This & That in Manchester

This and That is an Indian cafe offering a variety of combo meals and snacks. The best part about this cafe is that it’s both budget-friendly and delicious. The ambience and service were decent, though nothing exceptional. I tried their rice, curry, and a snack, and was satisfied with the meal.

Quick, unfussy, cozy, delicious and affordable ✨

10/10 Proper hidden gem this place

Hidden gem just around the corner from Manchester bus station. Amazing Indian food, friendly stuff and a lot of happy customers at all times a day. Been there on Friday around 6pm and did not wait at all. The street looks shady but the food is great! Very cheap! 👌

Small shop nestled in an alley hiding a warm place with simplicity. Here we are welcomed by a team that will not fail to make you jokes and we serve you a Rice & Three curry. Cheap and delicious in addition!

Absolutely amazing price for some really tasty food. I had three lovely vegan curries, a vegetable samosa, and a drink for just nine quid. Man, I wish this place existed in London too!

Hidden in a run-down alley, you'll find this gem. Great food and helpful staff.

Nice cheap place for quick meal!

Absolutely awful food, and the female serving was rude too, never ever again

Great discovery! Love the curry and lack of frills!

Great everything, well worth the visit

Always try to visit when I'm in Manchester. It's a very popular eatery and rightly so. Their rice and 3 curries are heaven and reasonably priced. Long may it continue.

Hidden food gem of Manchester. Absolutely great curry and rice plate. Very good and authentic taste of Indian food with good quantity.

It's so delicious, I think every dish is delicious even if I choose it with my eyes closed. The restaurant is very smoky and the prices are very reasonable. If I have the opportunity to come to Manchester City in the future, I will definitely patronize it again!

A great little place to try and recommend the '3 curries & rice'. Very tasty curries. Tends to get busy at lunchtime.

Outrageously good food for the price. Lovely family atmosphere too. I love it.

Good decent food at reasonable price

Amazing authentic food, friendly staff and great prices.

Gotta say food is better here than most of restaurants I have ever tried! Really authentic flavours. Naan was light & fluffy. Really friendly service ❤️ wish this was in London

Great value for money - can try a few different currys that are on offer and the menu is always changing depending on the day of the week. Staff are friendly. It's definitely worth a try if you haven't been.

Me and my girlfriend got bad food poisoning after eating at this place. It seems like a lot of other people have too.

What an amazing place ! I was hesitant at first but the food was authentic and very tasty. 🤤 The service was pleasant but the food was surprising tasty. Very reasonably priced , I would have paid more. Sorry pictures of empty plates because it was too delicious.

Been coming here for over 20 years. Cheap eats but the quality is incredible. Get the veg rice & 3 and top with a load of corriander

What a wonderful find, simple food done well at a good price. Food is cooked fresh with a good selection to choose from. Definitely worth a visit.

Always good service. Pizza is great from here.

Wow. What an amazing place. The food was absolutely spot on. The service was really good however the naan bread took a good few minutes to come out and we already had the curries so it was either wait and the food go cold or start and eat the bread without the food. The naan was cooked fresh so will know to order that first next time. There will definitely be a next time as the food was spot on as was the price.

Came here because I saw great reviews. The food here is fiiirrreee. The owner was a funny guy as well. Much cheaper and higher quality food compared to the other restaurants around town. The food was so good that I decided to go back again the next day and tried new items. Again, did not disappoint at all. When I come back to Manchester, I'll for sure return here to eat like a boss

Honestly obsessed with this place, it's quiet with no music blasting like most places in Manchester. The food is always fantastic and the staff are always lovely!

We went this morning and had curry for our late breakfast! It's great food and no fuss it was just what we needed after a great night in The Millstone! It was a box we wanted to tick and we'll definitely go again when in town, oh and only £16 for both meals and a drink! 10/10

The This & That Special is 3 of the ~6 curries they have on offer and a portion of rice for £8- can’t argue with that! Pictured are 2x chickens and 1x lamb 🍛

Still one of the best around, great value, usually pretty busy but plenty of seating available. Its not a 5 star restaurant but a cafe style place serving great food, Rice and three meat dishes £8, cheaper with vegetable dishes

Food on point . 2nd time here. Always excellent,rice and 3 curries + garlic naan for less than £10. Cannot fault 5 star

Great curries at a great price.

