Takeaway land in Greater Manchester is vast, diverse and highly populated.
One tap on the Deliveroo app and we’re abruptly inundated with dozens of delicious-looking food joints jostling for our appetites.
The Friday food order is invariably the first headache selection of the night (with the task of deciding on a Netflix movie coming later).
The trick for takeaways, of course, is to stand out from the crowd. And Icon Burgers seems to have found an excellent way in which to do exactly that.
This a restaurant that flips the concept of a typical burger on its head – from the ingredients used right down to the cooking process.
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The menu is populated by utterly unique dishes such the Green Burger – containing CBD with cannabis leaf; the Deep Fried Cheeseburger – prepared exactly how it sounds; and a Cheetoz Flamin Hot Burga – borrowing flavours from the fiery cheesy snack.
There’s also the 1 on 1 Burger which combines chicken with beef; the Double Bluff that hits the spot for vegans; and the Philly Cheese Steak and Shredded Beef Steak items which take inspiration from cuisine across the world.
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Indeed, Icon Burgers is seemingly one of the most truly global restaurants in Manchester – bringing in its top-quality sauce from Belgium; brioche buns from France; and internationally-imported drinks and sweets.
The brand itself was actually born on the other side of the pennines, but has now branched out following a wildly successful chapter in Huddersfield – setting up shop at Brickhouse Social on New Wakefield Street in Manchester city centre.
All the patties are made using 35-day dry aged Black Angus, with Icon promising a recipe that is ‘impossible to replicate’.
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The restaurant also offers an American-style desserts menu with all items freshly-baked to order – including quarter pound cookies oozing with gooey chocolate and trans-Atlantic candies which can be made into real American Milkshakes.
“Since bringing Icon to Manchester we have seen an immense buzz on social media, and on the ordering platforms,” say the owners.
Easy to see why.
There’s no other burger place in Manchester quite like this.
Icon Burgers is open from 5pm-11pm Sunday to Thursday and 5pm to 2am on Friday and Saturday.
Available on UberEats, Deliveroo, and via phone orders for collections.
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New Manchester restaurant receives rave review as another is slammed as ‘torture’
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.”
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.
The Manc -
12th February 2021 
