If you’re after a bottomless brunch with a bit of a twist in Manchester city centre, then get yourself down to Point Blank.
The shooting simulation speakeasy is offering 90 minutes of unlimited pizza, drinks and shooting, and it’s sure to start your night off with a bang.
Located on Deansgate, Point Blank is a unique bar that offers a sports bar feel combined with American bar snacks, a wide range of cocktails and a virtual shooting range.
The bottomless brunch will include 90 minutes of unlimited beer, prosecco, pizza and 60 minutes of shooting for £35 per person and will run on Sundays from 12pm – 4pm.
Be sure to book well in advance as you could be waiting weeks before a free space is available.
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When you book you will be allocated a booth where you can virtually shoot imitation weapons and compete against other group members.
There are over 200 different scenarios to choose from and uses super realistic graphics on large screens.
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If you’re wanting a more sports bar, feel, they have screens that regularly show live sporting events in the main bar.
If you fancy a cocktail, you can order a ‘Bite the Bulleit’ with Bulleit Bourbon whiskey, raspberry liqueur, and rosemary syrup or a ‘Shot Happens’ which combines gin, apricot liqueur, vermouth, lemon and raspberry.
The pizza options are margarita, pepperoni or a vegan option, and sides vary from chicken wings to loaded fries.
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One TripAdvisor reviewer said: “Had the best time, service was outstanding could not fault anything. Pizza was great as was the Prosecco, nothing felt cheap. Will definitely be back”.
Another reviewer added: “This is the second time I have been down to Point Blank and my experience was amazing again.
“The staff were brilliant and the whole thing went seamlessly even with a large group of us. Would recommend to anyone, brilliant night and will be booking again!”
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Food & Drink
A pub in Stockport has launched a full Scotch egg menu
Daisy Jackson
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 EggA classic Scotch eggThe Davenport Arms, known locally as The Thief’s NeckInside 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.
One of Manchester’s grandest restaurants has finally reopened TWO YEARS after fire
Daisy Jackson
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 areaA glimpse of the menu at Mount StreetCocktails 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 pearsand 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.
Alice Gerrard -
29th October 2021 
