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.
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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.
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.
Georgina Pellant -
30th March 2023 
