The amazing bakery in the middle of a Manchester housing estate with queues out the door

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The thermostat on the dashboard is oscillating between single and negative figures, indicating that the first snow of the year isn’t far off.

Slamming the car door behind me and heading over the road a little too keenly, I take a slight tumble on the ice that has enveloped the pavements.

I’m half tempted to turn back, after all, who really goes out in the first few days of a New Year? But I dust myself off because just minutes earlier I had driven past my intended destination and was relieved to see that even on a biting January afternoon there was a queue snaking out of the doorway.

I’ve had this place on my radar for a while. READ MORE: 'We don't need to sell £14 cocktails': Inside the new deli and late-night drinking spot in Bolton On a housing estate between Northenden and Sale Moor, and tucked between a beauticians and a fast-food spot called Munch Bay sits Solar Bakery & Solar Cafe.