Lovely little spot, quick service, easy business, straight up, pick your 3 curries dumped on a fluffy mountain of nice rice, then dress it however you want, coriander, onions, xtra green chillies, take your pick and gobble it down. £8 bosh. Canteen /school dinner vibe seating, very very good and very very nice come on ladies come on ladies 8 pound curry

A Manchester favorite for a reason banging curry at a nice price

Hidden gem 💎 🙏🏿🇮🇳 Got in, hella local ppl and the family attending the business. You already know food is about to be buzzing. That combination is some ~LeBron and D Wade for the Heat~ type shyt. Manchester weather is shyt, but the food in this place will make u forget about it.

A Manchester institution with lovely staff and delicious food at prices unheard of elsewhere in the city. Anthony Bourdain would have loved it.

The staff are absolutely amazing. However I spent my childhood and High School with my best mate who’s Mum was from Kerala and was the BEST ever cook of authentic food. I never frequent chains or ‘the curry mile’ or TA’s in Manchester because I have a higher pallet. I always want authentic cuisine and will not settle for anything else. This & That just borders on this. It’s a acceptable offer but it’s sitting on the warmers for too long. The rice is watery and it just feels commercial.

Brilliant value food. Will be back soon 🙂

The food is so good! And the vibe is immaculate. Felt like home and the staff was so polite

Had a lovely mean here, great homemade curries and reasonably priced too and staff amazing too! 🙌🙌

Delicious meal, friendly staff and buffet deals Dine with the wanderers and get the chills

The food is awesome. Super tasty and very friendly service. There is a daily changing menu from which you can choose freely. It's not a restaurant but more of a snack bar, but 100% recommended

Price to quality ratio can't be beat

Cheap and cheerful. The food was tasty and hot, everything you want. It was a friendly environment for a solo diner :)

Homely Rice and Three for a decent price.

A deceptive facade hides a gem of a restaurant. A very well priced menu with a healthy variety of options and kind staff. The seating is comfortable but the paint could use a refresh. Highly recommend over other local spots serving similar options due to better Price and quality

The most indistinctive curry house ever, but the food is delicious, and also this must be one of the cheapest places in Manchester.

Fantastic fresh food … .. great staff … a Manchester institution ! Rice and 3 curries on a plate ( chicken tikka masala ,lamb with spinach and chicken curry) x2 with a chapati £17 ! So glad I finally got to visit . Will 100% be coming back for more !

So good! I had rice and three veg - they were all very tasty and can’t go wrong for £6! My partner enjoyed his meat curries. Two rice and three, a garlic naan, one samosa and two cans for £19.30! You’re not getting food this good anywhere else in town for that price! Just wish I’d been sooner. Can’t wait to come back. Really friendly staff! Other people were having chapati’s and mango lassi’s and they looked really good.

Lovely owners, very good food and halal. Gujirati owners too

Their food always hits the spot, such tasty curries. We normally visit the place whenever we're in Manchester.

A Manchester institution, been going to This and That for 20 years and will keep going. Firstly amazing value, can't get better for less. Good variety of delicious curries and always a great atmosphere. My first recommendation to anyone visiting Manchester

It's This & That on Soap Street, it's in the Lonely Planet as somewhere to eat in Manchester. I've been going to T&T for 20+ years & when I'm in town will go for my rice with three.

So I've been meaning to come here for a few months now after seeing a social media post about it. I wasn't disappointed! Such amazing food in a friendly vibrant atmosphere!! Next stop will be with the family ❤️

Very social street food place. The cheaper the place the more social it always is!

Great place for a quick meal. Food is really nice, homemade and tasty. You get your plate immediately as you order. Staff is friendly.

