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TikTok foodies Spudbros confirm location for FIRST EVER Manchester site

One more reason why potatoes are the best veg.

Thomas Melia Thomas Melia - 28th January 2025

Spudbros have announced plans for new sites and they’re bringing their TikTok famous jacket potatoes to Manchester for the first time ever.

The streets of Manchester are about to get a whole lot carbier as the much-acclaimed and well-loved Spudbros have just revealed the location of their latest site, right here in our town centre.

Already admired by thousands every day who queue up in Preston town centre, now the capital of the North is set to be the next venture for a Spudbros’ hot potato truck.

It’s more than guaranteed that this branch in our bustling city centre is destined to be a smash as street food is practically our middle name.

There’s also some big expectations to fill as online, you can see masses of people waiting in line to get a taste of their famed potato offerings. If you can get us weather-complaining Northerners standing outside, you must be good.

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Jacob Nelson, who is one half of the viral potato loving Spudbros, revealed on Instagram back in January: “This is the first time that you guys are going to hear it but the Spudbros are franchising out”.

He explained: “We have got a few stores opening up around the UK, Manchester is one of them in the North West area.”

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Initially, this news came off the back of the closure of Manchester foodie staple Almost Famous, as the Preston potato van co-owner offered his condolences and jobs to those who worked for the burger chain.

However now, this burger institution has since re-opened and it seems Spudbros and Almost Famous both get the opportunity to shine bright within our city centre.

In a TikTok video posted just yesterday, the pair can be seen sneaking around their new site in Manchester which looks like the Bloc building just off Market Street, possibly the old and much-loved Philpotts cafe site.

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Spudbros are loved by millions online with more than three million followers and this isn’t their first rodeo branching outside of their home comforts in Preston.

Jacob and Harley Nelson, the masterminds and real life brothers behind Spudbros, also have a location in Soho, London, under the name ‘Spudbros Express’, which launched last month in December.

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The Preston duo are switching up their tried and trusted potato van method for a unit just off Market Street and with a location so central to the city centre, it will certainly go down a treat.

A date for the opening of the latest Spudbros location is yet to be revealed but rest assured Mancs will definitely be walking around town with some carby goodness in the next few months.

It’s almost like you can get a whiff of their gorgeous cheese and bean jackets already…

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A pub in Stockport has launched a full Scotch egg menu

Daisy Jackson Daisy Jackson A pub in Stockport has launched a full Scotch egg menu

It’s one of the world’s greatest snacks, especially when paired with a decent pint – and now a local pub is doing a whole Scotch egg menu.

The Davenport Arms over in Stockport is running a ‘Scotch Egg Week’, with a whole host of different Scotch eggs.

There’s even a dessert one, made with a Creme Egg instead of a real one.

The historic pub, which is known locally as The Thief’s Neck (and displays both names on its signs), is filled with cosy corners and snug rooms.

It’s an independently-run pub that operates under the Robinson’s Brewery family, with beers brewed just down the road in Stockport.

And now the local boozer is doing a full menu of homemade Scotch eggs, for one week only, each served with the perfect condiment.

There’ll be ‘The Classic’, where pork meat is wrapped around a perfect jammy-yolked egg, served with house piccalilli.

The Manchester Egg
The Manchester Egg
A classic Scotch egg
A classic Scotch egg
The Davenport Arms, known locally as The Thief's Neck
The Davenport Arms, known locally as The Thief’s Neck
Inside the pub
Inside the pub

Or you can get the much-loved Manchester egg, which features black pudding and a pickled Scotch egg, served with mustard mayo on the side.

Fish fans can grab a smoked haddock Scotch egg served with a curried mayo.

And for vegetarians, there’s one made with cheese and onion instead of meat, served with a house tomato relish.

There’s even a sweet one – a Creme Egg encased in brownie mix, and then wrapped in a Biscoff crumb, served with ice cream.

And if you really can’t decide, The Davenport Arms will do you a full platter of all of the above, for £29.95.

The Scotch Egg menu is available from Monday 30 March until Saturday 4 April and you can see more HERE.

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One of Manchester’s grandest restaurants has finally reopened TWO YEARS after fire

Daisy Jackson Daisy Jackson Mount Street Dining Room & Bar in The Midland hotel is finally back open

One of the most historic restaurants in Manchester has reopened at last, two years after a fire forced its closure.

Mount Street Dining Room & Bar – which many of us may remember as Mr Cooper’s – stands within the Grade II-listed Midland Hotel.

The grand dining room dates all the way back to 1903, when it opened with the hotel as the Grill Room.

The restaurant was at the epicentre of the Industrial Revolution and was frequented by railway travellers, perhaps best-known for hosting a lunch between Charles Rolls and Henry Royce in 1904, who went on to form the world-famous Rolls-Royce brand.

The Midland’s restaurants has gone through several changes in the decades since, undergoing a major £14 million refurb in 2020 to relaunch as Mount Street Dining Room & Bar.

Its interiors are inspired by the hotel’s early 1900s art deco and railway heritage, with a menu that focuses on locally-sourced British produce.

But the restaurant has been shut since early 2024, when a fire damaged the entrance and trellising around its main entrance on Mount Street.

The beautiful bar area
The beautiful bar area
A glimpse of the menu at Mount Street
A glimpse of the menu at Mount Street
Cocktails and British food
Cocktails and British food

The Midland has finally managed to get the restaurant back open again this month, with a new food and cocktail menus, which aims to offer refined but simple British dining.

Expect dishes like pork and black pudding bonbons, white onion soup with crispy potatoes, smoked British salmon with lemon gel and dill mascarpone, and slow cooked beef daube with confit garlic mash.

Plus desserts such as rice pudding with Anise glazed pears and Bakewell pudding with cherry syrup.

It’s been a long time since we’ve seen inside this beautiful, storied dining room – and it looks just as beautiful as we remember.

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