Belting breakfast freshly cooked and included a nice cuppa, fast service, great staff, easy parking.read more

Perfect road side greasy fry up place! They do a mega barm which is perfect for hangovers! Really…read morecheap and staff are fab!

A very average layout for a coffee shop. Not the most welcoming but apart from that all the usual…read moregoodies.

I called at Costa on Portland Street as it is in a rather good location, it is close to Piccadilly…read moreGardens and it is on the way to Piccadilly Railway Station, next to Tesco. I encounted many errors with both my visits here, sadly feeling this branch of Costa deserves a one-star rating. 1. Opening Hours The branch closes earlier to the times on the Costa website and the app. This meant there was a one hour window where I could order a drink, and not be able to go in which happened to me. It took me ringing the store to be able to get the drink I had ordered and paid for. Awful planning 2. Seating Despite this being an average sized Costa, a similar size to the store at the bottom of Market Street, they do not offer any seating right now which is a shame. Costa's smaller store in Spinningfields offers seating so I can't understand why this doesn't right now, I can't understand the logic that some stores can do it and others can't, especially when this is bigger than Spinningfields. 3. Beverage Quality Both my drinks on two seperate occasions were awful. The Strawberry Lemonade had a funny taste to it, and so did the Iced Mocha which just tasted ransid, considering I normally love the Iced Mocha nearby at Black Sheep Coffee, who reopened recently that is a shame too. It seems I have so many bad experiences at Costa and there are few good branches, sadly this isn't one of the good ones. 1*

Nice enough Starbucks if a little soulless. Staff are friendly though…read more They have a few Vegan options now. The Vegan salad is OK but the Vegan Mac n Cheese is great as are the Vegan cakes.

The produce is always really tasty, but it's quite pricey and often so busy that you have to queue…read morefor a while, so not great for nipping out for a quick bite on your lunch break. However, if you have a bit of time and don't mind paying for quality, definitely the best bakery around, with a wide range of produce, and friendly staff.

fabulous food love the cornish roll. its a defo must :)read more

Great find in Liverpool for the healthy conscious and vegan/vegetarian folks, or anyone in general!…read moreThis is such a cute little restaurant where the food is delicious and the staff are welcoming and very friendly. Their drinks are fantastic! They have a wide range of food options and they don't disappoint. They also sell desserts, sweets and little knickknacks. The atmosphere is very nice and the service is on point that we keep returning. Not to mention prices are reasonable. I highly recommend give it a try!

This place had been on my radar for a couple years now, but being at least a 20 min drive away, my…read morelazy pants hadn't made the journey until recently. The food is The BEST. Having been vegan for 3 years and a great fan of breakfast food I had been on a quest for a breakfast that rivals a great full English. Ladies and gentlemen here it is and you shall not be disappointed. Tasty and filling just what you need from a wonderful fry up. The coffee is hot and fresh out the kitchen, a perfect accompaniment to wash down the terrific Scran. The interior is quirky and welcoming and the staff warm and attentive. Don't delay your trip here because believe me it's worth it.

Great night here for bf's birthday…read more We started in the downstairs pub area and bf tried some of the ale brewed in the basement, which he said was very good. The bar staff and manager were really friendly and also nice to each other, which gave an overall very positive impression of how the Clarence is run. Upstairs in the attractive restaurant area we were seated by the window and were quickly approached for our drinks order by the server who was brilliant throughout the meal. She was very pleasant and efficient and gave me helpful advice on what to order. We started with the generous-sized black pudding and leek croquettes with a pear and porter sauce which bf loved. Next up I had the roe deer and bf had strip steak. Bf extremely happy with the steak and also commented that the chips were "American standard." I ate most of his perfectly cooked greens. My own dish was really interesting - it was cooked perfectly and also featured a little pie which I was not expecting! The menu has many good points. It's varied both in type of dish and price, so you can come for a special occasion or weekday dinner. It features local elements like the Bury black pudding. It has a good range of steaks. And it has more unusual dishes like the roe deer, venison in my experience being comparatively rare on Manchester menus. Drinks-wise, we enjoyed the light Sauvignon Blanc rose and some kind of delicious port-like dessert wine which was basically like drinking raisins without the plastic aftertaste. Unfortunately we did not get to sample the cocktail bar as it is only open Fridays and Saturdays but bf says it is v nice and if you dine you can normally get in for drinks, even though it's otherwise members only (£250 a year). Will have to return for that, and also for the great-sounding Sunday lunch! Overall well worth a little excursion to Bury and a no-brainer if you're in the area. Only word of caution is that there may not be a lot of choice for vegetarians, so check menu on website before you go.

