Sunday, February 10, 2013

Tea @ Manchester Town Hall - a review

Yesterday, myself and The Mothership went to have a nose round Manchester Town Hall - they had a free to enter Wedding Fair and despite having lived her entire life in the city, The Mothership had never previously been in the Town Hall. Also, it's where Me and Him are getting married later this year, so many birds were being killed with one stone here!

Tea at the Town Hall is served in The Sculpture Hall, a small space on the ground floor in the shadows of the two grand staircases. You get the impression that many of the busts displayed round the room have been somewhat haphazardly dumped here over the years, and eventually someone decided to make a virtue of this, and give it a label.

The choice of beverage is, to be frank, somewhat limited. The Mothership had wanted a "Latte coffee" but had to settle for sharing a large pot of tea with me - the only coffee option involved a cafetiere. I reckon we got 5 cups out of the Pot of Tea for two, with just enough Milk to be sufficient. So many places mess up the milk ration, giving you either much too much, or, more usually, nowhere near enough, meaning you either have to try to obtain more for the last cup or two, or drink it black. Here, it was just right.

The service could have been a little faster, but one man appeared to have been abandoned by any colleagues to try and deal with both the tea area and a barrow stall all on his own. He was perfectly pleasant, and once we had got him to take our order the Tea turned up very quickly. A table next to us had sandwiches, which appeared huge and well presented.

The Sculpture Hall is usually only open on weekdays, as the Town Hall itself is not usually open to the Public on weekends, so this in itself was a rare treat. The very reasonable cost of £3.50 for what was a large pot of tea helps to off-set the service niggles. Worth a visit if you're in town during the week.

Saturday in Manchester....

Me, him and the alter-ego went to the theatre last night, a rare and unusual treat. Here's what we thought:

http://anorthernsoulmanchester.blogspot.co.uk/2013/02/my-method-man-review.html