I would be extremely pleased to visit one of the Simon Rogan places at The Midland, but that may be further up the £££ scale than you had in mind.
― Tim, Thursday, 5 November 2015 07:04 (eight years ago) link
yeah for a treat the midland would be good
― ogmor, Thursday, 5 November 2015 12:13 (eight years ago) link
I hear wonderful things about the lime tree in didsbury as well which would be considerably more reasonable
― ogmor, Thursday, 5 November 2015 12:30 (eight years ago) link
Going to Rajdoot now and its outstansding.
Also go to Samsi as I stay nearby there - bdesides serving a terrific Katsu cuury it has good ice cream for dessert.
― xyzzzz__, Thursday, 5 November 2015 12:52 (eight years ago) link
glad you like rajdoot! love a samsi bento box and the sushi must be the best in manchester by quite a way
― ogmor, Thursday, 5 November 2015 13:07 (eight years ago) link
DEVO MANC
http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/call-referendum-over-greater-manchester-10261642#ICID=sharebar_twitter
― ogmor, Tuesday, 8 December 2015 13:08 (eight years ago) link
El Rincon is brilliant tapas place, went last night and it is tough to get a table (and you can only book in advance if its for three ppl at least)
Extra offline recommends from ogmor that I've also checked out:
- Yuzu is an excellent, humble Japanese place in the less busier corner in Faulkner street
- Salvi is a v good Italian on John Dalton Street
― xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 9 December 2015 12:41 (eight years ago) link
For breakfast I settled on Fig + Sparrow on Oldham street - which doubles as a design shop.
― xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 9 December 2015 12:43 (eight years ago) link
Ppl at fig are v friendly although they weren't open at 8am (xmas parties season then?)
Went for some pancakes + berries + yoghurt (er @ that mix) and the jukebox was '97: Manics, Verve, Radiohead, Ash, MANSUN. LOL Indie. What corruption and filth.
― xyzzzz__, Friday, 18 December 2015 09:44 (eight years ago) link
I haven't been to Manchester in 24 years, but I'm glad to see some things haven't changed.
http://ak-hdl.buzzfed.com/static/2016-01/1/11/enhanced/webdr15/enhanced-buzz-wide-14156-1451666024-7.jpg
― something totally new, it’s the AOR of the twenty first century (tipsy mothra), Sunday, 3 January 2016 05:06 (eight years ago) link
https://twitter.com/search?f=tweets&vertical=default&q=hogarth%20methinks&src=typd
― Jebtsundamba Khutuktu (nakhchivan), Sunday, 3 January 2016 08:59 (eight years ago) link
Michael Cawley @cawleym1 Jan 1 Hogarthian in all respects, the pissed bloke getting his beer has poignant poetic majesty.
― Jebtsundamba Khutuktu (nakhchivan), Sunday, 3 January 2016 09:00 (eight years ago) link
There is a Buddhist centre and a v gd veg cafe round the corner from there.
― xyzzzz__, Sunday, 3 January 2016 11:23 (eight years ago) link
just down the road from Paramount Books as well
full sequence of events:
http://i4.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/incoming/article10673595.ece/ALTERNATES/s1227b/JS79535758.jpg
http://i4.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/incoming/article10673600.ece/ALTERNATES/s1227b/JS79535764.jpg
http://i1.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/incoming/article10673597.ece/ALTERNATES/s1227b/JS79535762.jpg
http://i4.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/incoming/article10673611.ece/ALTERNATES/s1227b/JS79535829.jpg
http://i3.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/incoming/article10673613.ece/ALTERNATES/s1227b/JS79535831.jpg
― soref, Sunday, 3 January 2016 12:45 (eight years ago) link
Get a giggle everytime I walk by Well Street.
Are there any good vegetarian resturants in Manchester?
― xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 20 January 2016 14:43 (eight years ago) link
1847, right in the centre of town, is really good, I went there a few months ago. Excellent organic wine list too.
― The Male Gaz Coombes (Neil S), Wednesday, 20 January 2016 14:53 (eight years ago) link
I'll check it out tx.
what's the deal with Paramount books? that is now only open on Sat and Sun - before xmas its opening hours only included Friday.
Is that the main indepedent bookseller in the city centre?
― xyzzzz__, Thursday, 21 January 2016 13:04 (eight years ago) link
also: soref, neil s - both myself and ogmor were talking about a Manchester fap sometime (no it won't end like those pics above :-))
Let us know whether you might be around in Feb sometime.
