Detroit-style vegan pizzeria Four Side is now open for takeaway

A fully vegan pizzeria has opened in the Northern Quarter serving plant-based Detroit-style pizza.

Residing in the former Earth Cafe site next to the Buddhist Centre, Four Side is now taking orders for delivery and collection.

Four Side has found a home in the former Earth Cafe site

Detroit-style pizzas consist of a focaccia-like dough, baked in deep, rectangular pans. Traditionally, they are layered with American brick cheese, followed by tomato sauce.

Vegan toppings on the menu at Four Side include a classic ‘Marg’ (£9.50) with tomato sauce and vegan mozzarella. There’s also house made ‘pepperoni’ (£12) and ‘n’duja’ (£12.50), as well as BBQ seitan (£12.50) and mushrooms with truffle oil (£11.50).

The Marg – £9.50

Sides include dough ‘knots’ served with garlic and miso butter, and tater tots with crispy onions and chive (both £3.50).

Drinks available are Vandestreek Playground Non Alcoholic IPA (£3), Dalston’s Lemonade and Karma Cola (both £2).

Knots with garlic and miso butter – £3.50

Orders can be made for collection via Good Eats and for delivery via Deliveroo.

During the soft launch week, there is 15% off all collection orders until Sunday 10 January. Pre-order slots are available from 5pm. Plus, for tonight only (Wednesday 6 January), there is 20% off orders over £20 made via Deliveroo.

Collection orders can be made here.

Delivery orders can be made here.

For future updates and information visit their Instagram page: instagram.com/foursideveganpizza.

Ramona Detroit-style pizzeria to open in former garage in January

A disused building on the fringes of the Northern Quarter is being transformed into a large new food, drink and entertainment venue set to launch in 2021.

Ramona is being created by the team behind some of Manchester’s best entertainment venues, including Gorilla and Albert Hall. The building, which used to be an MOT station, depot and forecourt, is located on Great Ancoats Street, across the road from Mackie Mayor.

The site will open in phases as the building works are completed over the next few months.

Eventually, the huge new venue will house a pizzeria and bakery, a margarita bar, a coffee counter, a wood-fired grill and a stage. The tree-lined forecourt will be transformed into a large beer garden with a campfire.

The first phase will be Ramona Detroit Pizzeria & Bakery which will open in January.

Ramona is across the road from the Mackie Mayor

The menu has been inspired by owners Adelaide, Joel and Dan’s trips to NYC and LA where Detroit-style pizza has increasingly begun to leave a mark on both cities.

Hailing from America’s Motor City, unlike Neapolitan or Chicago deep-dish pizza, Detroit-style pizza is rectangular rather than round. It has a foccacia-like dough which is baked in heavy steel pans which allows for an airy base, a crisp crust and a large volume of cheese with caramelised edges. Traditionally the cheese is piled on first, with the tomato sauce layered on top.

Despite being around since the mid 1940s, the pizza wasn’t often found on menus outside of Detroit until the 2010s.

The pizza is a descendent of Sicilian-style pizza and was first made by Gus Guerrera at Buddy’s Rendezvous in Detroit in 1946. The story goes that Gus originally used steel pans from a friend who worked in a motor factory which used them to store spare parts.

Quite fitting then, that Ramona will find its home in a former MOT station.

There are no confirmed details of the exact menu yet; however, ahead of the launch, Ramona is looking for pizza testers to sample their menu.

Ramona has been documenting the transformation of this industrial building into this exciting new venue.

You can follow their journey on their Instagram page: instagram.com/ramonamcr.

Two vegan restaurants to open in NQ: Detroit-style pizza & kebabs

It’s been a truly torrid year for the food and drink industry, which makes us even happier to see some exciting new openings on the horizon.

The Northern Quarter is set to welcome two new food operators serving Detroit-style pizza and kebabs, both 100% plant-based. It’s great timing, too, as we approach the increasingly popular Veganuary month.

