Italiana Fifty Five Liverpool Road - Italian Restaurant Manchester

You'll find this place split across two levels on Liverpool Road, with the downstairs cafe morphing into a proper restaurant come evening. The pizza oven works overtime here, turning out properly charred bases topped with quality ingredients that actually taste like they've seen Italy. The sharing plates are where they really shine though – think burrata that doesn't taste like it's been sitting around and charcuterie boards that justify the price tag. The prosecco flows freely (this is technically a prosecco bar after all), and the staff know their way around Italian wines beyond the obvious suspects. It gets pleasantly busy without feeling chaotic, especially at weekends when the upstairs fills with groups working their way through multiple small plates.