What a great place! Located down an unlikely-looking back alley this restaurant serves delicious Indian food quickly and at a fantastic price. The restaurant itself is not much to look at but that's not the point. Five pounds for a plate full of delicious vegetarian curries and rice is what it's all about. (Meat curries are available too). The menu changes each day and has a limited range of choices. Bulk cooking keeps the price down. The food is served up instantly on plastic plates. The people were very nice too. It's a great place and I hope to be able to go there again soon.

This place is SO good. Unpretentious, friendly and efficient staff and most of all.... damn tasty food!! It gets busy so you can feel crammed in but in my opinion, that's part of its charm

Good curries at a very good price

You will not believe how good the food is and how affordable the price is until you go there. Went there twice and food was awesome. It’s almost like a community dining space. And good food.

Great little Curry House, loved the food and friendly staff 👍

Great price, great quality, fast and friendly delivery service.

Was such a nice experience and the person who was behind counter was excellent gave chaat on the house. Food was delicious

2 meals, 2 bhaji 2 cans of pop and 1 naan £21. 3 different curries and rice each. Fantastic tasty quality food. Quick service as well. Highly recommend this little canteen hiding down an alleyway!

Tasty good value curry house. Friendly service

Great value for the price. Can choose three kinds curry from £6.00.

I'd heard about This and That a few times, it's reputation proceeded it. I knew it was rice and three and canteen style. But I was a bit anxious about ordering as ihave anxiety and had never been before but the lady was lovely and explained to me which curry wss which. The food was delicious and hot and I paid £9.50 for my rice and three and a drink.

Unreal. 2 meat 1 veg with rice on a Wednesday: lamb and pea, chicken curry, spinach and potato. All the garnish. Samosas fire too. Lovely little place for quick tea, nice seeing all sorts of people eating there. Staff very friendly. One day I will try every single dish

I heard a lot about this infamous Manchester three & rice, so when visiting the city thought it’d be worth a try. I tried the chicken tikka masala, keema and kidney beans and potatoes with rice, but to my surprise didn’t think much of any of it.

Very tasty food and excellent price (£6 to £8 pounds). The restaurant is super simple and has a buffet with different curry options, which change according to the day of the week. They have fresh naan and the service is very welcoming and pleasant. I wish I had never visited the place, because now I want to go back every week. I highly recommend it!

Lovely curry’s but the onion bhaji was rock hard and garlic naan bread wasent very upto scratch

Nah this place is unreal! I can’t believe something could be so literal of the meaning of a hidden gem. Tucked away, this delicious restaurant/takeaway offers some of the best tasting, generous, affordable food in the whole of Manchester. I have tried multiple 2-3 curries on rice and this by far is the best one in Manchester.

First visit in over 20 years. If anything better

Really good pizzas, good ingredients, nice thin crispy base, well cooked and delivered on time

Another top notch scran at Manchester's finest R&3! Honestly got nothing bad to say the place at all, great food, great staff & great atmosphere. Barely a tenner for the R&3, Roti & a Meat Samosa. Fantastic value!

I had a fantastic experience here enjoying their flavorful nasi briyani! The rice was perfectly cooked and fragrant, with a generous portion that’s both filling and satisfying. It came with three delicious side dishes, each full of authentic spices and rich flavors that complemented the briyani beautifully. The best part is the affordability—great quality and taste without breaking the bank! Highly recommended for anyone craving a tasty and budget-friendly Indian meal.

only criticism is that they hadn't cut the pizza

As normal a really good hot tasty pizza.

Amazing food at bargain prices. Just left with the Mrs, both absolutely stuffed for 20 quid.

Used several times so far. I took curry and chapati home twice as well as in the store. I previously lived in India for 5 years, and although the spices in the food here are not as strong as they are here, it is always the best. The store staff are generally friendly and kind.

Very friendly service, food served almost immediately. The food is tasty, even large portions. We ordered chicken tikka masala, curry chicken, garlic naan and samosa and paid £17.

Fantastic and incredibly affordable Indian food with wonderful, friendly and very attentive staff! 10/10 would eat here again.

