Best French Bakery in Birchwood

"Stepping up from our UK favourite of lemon and sugar, Moose Coffee offers classic American style toppings for their made in-store secret recipe pancakes. Our cousins across the pond love their bacon and maple syrup, as well as the good old blueberry stack and Moose, make these by the bucket load, selling over 660,000 a year. You can opt for their more creative topping options, such as spiced apple and salted caramel or granola and peanut butter."

"Enjoy tasty American and Canadian style breakfasts, with treats such as homemade salted caramel pancakes and all coffee Fairtrade, definitely one to visit to start that working day. Indulge in breakfasts and brunches inspired by the American breakfast culture. Crafted, tweaked & pored over, Moose provides the perfect American Diner influenced menu making you feel like you’ve pulled up a seat in New York City!"

"Looking for that all-day American breakfast experience in a top city centre location?. Right in the heart of the city centre is the fantastic Moose Coffee Liverpool where they know exactly how to cook the perfect breakfast!. Whether it’s getting yourself refuelled after a big night out on the town or getting yourselves prepared for a big day ahead, this place should be at the top of your list!"

"This independent coffee shop is situated at the top of Bold Street near the bombed-out church, breakfast and lunch is served everyday until 4pm with a tasty selection of pastries, cakes, pasties, toasted sandwiches and specials. Coffee enthusiasts are bound to enjoy this place, with a great range of coffee available to try. Bold Street coffee does get quite busy at times due to its sheer popularity, but you can always take your food away though if you fancy grabbing a quick bite whilst meandering around the shops."

"Bold Street Coffee specialise in these gorgeous stacked and packed buoys. There’s bacon, sausage or veggie options and the newest addition to the family … a vegan buoy. If you want more traditional, they do a very decent scrambled egg on toast too with tomato, mushroom and avo – every day from 10am to 4pm."

"Having found its home in Liverpool once again after having to temporarily vacate last year. Now it's back serving up “deliciously rich coffees, treats and good vibes”."

"A post shared by Home Sweet Home (@homesweethomeuk) on Feb 23, 2020 at 4:15am PST. Another year-round pancake favourite, Home Sweet Home might be down to just one Manchester site now after closing their Great Northern Warehouse branch at the end of last year but their pancakes are still as banging as ever. Find them in the Northern Quarter to indulge in plates like these, topped with salted caramel, biscoff sauce, cream, strawberries and cinnamon crunch."

"Designed to make you feel right at home, Home Sweet Home is open until 11pm, making it a nice late-night option for coffee lovers. Their trademark dish is the Cheeseburger Toastie, a combination of two of the nation’s favourite dishes. Edge Street, Northern Quarter, Manchester M4 1HE@HomeSweetHomeNQ / homesweethomenq.com"

"As the name indicates, the café is best suited to give you the perfect vibe of being at home. If you are looking for late-night coffee shops in Manchester city centre, then you are good to go here. Along with the yummy coffees, the signature dish is cheeseburger toasties."

"The bagel itself is a pretty nifty baked good all on its own, it’s almost a doughnut but not, genius. Now the folks at The Bagelry have turned the brilliance of the basic bagel into a piece of bready brilliance. Take for example the Sunnyside Bagel with an egg fried in each hole or the perfectly baked bagel with lashings of creative cream cheese concoctions."

"For a little snack, head over to The Bagelry on Nelson Street for some rainbow bagels. The kids will love these and you can take them to go or sit in and enjoy a cup of coffee whilst resting your legs. View this post on Instagram"

"Liverpool and beyond, the bagel-shaped hole in your life has now been filled. A real labour of love goes into the bagels and that’s the reason we’re hooked."

"You know what they say, when in Rome… You can also visit the beautiful Tatton Park with its magnificent mansion. A stroll through this place will surely build up an appetite."

"Hopskotch Street Kitchen and Bar is a stylish urban restaurant situated within the trendy boutique hostel Hoax Liverpool. Hopskotch has created a menu full of international and fusion street cuisine built around inventive dishes and ingredients complemented by a number of refreshing beers from across the world and an impressive selection of wines. The quirky, bohemian and vibrantly decorated restaurant offers fare such as the New York hot dog topped with onions and mustard, the British classic fish and chips served with mushy peas and tartare sauce or souvlaki – a Greek recipe of skewered pork marinated in garlic, herbs and red wine served with flat bread and tzatziki."

"While Rowton Hall is a popular setting for weddings, this independent, family-run boutique hotel also makes for a homely weekend bolthole with a relaxed, laissez-faire attitude and flexibility that comes with its size. The proximity to Chester means you can combine city culture with a taste of Cheshire countryside."

"This upmarket restaurant, which is owned by TV chef Simon Rimmer, is a popular hangout for Manchester’s vegetarian population, and meat-eaters, too, for that matter. “It’s an institution in Didsbury and has been doing imaginative vegetarian food for 30 years now, which was well ahead of the trend,” says Shepherd. “I worked here years ago when I first came back to Manchester, and it’s still got a special place in my heart.” With dishes such as Lancashire cheese, basil and spring onion sausages with mustard mash or mushroom wellington coming in at a purse-friendly price and vegan options also available, this is an excellent place to enjoy a lunch or dinner."

"Greens is regarded as Manchester’s flagship vegetarian eatery, winning multiple awards such as Manchester Food and Drink Awards (2000, 2003, 2006, 2008) and the prestigious title of AA Rosette in 2000. The restaurant was created by Simon Connolly and Simon Rimmer – who is now a very popular TV celebrity chef – and was founded to be a vegetarian venue with ‘scrumptious dishes and exciting ingredients that aren’t 10 years behind the best restaurants in town’. Now one of the highlights of Manchester’s culinary landscape, the restaurant serves imaginative plates bursting with flavour that are made using fresh local ingredients."

"Greens offers an inventive take on vegetarian food, but you don't have to be meat-free to enjoy the hip restaurant, located in West Didsbury. Open by chef Simon Rimmer, Greens has been around since 1990, and it makes the most of meatless possibilities. Expect creative dishes that emphasize produce, like the jackfruit shawarma and the truffled mushroom Wellington."

"Originally the Portico Library, the building that houses The Bank dates back to 1806. A pub-style restaurant, The Bank serves up traditional comforting, hearty pub grub. One TripAdvisor traveller said: “We've visited a The Bank a few times for pub lunches - great atmosphere, good pricing, a fine selection of beers and ales and the food is very tasty."

"Learn more about the history of democracy and how every person won the right to vote in one of the city’s most interesting museums. Keep your eyes peeled for revolving exhibitions that seek to inform in exciting ways, such as Never Going Underground, which demonstrates the history of LGBT+ rights."

"Dubbed the national museum of democracy, People’s History Museum holds the largest collection of political material in Britain. The museum tells the stories of workers, voters, citizens and revolutionaries who rallied for rights and equality and made society what it is today."