Cafe Football National Football Museum Review: August 2017
Cafe Football is located on the ground floor of the National Football museum, in one of Manchester’s iconic and striking buildings, the Urbis designed by Ian Simpson Architects. With an impressive sloping glass design, the building located in the picturesque cathedral gardens, is becoming a real Manchester landmark.
Inspired by their worldwide travel, during their extensive and successful football careers, Ryan Giggs and Gary Neville launched the football themed GG hospitality company which encompasses the Cafe Football Brand. The duo gained a wealth of experience staying in various hotels and dining at restaurants throughout the world. It is with this knowledge and understanding, that the ambitious and passionate team, want to perfect their innovative brand delivering both quality and unique hospitality experiences to ensure a winning formula every time. Adopting the core ethos, ‘eat like a pro’.
The cool Cafe Football décor is contemporary and fun, with a splash of vibrant colour, super slick seating such as padded diner bar stools, simple yet subtle themed wooden stools and brilliant booths if you fancy gathering up the whole team of friends and family for a casual relaxed dining experience. As you may have already guessed, state of the art flat screen televisions are on the wall airing the fans fav football matches, which adds to the atmosphere and excitement, that you feel in the club terraces. Another mood motivator was the football memorabilia on display including signed shirts and photos of the players. Cafe Football have not let the theme go to their heads though, keeping the theming subtle throughout including the café football motif plates, napkins and menus printed with ‘respect all, fear none’.
Kick off began with a warm welcome from Olivia and our super server Marcus, who gave us a good team talk and coached us through the menu. Excited to begin, we warmed up with awesome Nachos, loaded with Chilli beef, chorizo, jalapeño, roquitos, guacamole and lashings of jalapeño cheese. For the main play, we chose the brilliant bunless ‘66 burger’ combined Beef burger stuffed with stilton wrapped in streaky bacon, mushrooms, peppercorn sauce, topped off with a watercress and rocket salad. Also, the tasty char-grilled halloumi & vegetable kebab served up with red onion, pickled cabbage, tomato salsa, guacamole and hot mouth-watering Memphis sauce was lip-smackingly tasty.
The diverse menu offered a range of refreshments including the ‘Silky Skills’, mixed up with Pimm’s No.1, St Germaine elderflower, lime juice, Prosecco, raspberries and cucumber. The ‘Keane as a bean’ shaken up with Guinness, Jameson’s, vanilla syrup, espresso was a real result! The Cafe Football craft beer at 4.2%, brewed in Salford by the guys over at seven brothers’ brewery, was a definite crowd pleaser. The Turf dessert, combining chocolate, pistachio, caramel and praline cake, scored an instant goal with me – back of the net…goooooal!!
Lovely Liam, the supervisor, called some extra time and things got sweet with the amazing Alice over at Cafe Footballs very own sweet shop! Taking me back to my youth, with a good old fashioned paper sweet bag, with jars filled up with sweet classics and a flavoursome ice cream counter. It is this kind of attention to detail which made the experience immersive and entertaining. Time was called and the final whistle blown, the employees are real team players so no red cards from me, Cafe Football has been a top goal scorer and they are the real dream team.
Thank you for reading 😊
Melanie xx
Contact:
Cafe Football, National Football Museum, Manchester, M4 3BG.
0161 241 0501
This place looks fab my girls would love it there
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They sure would, It was awesome :)x
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the cafe is so chic! and that cake looks so delicious. I love visiting Manchester. the city has such a variety of places for food. those nachos-amazing
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I totally agree! The cake was lush…infact everything was. Do pay the place a visit next time you are in town :)x
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Haha I loved how you wrote the blog post as though it was a football game. I like the sound of vegetable skewers x
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Aw thanks for the fab feedback lovely. Mmm they were yummy :)x
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Great blog post I love the way this has been written. Those nachos sound amazing with all the toppings. I like to go bunless sometimes that burger sounds good to.
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Yay and thanks for your positive comment. Bunless is brill and the food was fab :)x
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Oh the nachos sound absolutely amazing, and a bunless burger is a great healthier alternative x
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Yes and yes Rhian both were amazing :)x
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Such a lovely place to visit. I am sure hubby and little man would have a great time there!
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It was excellent such a great concept for a great city. Yes I’m sure they will…have fun :)x
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Loved the tone of this post, and the food looks pretty amazing too x
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Lovely feedback…thanks hun 🙂 It was delicious :)x
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Looks like a lovely place to visit! Those nachos look amazing.
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It was a very cool place. Ooo those nachos were just mmm yummy :)x
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This looks like a really cool place to eat. I see enough footie at home though, so I’m not sure I’d want to visit somewhere that had in on on their TV’s! LOL
Louise x
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Haha completely understand Louise, but they do have music on in-between too, so there is something to suit everybody. Well worth a visit the food is yummy 🙂 x
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The Cafe Football looks like a cool place to go to, I’d totally like to try their food especially the ice cream. I don’t know a lot about Football but it’s always fun to visit the museum.
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Exactly, the museum is a great way to learn more about the game and its history. The Ice cream counter was lush 🙂 x
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Looks like a nice chilled environment with good food – what more can you want?! Looks like you don’t need to stand on ceremony which is quite refreshing.
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Exactly! That is spot on Annie, a very chilled and relaxed environment 🙂 x
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Ooh what fab place to visit! Those nachos sound soooo delicious!
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Totally fab, very nice Nachos lovely 🙂 x
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The bunless burger sounds incredible and I love the decor! Do you think they’d let me in in my Liverpool shirt? 😉
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It was yum and so good if you are wanting to cut out he bread lol. Haha yes for sure, Manchester welcomes all 🙂 x
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This would be an absolute delight for a football fan and actually the food looks really good too, which we were surprised by. Love the decor too, really modern and colourful 🙂
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I could not agree more, such a fun unique experience for any footy or foodie fan :)x
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I’ve never actually seen that building around Manchester before lol I’m not looking hard enough by the sounds of it!
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Haha, I know, I’m with you hun…it was a recent discovery for me too. Great place, great people, great food 🙂 x
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The nachos look really delicious and very generous with the toppings.
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They were totally scrummy 🙂 x
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This place looks amazing and the food looks incredible! I would love to visit soon!
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Do pop along, fab place to go 🙂 x
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I had no idea this place existed ( hardly surprising as I am not a footie fan), but it looks and sounds fab. I can imagine it being a great visit.
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Haha…either way well worth a visit, as the place was awesome 🙂 x
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Would never have thought to eat in Cafe Football! 🙂 x
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Well worth a try, some good options for sure 🙂 x
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