― xyzzzz__, Thursday, 21 January 2016 13:05 (eight years ago) link
manchester/nw ilx needs to rally together or at least congeal in the NQ somewhere
― ogmor, Thursday, 21 January 2016 15:43 (eight years ago) link
and one more - otherwise me and ogmor will hopefully get to paint the town do something
― xyzzzz__, Thursday, 4 February 2016 16:44 (eight years ago) link
Is there a good place for breakfast that might do some nice things? (French toast or pancakes or just nice porridge) and that opens at 7am.
― xyzzzz__, Thursday, 4 February 2016 16:46 (eight years ago) link
sorry never responded to yr kind invite, I'm actually London-based but am in Mcr to see my brother & my GF's family fairly often, if that coincides with an Mcr FAP then I will give you a shout!
― Gaz upon my works ye mighty, and despair (Neil S), Thursday, 4 February 2016 16:48 (eight years ago) link
No worries I'll hopefully get to firm up a day and revive this.
― xyzzzz__, Thursday, 4 February 2016 16:50 (eight years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZRCcGUvmZDE
― ogmor, Thursday, 4 February 2016 18:56 (eight years ago) link
there's also helmet street
― For bodies we are ready to build pyramids (whatever), Friday, 9 September 2016 16:15 (seven years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/2NvsK30.jpg
― ogmor, Thursday, 16 February 2017 13:39 (seven years ago) link
I'd really like to just go and lie in that, go to sleep, and then they can bring the water back.
― Never changed username before (cardamon), Friday, 17 February 2017 18:14 (seven years ago) link
rip, sweet prince
― ogmor, Friday, 17 February 2017 20:40 (seven years ago) link
Somewhere I have loads of ace ruin porn pics taken by my partner in the late 90's from a Sunday walk down the Rochdale canal. I'd imagine it is all horrible apartments owned by Robbie Fowler these days.
― calzino, Friday, 17 February 2017 21:15 (seven years ago) link
sad!
― Neil S, Friday, 17 February 2017 22:31 (seven years ago) link
there's definitely a bit of that but a lot of manchester esp north and east is still v much underdeveloped overgrown brownfield junkie dens etc.
― ogmor, Saturday, 18 February 2017 12:35 (seven years ago) link
:-(
― xyzzzz__, Saturday, 18 February 2017 16:15 (seven years ago) link
It's a shame they've built all over Pomona
― Never changed username before (cardamon), Saturday, 18 February 2017 20:04 (seven years ago) link
have they? last time I was there it all still looked like this
http://i3.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/incoming/article9724876.ece/ALTERNATES/s615b/JS33878848.jpg
http://static1.squarespace.com/static/555c907ce4b0c12ff4f6f6bd/563f6231e4b039e01d2ee90a/563f6231e4b0519912c323d5/1446994510661/Pomona+Island_2_%C2%A9Matthew+Nichol+Photography.jpg?format=1000w
that was about a year ago, though
― soref, Saturday, 18 February 2017 20:08 (seven years ago) link
There's some open wilderness left but that bit has been cut off by the developments I think, you can't get on there to wander about.
― Never changed username before (cardamon), Saturday, 18 February 2017 20:14 (seven years ago) link
(Pomona a possible Real England candidate if not done already)
― Never changed username before (cardamon), Saturday, 18 February 2017 20:15 (seven years ago) link
So, well. Useful link:
https://www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding/westandtogethermanchester
― Never changed username before (cardamon), Tuesday, 23 May 2017 15:11 (six years ago) link
Probably worth posting on the other thread too. If you've not seen it, it's here: Explosion at Ariana Grande concert in Manchester May 2017
― emil.y, Tuesday, 23 May 2017 15:18 (six years ago) link
Haven't been for years, and the immediate context made me wonder whether i should cancel my trip but Manchester is looking absolutely resplendent and thriving in the early evening sun.
― Fizzles, Friday, 26 May 2017 15:13 (six years ago) link
you've picked a nice day for it!
― ogmor, Friday, 26 May 2017 15:50 (six years ago) link
Manchester slowly getting back to some sort of "normal" pic.twitter.com/ypEWwvZS24— Hunter (@Hunterandrewss) May 25, 2017
― xyzzzz__, Friday, 26 May 2017 15:53 (six years ago) link
really beautiful. just having a glass in the northern quarter, which i don't think properly existed the last time i was here. also this thread is a goldmine, ogmor, thank you. was in gulliver's and am just wondering where to go next but am happy to see where whim takes me.
