Late-night legends Insomnia Cookies are offering an exciting new promotion that’s not for the faint-hearted or those who want to keep their skin unmarked; they are genuinely offering free cookies for life to anyone who comes and gets a tattoo.
Taking place for one day only later this week, as well as serving up their irresistible hot and cold treats, Insomnia Cookies will be offering people who truly love the brand, their baked goods, or just freebies in general, a chance to earn themselves cookies for life.
It really is about as simple as it sounds – there’s no catch, you simply have to be in the right place at the right time and willing to get a random cookie-related tattoo on your body, of course.
If you or someone you know is covered in seemingly random designs anyway, this is nothing short of a golden opportunity.
Insomnia has teamed up with city centre parlour Rain City Tattoo Collective, based over in Chinatown, to deliver the exciting crossover promotion to Mancs after some new ink and a lifetime supply of complimentary cookies.
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The offer – fittingly titled ‘Till Death Dough Us Part’ (very good) – has been set up to promote their new loyalty card app, where you can grab rewards when you buy cookies, ice cream sandwiches, hot chocolate and more.
In fact, even before you go right ahead and get a tattoo, you can score a new member bonus and earn yourself one deluxe cookie by simply signing up for the rewards scheme.
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Customers can earn a whopping 10 points for every £1 spent and a classic cookie awaits you at just 250 points. You can download the app HERE.
As for the official Insomnia tattoo that will score those cookies for life, you can see the different designs that you can choose from down below:
So how does it work? Well, the offer is only available from their Fallowfield store on Sunday, 18 August from 11am until close.
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The free Insomnia Cookies for life tattoo offer will be strictly first come, first serve, and you’d be a fool if you think you’re the only person who will be queuing up for this one, so we’d advise being there bright and early.
But fear not, even if you end up missing out, you can always order yourself some of their exclusive temporary tattoos to claim your free box of four cookies until Monday, 19 August.
You can find the full terms and conditions HERE, but if you don’t mind getting a cute little cookie-based tattoo somewhere on your person, stunning scenes like these could be in your future:
Featured Images — The Manc Group/Insomnia Cookies (supplied)
Eats
A fancy new pizzeria has opened in Manchester serving posh pizzas and seasonal sharing plates
Clementine Hall
If you’ve ever wanted a pizza with smoked eel on, then you’re in luck.
Introducing Proloco, the brand spanking new restaurant from chef Richard Carver, founder of Honest Crust Sourdough Pizza, and Dan Hope, co-founder of Manchester club Rainy Heart.
Located in One Port Street over in Ancoats, this isn’t your bog standard pizzeria – this is lavish.
Here you’ll find a weekly rotating selection of 18-inch pizzas and sharing plates all made with the very best local produce imaginable.
Forget your bog standard pepperoni slice, on the menu here you’ll find a porchetta pizza with shishito peppers and Cornish kern, a charred greens pizza with sugar snap peas and anchovies, and our personal favourite – a smoked eel pie with lemon basil and pine nuts.
There’s also a tomato butter pie, which features slithers of butter in place of your usual mozzarella.
And if you just can’t decide, you can have your pizza as a half-and-half of flavours.
Sharing plates include tomatoes with lardo, roasted beetroot and a crispy egg with mortadella and fennel.
A half-and-half pizzaBeautiful interiors of ProlocoThe butter pie pizzaSmall plates, wine, and £7 negroniProloco opens on Great Ancoats Street in AugustScoops of homemade gelatoProloco’s open kitchenThe eel pizza at Proloco
A real selling point, though, is the £7 negroni alongside a selection of honest wine and carefully chosen beer from local suppliers as well as an aperitivo list.
The interior is simple, but beautiful – a colour palette of butter yellow, blue, and huge burgundy speakers to match the chairs that invite you to sit at long banquet-worthy tables or in front of the many windows.
Richard will be calling on his longstanding relationships with producers across the North West (and beyond) for his ingredients, from flour grown and milled in the Lake District, vegetables from Cinderwood Market Garden and Organic North, artisanal charcuterie and cheeses from Somerset, and the best tomatoes and oil from Italy.
He said: “Proloco is about cooking food I genuinely love with the best people and produce around me.
“I want it to feel effortless – warm, a little bit fun, and always worth coming back to.”
Proloco will officially open its doors on Great Ancoats Street on Wednesday 26 August.
Team behind award-winning cocktail bar Stray to open second Manchester bar
Daisy Jackson
The team behind Manchester’s award-winning cocktail bar Stray have announced a second bar is on the way.
Bar Dos will be an all-new neighbourhood bar, promising to be the ‘tearaway younger sibling’ of Stray.
You can expect everything from pints of Stella to refined cocktails, plus DJs all weekend long.
Set to open very soon, with a September launch pencilled into our diaries already, Bar Dos will be joining a couple of other big names in a new building on Great Ancoats Street.
They’ll count Proloco and Osma as neighbours once all three ventures are up and running this year.
Stray first opened at Mackie Mayor back in 2023, and shot into the UK’s Top 50 Cocktail Bars just over a year later.
Bar Dos will open in Manchester in SeptemberBar Dos is the second site for Stray
There, it occupies a beautiful corner unit with huge windows, and an outside terrace, perfect for sipping on their best-selling cocktails like their tomato vine margarita and their Fanta Limon (a boozy version of everyone’s favourite balcony tipple).
Now ready to launch a second site, the team will soon open Bar Dos, which will be a late-night, music-focused neighbourhood bar.
DJs already announced, along with renowned artists who have curated playlists, include Space Afrika, Chunky, Private Joy, Konnie Kon of Children of Zeus, and Stray residents Rhod Parry and Stu Richards.
Bar Dos will open on Great Ancoats Street this September.
Danny Jones -
14th August 2024 
