{"id":46826,"date":"2025-04-24T14:33:12","date_gmt":"2025-04-24T14:33:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/46826\/"},"modified":"2025-04-24T14:33:12","modified_gmt":"2025-04-24T14:33:12","slug":"beloved-manchester-restaurant-which-closed-its-doors-a-year-ago-reopens-in-new-spot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/46826\/","title":{"rendered":"Beloved Manchester restaurant which closed its doors a year ago reopens in new spot"},"content":{"rendered":"

‘I have been waiting for this time to come for so long’\"TheThe Thirsty Korean in Chorlton has reopened its doors just yards away from its original spot which closed a year ago(Image: The Thirsty Korean)<\/p>\n

A beloved restaurant in south Manchester which closed its doors has reopened in a new location not far from their original site.<\/p>\n

The Thirsty Korean gained a reputation amongst diners for being \u2018iconic\u2019 and a \u2018hidden gem\u2019 for its restaurant on Manchester Road in Chorlton<\/a>. First opened in 2019, the venue was helmed by Eunji Noh for five years.<\/p>\n

But Eunji, whose restaurant was at the centre of a campaign from Sacha Lord<\/a> giving out free meals to locals, decided to close the popular restaurant<\/a> last year due to the end of the venue\u2019s lease.<\/p>\n

Upon closing the doors last March, Eunji promised customers<\/a> she would be back with a new premises after going on a break and spending time with her family. She has now announced that The Thirsty Korean is back in business, with a new location now on Wilbraham Road.<\/p>\n

Taking over the former Vietnamese Potbellied spot, which itself closed in September last year, the restaurant carries on Eunji\u2019s tradition of Korean-inspired dishes with an expansion of what people have come to expect. It is situated opposite the The Lloyds pub.<\/p>\n

\"TheThe restaurant, now on Wilbraham Road, is currently open for walk-in’s only as part of a soft launch phase(Image: The Thirsty Korean)<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have been looking for a new venue with a bigger kitchen for some time,\u201d Eunji said. \u201cI have plenty of ideas for Korean food to offer, but the kitchen always needed to be able to support this.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs Korea is a peninsula, we usually eat lots of seafood but here, when it comes to Korean food, most people tend to know more about beef, pork and chicken, like Korean BBQ. But we will have things like fresh mackerel with a spicy sauce on top called Gogalb.<\/p>\n

\u201cI wanted to show some real and authentic Korean food to customers alongside quality drinks and service.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"TheThe restaurant will serve classic Korean dishes with many that will be new to British diners(Image: The Thirsty Korean)<\/p>\n

The venue\u2019s drinks menu will include a range of draught beer and the likes of Soju, whilst the food menu will branch across the likes of soups, curries, noodles and rice dishes. The venue is currently open as part of a soft opening phase, with walk-in\u2019s only, as staff get to grips with the new unit.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are starting our business by soft opening as we are all new to work in this kitchen, therefore we can not guarantee the fast speed of food service,\u201d Eunji said. \u201cWhat we can guarantee here is that there will be great quality with our dishes.<\/p>\n

\u201cI have been waiting for this time to come for so long. We are now finally open and I am glad that we could see people who I have missed very much.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Thirsty Korean is on 520 Wilbraham Road, Chorlton, M21 9AW.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"‘I have been waiting for this time to come for so long’The Thirsty Korean in Chorlton has reopened…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":46827,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8813],"tags":[25712,748,8832,393,4884,2465,8886,280,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-46826","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-manchester","8":"tag-asian-communities","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-chorlton","11":"tag-england","12":"tag-great-britain","13":"tag-manchester","14":"tag-manchester-restaurants","15":"tag-restaurants","16":"tag-uk","17":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114393435801541034","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46826","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46826"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46826\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}