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Friday, 19 March 2010
Other Food Venues
The following are either not lunchtime or not curry/kebab places that we thought we might aswell mention:
- Introduction
- Adelphi Cafe
- Afghan Cuisine
- AQSA Chippy and Spice Grill
- Atlantic Fish Bar
- Barbakan
- Buffet City
- Cedar Tree, The
- Coriander
- Darbar
- Halal Bites
- Jerk Junction
- Leo's
- Little Yang Sing, The
- Ning
- Original Third Eye, The
- Panicos & Yianni's
- Tibetan Kitchen
- Yakisoba
Pubs
Good Pint, Bad Pint - left great pint from the Marble Beerhouse against unnamed disaster
- Introduction and Full List
- Pub Crawls
- Manchester & Salford Pub Map
- Angel, The
- Argyles
- Bar, The
- Bar Lorenzo
- Beech, The
- Black Lion Hotel
- Bishop's Castle Beer Festival
- Bowling Green
- Cask
- Castle Hotel, The
- Charango
- City Arms, The
- Crescent, The
- Crown & Kettle, The
- Derby Brewery Arms
- Duffy's Bar
- Escape
- Fringe, Bar
- Gulliver's
- Hope Inn
- Horse and Jockey, The
- Jabez Clegg
- King's Arms, The
- Knott Bar
- Kro Bar
- Lass o'Gowrie
- Marble Arch, The
- Marble Beer House
- Mark Addy, The
- Monroe's Hotel Bar
- Mother Mac's
- New Oxford, The
- Odd, Odder & Oddest
- Orlando's
- O'Shea's Irish Bar
- Ox, The
- Pi
- Sandbar
- Sedge Lynn, The
- Trevor Arms, The Famous
- Trof (Northern Quarter)
- Wheatsheaf, The
- White Lion, The
Curry Cafes
- Introduction
- Manchester Curry Cafe Map
- Northern Quarter Curry Cafe Map
- Al-Faisal
- Cafe Marhaba
- Chappati Corner (Cheetham Hill)
- Chillis
- Hunter's BBQ
- K2 Curry Lounge (Cheetham Hill)
- Kabana
- Kabana (Cheetham Hill)
- Kebabish
- Kebabish Xpress
- Little Aladdin
- Qila Khyber (Strangeways)
- Taftan
- Tastemaster's
- This & That (Original)
- This & That 2
- Top Quality (Cheetham Hill)
- Yadgar
- Qila Khyber
- Taftan
- Tastemaster's
- This & That (Original)
- This & That 2
- Top Quality (Cheetham Hill)
- Yadgar
Kebab Houses
- Introduction
- Abdul's (Rusholme)
- Afghan Cuisine
- Al-Madina
- Al Quds
- Cafe Marhaba
- Camel One
- Caspian
- Chappati Corner (Cheetham Hill)
- Chillis
- Dubai
- Falafel
- Jaffa
- Janam
- Jazeera
- Kabana (Cheetham Hill)
- Kashmiri Spice
- Kebabish
- Kebabish Original (Rusholme)
- Kebabish Xpress
- Kobeda Place
- Lahore Karahi (Cheetham Hill)
- Lahori Kebabish (Cheetham Hill)
- L'al Quila Express
- Pasha Restaurant
- Qila Khyber (Strangeways)
- Rusholme Chippy
- Rusholme Kebab House
- Saajan Express
- Saajan Halal
- Saajan Halal Cafe
- Saajan Original (Fallowfield)
- Sadaf
- Sanam
- Sangam Fast Food Bar
- Spice Kitchens
- Tastemaster's
- Turkish Delight
- Venus Foods
- Zam Zam
- Zam Zam Tandoori
Thursday, 18 March 2010
Kro Bar
Oxford Rd.
The original part of the Kro empire. This bar is in the middle of Manchester University's campus. As such you do find a lot of students drinking in here - which isn't really a problem. The bar area is a bit too bright, but the bar is fairly well stocked. Upstairs is a better bet for a drink. The two linked rooms are rather grand with high ornate ceilings, fireplaces, large mirrors and subtle lighting. I'm not certain, but it seems likely that this was once a large house. There is plenty of outdoor seating in the beer garden at the back and the terrace at the front. There is also an eating area with a range of benches that looks like a canteen.
Not a particularly inspiring place to go, but if you get a space upstairs you can spend a pleasant enough evening in here.
The original part of the Kro empire. This bar is in the middle of Manchester University's campus. As such you do find a lot of students drinking in here - which isn't really a problem. The bar area is a bit too bright, but the bar is fairly well stocked. Upstairs is a better bet for a drink. The two linked rooms are rather grand with high ornate ceilings, fireplaces, large mirrors and subtle lighting. I'm not certain, but it seems likely that this was once a large house. There is plenty of outdoor seating in the beer garden at the back and the terrace at the front. There is also an eating area with a range of benches that looks like a canteen.
Not a particularly inspiring place to go, but if you get a space upstairs you can spend a pleasant enough evening in here.
Sandbar
Grosvenor St.
This bar is superb. It has a great range of beers and a genuinely interesting interior. There are local cask ales, real ciders and a wide selection of european beers available on draft and in bottles. The place occupies a couple of old houses - the old exposed staircase is even used as extra space to store bottles. There is a rather ramshackle arrangement of different rooms, with each one having a different character. The front bar is light (due to huge the windows) and very lively. The back bar is quieter and a bit more civilised. The enclosed 'yard' area is fairly dark, and it has a stone floor and a huge bench for seating. There is a new smoking area/beer garden next to the main bar. Outdoor seating is aslo a feature, with a decent amount at the front and some round the back near the yard entrance. Sitting outside Sandbar on a summer's evening is a very pleasant experience. The toilets are unusual and worth noting. To get out you have to open a door plastered in posters, which is not an easy feat when faced with it for the first time or when drunk.
As with most great bars, Sandbar gets very busy at the weekend. It's big enough to accommodate a large number of drinkers, so there is usually somewhere to sit or stand. The punters here seem to be a pretty decent bunch, with a similar mix to that found in places like the Bar in Chorlton. Sandbar is easily one of the best places to drink in Manchester, and it is currently vying with Fringe to be the best bar in Manchester.
This bar is superb. It has a great range of beers and a genuinely interesting interior. There are local cask ales, real ciders and a wide selection of european beers available on draft and in bottles. The place occupies a couple of old houses - the old exposed staircase is even used as extra space to store bottles. There is a rather ramshackle arrangement of different rooms, with each one having a different character. The front bar is light (due to huge the windows) and very lively. The back bar is quieter and a bit more civilised. The enclosed 'yard' area is fairly dark, and it has a stone floor and a huge bench for seating. There is a new smoking area/beer garden next to the main bar. Outdoor seating is aslo a feature, with a decent amount at the front and some round the back near the yard entrance. Sitting outside Sandbar on a summer's evening is a very pleasant experience. The toilets are unusual and worth noting. To get out you have to open a door plastered in posters, which is not an easy feat when faced with it for the first time or when drunk.
As with most great bars, Sandbar gets very busy at the weekend. It's big enough to accommodate a large number of drinkers, so there is usually somewhere to sit or stand. The punters here seem to be a pretty decent bunch, with a similar mix to that found in places like the Bar in Chorlton. Sandbar is easily one of the best places to drink in Manchester, and it is currently vying with Fringe to be the best bar in Manchester.
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