Manchester’s number one entertainment venue, Printworks, is teaming up with us over at Proper Manchester to host a virtual St Patrick’s Day celebration with plenty of ‘shamrock and roll’.
The live-streamed event will feature some fantastic live music from Jimmy Docherty, a stalwart musician who has performed in every Printworks venue over the years, as well as Hard Rock Café Manchester’s resident band, Out-Foxed.
The special event will take place on St Patrick’s Day – which is this Wednesday, March 17th, in case you’d forgotten – at 7pm, streamed live from Hard Rock Café Manchester.
Hard Rock Café
Printworks will be giving away plenty of craic-ing prizes on air, including the grand prize of a ‘a year on us!’, aka a year’s free food and drink, with a whopping £600 worth of vouchers to spend at any venue. Other prizes to be won include six £50 Printworks vouchers – and to win these you’ll have to post photos in the comments section of your Paddy’s Day party setup at home! To enter the competition and be in with a chance of winning, simply follow the instructions on this post (you can also find it embedded below).
As well as that, Printworks is also showing its support for Manchester’s hard-working musicians, who have found themselves suddenly without a stage or audience due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. They will have the opportunity of a paid gig post-lockdown, worth £500, and to be in with a chance of winning musicians should tag Printworks in a clip of themselves performing on Facebook, Instagram or Twitter.
Adam Jackson, Marketing Manager at Printworks, said: “St Patrick’s Day is always a huge celebration for us here at Printworks and after what’s been a difficult year for everyone, especially live performers, we wanted to create a celebration that we could all get involved in.
“We’re thrilled to be showcasing some of the best talent from across Manchester and look forward to welcoming you to a night of fun, fantastic music and the chance to win some amazing prizes.”
Hard Rock Café
Printworks has been at the heart of Manchester’s entertainment scene for more than 20 years, and is home to venues like Bierkeller, Chiquito, Eden, Escape Reality, Frankie and Benny’s, Hard Rock Cafe, Meena, Nando’s, Nuffield Health, O’Neills, Peachy Keens, Tenpin, Treetops Golf, Vue, Wagamama, Walkabout, Wasabi, The Seven Stars and Yates. If you fancy some more St Patrick’s Day action, Hard Rock Café will be getting its shamrock on from March 15th-21st with some incredible food and drink takeaways, all available on Deliveroo, Uber Eats and Just Eat.
This means you can try some of their delicious themed food on St Patrick’s Day, from the comfort of your own home.
Hard Rock Café
This includes:
Guinness® & Jameson Bacon Jam Cheeseburger
Signature steak burger topped with Jameson® bacon jam and Guinness® cheese sauce, served with crisp lettuce, vine-ripened tomato, served on a fresh toasted bun with seasoned fries
Guinness® Cheese Fries
Topped with Guinness® cheese sauce.
Guinness cans
If you register your interest in the event on the Printworks site here, you can be in with the chance of winning a meal for two complete with cocktails from Hard Rock Cafe, which will be delivered to your door during the livestream.
Big news in the foodie world: Mancunians can now feast upon an Indian Delhi brunch with bottomless cocktails and fizz.
The Delhi House Cafe, located in the Corn Exchange, is marking its first birthday this week and, to celebrate, has launched its brand new bottomless brunch offer.
Available every Thursday to Sunday between 12pm and 4pm, guests can choose one starter, one main and then receive ninety glorious minutes of bottomless booze for just £31.95 per person.
On the drinks front, diners will get the choice of fizz, lager or some of Delhi House Cafe’s notoriously impressive cocktails, such as their Spiced Bloody Mary, Mango Mimosa and Rose Sangria.
And their food menu boasts an equally impressive selection: For starters, there is a choice of Dahi Poori; a popular street food snack of puffed puri shells filled with a mint and tamarind yoghurt, A.A.C; a tasty fried avocado and potato dish, and Moong Dall Ladoo; sweet lentil fritters served with radish and a tamarind yoghurt.