So whether you’re already vegan, you’re trying it out, or you just fancy some delicious vegan food, you’ll soon have two new options to enjoy in the city centre.

Four Side is set to take over the site next to the Buddhist centre, previously occupied by Earth Cafe, which closed at the end of August after saying it wasn’t viable to open the café again.

The basement venue will now become home to the plant-based restaurant, serving Detroit-style vegan pizzas.

Detroit-style pizza is a four sided deep-dish pizza hailing from the birthplace of Motown. Its chewy crust is similar to focaccia but crispier and with smaller bubbles. The pizzas are baked in heavy steel pans and are traditionally loaded up with Wisconsin ‘brick’ cheese and then a tomato sauce layer on top.

The new vegan pizzeria is being set up by Dan Hope, behind popular street food brands Firebird Hope and Krum doughnuts. The menu looks to feature classic tomato and cheese, a white pizza with oyster mushrooms and a what looks like a Mexican-inspired fusion, topped with corn, coriander and a slice of fresh lime.

Vegan Detroit-style pizza is coming to the Northern Quarter

Announcing the opening on Instagram, the post read: “We’re thrilled to announce that we will be firing up our new pizza ovens and putting some Four Side energy into this much-loved NQ basement space. Expect 72-hour proved Detroit-style pies, house-made vegan cheeses + meats, killer sides and beautiful drinks. More news as we get it, including an announcement from our pals with the vegan doughnut skills @krum.mcr.”

There’s no specific date of when Four Side will be open but we’ll keep you updated as we know more.

The second plant-based opening set for Manchester’s Northern Quarter is What the Pitta, serving a menu of vegan kebabs.

What the Pitta serves vegan version of classic kebabs including vegan doner. Their signature spiced, meat-free doner pieces are loaded into wraps and topped with a choice of salad including  lettuce, onions, tomato, pickled red cabbage, jalapenos, humous and tzatziki.

There are also falafel wraps, vegan gyros, chip boxes and mezze boxes topped with doner or falafel.

What the Pitta’s vegan gyros

For dessert, there are vegan ice creams from Booja Booja and Ben & Jerry’s, as well as Baklava and ‘Retro Skool cake’, sponge with a layer of thick vanilla icing and rainbow sprinkles.

Manchester will be What The Pitta’s first location up North, with sites already in Boxpark Shoreditch, Boxpark Croydon, Brighton, Camden and Battersea. They will take over the site on Back Turner Street, which has been vacant since El Taquero closed its doors in December 2019.

What the Pitta is set to open on 7 January 2021. For more information, visit whatthepitta.com/what-the-pitta-manchester.

Rudy’s Pizza is now open in Sale

Popular Neapolitan pizza restaurant, Rudy’s has opened a new restaurant in Sale.

While they had planned to be able to welcome diners through their doors from this week, due to Tier 3 restrictions it is currently open for local delivery and collection only.

The new neighbourhood pizzeria is Rudy’s third restaurant in Greater Manchester after the original one in Ancoats which opened in 2015 and their second on Peter Street which opened in 2018.

It’s the sixth restaurant in the Rudy’s portfolio, which was taken over by Mission Mars in 2017 and now has restaurants in Leeds, Liverpool and Birmingham too.

Like at their other restaurants, the pizza dough at Rudy’s Sale is made with ’00’ flour which has been fermented for at least 24 hours. The pizzas are topped with quality ingredients imported twice a week from Naples, including San Marzano tomatoes, grown in the shadow of Mount Vesuvius and Fior di Latte mozzarella.

Rudy’s Calabrese pizza (Image: Last Supper)

The pizzas are then cooked for just 60 seconds, in super-hot traditional pizza ovens, also imported from Italy. The result is a super thin, floppy middle and leopard patterned cornicion (crust).

The menu features classic recipes like Marinara, Margherita and Calabrese as well as rotating weekly specials.

Although you can’t dine in just yet, there are a few options for pizza lovers wanting to get their Rudy fix at home.

