A northern bar is hosting a series of bottomless crisp butty buffets with thousands of packets in over thirty flavours, and it sounds like heaven.
Yorkshire boozer Kicks Bar & Grill is hosting a 90-minute long bottomless buffet this summer, giving crisp fans the chance to snack on the likes of Space Invaders, Discos, NikNaks, Chipsticks, Monster Munch and Hula Hoops to their heart’s content.
Priced at £12.95 for those who pre-book or £15 on the door, for that you can dig into unlimited packets of crisps and make DIY crisp butties – with plenty of thick white bread and spreadable butter on hand to assemble them just how you like.
With plenty of drinks including craft beers and cocktails available from the Hull bar, plus a live DJ who will keep the party going all night long with ‘all the best cheesy hits’, guests are advised to don their ‘comfiest snack-eating attire’ for the event, reports The Hoot.
Those heading down should expect to find thousands of bags of crisps, with a choice of 30 different flavours and brands, plus bread for butties, dips and sauces.
An announcement by the bar posted on its website reads: “Get ready to munch and crunch at our Bottomless Crisp Buffet for 90 minutes! Indulge in all your favourite current and retro crisps including Space Invaders, Discos, NikNaks, Hula Hoops and more!
“And don’t forget the bread and butter to make crisp butties. And as you enjoy your crisps, don’t miss out on our fantastic bar menu full of hand-crafted cocktails and beers!
“But the fun doesn’t stop there, we got a live DJ who will keep the party going all night long with all the best cheesy hits.
“Dress in your comfiest snack-eating attire and get ready to enjoy the night with friends, while munching on the best crisps. Don’t miss out on this one-of-a-kind party experience! Get your tickets now before they sell out!”
With several dates open in April, May and June, there are a few options for crisp fans to head down and get their fill.
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.
Georgina Pellant -
24th April 2023 
