A guide to eating and drinking your way around Prestwich

Just last week, it became official; Prestwich is one of the best places to live in the whole of the UK. The smart Greater Manchester suburb, with its village feel and excellent transport links, landed itself a plumb spot on the Best Places To Live list, published annually by the Sunday Times, its first ever entry on the list.

But of course the residents of ‘P-Town’, as some have dubbed it, have known this for a while, and it’s brimming with great places to eat and drink. Here are just a few, before the inevitable search on RightMove commences.

Chips @ Number 8

Fish and chips are a very serious business. A very serious business indeed. Luckily, Prestwich has one of the best fish and chip shops in the land. Like, actually. It was named in the top 50 in the UK for 2022 by Fry Magazine, the chip shop bible, out of more than 10,000. Using either beef dripping or vegetable oil on request, owner Dan Edwards is something of a magician when it comes to frying. And as very much an added bonus, there’s a massive mural of the late, great Mark E. Smith on the side of the building. Expect queues. Worth it though.

8 Clifton Rd, Prestwich, M25 3HQ / Chips @ Number 8 on Instagram

Cuckoo

When the sun’s out, Cuckoo is very much the spot, with its enviably handsome outside space and disco ball and bunting situation. Come for that, but stay for excellent sourdough pizza and decent grown up cocktails. No flouncy silliness here, just a solid line up of Old Fashioneds, Spritzes, Negronis and Manhattans. The brunch is worth your time too.

395-397 Bury New Rd, Prestwich, M25 1AW / CuckooBar.co.uk

The Goods In

Bookend a walk in Heaton Park at The Goods In, from the same folks behind All The Shapes. Housed in a goods warehouse reclaimed