The pizzas are made with ’00’ flour which has been fermented for at least 24 hours

Freshly cooked pizzas can delivered to your door or be collected from the restaurant. This can be ordered via Deliveroo and selecting either the delivery or Click and Collect option.

Alternatively, Rudy’s Bake at Home pizzas can be cooked in your oven at home. Handmade by Rudy’s pizzaiolos using the same fresh ingredients used in the pizzerias, the Bake at Home pizzas are blast chilled and wrapped so that you can enjoy twice-baked at home.

These can also be ordered via Deliveroo for home delivery or swing by the restaurant to collect anytime (no pre-order required).

Rudy’s Sale is located on Northenden Road, close to Sale Metrolink stop.

For more information and updates, visit their Instagram page.

A fully vegan Chinese chippy is coming to Manchester

Salt and pepper fans, rejoice. Vegans, get ready to eat your bodyweight in battered sausage. Manchester’s first fully-vegan Chinese chippy is set to open in Manchester next month.

Opened in October 2019, Woo Tan Scran was the first vegan chippy to open in Liverpool and now the team are bringing the concept to the people of Manchester.

Taking inspiration from the many Chinese chippies in Liverpool, Woo Tan Scran is the brain child of chef and founder Alex Woo. Alex’s family owned chippies when he was growing up and it was his idea to create dishes for a vegan Chinese chippy.

The idea was to provide a better range of options for vegans, rather than just a bit of tofu or mixed vegetables.

Alex was previously the sous chef at Liverpool restaurant Down the Hatch, which serves meat-free junk food like dirty burgers and loaded hotdogs.

He approached Tim Leah, the head chef at Down at the Hatch and owners Jay Baker and Conrad Sharp with some of his ideas and as soon as they tried his proposed dishes, the team knew they were on to a winner.

Meat substitutes include crispy chilli ‘beef’

From there it was full steam ahead and less than two months later, the four founders had opened Woo Tan Scran on Lark Lane in Liverpool, taking over what was previously a quintessentially British chip shop.

Since then, they have developed somewhat of a cult following. Over lockdown, Woo Tan Scran was the most ordered takeaway in Liverpool on Deliveroo.

The menu features vegan versions of your classic Chinese chippy dishes, including spring rolls, dumplings and sesame ‘prawn’ toast. There’s the very popular Salt & Pepper box which includes chips, spring rolls, samosa, nuggets and onion rings all tossed in peppers, onions and those salt and pepper spices.

The salt and pepper box with chips, spring rolls, samosa, nuggets and onion rings

Meat alternatives come in the form of Char Sui ‘chicken’, crispy chilli ‘beef’ and salt & pepper ‘chicken’. Plus, there’s jackfruit pancakes, their take on hoisin duck pancakes.

In true Chinese chippy form, there are also ‘English bits’ like burgers, chip barms and a vegan battered sausage.

As Alex tells us, Woo Tan Scran already has somewhat of a Manchester fan base. Pre-Covid some people used to make the journey over to Liverpool just to try their food. They’d order from the takeaway and then sit and eat in the pub next door, before heading back to Manchester.

(What I’d give to be able to travel to eat a Chinese chippy tea in a pub right now.)

Luckily, we won’t need to travel much longer as Woo Tan Scran is bringing their dishes to Manchester very soon.

Initially, the menu will be available for delivery only. From a small unit near Piccadilly Station, Woo Tan Scran will be delivering within around a 3 mile radius of the city centre (map below).

Woo Tan Scrans delivery radius

If all goes well, they will be looking for a more permanent space to call home in Manchester.

The plan is to start delivering in early December, but we’ll keep you updated.

For more information, visit their instagram: instagram.com/wootanscran.

Popular vegetarian Indian restaurant Lily’s opens Chorlton deli

Longstanding Ashton restaurant, Lily’s Indian Vegetarian Cuisine, has opened its second site in Greater Manchester.

