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Eating and Drinking in Stockport, Greater Manchester*

Stockport, Greater Manchester Pubs, Cafes, Coffee Shops and Restaurants

Food

• All the chippies are run by either Chinese people and have a great Chinese menu alongside the steak and kidney pudding or by fat white blokes called Les or Frank who look like they go swimming in the chip fat
• Greggs!!!!!!!
• 2 Mc Donalds present in this town, one in the main precinct and one on the A6. Also, a Burger King is near ASDA and Sainsburys.
• Bakers Vaults, Market Place Stockport. Sundays & Tuesday Evenings sees a Cajun Menu, whilst a full 50 meals are available every lunchtime.
• Good friendly Italian restaunt on Castle Street Edgley
• La Casona, on lower Hill gate, atmospheric tapas bar, excellent house wine at excellent prices, genuinely authentic

Pubs

• Try the Moor Top in Heaton Moor for locals wittily wearing Priestnall school uniform - those adults have such fun! Alternatively, the Chapelhouse in Heaton Chapel features strangely smelling college kids smoking badly-rolled 'cigarettes' and giggling.
• Yates Wine Lodge is full of tossers! Run down, dingey and full of skinheads with Tommy Hilfiger gear on
• This town is absolutley overrun with good pubs. Robbies Bitter is excellent in most pubs around town, but get a bad pint and youll swear and curse your way to the toilet. Most pubs are proper ones, such as the ones up Hazel Grove. Avoid the Irish theme bars just out of town.
• "Again, NO pub has ever served a minor, M'lud! Some, however, might attract a FRESH FACED crowd!" YOU SAD FUCKS
• Head for the market place for livley pubs esp. the Bakers Vaults, the Boar Head and The Bulls Head. Also worth a visit the Swan with two Necks and The Red Bull (Upper Hillgate)for good Robinsons Bitter. Try not to miss the Turners Vaults (also called Queens Head) on Underbank it apears in Pevsner's book of London Victorian Pub in his round up of the rest of the country though it was done up in the late 80's it was not destroyed and it house the smallest gent loo in the country (alagedly ) though it has been locked up in reasent Saturday night visits.
• Bakers Vaults, good food, great guiness
• Bakers Vaults in the Market, a few friends and a load of Robinson's Mild. Can't be beaten. In fact, there are so many good Robbies pubs within 3 miles of the town centre that it's impossible to name them all.
• Little Jack Horners. Girls, come here during the week, between 11am and 5pm, stand in front of the entrance on Lord St, and wave to the office building across the road. We'll pop down and buy you a drink, providing you're a) sexy b) easy.

Cafes and Coffee Shops

• A couple of nice ones (Chambers and I've forgotten the other) on the market, above Burger King. Cafe Histoire in the precinct is slightly less chintz.
• Greggs is to be found on every street!
• A new one that has opened is Merrywethers near Sainsburys. Other ones include the new Mersey Cafe.

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Last updated: 2008-03-28