November Travel to Northern UK
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The nearest good food to the centre of Manchester is Holmfirth. Being Red (rose) through and through, I have to say that the only good thing the Tykes can do well is food.
I am struggling to come up with more than 5 non-ethnic grub shops that serve up anything more than edible in Lancashire/Manchester : Paul Heathcote does a half decent job, Nigel Haworth's pubs and hotel are very good - the rest is either chain or ethnic. I lived over the border in the land of kestrels for 4 years and struggled to find a bad pub.
Shame they can't play football, make music or love, play cricket or......anything else for that matter.
BTW Curries are a Bradford thing - Rushholm is mainly a Pakistani marketing sham. I have acted for a lot of them and the table clothes aren't the only things that go to the laundry!!!
I am struggling to come up with more than 5 non-ethnic grub shops that serve up anything more than edible in Lancashire/Manchester : Paul Heathcote does a half decent job, Nigel Haworth's pubs and hotel are very good - the rest is either chain or ethnic. I lived over the border in the land of kestrels for 4 years and struggled to find a bad pub.
Shame they can't play football, make music or love, play cricket or......anything else for that matter.
BTW Curries are a Bradford thing - Rushholm is mainly a Pakistani marketing sham. I have acted for a lot of them and the table clothes aren't the only things that go to the laundry!!!
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Caroline_Edinburgh.
You gave me a nice walk down memory lane. My Dad used to work at Sams chop house 60 years ago as the cellar man. He worked there till his death in 1966. I remember him taking me there in the 1950s and the facination it gave a young boy to be inside this pub. I left England many years ago but often return back to go to Old Trafford. Last year on one of my visits i visited the place again. It was 9.00 am and the pub was closed, but the door was open and i wondered in.I got talking to the manager and i told him about my father. He took me into his office and produced an old black and white photo taken in 1960. There in the middle of a staff photo was my dad. He told me that the pub first opened in 1872 and still kept records from all those years ago. A great place to visit for a feel of the history of this city.
I can also recommend your suggestions of the Circus and the Grey Horse next door. Both are great traditional city centre pubs, full of locals. The Circus has to be the smallest pub you will ever go in, ran for as long as i can remember by George The Greek. A real manchester legend. The walls are covered with photos of George with all the stars and celebrities that have drank in there. The Grey Horse is not much bigger and is packed every night. The Grey Horse still has the mens toilets outside, so no food in this place.
You gave me a nice walk down memory lane. My Dad used to work at Sams chop house 60 years ago as the cellar man. He worked there till his death in 1966. I remember him taking me there in the 1950s and the facination it gave a young boy to be inside this pub. I left England many years ago but often return back to go to Old Trafford. Last year on one of my visits i visited the place again. It was 9.00 am and the pub was closed, but the door was open and i wondered in.I got talking to the manager and i told him about my father. He took me into his office and produced an old black and white photo taken in 1960. There in the middle of a staff photo was my dad. He told me that the pub first opened in 1872 and still kept records from all those years ago. A great place to visit for a feel of the history of this city.
I can also recommend your suggestions of the Circus and the Grey Horse next door. Both are great traditional city centre pubs, full of locals. The Circus has to be the smallest pub you will ever go in, ran for as long as i can remember by George The Greek. A real manchester legend. The walls are covered with photos of George with all the stars and celebrities that have drank in there. The Grey Horse is not much bigger and is packed every night. The Grey Horse still has the mens toilets outside, so no food in this place.
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Hi eyelids - glad you approve of my list ! How fantastic, that your Dad worked at Sam's, you met the current manager and he found the photo featuring him. It's nice to have it confirmed that it really is what it appears to be and not a clever fake !
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As a near Manchester resident - I think Caroline_ Edinburgh's recommendations are spot on, both restaurants and pubs, although I would add 'Peveril in the Peak' - Manchesters most loved pub... and I have never been disappointed by the curry mile.
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CW has got it wrong again. He really menat to comemnt on the South:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tekXxB6dosQ
stevelyn--when the Curry Mile first came to prominence, the restaurants were very good and competed against each other. However, over the years they realised that people came whatever they served and standards slipped into a cosy restaurant alliance. Far too many of these place have been censured by the health authorities and closed for clean up to be done.
Even one or two of the best known names were culpable and went out of business altogether. Over recent years I've noticed fewer and fewer Asian people eating there, a sure sign! Many of the Curry Milers also seem to serve the same colour of sauce whether you have a Rogan Josh or a Dansak!
Peveril of the peak is a nice little pub as is the Briton's Protection across the road.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tekXxB6dosQ
stevelyn--when the Curry Mile first came to prominence, the restaurants were very good and competed against each other. However, over the years they realised that people came whatever they served and standards slipped into a cosy restaurant alliance. Far too many of these place have been censured by the health authorities and closed for clean up to be done.
Even one or two of the best known names were culpable and went out of business altogether. Over recent years I've noticed fewer and fewer Asian people eating there, a sure sign! Many of the Curry Milers also seem to serve the same colour of sauce whether you have a Rogan Josh or a Dansak!
Peveril of the peak is a nice little pub as is the Briton's Protection across the road.