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New Openings
Ate Days A Week
8 Vernon St, Stockport SK1 1TY www.atedaysaweek.co.uk 0161 637 5050
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te Days A Week is an exciting new venture which has recently opened on the site of the old chip shop on Warren Street, directly opposite The Glass Spider, also featured on these pages. For want of a better description, this gourmet sandwich shop is the brainchild of Andy James, former chef at Cane & Grain in the Northern Quarter. The hook is that all the dishes (as well as the shop itself) are punningly named after songs, so we have The Bartender & The Beef, Pie Of The Tiger and Don’t Go Bacon My Heart. The real unique selling point is not the quirky titling but the quality of the food. The first mentioned is not a mere beef sandwich but “Slow braised ale beef, red wine sautéed onions and Welsh rarebit on rosemary focaccia served with red wine gravy.” Pictured here is I Ham The Walrus which turns out to be “Honey roast pulled ham, piccalilli, fried egg and shoestring fries on rosemary focaccia.” Andy is keen to emphasise that this really is restaurant standard food in takeaway form, although there are plenty of seats in the funkily-designed space should you wish to eat in. The shop is also licensed, offering bespoke gin, courtesy of Stockport Gin, a range of beers and ciders and cocktails such as Strawberry Studios (White rum, strawberry, lime). The menu is divided into Sandwiches, Proper Meals, Pastry & Sweets and Breakfast/ Brunch, which is offered until 2pm on Saturday and Sunday.
Beautiful Ink
Evans Cycles
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eautiful Ink in the marketplace looks like somewhere you might go for beauty treatment but owner Lisa Henning has shifted her focus since opening the business. As a distributor of pigments to the permanent make-up industry and the manufacturer and distributor of Botched Ink saline tattoo removal solution (a product she developed herself) she is busy enough but that is not to say she has no plans for the unit.The building serves as her office but her immediate plans involve the launch of the Cheshire T Club, who request that you “Join us for Glamour & Tonic”.
vans Cycles brand new Stockport store features the latest products from leading brands like Trek, Specialised, Cannondale, Brompton, Pinnacle, Raleigh, Castelli, GORE, FOX, and Endura. The store also comes complete with a fully equipped workshop and Shimano Service Centre - offering expert mechanical assistance and lightening quick turnarounds with Evans Cycles’ new 24 Hour Servicing Pledge. Customers also have access to Evans Cycles market-leading Ride to Work scheme. With Christmas just around the corner kid’s bikes are always in demand and the new store will stock the incredible value and lightweight HOY kids bike range. Gifts for adult cyclists come in the form of some of the best tech on the market from brands like Garmin and Wahoo, and customers can take their winter training indoors with smart turbo trainers from Wahoo and Tacx.
“I’ve always wanted to hold events that people could come to for a couple of hours, have a bit of fun then go for some dinner and drink afterwards. We’re going to be doing events called “In Conversation With” - we already have a few people lined up - some characters but I want more. They’ll be fun.” Lisa is thinking up other events for the Cheshire T Club such as Partner and Pal massaging events and a handbag auction, “fun things that anyone can get involved with. We’re driving this through the Facebook Group. We’re not going to advertise it here, you’ve got to know about it.” The basement area, designed with Botched Ink training classes in mind, is available for hire and the venue’s alcohol licence might help in that respect. “Despite everything, the business is the strongest its ever been and that’s why I’m looking forward to having fun with the Cheshire T Party.”
4 Market Place, Stockport SK1 1EW www.facebook.com/CheshireTClub
Unit 2, The Courts, Stockport SK1 1UD
