HOME" by JAY RAYNER

JAY RAYNER “NIGHTS OUT AT HOME “
Recipes and Stories from Twenty-Five Years

as a Restaurant Critic

The Spärrows are extremely excited and very proud to be a spätzle “chapter” in Jay Rayner's  incredible 25 year long culinary adventure

The book is out and available in all major book stores 

Congratulations Jay on this delicious milestone!

As always grateful for your appreciation  
Kasia, Franco & The Sparrows Team 

 

read more 

NORTH WEST BEST LOCAL RESTAURANT 2023 

This is our great privilege to make Manchester proud of Spärrows Team achievement at this year’s

North West Best Local Restaurant 2023 Award

by Good Food Guide - earlier this month. .

We are truly blessed and grateful for such a support and declaration of spätzle love. This recognition brings true gratification for our good cooking and genuine care we have for all of our guests. Thank you North West ! 

FIND OUT MORE FROM GOOD FOOD GUIDE

MICHELIN GUIDE 2024
Ever so proud to be among some fabulous UK restaurants chosen

by Michelin Guide inspectors as favourites of 2023 and as well as being awarded with BIB GOURMAND second year in the row - accolade given for ongoing continiuity

of a good service, afortable and delicious food. 
Surely this wouldn't be possible without our amazing guests,

who kept Spärrows hard working team on their toes since February 2019.

It feels truly fantastic to be appreciated for our contribution to comfort cooking, service and to represent some superb artisan makers from Central Europe.
Thank you  All  - from Spärrows with Spätzle Love

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 Bib Gourmand, one of the famous Michelin restaurant guides, recognises restaurants that offer great food at reasonable prices. Bib Gourmand restaurants may not have a Michelin star, but the food must still be delicious,

and the total cost for three courses should come to under a certain amount, depending on the local cost of living.

FIND OUT MORE FROM MICHELIN GUIDE 

#COOKFORUKRAINE

“All war is a symptom of man’s failure as a thinking animal.” ― John Steinbeck

#CookForUkraine aims to increase awareness of the humanitarian crisis the world faces right now, as well as raise the funds needed to aid children & families in Ukraine who have been displaced by this military conflict. CookForUkraine is a collaborative and beyond the borders effort of UK based authors, food creatives and chefs. At the Spärrows, throughout month of March and beyond we will donate profits from sales of selected daily dish to this cause

!