hotelThe Hotel Inspector · Season 20, Episode 6 · Aired August 28, 2025
Metro Cafe
England
Same spot, new identity after the show. It now goes by The Persian Stop.
On the show
Season 20, Episode 6 · August 28, 2025 · guest house
location not resolved in this pass
What happened after
Persian-inspired greasy spoon rebranded as 'The Persian Stop' while retaining Metro Cafe recognition; multiple current reviews/social confirm ongoing trade.
What happened on the show
Metro Cafe, a Persian-inspired greasy spoon on Wilbraham Road at Chorlton in Manchester, featured in series 20 with no surviving synopsis, so the on-screen detail is undocumented. A small urban cafe is a different proposition from the show's usual hotels, a food-led business where identity and consistency matter more than rooms, and it called in Alex Polizzi during her twentieth series in 2025. Because the record preserves nothing of the particular problems she diagnosed or the changes she set, the honest account stops at that verifiable outline rather than inventing on-screen drama, with the outcome, including a clear rebrand, documented plainly by the present-day evidence. First shown in August 2025 in Polizzi's twentieth series, it was one of her rare urban-cafe cases, and it has since rebranded.
After the cameras left
Metro Cafe is open and trading, and has rebranded: the Persian-inspired greasy spoon at Chorlton in Manchester now trades as The Persian Stop, while retaining recognition under the Metro Cafe name. Multiple current reviews and social accounts confirm ongoing trade, with one TripAdvisor reviewer noting the Metro Cafe is now known as the Persian Stop, so the renamed status sits at high confidence. The Chorlton cafe Polizzi visited appears to have kept going under a new sign that leans into its Persian identity, one of the series 20 cases that clearly endured, now trading firmly around its Persian food offer.
Sources
Confidence: high. Last checked 2026-07-19.