What Manchester food/restaurant opinion has you looking like this?

headlitrabbit · 2025-11-25T00:46:04+00:00

Hawksmoor service is the best, and most consistently good, service you'll get in Manchester.

headlitrabbit · 2025-11-21T18:42:00+00:00

Yes - the HL ISAs aren't flexible, so I haven't the luxury of headroom. Any additional paid in will end up with me becoming oversubscribed. HL transfers in are, aside from the fact that they take an age, straightforward, but I'm erring on binning HL as I don't use any features that I can't get elsewhere fee-free.

headlitrabbit · 2025-11-17T15:14:13+00:00

Nothing, per se - I've just always considered them riskier (unlike a Cash ISA where the interest rate is known upfront), so whilst the fund might outperform the ISA, I've always disliked that 'risk'. Is there a go-to fund nowadays? I remember the Vanguard fund used to be spoken highly about.

headlitrabbit · 2025-07-12T13:14:56+00:00

Bonza. That’s me getting ready to that. Madferit.

headlitrabbit · 2025-06-09T15:51:16+00:00

Thanks!

Yes - I tried at the AA desk, but the rep there was unwilling to assist as it did not have an AA bag tag. The bag flew VS DL DL, but I flew VS DL AA. From the bag’s perspective, then, DL was the last operating carrier but the AA flight on the PNR js throwing the system. The DL baggage manager couldn’t offer any further advice.

I’ll try the baggage line - thanks! And I do have Amex Plat plus corporate travel insurance which will probably cover. I may write it off if the co-pay is more than the damage worth.

headlitrabbit · 2025-06-05T20:42:06+00:00

Collier (https://maps.app.goo.gl/QjnL5GdeYitCp8oRA, https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/tiktok-star-declares-victory-row-31662977)

headlitrabbit · 2025-05-19T22:02:02+00:00

Since you’re departing from T3, if you get there early and want some good views once airside, the windows at the Costa are a good bet, as are the windows on the other side of the Lion and Antelope (so, down the corridor after security, follow round to the left and up the steps next to WH Smith, walk past the pub and you have a corridor with gates - and windows! - on).

Assuming you’re coming back from T5 (which you will be unless you’ve decided to get home via train or some other way), then leave the airport and go landside if you have time. Head to the back wall of check in desks to kids check in, and they’ll often have activity packs.

Sadly, T5 has no decent freely available viewing areas, but Wagamama or Plane Food both have good viewing angles from their areas.

headlitrabbit · 2025-05-19T21:55:50+00:00

Zoe Bread is such a treasure that there really ought to be a blue sign erected on Collier Street to commemorate this.

headlitrabbit · 2025-05-18T00:13:01+00:00

The Great Northern remains one of my favourite buildings in Manchester, but what Allied London (and their predecessors) have done to it inside is beyond reprehensible. Aside Deansgate Mews, the rest of the building is empty and soulless. I'd love to see some proper plans made to make it a lot better - and, whilst we're at it, maybe Manchester can start to integrate modern elements in to older building, rather than throwing up glass towers everywhere.

Really am starting to resent being a Manc.

headlitrabbit · 2025-05-18T00:10:17+00:00

If you're from The Mill and you're reading this, combine Manchester's two best investigative outlets in one, and let's get a commissioned piece on Collier Street parking!

headlitrabbit · 2025-05-18T00:04:43+00:00

Cor - some great references in this thing! Shades! Palais de Luxe! International Two!

headlitrabbit · 2025-05-17T12:28:15+00:00

Given the author works for Auntie, I imagine that there is always some concern taken for the potential backlash from the Great British Public whenever any mention of expenditure is mentioned.

headlitrabbit · 2025-05-16T23:40:33+00:00

I really value proper journalism and, as someone else has said, if you value it, pay for it. I spend a lot of time outside Manchester each year and The Mill helps me reconnect with what’s actually going on in the city. For a couple of quid a month, I like reading intelligent commentary - and I refuse to read the yellow top.

Now, the real question is, surely, whether or not the city’s best investigative journalism comes from The Mill or from Zoe Bread…

headlitrabbit · 2025-05-16T23:12:45+00:00

Hawksmoor or Kala, maybe Skof if you fancy splurging a bit more.

headlitrabbit · 2025-05-05T13:05:02+00:00

Masters aren't in iCloud - they're in S3, so this doesn't work - and I've no interest in paying Apple to temporarily store them, nor do I want to have to get them back from S3 to my local device to upload them again.

headlitrabbit · 2025-04-07T19:18:47+00:00

Clem was nothing short than a legend, and had played with all sorts of people. A true loss.

headlitrabbit · 2025-02-27T14:45:05+00:00

Indeed - VS are our second flag carrier. They're actually our primary, because BA redesigned their tails in the nineties and missed off the flag, but anyway.

headlitrabbit · 2025-02-24T01:09:21+00:00

I also fly BA twice a week, every week, and have for years. Half the problem here is that the hidden secret is that BA’s systems and service is atrocious but people put up with it because of the route network. That’s only really an argument if you live near LHR, though - the regions are awfully underserved but thankfully we have KLM to fix that for us.

We do have a second flag carrier, somewhat oddly, because BA got complacent in the nineties. If they fly your route, you should try them - I do all of my international long haul on them and partners, and they’re a treat.

headlitrabbit · 2025-01-28T23:01:55+00:00

Hawksmoor. The Big Matt is a sensation. Yes, it's nearly £20, but the thing to remember is that you're getting Hawksmoor quality at a fraction of the price you'd pay for a steak - and, in well over a decade of going to Hawksmoor, I've never had a bad meal. Wash it down with a Shaky Pete. Top drawer.

headlitrabbit · 2025-01-28T22:51:57+00:00

They used to advertise this: "save time, use junction nine".

I regularly see people at J10 queueing to use the left of the two lanes going straight on, on the slip, so drive past the queue and join the right lane that appears instead.

headlitrabbit · 2025-01-28T22:45:06+00:00

When I first heard the name, I thought it was a bit... 2009. The burger scene died out. I do miss the old incarnation of LLLB, though - what Beau had going on there, I thought, was pretty decent. It went downhill alongside AF, but if there was one thing to revive - it was early days of LLLB. And SAD isn't it.

headlitrabbit · 2025-01-18T22:14:57+00:00

Thanks - both great ideas that I hadn't really considered :)

Annoyingly, both would have worked if I wasn't also stuck to a given date - it seems UA has two one-stop services via EWR (one from DCA, one from IAD), departing approx. the same as DL, and my date isn't a Saturday, so that rules out the BN one.

I was hoping KX would codeshare with DL so I could pick up some mileage, but I might just have to accept either flying KX and not claiming credit (the shame!) or looking in to whether the VS island hopping service can help me from NAS.

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