Late-night legends Insomnia Cookies are offering an exciting new promotion that’s not for the faint-hearted or those who want to keep their skin unmarked; they are genuinely offering free cookies for life to anyone who comes and gets a tattoo.
Taking place for one day only later this week, as well as serving up their irresistible hot and cold treats, Insomnia Cookies will be offering people who truly love the brand, their baked goods, or just freebies in general, a chance to earn themselves cookies for life.
It really is about as simple as it sounds – there’s no catch, you simply have to be in the right place at the right time and willing to get a random cookie-related tattoo on your body, of course.
If you or someone you know is covered in seemingly random designs anyway, this is nothing short of a golden opportunity.
Insomnia has teamed up with city centre parlour Rain City Tattoo Collective, based over in Chinatown, to deliver the exciting crossover promotion to Mancs after some new ink and a lifetime supply of complimentary cookies.
The offer – fittingly titled ‘Till Death Dough Us Part’ (very good) – has been set up to promote their new loyalty card app, where you can grab rewards when you buy cookies, ice cream sandwiches, hot chocolate and more.
In fact, even before you go right ahead and get a tattoo, you can score a new member bonus and earn yourself one deluxe cookie by simply signing up for the rewards scheme.
Customers can earn a whopping 10 points for every £1 spent and a classic cookie awaits you at just 250 points. You can download the app HERE.
As for the official Insomnia tattoo that will score those cookies for life, you can see the different designs that you can choose from down below:
So how does it work? Well, the offer is only available from their Fallowfield store on Sunday, 18 August from 11am until close.
The free Insomnia Cookies for life tattoo offer will be strictly first come, first serve, and you’d be a fool if you think you’re the only person who will be queuing up for this one, so we’d advise being there bright and early.
But fear not, even if you end up missing out, you can always order yourself some of their exclusive temporary tattoos to claim your free box of four cookies until Monday, 19 August.
You can find the full terms and conditions HERE, but if you don’t mind getting a cute little cookie-based tattoo somewhere on your person, stunning scenes like these could be in your future:
Featured Images — The Manc Group/Insomnia Cookies (supplied)
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Lively Irish pub Nancy Spains set to open in Manchester for the first time
Daisy Jackson
An Irish bar famed for its live music is heading up to Manchester for the first time, and is promising £2.50 pints to lure us in.
Nancy Spains will be venturing out of London for the first time promising to bring the ‘ultimate traditional Irish pub experience’ to the Northern Quarter.
If you were to ask what the hottest trend in hospitality is right now the answer would, apparently, be Guinness. We’re drowning in the stuff.
This latest opening is more about Murphy’s, another Irish stout, than Guinness (they actually won’t serve Guinness at all) but the craic will be much the same.
Nancy Spains is actually set to open almost directly opposite the aforementioned Salmon of Knowledge, taking over the former Corner Boy unit on Stevenson Square in the heart of Manchester.
To celebrate its opening, the pub will be serving its first 5000 pints of Murphy’s for just £2.50, so that it can show off the atmosphere that’s established it as ‘one of London’s favourite pubs’.
They’re promising an array of Irish whiskeys behind the bar, live music performances, and a lively late-night setting.
Nancy Spains was set up by three brothers who travelled all over their home county of rural Kerry researching Irish pubs, before launching two venues down in London.
They want it to balance a traditional pub with the vibrancy of the city.
Peter O’Halloran, co-founder of Nancy Spains commented, “We’re so excited to be launching in Manchester, bringing Nancy Spains to the heart of the Northern Quarter.
“After the success of our two venues in London, it was only right to bring Nancy Spains’ infectious spirit and Irish pride to Manchester. Slainte!”
Nancy Spains will open its first Manchester pub on Saturday 15 March at 21 Hilton Street.
Lucky Mama’s – The Italian restaurant serving pasta in a dough bowl and ‘pregnant’ pizzas
Daisy Jackson
Lucky Mama’s is a local sensation, thanks to its slightly whacky but delicious Italian creations like pasta served in a bowl made of pizza dough and its latest offering, a ‘pregnant’ pizza.
What on Earth is a pregnant pizza, you ask? Firstly we should stress this is a nickname we’ve bestowed upon the dish, rather than Lucky Mama’s chosen branding.
But essentially it’s a helping of fresh pasta that’s folded into the bubble crust of the pizza, like a half-calzone.
Lucky Mama’s started life when founders Mamadou Dhiam and Gaby Santos set up a trailer in their backyard in Eccles in the depths of lockdown.
But thanks to a formidably loyal following that’s spread the word of Lucky Mama’s far and wide, it now has two pretty pink restaurants in Greater Manchester.
Back in 2022, they threw open the doors to their Chorlton restaurant, before returning back to home turf for spot number two in Monton in 2024.
The recipes are fresh and pretty authentically Italian up until the last step, when they throw a curveball by loading their pasta into unconventional vessels.
‘Pregnant’ pizzas at Lucky Mama’sTraditional Roman pizzasLucky Mama’s pink restaurant in Chorlton
Their pasta pizza bowls are what they’re best known for and they fly out of the kitchen – this is where pizza dough is placed around a metal bowl before being baked in an oven.
Then it’s piled high with freshly made pasta, with popular flavours like cacio e pepe, mushroom alfredo, and rasta pasta.
Pasta is available in a regular ceramic bowl too.
You’ll find Lucky Mama’s at 565 Barlow Moor Road in Chorlton; and 217 Monton Road in Eccles.
Danny Jones -
14th August 2024 