The best Sunday Roast in North Manchester!!…read more Such a lovely pub, it's hard to believe that i've lived a few miles from here all my life and have never tried it. Downstairs is a traditional pub and a few tables. I can imagine it gets very busy at the weekend. The restaurant, upstairs, is lovely and very large. After looking at the menu, it was clear that the sunday roast was going to be the winner, so i opted for the beef Sunday roast with yorkshire pudding and all the veg! We also ordered cauliflower cheese on the side as an extra. Overall i couldn't fault the meal. It was excellent and the service was impeccable too!

Ugh DO NOT GO HERE. Everything about this place was frustrating. It looks super cute from the…read moreoutside and my friends and I were super excited about trying it out, but the experience was terrible. First, the service is meh. Our server was kind of moody and did not engage with us in conversation... I get that people have bad days, but your job is service... you can't not do your job. Second, they cook your food to order, which is a nice concept, but in reality doesn't work because then you have people waiting for over an HOUR for their food. Also, people who arrived after us were served before us... what's with that? Third, after waiting for over an hour (we were starving at this point), we finally get our food and... there's not much. For the price and time waiting for the food, it was extremely disappointing. I definitely was not full after one dish and we ended up going to the grocery store across the street to grab a snack. The service was bad, the food wasn't exceptional in any way - it wasn't filling or tasty, I definitely recommend NOT going here. P.S. I double check that this was the right restaurant by looking across multiple platforms (google, their website, etc.)

Staying on a sixties and seventies note, Soul Cafe is a fab independent cafe that's clearly in…read morethrall to the great voices of soul. There's old record sleeves, photos and soul memorabilia plastered all over the walls and you can expect to hear everyone from Aretha Franklin, Al Green and Bettye LaVette to Dusty Springfield flowing from the stereo. The sweet soul vibes extends to the staff - who couldn't be friendlier and more accommodating if they tried. I knocked a glass of fresh orange juice over on my last visit and they simply laughed, mopped it up and replaced it - for free. To top it off, the food and drink at Soul Cafe is cheap and cheerful and includes everything from great all day breakfasts to burgers, sandwiches, salads and fish and chips. Of course, I'd prefer the menu to include southern fried chicken, collard greens and cornbread - but this is Liverpool not Memphis!

Delicious is one of many little sandwich shops down Wavertree High Street - I've often thought it…read morewould be so cool and chilled out to own one of these places, open up for the morning and lunchtime in a really chilled out and local environment, then shut up for the afternoon. Anyway, back to Delicious - and if I'm honest, it is pretty delicious! I've been in a few times in the past, but I'll give you an account of my trip this morning. I went along, 10am on a Sunday morning to get some brekkie before heading to sunbathe and Yelp in the park. I walked in and was browsing the menu which does seem a little complicated... so I asked how much it was for a bacon roll. After a lot of deliberating and looking at the menu, the woman seemed to make up a price at £2.40. In the end, I ordered two sausage and bacon rolls which came to a total of £5.20. I was asked if I wanted any sauce on my rolls, I asked for ketchup on mine (I'm one of those people that has ketchup on everything!), but I forgot to mention that I didn't want butter which was a shame because when I bit into it, it was laden with the stuff. Gutted. The bacon and sausage were cooked fresh, which makes a change for a little sandwich shop. The roll was yummy - just a shame about the butter. They provide a wide range of stuff such as all day breakfasts, seafood, pasta salads, baguettes, toasties, paninis and serve coffee, all at a pretty good price and the portions are good too. Delicious!