New ‘Trapbox’ restaurant in Manchester will serve waffles, chicken and seafood
202 Kitchen launched in the Midlands earlier this year and is set to cut the ribbon for its second branch on Bridge Street, Manchester on Friday 21 August.
A brand new ‘trapbox’ bar and restaurant concept, 202 Kitchen, has announced it will open in Manchester later this month.
202 Kitchen launched in the Midlands earlier this year and is set to cut the ribbon for its second branch on Bridge Street on Friday 21 August.
Sporting a bright pink backdrop, the venue will focus on serving ‘trapbox’-style cuisine – including mac’n’cheese, waffles, fried chicken, burgers, and grilled seafood dishes all tucked inside a box.
Trapbox has become an increasingly popular cooking trend in 2020, having bubbled up through social media and gaining national attention on the BBC’s Million Pound Menu show.
Alongside their trapbox grub, 202 Kitchen is also promising an extensive cocktail and drinks menu featuring a long list of wines, beers and spirits.
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All food and drink will be served in an enclosed space under cover whilst adhering to COVID-secure guidelines, creating a ‘comfortable and safe environment for guests to socialise responsibly.’
202 Kitchen will officially open on Bridge Street, Manchester, on Friday 21 August.
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For more information you can visit their official website here.
The restaurant is currently taking bookings ahead of their official launch later in the month.
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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.
The Manc -
7th August 2020 