I had rice, beef keema, lamb nihari, and chickpeas takeaway. It was an amazing meal, and it cost me only £7. I would definitely come here again. The food was homely and delicious. The space was crowded because who wouldn’t want to come here and have this food?

The hidden gem of Manchester, if you're wanting frills then this isn't the place for you, but if you're wanting good decent food at a very good price then this is the place to go. We chose the 3 meat with rice for £8, she got keema and peas, chicken curry and chicken tikka and a plain naan for £1.50, all tasted amazing, perfectly cooked and very filling. The real testament was how busy it is, the guy next to us said it was his third time this week, another said 2nd time this week. If you're in Manchester this place is worth the visit.

Great place serving excellent food. Rice and 3 curries £6-£7, what’s not to like? Good choice of meat and veg curry, bhajis, samosas and bread also on offer. Cafe style place no frills and great food.

Nice curries at cheap prices. Perfect for a quick lunch if you fancie some tasty indian/Pakistani Street food.

Delicious and cheap for England and probably even Poland. I recommend

Can't fault this amazing authentic eaterie! Lovely people, unbelievable value and a gem tucked away from the crowds. Can't wait to visit again.

There's a 50% chance you’ll probably miss it or look at the dark alley and wonder - this can't be it...because this place is literally at the corner of an alley, blocked by bins from the bar or barrels. But this is an absolute gem in Manchester! Nothing spectacular, simply basics and that's the beauty of it! Set of curries with rice, good portions, great atmosphere and very reasonably priced...like £6-£7! A proper DESI food, when you’re craving for chana daal, keema, or sabzi bhaji. Great stuff! Since 1984. And halal.

In a back alley, looks like it's not finished but Mo was lovely, food was decent. If you want no frills good value quick meal this is the one. Lassi was lovely

Wow! Was over from Bradford, popped in on basis of reviews and website photo (lol!) Brilliant food, lovely ambience and service, fantastic ethic and unbelievable value for money (as a Yorkshireman this is a big plus haha!). Please don’t move to a bigger venue/ cash in, this is perfect as it is and I’ll definitely come back with friends and family. Thank you!

Decent quality and delivered hot!

Do not walk past this place without ordering something

Came here with my brother after walking round Manchester for a few hours - what a great place to stop at. The food tasted great. We had curries, rice and naans and left with empty plates - delicious and hot but not too hot. The place is easy to miss, tucked down a side street but well worth a bit of searching. We liked that within 3 minutes of walking in we were eating. Definitely a place to come back to 👍

Tasty fresh homestyle food at reasonable prices. It can't be faulted and luckily I don't live in Manchester as I'd be there twice a day and 20 stone heavier!

Delicious as always. Very friendly.

This was the first time I had visited This & That. My son always raves about it & insisted on taking me. All he did was tell me not to judge the place by what the premises look like outside. We visited on a Saturday evening and within 45 mins of closing. I have to be honest, on turning into Soap Street and seeing the restaurant front I didn’t hold out for much. On entering the premises there was a healthy amount of people sat down eating their food, as well as people queueing up to order. The servery looked like a school dinner counter, but well stocked with piping hot food. The lady who served us was very pleasant and advised us on what each dish was. I chose Chicken Tikka masala, Keema curry, chicken curry & rice, with a side of a garlic naan. I’m a spicy food lover, so was a bowl of pencil chilli’s to add to my dish. We took our seats on the provided benches & tucked into our food. I have to admit that I was pleasantly surprised by the quality of the food for the £7 we paid for our plate full. The food was lovely, the staff were all chatty & happy to engage in conversation & banter. To summarise, don’t judge a place based on its appearance. Thoroughly enjoyed my visit & will definitely go again. The only negative I can think of, is that they have a Man U crest on the wall, which made me feel nauseous when eating. 😂😂

A hidden gem with lots of atmosphere. Tried This & That for the first time off recommendation and it certainly didn't disappoint. There's a charismatic feel to this place which feels quintessentially Mancunian. Highly recommend.

Every time I eat here, it's the best curry I've ever tasted in my entire life.