Salford is set to welcome a new Mediterranean cafe and wine bar this autumn with the opening of Kallos.
The beautiful new spot is taking shape in Cortland at Colliers Yard, a stylish new residential development near Manchester Victoria.
Kallos will be specialising in all-day, high-quality Greek and Mediterranean food, whether you’re after a relaxed brunch or an evening drink.
Founded by hospitality professionals Ionna Antoniou and Ivan Milchev, the restaurant will be decorated to feel like you’re sitting on a street-side restaurant in Mykonos.
White walls, stone floors, accents of blue, natural wood and vintage elements will do a good job of bringing Santorini to Salford.
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Kallos’ brunch menu will be split into sections, featuring traditional pastries like Spanakopita and Tiropita, dishes served on sourdough, and those on freshly in-house made pita bread.
As night falls there’ll be meze selections, from classic Greek dips to charcuterie boards to traditional dishes like feta in filo, Saganaki, and Keftedes.
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It’ll all be about simple small dishes using great products, served alongside wines from Greece and the Mediterranean basin.
Ioanna and Ivan collectively boast 20 years of experience in the industry, with Ivan having spent three years as a head sommelier.
Kallos is a stylish new Greek cafe and wine bar opening in Salford. Credit: Supplied
Ivan said: “The name Kallos was inspired by the ancient Greek word for beauty, which perfectly encapsulates the essence of this café and wine bar for us.
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“It’s not just about the aesthetics but also the experiences shared and the hospitality offered, which we see as a real priority.
“The beauty (Kallos) is about shared laughter, the stories exchanged and the connections made.”
Ioanna said: “Kallos Café & Wine Bar has been a dream of ours for a long time coming and we’re so excited to turn it into a reality this autumn.
“We wanted to create a venue focused on hospitality, a relaxed atmosphere, an all-day offering and a menu serving the authentic Greek and Mediterranean food.
“All-day cafes are incredibly popular in Greece, and we want to create that ambience in Manchester. We hope you like it as much as we do!”
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 -
23rd September 2024 
