First, it came to Burton Road to wow us with its beetroot hummus and avocado feta toast, then it opened a brunch cafe and wine bar on Stevenson Square selling some of the fittest French toast in town.
Now, the team behind Another Heart to Feed has its sights set on a new project as its plans to open a new bar opposite Ramona on Swan Street are revealed.
Called The Wayfarer, plans seen by The Manc suggest it will not look dissimilar from another of the restaurant group’s neighbouring bars, The Freemount, with a green-tiled exterior and covered outdoor seating for al fresco drinking and dining on warmer nights.
Located just around the corner, if plans are successful new bar opening The Wayfarer will take over the former Mecanica unit which is located on the corner of Oldham Street and Swan Street.
Designs by studio RECOM Solutions show a mixture of green tiling and floor-to-ceiling black windows, with wooden benches stretching the length of the exterior down both roads – suggesting this will be quite the suntrap drinking destination when summer arrives.
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Croissant French toast at Another Heart To Feed. / Image: AHTF
Image: Another Heart To Feed
However, it does not seem that a licensing application has been submitted to Manchester City Council yet so, whilst the plans look impressive, the new opening may be a while off still.
RECOM is also currently working on the opening of Pot Kettle Black’s new customer bakery and coffee shop, Half Dozen Other, which is set to open in the Red Bank Arches later this year.
The team is working on converting a 4,500 sq ft warehouse into an artisan cafe and bakery serving freshly-baked breads, sweet and savoury Veniosserie, focaccias, cakes and modern takes on traditional favourites, with a design that will allow customers to see the magic taking place in the bakehouse kitchen.
Half Dozen Other will soon join a growing number of independent food outlets in the area, as its ten neighbouring arches have just been bought by The Arch Company which intends to spend £4m converting them into restaurants and shops.
Featured image – RECOM Solutions
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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.
Georgina Pellant -
18th April 2023 
