Best Persian restaurant in Great Manchester. At the far end of Curry street.
Doesn't look fancy fro. The outside, but once your in this 2 story restaurant, will be impressed by the decoration and simple but well arranged tables. Standard Persian menue, The food was excellent, great portions please the palate and makes you want more.
The staff were lovely. And the crow makes you feel at home.
Lovely experience.

First time visiting and overall, I really enjoyed the experience. The food was great, with a few mixed dishes: the Ashe Reshteh good but was a bit too solid and not soupy as expected, while the Shirazi salad was fresh and tasty. The Persian herb stew wasn’t my favorite—the lamb tasted off and the texture was more solid than stew-like.

On the positive side, the barberry rice with lamb shank was amazing, full of flavor, and the chicken on the bone was absolutely delicious I’d come back just for that dish alone! The strawberry mojito, with real strawberry bits, was surprisingly refreshing and extremely good.

Overall, a good experience. Service was great as well. I’d definitely recommend it and would return again!

Excellent family owned restaurant
Be prepared to be whisked away on a culinary adventure.
The best Iranian food in Manchester with matching Persian hospitality to boot!
Brilliant options for breakfast and dinner.
Generous portions, top quality meat, vegetarian options, excellent deserts and traditional tea too!

Food was typical persian flavour, found it bit oily but good in taste. Mix platter of cold mezze bit pricey at 22£, and three sqewer of grill cost 29£. Overall good experience for the first time but came with slight expensive in comaprison to other nearest restaurant of turkish/middle eastern cuisine.

I treated my fiancé to a trip to Manchester for his birthday on 19th August 2025, and we came to Walnut for dinner. It was absolutely outstanding. I spent a while researching the best Persian restaurant, and Walnut have absolutely earned their spot at number one on Google!

For a Monday evening, I didn't expect it to be so busy, but it was quickly clear as to why...

From the get-go, we were greeted with smiling, friendly waiters. The décor is modern and absolutely beautiful, especially the water feature, blossom tree, and mural. The venue is also impeccably clean throughout.

We are used to waiting a while for food, yet ours arrived within about 10 minutes of ordering. This was impressive considering how busy they were, and everything was clearly freshly prepared. The joojeh and koobideh were so tender, and the rice was perfectly cooked. I can't recommend the bastani highly enough - it will be the best ice cream you ever have!

As always, we over-ordered our main food (so easy to do at a Persian restaurant!), but couldn't waste a mouthful, so they neatly boxed our leftovers for us to take away. It made for a perfect dinner after the long drive home the next day - incredibly, the joojeh was as tender as when it was first served after reheating in the airfryer.

I also need to give a shout out to the Walnut Bakery next door. We stopped there after and we were met with fantastic service once again.

My only complaint is that they are 2.5 hours away from where we live, so we can't visit again easily!! We will 100% be back whenever we come to Manchester in the future, and have already recommended to friends and family.