I was in Manchester not so long back and me and my dining partner, a Mancunian native, fancied trying out newly-opened Volta, on Burton Road in desirable West Didsbury. It’s a small but splendid restaurant/bar and hugely hip hang-out or ‘eaterie’, as they call it. Which is of course French for ‘eatery’, which is pretty much a made-up English word… Or is it Franglais?
Anyway, Volta is the new social enterprise of Luke Cowdrey and Justin Crawford who have made their name collectively as the über-tasteful disco/funk/nu-soul/house DJs, Unabombers (while Crawford was once a member of the brilliantly barmy Madchester band, New Fast Automatic Daffodils).
Their fabled club night, The Electric Chair, was a sorely-missed and highly-regarded jewel in Manchester’s already coruscating clubnight crown and since its closure, they have been running the Elektrik bar in Chorlton and have now ventured into more grown-up foodie territory; all Michelin-star chefs, fusion food fun and terrific top-tier tipples.
At the moment, I’m not rocking a smart phone, since I had my iPhone nicked in a horrible nightclub and have instead been using my sister’s old Blackberry that my doopid GiffGaff tariff won’t allow any web access on. Due to my current ‘no instant internet’ status, I’ve enjoyed going back to the trusted old method of carrying a pen and a little pad around with me so I could jot things down to Google later.
Having these famously compatible items on my person was the only reason I thought to review my Voltic experience, by scribblinging any thoughts down with said pen in said pad. Not any old pad, mind… a mini lilac-bound pad (made by Moleskin & available from Paperchase, in a pack o’two) that boasts classic functionality in the shape of perforated pages you can easily rip out. Even though I don’t really want to rip out any perforated pages from my petite little purply pad.
Anyway, the review was published up on Culture Vulture, a lovely Leeds-based ‘what’s on’ site of some repute. I’d post the review in full here but, as I’ve learned this week, it affects and hinders SEO if the same content is published elsewhere. I also had to put ‘SEO’ into a search engine in order to discover it stood for ‘Search Engine Optimisation’. I’m such a CJD (Computer Jargon Dunce) sometimes. Well, pretty much all the time, really…
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