How much curry is too much curry, you ask. Well according to Bombay Curry Club, there’s literally no limit.
This new weekly curry club in Manchester is promising all-you-can eat helpings of all your favourite Indian food, down to slabs of traditional tandoori-cooked naan bread and heaps of masala fries.
The Bombay Curry Club comes from Payal, a fan favourite at Freight Island behind Manchester Piccadilly.
Running every Thursday, hungry Mancs can queue up for a bottomless curry buffet for just £16 per person.
It’s like an all-inclusive holiday where you actually want to eat everything in the building.
Piled up under the row of silver domes you’ll find curries including chicken makhani, tender pieces of chicken swimming in a rich red butter sauce; and lamb karai, where fall-apart lamb comes with a gentle kick of chilli.
For veggies, there’s an aloo gobi masala, where soft cauliflower florets and fluffy potatoes rub shoulders with a whole heap of spices.
The Bombay Curry Club is serving bottomless curries in Manchester. Credit: The Manc GroupThe Bombay Curry Club is serving bottomless curries in Manchester. Credit: The Manc Group
There are chunks of tandoori-cooked chicken tikka and veggie samosas to help yourself to too.
Bombay Curry Club also has free-flowing naan breads, cooked properly in the tandoor oven, and mountains of jefra rice.
Just you try and resist piling an entire plate full of their sweet and tangy masala fries too…
And to top it off, as if you’re not already so full you need a long lie down, you can chuck on some poppadoms, kachumber salad, and chutneys.
While you’re diving in on your Bombay Curry Club feast, you’ll be soundtrack by Freight Island’s resident DJs.
Payal is an Indian restaurant within Freight Island in Manchester. Credit: The Manc GroupBeers at Freight Island in Manchester. Credit: The Manc Group
The new Thursday night offering comes ahead of Freight Island’s huge festive season launch, where it will be transformed into Winter Island.
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.
Daisy Jackson -
3rd November 2023 
