When it comes to the Manchester burger scene - and it is a scene - Almost Famous must surely be actually famous by now. It launched to silly queues around the block in the Northern Quarter back in 2012, with its slightly aggro vibes almost as much part of the experience as the food. Almost.
It’s no reservations policy meant that the queues added to the hype, and getting in was something of a badge of honour. Luckily, the burgers actually lived up to the hype too.
Now founder Beau Myers has opened the growing chain’s first suburban outpost, on the site of the Old District Bank in Withington. Briefly The Libertine pub, Myers has now decked the place out much as has with the other locations in the Great Northern Warehouse and Edge Street in the Northern Quarter.
