Roxy Ballroom set to take over Birdcage site as games bar confirms second venue
Half a dozen bowling lanes, beer pong tables, Olympic standard ping pong tables, shuffleboard, and arcade machines have all been installed at the Withy Grove site, as well as a 12-hole 'crazy pool' game on a mezzanine level.
Roxy Ballroom has confirmed it will open a second venue in Manchester – taking over the old Birdcage building on Withy Grove.
The games, booze and grub brand has enjoyed enormous popularity with the local nighttime crowd since setting up shop on Deansgate – having branched out nationwide following initial success in Leeds.
Seven years after opening its first site, Roxy has confirmed the addition of another location right here in Manchester.
The new Manc venue will have all the classic graffiti-style decor, as well as the wide selection of games that has made the brand famous.
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Half a dozen bowling lanes, beer pong tables, shuffleboard, and arcade machines have all been installed at the Withy Grove site, as well as a 12-hole ‘crazy pool’ game on a mezzanine level.
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The 17,000 sq ft building will also have a wide range of booze and cocktails available.
American-style food – such as nachos, wings, burgers, and pizzas – will provide fuel for the engine during gaming.
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Roxy has said that the new venue features “some of the games our existing customers have already come to know and love, with a few new additions that you won’t be able to get anywhere else.”
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Bookings must be made in households or support bubbles, with Roxy operation 3pm-10pm during the week and 12pm-10pm at the weekend.
Players can order food and drink using a QR code on each gaming table.
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The new Roxy Ballroom will officially open its doors on October 2.
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 -
29th September 2020 
