The Sunday Times Best Place to Live?
This is a blueprint for the dying high street. Simply re-invigorate a Market Hall, fill it with drinking and dining options and the punters will come flocking. Saturday lunch-time and there is a real buzz to the place. Outdoor tables and chairs fully taken everywhere.
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| Table Service and Sofas in the Cinema |
With two types of guide - Good Beer and knowledgeable would be locals (they are saving up) - we head out on an August Saturday to see what the bars are like.
Costello's Bar - GBG #976
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| Micro Bar Number 1 |
I appreciate that the above image conflicts with my earlier "bustling Altrincham" comment but the rain had just started to hammer and it was early.
A showcase for the Dunham Massey Brewery hosted in the Goose Green area of Town. I've walked in the Dunham Massey estate but the beers have eluded me. A Stamford Best Bitter a perfect introduction.
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| You'd expect it to be perfect on its home ground. |
The Market
Run by the people who bring you Mackie Mayor in the Northern Quarter. Thankfully, we had Gen Zedders to do the heavy lifting. Ordering three types of meal from phone apps and leaving me to navigate Jack in the Box old-school by walking up to the bar, like some sort of dinosaur.
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| Bringing punters to the Yard |
Black Jack Pub Ale Best Bitter and people watching.
Rustic - GBG #977
The micro pub that didn't impress. 2pm opening time on a Saturday, when Google says midday.
Of course I was the first punter but I didn't really warm to the bar man telling me my Marble Pint had not been pulled through, even if he did offer to change it if I wasn't satisfied. Dirty glass. I'll watch with interest if its in the imminent 2025 or did I catch them on a bad day.
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| The view at 1:58pm |
Belgian Bar
Our local guides told of a micro that does exactly what it says on the tin. Confirmation that Kwak is dispensed in the appropriate glass and bemusement when I offered my shoe as a deposit.
A fully continental drinking experience in Greater Manchester.
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| Kwakers |
Slight confusion between the online GBG website and the book which details this place as PI. Presumably the same owners, as 18 Shaws Road remains recommended.
A fine blueprint for a micro, where a window seat provides street theatre viewing.
Red Willow Feckless in such good condition that we stayed for two.
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| AI representation of a perfect afternoon |
I could have stayed for longer - but we had a pop music rendezvous with an artist that I had last seen in the flesh 39 years ago.
There is no need to guess which of us has changed the most.
Johnny Marr has a picture in his attic.
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| Just before another Wythensaw Boy, Billy Duffy, came on stage |
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