Manchester rock bar Jimmy’s has launched a new fried chicken bottomless brunch deal and it features the most epic chip butty we’ve seen in some time.
Combining skin-on chips with serrated waffle fries – all piled high inside a soft white bun – it’s absolute carb-fest, served with even more chips on the side and a pot of sauce of your choosing (we went for chip shop curry sauce, and don’t mind telling you it’s up there with the best we’ve ever had).
The perfect stodgy filler-upper for a 90 minute session of non-stop cocktails, beer and spirit mixers, according to Jimmy’s owners this is a proper ‘working men’s’ chip butty – the antithesis of the much-lauded offering at their next door neighbours The Edinburgh Castle.
Image: The Manc Eats
This mega butty is priced at £5 on its own, but to make the most of it order it as part of the new fried chicken bottomless deal: which gives diners 90 minutes of non-stop drinks and any large dish of their choice for £35.
Served every Saturday between 12-5pm, drinks choices on the bottomless include the likes of Pornstar and espresso martinis, Aperol spritz and Jimmy’s lager, plus cider, pale ale, prosecco, and vodka, gin, whiskey and rum spirit mixers.
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Further mains options, meanwhile, include various sandwiches stuffed with buttermilk fried chicken and sauces like hot honey and blue cheese, plus a vegan-friendly ‘magic mushrooms’ version with karaage oyster mushroom, house slaw and Mrs Elwood pickles.
Doubling down on the fried chicken concept, there is also a dish of fried chicken, ice cream and waffles, plus a ‘light bites’ section with ‘chicken nugs’, ‘popcorn shrooms’, buttermilk fried chicken tenders and ‘cauliflower candy’.
All bottomless meals come served with skin-on fries, and if you’ve got room you can also opt to pay extra for a deep-fried chocolate bar pudding.
The cosy Peak District pub serving a pick’n’mix sausage and mash menu
Daisy Jackson
There’s a Peak District pub that’s turned one of Britain’s most beloved comfort foods into a full-on pick’n’mix.
Tucked away in the postcard-perfect village of Castleton, Ye Olde Nags Head is serving up a fully customisable menu of sausage and mash dishes.
We’re talking near-endless combinations of proper pub grub.
You start by choosing your sausages from a daily rotating selection (not a sentence you hear every day, but we’re into it).
Expect classics like Cumberland alongside more adventurous options like venison and mustard, or even wild boar and orange, plus a veggie sausage daily.
Then it’s onto the mash – you can go for flavours like cheese and onion, wholegrain mustard, or even black pudding mash.
Classic cumberland, mustard mash, and mushroom sauceVeggie sausage with cheese and onion mash and classic gravyTucking in
To finish? A choice of rich, hearty gravies and sauces to bring it all together, whether that’s a classic onion gravy, a peppercorn sauce, or a creamy wild mushroom sauce.
And if that wasn’t enough, you can even upgrade your bangers and mash pick’n’mix by having it all served inside a giant Yorkshire pudding.
Ye Olde Nags Head is a historic 17th-century pub, with a roaring fire in every room and cosy bedrooms upstairs.
Inside Ye Olde Nags Head pub in the Peak DistrictYe Olde Nags Head pub is near Mam Tor
It’s one of those flagstone-floored, beamed-ceilinged, mismatched-furniture type pubs that welcomes everyone in every state, whether you’re caked in mud from a hike or popping in on a coach tour.
Another of the pub’s specialties is the Derbyshire Breakfast, a hearty plate of sausage, smoked bacon, black pudding, free range egg, grilled tomatoes, field mushrooms, baked beans and fried bread.
The pub also offers takeaway breakfast butties, so you can use it for both a pre-hike stop and a post-hike pint.
Given it’s just minutes from the ever-popular Mam Tor hike, this is one pub you’ll definitely want to add to your next Peak District day out itinerary.
The hillside farm in the Peak District making its own ice cream
Daisy Jackson
Did you know there’s a 300-year-old farm in the Peak District serving up some of the freshest ice cream you’ll ever taste? And yes, you can meet the cows that made it while you’re there.
Welcome to Hope Valley Ice Cream, a family-run gem where things are kept refreshingly simple: happy cows, proper farming, and seriously good ice cream.
Set in the heart of the Peak District countryside, this place is about as wholesome as it gets.
The ice cream is made on-site in the farmhouse, literally just metres from where the dairy herd are out grazing.
You can watch the animals, wander around the farm, and then tuck into a scoop or three perched on a milk pail stool, or a picnic bench (or even a decorative tractor).
Hope Valley Ice Cream has some amazing seasonal ice creams, like lemon curd, elderflower, and blackberry, alongside all the classics and a rather delicious tiramisu.
You can grab a cone, sit down with a coffee (again, made with milk from the nearby cows), or go all in with a freshly-made waffle if you’re feeling fancy.
Takeaway tubs from Hope Valley Ice CreamYou can get a mini pail of ice creamMeet the newborn calves at Hope Valley Ice CreamTuck into your ice cream on a milk pail stoolHope Valley Ice Cream
And if you’re the type who really loves ice cream? You can actually order a full pail of it, with four huge scoops plus whipped cream and sauce.
The farm itself is run by the Marsden family, who’ve been working this land for generations. It shows in everything – they’ve created a place that feels genuinely welcoming, not just another tourist stop.
Beyond the ice cream, you’ve got plenty of reasons to stick around. There are calves (including the newest tiny arrivals), plus donkeys and pigs to say hello to.
Whether you’re heading out on a hike or just fancy a drive into the Peaks, this is one pitstop that’s absolutely worth it – and honestly, it’s worth the trip on its own.
Georgina Pellant -
30th March 2023 