And as for mains? Diners will be able to choose from one of five dishes from Delhi House Cafe’s menu, including their famous ‘Not My Burger’; a tandoori chicken tikka naan sandwich served with chips, salad and homemade curry mayo, Creamed Chicken or Achari Paneer Kathi Rolls; rolled in a crispy paratha and served with salad and chips, or the Masala Chicken Scrambled Eggs served with hash browns and a toasted bun.
This epic brunch menu launches TODAY, so make sure to get down to try it out for yourself.
Remember those really tasty and sugary puddings dished up during school dinners? You know, the one’s you’d get before Jamie Oliver had stuck his nose in?
Well, there’s a new recipe that will enable you to recreate the iconic vanilla sponge cake from the comfort of your own kitchen.
Rekindling those childhood memories, Instagram baker @cakeontherun recently shared her recipe for a vanilla traybake, complete with icing and sprinkles on top.
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The recipe for Laura’s vanilla cake tray bake uses no eggs, so a vegan version can easily be made using dairy-free milk. So, what are the rest of the ingredients?
All you’ll need is 400g self raising flour (or all purpose flour with 1 tsp extra baking powder, or gluten free flour), 250g caster sugar, 200g margarine, 200g vanillaor plain yoghurt, 200ml milk, 2 tsp vanilla essence/extract, 1 tbsp baking powder, a splash of lemon juice,400g powdered icing sugar, a splash of cold water and sprinkles for the icing.
The method is straight forward, too: Firstly, you’ll need to pre-heat your oven to 180C/350F/ gas mark 4 before creaming the margarine and sugar together in a large bowl. Then, you’ll need to sift in the flour and add all of the other ingredients.
Mix together until combined – though be careful not to over mix! Once this has been done, line a baking dish with parchment paper and bake for thirty minutes (or when the top is golden and the sponge is cooked in the middle.)
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Then, remove the cake from the tin and paper and leave to cool on a wire rack. You can then make the icing sugar by slowly adding water to the powder in a deep bowl. When it’s runny and the cake is cooled, pour over the top and then scatter sprinkles. Then, you can cut into chunks and serve with custard to live out your primary school dream.
Other fun twists you can try is coconut (using coconut milk and desiccated coconut instead of dairy and sprinkles), almond (with almond milk and almond slices) and lemon.
Make sure to follow Laura’s Instagram pagefor more baking inspiration.
BAB, the Northern Quarter gourmet kebab joint after all our hearts, has launched its new menu and as you’d expect, it has some incredible new kebabs up for grabs.
BAB’s August menu boasts a number of new additions to its famous mezze dishes, including a Spinach and Feta Stuffed Flatbread with a feta and mozzarella dip for £6.50, Prawn Saganaki,£7, Octopus Terrine, £8.50, and Moussaka Croquettes filled with spicy minced lamb, aubergine and feta cheese, £6.50.
But, perhaps most excitingly, the new menu has brought with it a seafood version of their massively popular Mixed Kebab.
The new Seafood Mixed Kebab, priced at £15, features deep-fried calamari, soft shell crab and octopus, alongside a staple kebab shop salad, a creamy coriander and lime dressing and BAB’s special sauce.
It joins the OG Mixed Kebab, which comes topped with lamb adana, aleppo chicken and a portion of cheesy chips, all costing £14.50.
Also new on the menu is a vegan King Oyster & Mixed Mushroom Shawarma for £10, Octopus with a butternut squash tarragon puree, priced at £13.50, and a Chickpea Shawarma with huge fried halloumi chips, costing £10.50.
You can still also get BAB’s famous Flat Iron Steak Kebab, their Greek Fries and the always popular Scotch Bonnet Chicken Wings, and they’ve even added a Cookie Skillet (£6) that perfect for sharing, and a Pistachio Frangipani (£5.50) to the desserts.