A brand-new street food menu designed for “eating on your feet” has arrived at The Oast House this week.
For close to 10 years, the Spinningfields sun-trap has served up its iconic kebabs, roast dinners, and more to hungry punters across across the city, but as every Mancunian knows all to well, scoring a table to sit and enjoy them to their fullest can be challenging during the busy summer months.
Which is why the new street food menu is designed to be enjoyed mid-drink without ever having to leave the courtyard.
The new menu – which The Oast House said is inspired by “the best street food around the world” – officially landed yesterday and is now available to tuck into.
Classic street eats such as Greek Gyros, grilled Mexican-style corn Elote, and various loaded fries are all being served up.
Chefs have also been inspired by the French-Vietnamese hybrid of Banh Mi – a soft petit baguette filled with fresh pickled vegetables, roasted belly pork and zingy condiments.
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“Standing-friendly versions” of the British classic Fish and Chips, complete with Manchester caviar and gravy, and a new take on the American dive-bar-snack of Chicken Wings marinaded in Aperol to give a tangy twist are also on offer.
Explaining the decision to introduce the new street food menu, Danny Leach – General Manager at The Oast House – said: “We often see guests join our popular courtyard for drinks, but unable to resist our tasty table menu.
“But hanging kebabs were never designed to be standing kebabs.
“Now, guests already joining us for drinks can enjoy tasty food without having to leave our sun-trap courtyard.”
The new street food menu is designed to be enjoyed mid-drink without ever having to leave the courtyard / Credit: The Oast HouseThe Oast House said the menu is inspired by “the best street food around the world” / Credit: The Oast House
With prices starting at just £3.50 a dish, you’ll need to be quick as the new street food menu will be only be served from The Oast House’s main kitchen for a limited-time only.
The street food menu is not the only new addition to The Oast House this summer.
Celebrating the summer sun in true Italian style, the new sandy setting features an outdoor beach bar that includes a jet ski and Fiat 500s – and visitors are invited to chill out in the relaxing cabana-style seating or take a seat at the bar swings.
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.
Emily Sergeant -
13th August 2021 
