A few days in Manchester gave a number of opportunities to try out the food, museums and bars.
Friday afternoon saw us visit the best of a number of places - This and That on Soap Street. To describe its environs as inauspicious would be an understatement. A rubbish strewn street with a faint odour of well used vegetable oil leads to a scruffy looking door. But inside it was rammed with folk tucking into the home produced curries. The most popular - and another of Manchester's gifts to the World - is the three curries and rice. A stonking portion of rice has your choice of three of the six curries available ladled across it. The price you pay depends on the number of meat curries you buy but the basic three veg curries comes to three pounds fifty pence. And it is a delight - no frippery - big jugs of water to wash the monster food down. Bowls of fresh coriander and chopped green chillies to add extra flavour if necessary. Sat cheek by jowel with the other diners on Formica topped tables with the seats welded to the floor.
So all this scran plus an onion bhaji came to 9 quid.
It doesn't come better than this.
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