You're hardly likely to find little green pea pod stir-fry ingredients in here, and you'd be hard pushed to see anyone doing Del Boy impressions, although I wouldn't rule it out. Nope, this is one of the places you'd encourage Joey Tribbiani to visit were he gallivanting around Liverpool. As well as all the Beatles honouring places, the Americans love those. Nope, Mangetout does sandwiches, and it does them good.
As with all supreme sandwich vendors, the choices are tantamount to endless. If you're running by in the morning you can get breakfast baps with all the trimmings, totting up at no more than £2.20 for a double meat extravaganza. Mmm, portable coronary. For lunch bread choices equal the likes of ordinary sliced, Vienna rolls and salad baps, and you can enjoy traditional treats such as corned beef and piccalilli, honey roast ham and English mustard, brie and cranberry sauce, beef and horseradish, coronation chicken and mango chutney, sage and onion stuffed chicken... I could go on. Should I? Nah, it'd spoil the inevitable procrastination you'd experience upon actually entering the place.
I will talk a little more about it though. The menu is divided into categories of sandwich fillings - deli, club, gourmet and hot. Gourmet's the list that gets your mouth watering, with the likes of brie and avocado, hot bacon and blue stilton, goat's cheese and roast veg, lamb and minted yoghurt, chorizo and cream cheese, pastrami and caramelised onion chutney... tasty, unusual fillings that feel like a little piece of luxury at lunchtime. One you can hold with both hands, a proper sandwich. Meanwhile winter warmers include paninis or ciabattas of mozzarella-laden tuna melts, tomato with red onion, chicken breast, chorizo, the list continues. They even have some simple jacket spuds and salad boxes as well as a soup of the day, so there's something for everyone, and light snacks are freshly baked and also punctuating the daily specials.
The service is excellent, it's speedy and efficient as well as friendly but you will find it swamped during office lunch hours so try and beat the rush if you're lucky enough to choose when to grab lunch. And the prices aren't bad too - potatoes will set you back no more that £3.65 and gourmet sandwiches only stretch to £3.50, with the hot ones pushing the best part of £4. Get involved and mange tout, mon amie! That means eat lots. Yeah, I know French. I'm cultured. read more