I don't know, I'm sure someone told me they'd opened up in a proper unit. I hope I've not made it up.

Rapha has opened up in Manchester now too I think, if thats anyones thing. Got a coffee shop in there too I heard.

Walked past last week and it's just a coffee bike in a shop with two very bored assistants on their phones.

Theres an exhibition space on the floor above however, not sure if its a coffee spot with an exhibition space or an exhibition space with a small coffee bar at the bottom.

Popped into Rapha too on the opening day, pretty cool spot. Filled with tones of tiny little rapha/cycling references, (as expected) old jerseys, art, books etc some of which i would of completely missed had the geezer in there called vince not pointed them out to me. Ground floor bike storage and a little espresso bar, 1st is the store and cafe, 2nd exhibition space. Worth checking out, was told theres a number of club cycles throughout the week and plenty on offer throughout the year. I'm not huge on the cycling myself but found it interesting nonetheless. Good job imo

NQ is pretty well covered for coffee so makes some sense. They must've made decent money off that ridiculous pod if they're opening a shop as well already.

My mate is an architect for Arup and designed that arch with the glass. Fucking billions going into the train station projects in Manchester, coffee on the trains will still taste like piss though

Agree re ManCon but it is good to keep up to date with openings. Seems like new bars are opening constantly.

Don't forget Grindsmith was partly crowd funded, its just two chaps who really know Coffee and have invested massive amounts of time and effort.

The Great Northern area is also massively improved from the days of Teasers, Squares, Relish and Brannigans!

Fuck that, i never go in a food gaff if i see the servers/chef on the salmons outside when im on my way in. I hit reverse immediately

Anyone off to Indy Man beer thing at the Victoria Baths? No idea if there are many beer bores on here.

I suggest Manchester Airport's viewing park

All summed up on the previous few pages

They're filming on king street today if anyones about there. Turned it into 1930s NY for Genius starring Colin Firth. Looks good.

In fact a lot of parking is suspended around the city because they're filming in so many locations.