YES, INDEED THIS WAS ALL APRIL FOOL'S FUN.
Word of Mouth
New NQ Restaurant, Word of Mouth, on Spear Street (0161 881 1571, www.gobspot.co.uk) has opened. It’s right on the money in terms of décor; outside, graffiti splashed door and no external signage, inside, stripped back to the plaster, with even the plaster falling off the wall in one corner. There are no menus, the waiter tells you what you’re having, and what you’re drinking and tells you when to leave. In an intriguing play on ‘Northern Quarter attitude’ staff can order people out then drink any remaining booze left by the customers. Hilarious.
Inspiration from BillConfidential is intrigued by some menu items. Writers on this site are banned from mentioning the Northern Quarter and beards in the same breath as it’s become boring but one dish in Word of Mouth requires an exception to be made.
This is the only restaurant in town where they’ll trim your beard and then present some of the hair back to you stuck to an egg with your own face drawn on it and with the correct beard shape, made from your own beard. The dish is called Bearded Egg and is apparently all the rage. Owner Bill Ersuit said, "It's genius and fun and based on my own face." Review to follow.
Somerset Level Flood Victims Relocated To Manchester
Flooded Somerset - just shut upThe 350 people affected by the Somerset Level Flooding are to be rehoused in Beswick, east Manchester.
A senior official said, “Since there are so few of them it’s relatively easy. They will be high above the potential flooding threat rather than living in a place that nature has flooded throughout recorded history. In Beswick they’ll be able to contribute to the life of the nation without costing it millions in pointless dredging and other pricey and ultimately futile efforts to keep the waters at bay. Also with the residents so removed from any Conservative Members of Parliament we might not have to see them in the papers and on TV so much and they might learn to appreciate what life in Britain is like when there are real problems." Sir Winston Churchill’s distant relative Edith Cog, who lives in Failsworth, said: “Never in the field of human flooding have so many been affected by so few in terms of endless media coverage.”
Beswick, high and dry and not far from an Iceland
Piccadilly Gardens Given Special Award
Piccadilly Gardens has been recognised internationally as one of the world's great public spaces and an unqualified 'success'. A UNESCO World Heritage spokesperson said: "Despite the fact much of it is now occupied by a big wheel, the wooden benches have rotted, the trough round the erratically working water feature fills with litter, drug dealers operate in the area behind market stalls, the Queen Victoria statue is crumbling and the 'lawns' need replacing every year as though they're a Premier League football pitch, we feel Manchester City Council's commitment to regularly endorsing the Gardens that have no gardens demands their inclusion in the our World's Great Public Spaces List."
One of the World's Greatest Public Spaces
