The city of Dubai is renowned globally for its brunch scene – and now a dining experience inspired by it is coming to Manchester.
The Dubai Brunch Project will be a bottomless brunch filled with glitz and glamour, plus party anthems, top DJs and live percussion.
The elevated experience will be coming to Motley Manchester, the restaurant and bar space within the beautiful Yotel on Deansgate.
Dubai – which attracts the rich and famous year-round – is famed for its brunches, where thousands flock to eat eggs, pancakes, fruit and more.
Motley’s new weekly Dubai Brunch Project hopes to get the party started every weekend throughout summer.
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The first themed brunch will kick off on Friday 28 July, between 4pm and 8pm, and Saturday 29 July from 11.30am to 4pm.
They say it will feature ‘back-to-back high-energy entertainment and Instagrammable moments, making it the hottest ticket in town’.
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Manchester-based music producer and international DJ, Brett Wild will be soundtracking the brunches, alongside entertainment by LED saxophonists Tommy Sax and Caitlin Laing.
Motley Manchester will soon host Dubai-inspired bottomless brunches. Credit: Supplied
Brunch dishes on offer will include burger tacos, chicken and egg waffles, and a full breakfast.
Bottomless drinks included are frozen cocktails like the refreshing Vimtonic, blended with BACARDÍ, summer berries, coconut, lemon and Vimto, or the Candyfloss-topped Sugar Baby with lychee, BACARDÍ rum, bubblegum and prosecco, plus other selected drinks.
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Tickets are priced at £40 per person, which includes one brunch dish, live DJs, entertainment, and bottomless drinks for 90 minutes.
Motley is located on the ground floor of Yotel Manchester Deansgate.
The Motley Dubai Brunch Project takes place on Friday 28 July from 4 – 8pm, and on Saturday, 29 July from 11:30am – 4pm
New Manchester restaurant receives rave review as another is slammed as ‘torture’
Daisy Jackson
Pip, a new restaurant in Manchester, has received a rave national review this week – a review which slammed another restaurant in the same feature.
Food critic William Sitwell wrote in his review in The Telegraph that Pip is charming, refined, and fabulous.
“Bravo, Pip. Pip pip!” he wrote in the glowing write-up on the new restaurant, which stands at the foot of the new Treehouse Hotel and has the acclaimed Mary-Ellen McTague at its helm.
Sitwell’s Telegraph review particularly raved about dishes including Lancashire hot pot (‘fabulously good’), a wild garlic soup (‘a gorgeous thing’), and an apple trifle (‘a gift from heaven’).
But while it was all good for Pip, there were significantly less positive adjectives heaped on another restaurant in Manchester.
In fact, he said that Pip is ‘a great-value tonic’ for the ‘brash (and pricey) torture’ across town.
That restaurant was KAJI, formerly known as MUSU, which he said was ‘all tummies, bald heads, tattoos and heat’.
Sitwell said that while the service and sashimi are good at KAJI, the ‘place is afflicted by some overbearing cooking that cheapens the noble name of Japanese cuisine’.
He wrote: “Lamb chops fail the tender test and are properly wrecked sitting on a vulgar pond of sticky “tomato ponzu”. No beast should die to have that stuff squirted anywhere near it.
“And Kaji is a Japanese gaff without sake. Which is like opening a British pub in Tokyo and forgetting to put an ale on tap.”
Sharing the review, Pip wrote: “Thankyou @telegraph and @williamsitwell for the fantastic feature. We’re so proud of our team here.”
Milk Maids, Bolton – The family-run ice cream parlour on an award-winning farm
Daisy Jackson
Ice cream doesn’t come much fresher than those served at Milk Maids – in fact, you’ll be standing right on the family farm where the cows that produce the milk live, as you tuck into your scoop.
This unassuming dairy farm in Bolton has been in operation for decades, and in the same family for generations.
But it’s when sisters Fiona and Rebecca saw the full potential of all that award-winning milk being produced on their farm that Milk Maids was born.
This ice cream parlour on Dearden’s Farm in Over Hulton is now one of the hottest spots in Greater Manchester, especially when the weather is similarly hot.
Every month they release a whole batch of flavours, all made fresh daily (you can literally see Fiona legging it across the yard with buckets of milk to make fresh batches), with May specials including white chocolate and sea salt caramel, raspberry cookie, and passionfruit pavlova.
Milk Maids, Bolton – The family-run ice cream parlour on an award-winning farm
Cones can be filled with molten chocolate or pistachio creme before your ice cream is scooped and pressed into the cone.
Or you can have your chosen flavour whizzed up into a milkshake, served in a milk bun, or presented in an insulated take-home box for later.
We could wax lyrical about how good this ice cream is, but the queues really do speak for themselves, and you should go and get in it right now.
Daisy Jackson -
20th July 2023 