The new deli in Chorlton which opened this week on Manchester Road joins an already-impressive foodie line up in the area, next to Unicorn Grocery and Barbakan.

Like in the Ashton store, there’s a huge counter filled with savouries like samosa and bombay mix and vibrant Indian desserts.

Takeaway dishes include a selection of curries and there’s a deal which is any curry with a choice of four roti or four masala chapati for £7.99. There’s also a range of hot drinks including fresh chai.

The fully vegetarian deli has a huge range of Indian products made by the Lily’s team as well as other brands, including sauces, sweets, teas, poppadums and lots more.

The counter is full of handmade sweets and savouries

This move to more of a grocery offering brings Lily’s back to its roots. The family-run business started in 1972 by husband and wife PG and Lilawati (Lily) Sachdev.

Lily used to make all the savouries by hand, which sold out very quickly at their small shop on Cotton Street East in Ashton Under Lyne.

Eventually all the family joined the business but Lily unfortunately passed away before the restaurant opened and so it was named Lily’s in her memory. Many of the dishes are still made to Lily’s original recipe.

Those who have been to the Ashton restaurant and deli will know how good the food is here. And, it’s been a busy few days since opening for the deli in the lead up to Diwali this weekend.

Parul, daughter of PG and Lily Sachdev, said: “The welcome has been great. We’ve had so many messages saying ‘Welcome to Chorlton’, it seems to be a really good community. We’re looking forward to being part of it, it’s fantastic.

“We’d been looking for a second site for quite a while. Obviously, this is not the full Lily’s, just the deli. So we’d been looking in Chorlton, we’ve had a relationship with Unicorn for a while. So it just seemed the right place to go.”

The new Chorlton deli has been very busy since opening

Currently, the deli is open for takeaway only and people in the store are limited to six, but once the restrictions allow, there will be a few seats for diners to eat in the deli.

And, despite the challenges of opening in a national lockdown, the owners are feeling very positive about the opening.

Parul said: “We are just so blessed, aren’t we? With everything going on, we are extremely blessed to be able to do this, really. You know, we appreciate all of our customers and it’s just fantastic that we’ve been able to do it in lockdown.

“You know what the times are like now, people are going through so much. So, you appreciate everything that’s going on around you. And to be able to do this at this time is very fortunate for us. Blessings from above, from Mum and Dad who started everything.”

The Oast House Teepee returns – and there’s 50% off food in October

The nights are drawing in and the festive season is on the approach.

And, even though Christmas is set to feel quite different this year, we’re pleased to see one festive favourite has returned to Spinningfields this week.

With the Manchester Christmas Markets cancelled and Tier 3 restrictions imminent, The Oast House has pressed on with the launch of the Goose Island Teepee.

Decked out with fire pits, faux fur throws and fairy lights, The Curious Teepee is probably the cosiest Christmas hideaway in Manchester.

Manchester’s cosiest Christmas hideaway returns to Spinningfields

With a comforting menu of winter warmers, diners visiting the Teepee in October can enjoy half price food from Monday to Friday.

Starters and nibbles include pork crackling, whole baked camembert and cauliflower wings.

There are also ‘house boards’ including a deli board, a hot board and a vegan board.

Of course, diners can enjoy The Oast House’s famous hanging kebabs with a choice of chicken, lamb kofta, crispy halloumi, salt and pepper pork, and chicken and chorizo.

The kebabs are served with seasoned fries which can be upgraded to chunky chips or sweet chilli chips.

With half priced food during the week, diners can go all out with a choice of desserts including Oreo cookie dough and caramelised banana sundae.

The Curious Teepee is currently taking bookings of up to six people from one household only. It’s not essential to book in advance but it is strongly advised by the venue.

Alongside the existing Covid guidelines for restaurants like table service and tracking customer details, under the new Tier 3 restrictions, drinks may only be served if they are ordered with a meal.

To make a booking, visit: theoasthouse.uk.com/the-curious-teepee.

