20 Stories - Manchester

[Alan Harper's Tash]

How much were the bacon, sausage and egg muffins?

Sounds like a greasy spoon, not a cake shop.

 

[feedmpenzaandhewillscore]

I've not been impressed by Manchester for a while now, not just the prices, just the general 'meh' feeling I get when I'm there, and the lack of quality that the bars actually provide.

Post Fulham game, went to some bar in Ancoats, where me and my mate got a pint of Estrella, which came in a plastic pot, and we were charged north of £7 each a pint, plus a service charge of 10%.

Back to the OP, 20 stories is alright, if you're not getting in the way of pretty much every other person wanting to take a picture of the gaff!

As for Northern Quarter, used to like it around there but not every bar is pretty much the same, and the chances of you getting your beer in the glass it was meant to be served in, are less than zero!

Not a fan of that whole area round Twenty Stories, as you say it’s full of people taking photos like over the road in the Ivy. It is now attracting wrong uns with stabbings and guns being pulled at other venues round there over the summer. Northern Quarter has become saturated and every bar looks the same as the other now.

 

[Man_City_Loyal]

3x Manchester Tart cocktails
2x Espresso Martini’s
1x Gin and Tonic.

That’s £94 please.

How the deck can they charge these sort of prices. Safe to say we left swiftly after the one drink. Will not be returning

wont last long charging those prices.

 

[dronefromsector7G]

The Manchester Tart ones are £15, some gins are around that price and they add a 13.5% service charge, couldn’t see the espresso on the menu

 

[bluenova]

Surprised

3x Manchester Tart cocktails
2x Espresso Martini’s
1x Gin and Tonic.

That’s £94 please.

How the deck can they charge these sort of prices. Safe to say we left swiftly after the one drink. Will not be returning

It's not a bar, it's a tourist attraction.

Go anywhere in the world, and once you're sitting next to a window more than a couple of stories above ground level, you're paying per foot, not per drink.

If anyone does want to see the view - it's better from the toilets than the actual bar, so no need to buy a drink. Just turn left out of the lifts, take a photo and go back down ;)

 

[Man-chester copperpot]

3x Manchester Tart cocktails
2x Espresso Martini’s
1x Gin and Tonic.

That’s £94 please.

How the deck can they charge these sort of prices. Safe to say we left swiftly after the one drink. Will not be returning

Pint of Peroni £7.00 - job done

 

[CarlosTevez'sEnglishTutor]

Stop drinking is the only answer. Manchester has been ruined with gentrification. The posh lot have taken over and made it their own, a working class city like London once was, that has been lost to the masses and foreign investors.

 

[hammocity]

That's nearly a week's pension.

And some of you lot wonder why us FOCs moan...

My local is not my local anymore, Moretti now 5.50 a pint, Staropramen in Ashton Golf Club is now £3.82 and years ago the golf club was always by far the most expensive place for a beer.

 

[hammocity]

Too much.

Free Fosters would still be too expensive.

I’d rather have a pot of tea.

 

[chris85mcfc]

Stop drinking is the only answer. Manchester has been ruined with gentrification. The posh lot have taken over and made it their own, a working class city like London once was, that has been lost to the masses and foreign investors.

Not convinced on whether they're wealthy, just rinsing credit cards, or doing the old 'champagne lifestyle, lemonade money'.

I'd say its a good mix of all three!