― Fizzles, Friday, 26 May 2017 15:56 (six years ago) link
v much xpost thanks xyzzzz__
the weather has me thinking about a post-work drink, let me know if you're up for some company
― ogmor, Friday, 26 May 2017 16:01 (six years ago) link
absolutely. come down!
― Fizzles, Friday, 26 May 2017 16:06 (six years ago) link
ilxmailed you my number
― ogmor, Friday, 26 May 2017 16:11 (six years ago) link
got it. texted.
― Fizzles, Friday, 26 May 2017 16:19 (six years ago) link
how long are these bikes going to last
― ogmor, Sunday, 16 July 2017 20:43 (six years ago) link
I think it is a great idea and should be encouraged, but don't fucking call them Burnham Bikes!
― calzino, Sunday, 16 July 2017 20:51 (six years ago) link
I've had no need to try one but they look like they'd be fun
― ogmor, Sunday, 16 July 2017 21:18 (six years ago) link
the bbc is ofc in salford, which from the little I know seems like a better council despite being poorer and having had I think the worst cuts in percentage terms of any council
― ogmor, Tuesday, 22 October 2019 09:01 (four years ago) link
The BBC's in Salford but I guess a lot of the people who work there live in Manchester and these developments are there to service that demand?
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 22 October 2019 09:10 (four years ago) link
the ppl I know who work round media city live in trafford or salford, which is more suburban. I'm sure there are plenty in the city centre but part of the problem with the new developments is they're not v family friendly (neither is the city centre) and I'd imagine it's only a fraction of the overall demand and a lot of the developments are happening over the other side of town, are aimed at rich foreign students etc.
― ogmor, Tuesday, 22 October 2019 09:25 (four years ago) link
some very small scale local property developer fuckery that pissed me off in recent years is a row of beautiful cottages that were built in the 1650's and would have only required minor refurbs to make them good, that were bulldozed down, and the space they inhabited has sat empty/become part of some developers land collection ever since. An early 1800's derelict building with a handsome (but broken and stopped for years) clock-tower recently demolished and the ugly ass wooden/breeze block flats construction they are putting in its place would have caused Nairn to have a stroke.
― calzino, Tuesday, 22 October 2019 10:17 (four years ago) link
Free ticket to see Earth at Gorilla tonight if anyone wants it - won it in a competition and one of my pals has dropped out
― knowing for certain the first touch of the light will finish you (fionnland), Monday, 11 November 2019 15:31 (four years ago) link
Ten years on, @owenhatherley considers again Manchesters 'New Ruins' and asks, what is the legacy of the Leese leadership?https://t.co/VQBhxqaDDX— Greater Manchester Housing Action (@gmhousingaction) June 4, 2020
― xyzzzz__, Thursday, 4 June 2020 19:21 (three years ago) link
some juicy stuff in there. I think development has been increasing, there's so much still going up, & I wonder how much it'll be impacted by the current shitshow and whether it will all get finished. there have been a few aborted projects that were left barely started for years before getting demolished, you'd think shit like the big circle square development on the site of the old bbc on oxford road is too far along to meet the same fate but who knows
― The Cognitive Peasant (ogmor), Thursday, 4 June 2020 21:51 (three years ago) link
Thinking of making a rolling list of (good) places that are closing down, it's depressing af. So far I've heard about: Lunya, Nexus, Deaf Institute, Gorilla
― rumpy riser (ogmor), Thursday, 16 July 2020 15:50 (three years ago) link
Sad about Nexus.
Know it's London but just saw a tweet by Cafe To who are hiring out their venue as rehearsal space to stay afloat :-(
― xyzzzz__, Thursday, 16 July 2020 17:36 (three years ago) link
Apparently ~90% of music venues are looking like the might close
― rumpy riser (ogmor), Thursday, 16 July 2020 23:18 (three years ago) link
That's really sickening.
(That should be *Oto, above)
― xyzzzz__, Friday, 17 July 2020 09:39 (three years ago) link
Coincidentally, 90% of live music I've seen in the last 5 years has been at Cafe Oto.
― The Fields o' Fat Henry (Tom D.), Friday, 17 July 2020 10:07 (three years ago) link
Mariam Rezaei + Odie Ji Ghast at the Peer House - 28th April 2022
Some pals have formed a DIY collective to get more experimental/Avant-garde music gigs to Manchester. Should be a fun first event.
― They do the Shug a loo, do the Shy Tuna, do the Kemba Walker (fionnland), Friday, 4 March 2022 18:48 (two years ago) link