A mental health and wellbeing cafe-bar opens in the Northern Quarter

A new coffee house and bar with a focus on mental health and wellbeing is opening in Manchester.

The Feel Good Club has taken over the 2,800 sqft space in the newly-restored Hilton House in the Northern Quarter and will be welcoming guests for food, coffee, drinks and a range of events.

Created by married couple Kiera and Amie Lawlor-Skillen, the Feel Good Club was originally started as an online community.

It first launched six years ago when Kiera, who was recovering from an eating disorder, shared her experiences of recovery. After a while, Kiera got a full time job and the club went on the back burner for a few years, but it was always something she knew she wanted to return to.

Things really got going in 2018 after Kiera and Amie got married. They were making merchandise in their bedroom, printed with positive messaging that had helped them along the way. But this wasn’t just about selling clothes.

Kiera said: “We always had the idea that we wanted to create something bigger than a clothing brand. We wanted the clothing to kind of start the community of what we were doing to then be able to bring it to a physical space.”

Just two years later, and despite a global pandemic, the pair has managed to secure investment and realise their dreams of bringing their online community into a physical space.

Kiera said: “It’s a coffee shop, it’s a bar, you can get some food here. I hope it will be a place where people feel like they can be themselves, where they can feel comfortable, they can meet like-minded people, they can come to a creative space.

“We encourage conversation, we encourage people to be themselves and to explore what it is that they want to do.”

Feel Good Club is on the corner of Hilton and Tib street in the Northern Quarter

What’s on the menu?

The café will serve food from 9am with a range of breakfast and lunch options including loaded crumpets and sourdough toast.

“I absolutely love crumpets,” says Kiera.

Diners can choose a base of either crumpet or sourdough and then select one topping or as many as they like from a choice of halloumi, mushrooms, beans, cheese, avocado and more.

There are Feel Good smoothie bowls and porridge for breakfast, and lunch options include a tempura cauliflower and mango bagel and a selection of salads.

Also on the menu is a cheese and onion crisp sandwich. “Because it’s the ultimate comfort food, it makes me feel good every time I eat it,” says Kiera.

Currently serving food until 3pm, they hope in time to be able to host pop up events in the evening in collaboration with other independents in the city.

There will also be a bar serving beers, wines and other drinks, as well as coffees made from their own ‘Feel Good Club’ house beans, made by local roasters Heart and Graft.

“It’s really really good, if I do say so myself,” says Kiera.

‘A space where people feel good’

As well as being a place to come and enjoy food and drink, the goal is to ‘to help people become the happiest versions of themselves’.

All the staff are trained to provide mental health support and people are welcome to speak to them about how they are feeling.

Kiera said: “For us, it’s about people coming into the space, they can come in without judgement, wherever they’re from, whoever they love.

“Our team are all mental health trained as well, so it’s kind of a place where you can come and be completely yourself. You can have some good food, some coffee or a beer.”

Throughout lockdown, the Feel Good Club hosted weekly live streams to help those who were struggling with their mental health.

Each week, Kiera and Amie invited artists, wellbeing coaches, fitness instructors and others to join them on Sundays from 9am to 5pm for a live stream all about self-care.

Even now, months later in the café, they are still getting people coming into the space and telling them how much this helped them during what was a really difficult time.

Kiera said: “Amie and I are very open and honest on social media, we’ve shared the whole story. So that people can see that we’re just two people who  had a goal and this is what we’ve been able to create.

“We kind of just want to inspire people to do what it is that they want to do.”

Natural light pours into the building

The space

The Feel Good Club is on the ground floor of Hilton House on Street which has been completely renovated over the past few months.

The large, open-plan space has been completely transformed with a fully-stocked bar tiled in pastel pink and a small shop stocking all the Feel Good Club merchandise.

Large windows run all the way along two sides of the space, looking out onto Port Street and Hilton Street.

There are lots of different seating options to choose from, bench seating by the window, individual tables, a sofa area with stools made from kegs, floor seating and two large cosy armchairs facing each other.

