10 quirky, controversial, or just plain illegal Greater Manchester cafes and restaurants now lost to time

Does your idea of a perfect dining experience involve gazing at your significant other through clouds of cannabis smoke, being surrounded by decapitated heads, or tucking into a dish shaped like women's breasts?

If so, you may well have been a customer of some of Greater Manchester's quirkier cafes and restaurants from the past. It's widely known the region has long been a hotbed of culinary creativity, from its smallest cafes to its fanciest fine dining establishments.

Just yesterday, the Manchester Evening News reported on a bizarre new addition to the city's foody landscape. Waku Waku, a new Japanese restaurant on Portland Street, is unlike any other as upon entering diners will find themselves transported into a two-dimensional world.

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No doubt Waku Waku is unique, but it does join a long list of eateries that have pushed the envelope in terms of their concept and menu. Many of these establishments from the past were as much about the creativity of concept as the food being served up to customers.

To celebrate the region's quirkier culinary endeavours, we've put together a list of 10 unique eateries now lost to time. While some of these cafes and restaurants turned heads for the strangeness of the venues and menus, others have hit the headlines for more controversial reasons.

Of course, this isn't a complete list. So any you think should have made the cut, let us know in the comments below.

A lost Greater Manchester "gimmick" saw a former RAF plane transformed into a restaurant with a 'cockpit' cocktail lounge. Back in the 1970s, customers would venture to Pomona Docks to board a 21-year-old plane - known as the Comet -