Ooooohhhhh Coffee or Tea????

Beautiful structure

A recent trip into Manchester City  Centre on Saturday led us to ....yep the Christmas Market again but this time NO alcohol was involved as my Daughter accompanied us this time.  It's usually a tradition that we all go together but now our 16 year old son decided to stay with his friend on Friday night in fact my son and five of his friends at one friends house (his Dad must have some patience), i guess a male pyjama party without the girly sleep over.  Instead they decided to stay awake all night. Needless to say he was in no mood to be trapesing around the City.  On our visit to our wonderful City we discovered a fab coffee/Tea shop in a very unpredictable place, the Town Hall!!!  The only reason we found it was because Tony wanted to go into the Town Hall to see what the organised Clock  Tower tour was about (BORING).  I then got a very excited call to say i must go inside and take a look as it was amazing.  I have one time a long long time ago been inside and i knew that it had some of the most beautiful Gothic looking architecture you have ever seen and started it's construction in 1868. 

Historic Figures

 I thought by it's design and wonderful carvings and structure that it would be Gothic and thirteenth century but to my surprise it isn't.  Anyway once inside we discovered a seating area surrounded by statue's of historic men who changed Manchester it's Corn Exchange and Slavery in the late 1800s.  A huge open fire just peeping out from behind the Christmas Tree and a haunting but exciting feeling of history surrounding us and we sat and ordered coffee.

Seating Area 

What should we have, a small coffee or a large coffee??  


Okay we'll have a small coffee each please and a Coke for Isobel (i hate my children having Coke)!  


When the Coffee arrived we discovered it was a Cafetiere full of proper coffee! Blimey they must have got this wrong and what was a £1.60 priced coffee surely must be more!  Taken in by the relaxing surroundings and people watching we just drunk it anyway.

Isobel and her Dad

What was surely a cheap coffee break may just cost us an arm and a leg, well we were in the City!  Nope, wrong! £1.60 for the Cafetiere that we got about five cups of coffee out of!  Well Tony being tight as a ducks arse he was well chuffed!

If you're ever in Manchester take a trip to the Town Hall and enjoy a sit down in a beautiful historic atmosphere, and i'm sure you would just hear the meetings of minds from long ago in the background.