Kiera said: “The way that we’ve created it is to allow people to feel welcome and to sit and behave how they want to.”

A large greenhouse at the back of the space provides a private seating area for larger groups (up to six people under current guidelines).

On the walls, they will be showing work of a different local artist every few months. The café won’t take any profit from the exhibitions, it’s all about supporting local people.

Any sales made will be put into a Feel Good fund and will be given to the artist and their chosen charity.

What’s on

As well as the quarterly exhibitions, The Feel Good Club will host a programme of events which includes comedy evenings on the first Wednesday of the month.

Comedian, Harriet Dyer, who used to run Barking Tales at the Zombie Shack – a comedy night in Manchester all about mental health – will now be hosting her nights at The Feel Good Club.

There will also be open mic nights, candle making workshops, drawing clubs and more.

“I think when you get to a certain age, you kind of lose your passions, or you forget to try new things and we want to be that reminder for people that you can come in, you can do some drawing, you can meet new people.

“When Covid’s finished we’ve got some long tables where it’s going to be a table for people who specifically want to meet new people. And if you go and sit on that table, then it shows that you’re open to conversations with another person.”

Once they are able to, the venue will also host Freelance Fridays where people who work for themselves can come down, meet like minded people, support each other, share ideas and perhaps, where their businesses align, form partnerships too.

Open now

The Feel Good Club coffee house had its soft launch last weekend and has been open for takeaways Monday to Wednesday this week.

The official launch is on Saturday 17 October and they will be open from 8am to 6pm Monday to Wednesday, 9am to 9pm Thursday to Saturday and 10am to 4pm on Sunday.

For more information and updates, visit: instagram.com/wearefeelgoodclub.

Feel Good Club merchandise in store

The new Scandinavian restaurant in Prestwich run by a Michelin-trained chef

A Michelin-trained chef has opened a new restaurant in Prestwich, serving Scandinavian-inspired dishes in a relaxed setting.

Whitefield-born Danielle Heron is behind the new opening. The 28-year-old studied at Manchester College and went on to work in some of the best restaurants in the world including two Michelin-starred L’enclume in the Lake District and three Michelin-starred Maaemo in Oslo.

Now, Danielle has decided to come closer to home to open her first solo venture alongside co-owner Sofie Stoermann-Naess, who she met at Kolonihagen Frogner, a neighbourhood restaurant, also in Oslo.

Osma entrance. Photos by Adam Pester

OSMA has now been open for three weeks, but Danielle and Sofie had originally planned to open in May, receiving the keys to the restaurant on March 1.

Obviously lockdown happened, which stalled plans a little, but walking into the restaurant, there’s a real buzz about the place and it seems as though it has been worth the wait.

It is the latest new opening in Prestwich, adding to the increasingly impressive list of restaurants and bars, which is making the area a real destination for food and drink lovers.

Taking over what used to be the Diane Berry kitchen showroom in Prestwich, Osma’s interior more than lives up to its previous occupant’s vocation.

The restaurant is split into two parts. One side, the main dining area, has dark blue-green walls, floor to ceiling windows and a large black sharing table in the middle of the space, which has been split into sections to allow for social distancing.

Hovering above the table is a cloud of dried flowers, suspended by transparent thread so it really does appear to float.

The other side is light and airy with pastel coloured walls, pink and gold chairs, large booths and a long bar.

Ham & cheese toastie with onion and thyme jam & Gochujang mayo

A relaxed affair, the Scandinavian-inspired menu features a regularly changing selection of open sandwiches and fresh salads which cost between £7 and £8.50.

The open sandwiches are served on the infamous Pollen bakery bread with toppings such as; roast topside of beef with cucumber, crispy onions and horseradish; toasted rye with shrimps and soft boiled egg; and tuna marinated in roasted jalapeno.

