If you have been a regular Whitworth visitor you will know and hopefully have enjoyed the Gallery’s marvellous and award winning cafe, and may even have seen it through various stages in its history from its earlier incarnation as the Gallery Bistro famed for its cakes and 1970s style, through to the recent culinary delights of the Modern Caterer with its focus on locally sourced and seasonal good food.

Some of you may also remember the V&A’s advertising campaign from the late 1980s whose posters included the by-line ‘… An ace caff with quite a nice museum attached’, and there is no doubt that having a great cafe as part of our offer to visitors is important to the overall vision of the Whitworth’s current building development.

The one thing that our old cafe didn’t have was a beautiful view, but that is all set to change as one of…