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Manchester’s Hidden Gems: Fred’s and Dusk ‘til Pawn
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24/01/2025
Let’s take a trip to some of Manchester’s best little hideaways - a cafe in a craft studio and a bar inside a pawn shop.
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Hi I'm Theo with Manchester World and today I'm out in the city because I've
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been asked to point out a couple of the best hidden gem spots here in Manchester.
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Now there are tons of great independent places that serve the city in tons of
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brilliant ways that deserve their flowers but in terms of hidden gems what
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we're looking for is places where you enter a building not really sure what to
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expect and inside you find somewhere amazing and the two places that we're
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going to look at today are just that. Now right now we're stood outside of
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Manchester's Craft and Design Centre and we're going to go into Fred's which is
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one of the best cafes here in the city and later on we're going to pop along
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to Dusk Till Corn which from the outside looks as though it's a pawn shop and
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from the inside is a brilliant little cocktail bar. Starting with Fred's though
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and the Manchester Craft and Design Centre is based in the northern quarter
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just around the corner from the likes of Almost Famous and Nell's Pizza. It's a
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prime location for a great cafe and in September one was set up. Now Fred's has
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taken social media by storm since it opened. At first a one-man operation run
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purely by the owner it now has taken on a number of members of staff sheerly to
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try and keep up with the volume of customers and it's easy to see why it's
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been so successful with a brilliantly ranged menu, some great scotch eggs on
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offer there as well and I vividly recall having one of the best cookies of my
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life from this little place. It is outstanding in terms of food and in
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terms of coffee and considering that it's a solo venture it's truly
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remarkable the amount of success that it's had in recent times and you would
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never guess walking into a craft and design centre that you would find a cafe of
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this quality. We are hopefully going to have a video up purely on Fred's later
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this week but for now we'll jump straight across to Dusk Till Porn which
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is a brilliant little cocktail bar based in Stevenson Square and the surprising
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part of this is obviously as you can see it looks completely like a pawn shop
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from the outside with guitars, TVs, jewellery all hanging up in the window.
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It looks to anyone as though it's a place where you go and try and sell a
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watch to bring some extra cash in but instead when you walk in you're greeted
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by a brilliant interior, cool jukeboxes, a really classy layout, a great cocktail
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menu, it's happy hour as well between four and eight o'clock and I've got to
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say the vibes inside are just completely immaculate. As you can see it's got this
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sleek fresh look with a great range of alcohol behind the bar and a massive
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range of really exciting cocktails too. The one that I had was packed with
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Midori, rum, loads of ice and then this awesome sort of coconutty cream that was
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injected into the cocktail at the last minute and really gave it an extra zhuzh.
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I sat in there for ages and could have sat in there for much much longer it was
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a great time and it is absolutely well worth a visit. Even just for the
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experience of walking in expecting a pawn shop and seeing something
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completely different. So there you are between Fred's and Dusty Till Pawn you
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have two amazing hidden gems right here in the northern quarter that are well
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worth a visit. Come down give them a try and follow Manchester World for more.
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See you again soon.
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