The tuna is perfect, small cubes of fresh tuna loin, which is lightly smoky and spicy but not overpoweringly so. Served simply on toasted bread with a sprinkling of raddicchio leaves, it truly doesn’t need to be any more complicated than that.

Salads include spicy crab with coriander and edamame, confit chicken leg with romaine lettuce and a parmesan dressing, and baked beetroot with avocado and feta.

The ingredients of the salads are tossed together meaning that each bite contains the perfect amount of each and every element.

Three nights a week (Thursday to Saturday), OSMA operates as a ‘food-bar’ serving a frequently-changing menu of small plates, accompanied by funky wines and creative cocktails.

While the daytime menu sticks fairly closely to the Scandivian style, the dinner menu takes influence from a wide range of cuisines.

One of the dishes on the menu currently is ceviche, inspired by Danielle’s time in the Peruvian capital, Lima. They’ve also had Japanese-inspired dishes in the past.

Small plates – priced between £3.50 and £7 – include Pollen sourdough with whipped pork skin butter, mushroom carpaccio with truffle, cod karaage with homemade garlic mayo and roasted cauliflower steak.

Sample desserts include croissant bread and butter pudding and roasted plum crumble with crème anglaise (both £5).

Owners Danielle and Sofie said: “OSMA will use ingredients from local British farms and producers, showcasing their products in their purest form by letting each ingredient speak for itself.

Chef Danielle Heron preparing the soup

“Seasonality will naturally be a big part of how we design our menus and will influence the interior of the space.

“Our goal is to provide healthy, creative, tasty food with influences from around the world, building on the experiences we have gained over the years working and travelling.

“It’s great to be back home and see the buzz about the neighbourhood, which features plenty of independent restaurants. We are excited about getting going and serving the community some great food in a friendly, relaxed environment.”

“OSMA has been designed to attract every walk of life and offer something for everyone. You can dine at a window table, in booth seating or sit at the bar to watch the chefs working.

“We also have a large communal table with power points, perfect for a fast working lunch, as a social meeting table for cocktails or for larger groups out to celebrate.”

OSMA is open for breakfast and lunch Tuesday and Wednesday (8am to 5pm) and all day the rest of the week; 8am to 10pm Thursday and Friday; and 10am to 10pm Saturday and Sunday.

The space in Prestwich (ex-Furniture store) gets lots of natural light
The team wanted a large table for when communal eating returns

For more information and to view the full menu visit: osmakitchenbar.com

A look inside the newly refurbished Crown and Kettle

Northern Quarter pub, Crown and Kettle, has finally reopened for business following a beautiful refurbishment.

The pub has stood on the site since 1734 and the refurb has retained many of the features of the original building; notably the ceiling from 1800s. The tables, too, are the same as before, they’ve just had a good polish.

The back room to the pub with its open fire

It’s a wonderful mesh of the old and the new, traditional and contemporary, rough and polished; with freshly painted navy blue walls contrasting against exposed brick and wood panels.

The ceiling itself is an impressive spectacle, with large stone columns, which used to hold chandeliers, reaching down from intricately detailed ceiling roses.

Long traditional windows in the bar area stretch up towards the high ceiling, letting in tons of natural light, reflecting against shiny gold beer pumps and brass lamps. A wood burning fire and the dark walls makes for a very cosy seating area.

Crown and Kettle is now completely independent and is under the management of Alex Daw, who is behind arts venue Sidney & Matilda in Sheffield.

The free house has a rotating selection of 20 independent keg lines and six keg beers, with a focus on supporting regional and national indie brewers.

Parts of the refurb have involved stripping back parts of the pub to its original features

The pub can be found on the corner of Great Ancoats street and Oldham Road which, as you’ll know if you’ve walked, driven or existed around that part of town recently, has been hit pretty hard by roadworks. So much so, the pub is currently using a temporary entrance on Oldham Road.

Crown and Kettle is currently open from noon until 10pm every day with no bookings required.

For more information and updates, visit: instagram.com/thecrownandkettle.