One of Manchester’s bowling alley bars has launched a keg filled with cocktails in time for Easter.
The Easter K’egg comes from Lane7, which opened at the Great Northern Warehouse last May.
The huge vessel is filled with a whopping three litres of Cosmopolitan, the drink made especially famous by the hit TV show Sex and the City.
Each limited-edition keg has around 24 servings of the cocktail, which is made with Grey Goose vodka, cranberry juice, triple sec and fresh lime juice.
The Easter K’egg at Lane7. Credit: Supplied
The grown-up Easter treat is priced at £120 and geared towards groups (obviously), working out £5 per cocktail.
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Lane7 is home to beer pong tables, shuffle boards, interactive darts and shooting pods, as well as bowling lanes.
Graeme Smith, chief operating officer at Lane7 Group, said: “Part of the joy of spring and Easter is the opportunity to get out with friends and families. Normally Easter Eggs are reserved for children, but we thought we’d create something for the big kids to enjoy.
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Great Northern Warehouse. Credit: Facebook, Great Northern Warehouse Manchester
“At Lane7, we try to bring a unique spin on much-loved activities – be it bowling, UV ping pong, and now Easter eggs.”
It’s part of the Great Northern Warehouses’s wider Easter celebrations, which has seen many of the independent businesses launch special food deals.
Alex’s Bakery will be creating a Mini Egg Easter Cake, while Dormouse Chocolates will be serving a Bunny Snacks Bar flavoured with cinnamon and carrot-flavoured white chocolate. The chocolatier also makes its Eggs on Toast Bar – bread and butter milk chocolate topped with a white chocolate fried ‘egg’.
There’ll be an Easter egg hunt at newcomer gaming bar Pong & Puck, with hidden eggs concealing prizes like a £100 bar tab.
The Easter K’egg will be available at Lane7 in Manchester until Easter Monday – you can pre-order it one at Lane7.co.uk or email [email protected] quoting Easter K’egg.
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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.
Daisy Jackson -
13th April 2022 
