Blue Pig Opens This Week - 8 August

CLEO Farman has already made her name for herself in the North West food and drink scene with the Odd bars – a mini-Manc group of idiosyncratic operations. Many readers will be very familiar with her Odd, Odder and Oddest outlets.

Now she’s making a pig of herself, a blue one.

We want this one to be different - our 333 menu  is a short seasonal menu of exceptional quality that will change every single week, 

The Blue Pig, as the new venture is called, is situated in the old Seven Oaks Hifi shop site on High Street, over the road from Oklahoma’s crazy retail offering, and round the corner from the original Odd Bar. It opens on Wednesday 8 August and will be a restaurant and bar.

Cleo FarmanOccupying what used to be an old bank, most of the site is dominated by large windows down the sides of the building. The building apparently still retains many original features such as the full height mahogany bank doors at the side of the building and the panelling recovered from the site which now forms part of the zinc-topped bar.  

For food Blue Pig will be offering a deli menu featuring a fat selection of meats and cheeses as well as home-made terrines, pates, home smoked and cured fish, dips, oils, sauces and so on. The main menu is called the ‘333 Menu’ featuring three starters, three mains and three puddings that changes weekly.

Certainly wild rabbit ravioli and confit sea trout and tempura oysters seem intriguing dishes. Mouthwatering to read.

Blue Pig Menu

The bread will be home-made and there’s a full breakfast menu serving continental breakfasts with stuffed croissants and churros for chocolate dipping – is this the first range of the Spanish sweet in Manchester?

Drinks include spirits, wines and draught ales and beers plus a cocktail menu. There are masses of rums, whiskies, vodkas and liqueurs.