WTF is Manchester looking like Moscow in Glatnost

[ell]

This is a country where people queued for three hours at the drive thru because McDonald’s closed for a month during lockdown

 

[blue b4 the moon]

This is a country where people queued for three hours at the drive thru because McDonald’s closed for a month during lockdown

I was hoping for some sort of reset during Covid and that people had time to actually learn how to cook....how wrong was I? Fucking gridlock around Maccies everywhere.

 

[Stephen230]

i can't for the life of me remember the name of it,
but there was an all-night caf in piccadilly gardens in the 90's,
right at the far end, opposite where the tram stop is now.
from 2am onwards it was just full of ravers sipping tea and gurning...
loved it.

Not sure I remember that. I do remember a takeaway kebab shop half way along though.

And on the other side of the gardens was a greasy spoon called The Ok Cafè. That wasn’t a place for your Michelin stars, that’s for sure.

And there was a Wimpy inside Piccadilly Station, which did a decent breakfast. Pretty much where Burger King is now.

 

[manimanc]

Regular town dwellers like myself know, never go down market st avoid at all costs

Market Street is like blackpool front now. I actually couldn't believe what I was seeing. Go back 30 years and you might have had a couple of buskers if you was lucky but today it's awful, just looks tacky.

 

[Scottyboi]

I miss Abelgeldes on shuedhill, best fry up in town before they turned it into a kebab shop

I got a coffee from their every morning before getting the bus to factory lane for my apprenticeship, best coffee going! Shame it went.

 

[Eccles Blue]

There used to be such a cafe right outside Piccadilly Station. Been gone for years though. They're all serving up rabbit food nowadays. I mean to say; avocado on toast. Seriously, WTF?

Avocado is the spawn of the devil. It tastes like when you’ve been sick in your mouth. Uuuggghhh.

Plus don’t get me started on Olives. Another uuurrrggg.

 

[KS55]

Avocado is the spawn of the devil. It tastes like when you’ve been sick in your mouth. Uuuggghhh.

Plus don’t get me started on Olives. Another uuurrrggg.

Blame Nigella, she started the craze. She had the cheek to call avocado on toast a “recipe.”
Great thread. “All our Yesterdays Fry ups”

 

[Eccles Blue]

Blame Nigella, she started the craze. She had the cheek to call avocado on toast a “recipe.”

She has a lot to answer for!! Must admit I’ve never watched anything with her in. ;-)

 

[KS55]

She has a lot to answer for!! Must admit I’ve never watched anything with her in. ;-)

Oh, I have, but not for the recipes.

 

[PPT]

Used to frequent Abergeldie and koffee pot (st Stephens square) when I worked in town. Saw the koffee pot was now on oldham st so popped in. Had to wait at the door while waitress showed us to a table it was a very different experience from the greasy spoon I used to frequent. I also find it bizarre that people were queuing at one or two sandwiches shops around the northern quarter for an over priced Sandwich when you can get a decent curry at This n that etc for alot less.

The Northern Cafe next to the Crowne Plaza on Shudehill is a decent shout these days

 

[yeseye]

Not Town but beside the Ground ,The Lunch Box is the one for a greasy spoon.

 

[asgoodasitgets]

Yeah. Sure it was about 7 or 8 quid for a full English with toast and a brew the last time I went.

Coffee Pot on Oldham Steet is a rip off

I honestly used to love the Koffee Pot on Stevenson Square. When it moved I gave it a couple of go s .
I was working near Piccadilly Gardens a few weeks ago and thought I’d pop in .
shite doesn’t cover it .
I asked for my coffee to be served with my breakfast . Came almost immediately , bu5 not the coffee I’d ordered.
Breakfast was obviously pre prepared. I used to love the Kippers on sourdough. It’s not available any more but the Irish breakfast was average at best .Manchester has a lack of decent breakfast places at the minute .

 

[roman totale]

Used to love going to the old John Dalton Cafe in the 80s. Don’t ever remember having to queue up to get in there. In fact, it was usually empty.

 

[dickie davies]

It's beggers in town that do my head in
Last week on Deansgate I was approached by a woman who said "Only speak espanol " and was waving a hand written letter saying she needed lactose free baby milk

 

[Blackley_Blue]

I'm in my late 30's now and I'm going to sound like a FOC...but...

Town ain't town anymore.


The only mancs in town are smack'eds and the rest of the people are out of towners who sound like they're from the home counties queuing for posh fucking bread, drinking coffee that's beans have been shit out of a cats arse and don't forget the vegan beer brewed from boiled asparagus roots.

And don't get me started on the uniform... Funny looks if you haven't got a fucking beanie hat, unbuttoned shirt with a t-shirt underneath, pants that are too short and fucking boat shoes with no socks.

 

[jrb]

I love nothing more than drinking a Cafe Nero Latte, House Blend of course, along with an M&S Crossiant, which I buy before going to Cafe Nero. From there on I love people watching and seeing the world go by. Heaven. The cheaper alternative is going to Greggs, which just isn’t the same.

 

[jrb]

Didn’t you lot know, the techie kids have taken over the city centre. Manchester (city centre) has the biggest techie community outside London. They’ve got plenty of money to burn, renting apartments, going out all the time, eating an drinking what they want, when they want, money is no object, hence the bars, cafes and restaurants being packed all the time with techie kids.

The latest data from DCMS also confirms Manchester as the fastest-growing tech hub in the North of England, and the biggest outside London and the South East. Manchester-based companies have collectively raised over £1.8 billion in venture capital funding in the past five years.

Manchester confirmed as biggest tech hub outside of London

Manchester tech companies raised a record £532 million of funding in 2022, confirming Manchester as the fastest-growing tech hub in the North.

gmbusinessboard.com

 

[Grassland Blue]

I miss a good old fashioned cafe on the city centre.

Somewhere you get builders tea and cardiac breakfast.

Sick to fuck of places promising a fry up and get cocktail sausage, a streak of fat with a couple of small on the vine tomatoes, a thimble with a bake bean in, along with a fragment of crisp pretending to be a hash brown. All covered up by a big fuck off mushroom and they want me to pay £15 for it. But if I have a flat white coffee made with the beans of a Guatemalan shit monkey it's reduced to £14.50

If a cafe has panini in its' menu I steer well clear.
It has to be full English (Scottish/Welsh) for me.

 

[bennyboy]

I love nothing more than drinking a Cafe Nero Latte, House Blend of course, along with an M&S Crossiant, which I buy before going to Cafe Nero. From there on I love people watching and seeing the world go by. Heaven. The cheaper alternative is going to Greggs, which just isn’t the same.

I like the coffee in Cafe Nero as well.
My favourite coffee in town is served in the Cafe inside the Shudehill bus station.Make a point of going any time i'm heading back up north.

 

[horlock_was_super]

Was on an all dayer just before Christmas and couldn’t get in our usual place, Rowntrees as already mentioned, ventured onto the Arndale market food section. Really nice little stall doing a full English with a brew for £7. Top scran. They were also doing a Christmas dinner wrap for £7 - looked immense and people were snapping them up. They were selling pretty much the same thing on the rip off Christmas market for almost double.
Good place to eat because you fall straight into the Micro Bar too.