Empty Ancoats bar to become pizza parlour 'with dishes you can only get' there
manchestereveningnews.co.ukAn Ancoats sports bar which has been left empty for a year has re-opened as a Euros pop-up bar — but it will become a restaurant later in the summer.
Second City, on Cutting Room Square, closed down last April — despite fans loving it for being ‘great for the football’. The unit has been unoccupied since then, but many fixtures and fittings remain.
That’s led Brewski, the company behind deep-dish pizza restaurant American Pies, to re-open the space as a ‘Euros pop-up’. Fans will be able to catch the best of the action from Germany via its huge screens, and enjoy a selection of beers on-tap. READ MORE: 'A sunny day in Manchester and sewage is being dumped in the River Irwell...
a blight on our great city' But that isn’t the end of Brewski’s involvement with the unit. After the football finishes, it will undergo a major refurbishment and be transformed into an American Pies restaurant from mid-August onwards. “We are very lucky to have built up a huge following in the last couple of years thanks to a great team who consistently put out a great product,” said owner James Daly. “We strive to come up with dishes you can only get at Pies such as potato dauphinois garlic bread, beef wellington garlic bread burritos, and deep fried duck lasagne, but our bread and butter is always our Chicago style deep dish pizza pies. “We are going to have over double the capacity at the new site which should make it slightly easier for people to get a table.
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