luck LUST LIQUOR & BURN - Manchester

So I’m back. Apologies for the brief hiatus in posting, I’m sure lots of you were sweating a little waiting for your next read of another post on another food blog by another guy who doesn’t know what he’s talking about.

I’ve been on holiday in turkey all inclusive and hence the food was pretty average. (Consider that my holiday post) 

Last weekend I went to Luck Lust Liquor and Burn in the Northern quarter of Manchester. It’s a Mexican restaurant made by the people who brought you Almost Famous, which sadly has burned down and is closed for a little while. Not to fear though they’re serving the burgers in LLL&B if you can’t wait for the refurb to be finished.

 We ate in the bar as we were covered up to our eyeballs in paint from the Color Run (See image below) at the Etihad earlier in the day. As I was starving from the run so I went for the triple bacon burger from Almost Famous even though really I should have had some Mexican food. To counter the predictable burger we got some street tacos to share and a side of trailer trash fries (the fries were small and naff. I think they’re going through a few teething problems as these were off the AMF menu and usually come in a hug basket but LLL&B just serve small portions with the food. I guess almost famous did just burn down so we’ll let them off.)

 

First up the burger, fucking awesome as always, even my lady friend enjoyed and she never eats beef burgers. I can’t stress to you how good the burgers are. They’re better than any I’ve had in London or anywhere else for that matter. It’s all down the quality of the beef, it would be just as good having one plain patty in a bun with some ketchup. All of the other dressing up with sauces and slaw is just surplus to requirements compared to beef hmmmmmmm. . .  Here’s my original review of almost famous if you’re thinking of going (http://amoosbush.blogspot.co.uk/2013/03/almost-famous-manchester.html).

Next up pork and pineapple tacos, these were pretty good as well and I loved how spicy they were. We’re talking mega hot here and they don’t look it. That’s the best bit, its sneaks up on you. They were however a bit small and didn’t really weigh up for value compared to other things on the menu £6.50. Still they were delicious and lasted about 20 seconds and went great some of the habanero and orange hot sauce (plenty of flavours going on there for a hot sauce).

 

To finish we shared some brownie with ice cream a steal at £3.50. I say shared but I had one mouthful. The salted caramel was particularly good with the sugary ice cream and appealed to my savoury outlook on life.

IN CONCLUSION! I had a great 2 hours here stuffing my face after the Color Run and drinking Brooklyn Lager on draft which was pretty good as well, nice and hoppy. You might struggle to get a table upstairs, it was fully booked when we were there on a Sunday!!

8/10

You know where it is – Northern Quarter, Manchester

lucklustliquorburn.com