Baby/pram friendly cafe and restaurants in manchester city centre

Hi, any recommendations for manchester cafes and restaurants for a new mama? Need to go into the centre for a few errands but would be good to know how to organise changing/bottle feeds.

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Heard the art gallery is brill for baby changing! Also has the cafe and a play area ☺️

Marks and Spencer’s is good as cafe and two large baby changing and feeding rooms xx

If you're in the arndale and need to change, on the ground floor, near Next and across from Starbucks there are toilets. I'm sure they have separate baby changing/family toilets

Next have a family room

The arndale has feeding rooms and changing rooms… but on the ground floor of next there’s a nice little feeding area and if you ask staff for the baby changing room they’ll unlock it, not only is it very spacious and great for taking your time to change the baby but there’s also an adult toilet in there, always immaculately clean and nice smelling too

This is all great I am making a Google map! I few friends still live/work in the centre so it's a good start finding areas i shouldn't stray from if I meet for a coffee 😅
Keep em coming

Manchester Art Gallery is brilliant!

We always go to the Ivy for breakfast and they have a baby change and are super chilled with prams (and weaning babies) :) x

they are disgusting never clean and they are not private so usually packed.

M&S has decent facilities. I avoid the Armadale toilets they are disgusting. The art gallery is great.
Next is good too but the lifts in there are a bit annoying.

Gooey is a nice cafe and has a clean baby changing. Mackie Mayor is also spacious and has changing facilities.

Funnily enough primark actually have a cafe and a baby changing and feeding space on the baby Isle. Never thought somewhere like primark would have this. But is nice to have a break when shopping.

I used the back room in mamas and papas for a breast feed. They'll happily do it unless they have someone booked in for their show around. That's at Trafford

hi Helen were you able to make this google map? Is it shareable by DM?

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